Here is the original post I made hoping for comments. Only Mastersound said anything, so I hoped that maybe it was just that no one read it.....After 20 years of dreaming about a very particular #body style,I am going to be starting up a limited production emando factory sometime in the next two years.I have already spent almost a solid year doing the research, and spending money buying some of the tools, and a lot of flame maple, so have come a long way towards this goal. The factory will be up here in northern British Columbia (Google Prince George BC). I am right now working on #both a 4 and 5
string bridge/tailpiece combo that I will either be casting, or milling from solid stock (then nickle plating) Also,I will be making both 4 and 5 pole stacked humbucking pickups. (Both of these #products will be for sale at some point.) I have never been fond of the lack of space that an emando with 2 humbucking pickups have, so that is why the stacked pickup.(it's the same size as a single coil).The mandos will be 4, 5, and 8 string, and I might only offer them with a 14.5 inch scale. At #least that is the way I am thinking right now (unless talked out of it). # I was sick of using 'guitar' parts for my emandos, and I know #others on this site #agree. After many conversations on this site, I made the decision to actually make them myself. Just these two things are going to cost me about 6 months time and effort, and lets not talk about how much this is going to cost! # I am planning on having the pickups and tailpiece/bridges in hand before the 1st prototypes are built... #I am researching casting (in all the different forms) right now, and trying to figure out which metal to use...(I am leaning towards brass, but aluminum is much easier to work with.maybe just the prototype bridge out of aluminum?). I am also becoming much better at blueprint reading.Also, I have 3 or 4 mentors lined up to help with all the different aspects of this very large project, including one guy who has set up 3 small instrument factories that are still running. I hope to have a question sheet(maybe to be posted on this site) ready for emando players sometime in the next 2 months that will help me make some critical decisions.I have already had lots of help on this from the many Luthiers and players on this site. I am not planning to get rich, and am taking #precautions so that I wont be going bankrupt in the next 10 years. #Please wish me God's blessing in this endevor/obsession, and any words of encouragement or suggestions would be welcome. Kerry K
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