Snakes alive (pg 3)
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Snakes alive (pg 3)
Today I "milled" one of the NZ Alder logs from trees I cut down middle of last year ... this is for the snakeskin guitar I will build...my first real snakeskin so a little bit excited about it
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Re: first builds for 2018
and these were bolt together ones...bodies came from Airdad (thanks Danny...one of the real GC's on this forum)
No idea what the orange body is but it is horribly lightweight .... but is amazingly resonant. Sounds frikken awesome
No idea what the orange body is but it is horribly lightweight .... but is amazingly resonant. Sounds frikken awesome
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Re: first builds for 2018
Would not be sufficiently dry yet right? And I see it has some spalting going on...
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Re: first builds for 2018
next....cheapie Ibanez I got for $40 (I bought a hercules triple guitar stand from a dude and he had this for sale as well so I got it)..... the guitar was like a bad science experiment when I got it...neck had growth on it so I didn't even touch it until after cleaned it and scalloped it. It is really fun to play...fuck I love scalloped necks
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Re: first builds for 2018
Randy rhoads, Jake e lee, the tool guy, and buddy guy.
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Re: first builds for 2018
It is super light now so I think its pretty dry.....yeah a little spalting (not sure why though as the trees were very healthy when I chopped them)...wait until you see the next one I put up. I cut down some silver birch and that has some great spalting on it..sounds great tojvpp wrote:Would not be sufficiently dry yet right? And I see it has some spalting going on...
heres a tease
only bolted it together a few days ago so still need to level out the pick ups and get the neck angle right
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just checked my emails and it looks like a cut the alders down april last year, so 12mths of drying should be plentyjvpp wrote:Would not be sufficiently dry yet right? And I see it has some spalting going on...
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That teaser photo looks cool. Not sure what the black bits are. Did you feed the tree ink just before cutting it?
Darn, I need to get started on that pickup...
Darn, I need to get started on that pickup...
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the black bits are dye ... the top bit of wood was very plain (back is better but I had already glued it before sanding so it looked plain) so I added "colour" to make it look more rusticjvpp wrote:That teaser photo looks cool. Not sure what the black bits are. Did you feed the tree ink just before cutting it?
Darn, I need to get started on that pickup...
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yes pleasejvpp wrote: Darn, I need to get started on that pickup...
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Re: first builds for 2018
that really gives me wood!!! got any more silver birch you'd be willing to pass onwillow13 wrote:It is super light now so I think its pretty dry.....yeah a little spalting (not sure why though as the trees were very healthy when I chopped them)...wait until you see the next one I put up. I cut down some silver birch and that has some great spalting on it..sounds great tojvpp wrote:Would not be sufficiently dry yet right? And I see it has some spalting going on...
heres a tease
only bolted it together a few days ago so still need to level out the pick ups and get the neck angle right
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Re: first builds for 2018
Dave, you need to do a family pic of all your guitars!!! Love the spotted ibanez!
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will have a look but I think I have a few logs of it .... am planning on taking everything to a small sawmill to get planked upBg wrote:
that really gives me wood!!! got any more silver birch you'd be willing to pass on
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I have a lot of guitars ... well according to my wife and kidsjeremyb wrote:Dave, you need to do a family pic of all your guitars!!! Love the spotted ibanez!
guess which guitarists its a tribute to
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