Another source of parts?

[rjgoos]

I can't remember if this web site has been mentioned before, but they do seem to have a lot of different styles of pickups, tuning gears, etc.:

http://stores.ebay.com/Guitarfetish-Store

[BigDaddyPoo]

Here's another ebay parts seller.

http://stores.ebay.com/Warpdrive-Music

Right now he has ten sets of 3 to a side guitar tuning machines for $45.95. That's 60 tuners for $45.95. That's $4.60 a set. That's...That's...That's a good deal.

If anyone wants to buy these, don't forget who told you about them. My finders fee is only 8 tuning machines (4 per side). Hell I'll even pay ten bucks for them!

Hurry there's less than 24 hours left on the bid.

[BigDaddyPoo]

I guess Traktor hasn't mentioned this in order to keep the site nuetral, or maybe he did and I just hadn't noticed. Mobius is selling parts. Tuners, single string bridges, 12 string bridges, and more.

http://www.megatar.com/english/pricelist/All_Prices/Custom_Parts/custom_parts.html

The new website looks nice.

[rjgoos]

Originally posted by BigDaddyPoo
I guess Traktor hasn't mentioned this in order to keep the site nuetral, or maybe he did and I just hadn't noticed. Mobius is selling parts. Tuners, single string bridges, 12 string bridges, and more.




Traktor is apparently not worried that we homebuilders are going to take business away from him. The lack of paranoia is refreshing.


Jay


I bit on the tuners, Dan. Send me your address so I can remit the finder's fee. rjgoos --at-- ydl --dot-- net

[traktor]

Originally posted by BigDaddyPoo
I guess Traktor hasn't mentioned this ...<snip> ... Mobius is selling parts. Tuners, single string bridges, 12 string bridges, and more.

The new website looks nice. Mobius does make available some custom parts that aren't generally available elsewhere. We actually wish to support homebrewers, because the accidents (happy and otherwise) represent natural evolution of the instrument form. Innovation often comes from the guy in the garage.

[I remember riding my motorcycle 50 miles down the coast highway one night years ago, to the Stanford Linear Accellerator Center, for the monthly meeting of the famous Homebrew Computer Club. There were two scruffy guys in the lobby showing off a color-board -- they weren't even on the program -- and I remember thinking that they'd probably not amount to much. But I still remember their odd names: Jobs and Wozniak.]

Back to limited-availability instrument parts. As an example, getting nested concentric pots of appropriate values for tapping instruments a few years ago was just impossible, so we had to place a mongo-big order to get them custom made, and we've made those available to guitar builders.

[However, during the last year, Stew-Mac has obtained some nested concentric pots which look OK, and priced nicely.]

We also sell the custom-made 12-string bridge plate, and the individual 'platelles' used on our ToneWeaver instrument.

These custom-made parts are not cheap, but the idea is that they are just not available elsewhere. We don't sell guitar parts in general, except occasional surplus parts on EBay.

-- Traktor

PS: Glad you like the new website. Credit goes to tapper Rhys D. Webb of Australia, who did the design and the work. Check out the many recorded songs in the 'Testimonials' section, and look for more enhancements over the next year.

[BigDaddyPoo]

If so you rock!

In exchange I'll send you a half pound of 42 awg heavy formvar wire. This is the wire that fender and musicman used in the 60s and 70s to build their bass pickups. According to the stewmac website, a half pound is enough to make 5-6 single coils or 2-3 humbuckers (guitar pickups).

um...it was you who was interested in winding right?