The new beast.
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The new beast.
Here's the first in what will hopefully be a decent series of photos on the guitar which I'm constructing. After much fucking around and construction problems involving planks of wood being cut in half the wrong way by over zealous wood workers, I have here before you the solid mahogany lump that will one day become a guitar.
Originally I was only going to have one P90 in the middle position, however after seeing the grain up close I decided that it would be a waste to just have one. I've decided now to have three p90s without a switch and each wired to it's own volume put to blend them in or out.
The neck is an old 24.75in Tele copy neck, that has a really nice feel to it. It's got a maple finger board.
It's also going to have a single stop tailpiece, similar to that of a Les Paul Junior or an SG special.
And I must at this stage send a bog thank you to Ash from this board who has provided all the hardware and pickups at an excellent rate, he has been amazingly helpful! thanks dude!
Originally I was only going to have one P90 in the middle position, however after seeing the grain up close I decided that it would be a waste to just have one. I've decided now to have three p90s without a switch and each wired to it's own volume put to blend them in or out.
The neck is an old 24.75in Tele copy neck, that has a really nice feel to it. It's got a maple finger board.
It's also going to have a single stop tailpiece, similar to that of a Les Paul Junior or an SG special.
And I must at this stage send a bog thank you to Ash from this board who has provided all the hardware and pickups at an excellent rate, he has been amazingly helpful! thanks dude!
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It came from somewhere in Auckland that I can't remember the name of and my Mum is doing the body work on it. I also forgot to add that it's as heavy as a table, ridiculously so in fact!
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Yep, she sure is. I've been throwing money at it and am going to install the harware but she's doing the body and the the routing etc. She has access to the tools and I don't so that was an easy choice!
She's been woodworking for longer than I've been alive so it's in good hands.
I'm not sure I want to do what Gibson does it might end up turning out like one of their guitars
She's been woodworking for longer than I've been alive so it's in good hands.
I'm not sure I want to do what Gibson does it might end up turning out like one of their guitars
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Some wood stabilizer might be benificial in your project. Keeps the wood from warping or cracking when the naturally present internal stresses are relieved after machining (routing, carving, etc.) Also has the added benefit of enhancing grain certain kinds of patterns when staining.
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Looks a little Brian May-ish...hey, great idea re. 3 x p90's...gotta love P90's...changing my name to p90...just a word spoken from recent infuriating experience. When you drill the holes for the bridge assembly, assemble the guitar completely and run cotton or string through the nut and along the neck properly...somehow, and I don't know how, I managed to fudge mine by 1mm and had to cut different saddle grooves. No big deal you say? True, but I took it very hard, and am really only now able to talk about it...snif
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You have my sympathy mate for that is allways the way of these things - even when you can cover it up you know the error is still there under the p/guard, machine heads or whatever - mine was a router jig I hot glued to a top in order to rout down a bridge in height and did not realise it was flexing downwards under the weight of the router. 'Buggeur' as they say, but one day I'll do it all over again with a new bridge and this time . . . .'*UNIQUE* wrote:Looks a little Brian May-ish...hey, great idea re. 3 x p90's...gotta love P90's...changing my name to p90...just a word spoken from recent infuriating experience. When you drill the holes for the bridge assembly, assemble the guitar completely and run cotton or string through the nut and along the neck properly...somehow, and I don't know how, I managed to fudge mine by 1mm and had to cut different saddle grooves. No big deal you say? True, but I took it very hard, and am really only now able to talk about it...snif
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IT shoudl look Brian MAyish it exactly the smae as his guitar However as I'm not planning on selling them commercially I'm sure he won't be too fussed. I traced round my burns. I'm a big fan of the body shape!*UNIQUE* wrote:Looks a little Brian May-ish...hey, great idea re. 3 x p90's...gotta love P90's...changing my name to p90...just a word spoken from recent infuriating experience. When you drill the holes for the bridge assembly, assemble the guitar completely and run cotton or string through the nut and along the neck properly...somehow, and I don't know how, I managed to fudge mine by 1mm and had to cut different saddle grooves. No big deal you say? True, but I took it very hard, and am really only now able to talk about it...snif
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To please DrRog I decided to have a nattural finish, just a few clear coats over the top. Originally I was going to have a green stain on it, but i decided the colour was too nice to do that to!TMG 03 wrote:Oh well you will just have to build it as you think it is suppose to be.
Looks very cool, what sort of finish will you do?
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Your one is so good you decided to sell it before having owned it for a week I'm not sure I can handle anything that good.angry_young_poet wrote:and what is that supposed to mean 'bub??Polar Bear wrote:I'm not sure I want to do what Gibson does it might end up turning out like one of their guitars
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