Here's a video with the most recent progress.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyA1D6YqsNM[/media]
part 2
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4sPHr6XuY8[/media]
[I]Before anybody asks, this is a "homemade" homemade guitar, not "I bought the body and neck, bolted them together, and put the parts in it" kind of homemade guitar.[/I]
[sp]I thought up a new guitar concept, and bought the parts to build my new plan. The plan is telecaster "inspired" and it will use some of the same hardware, but it's ultimately a new design. It has two hum-canceling-single coil passive EMG's, The standard telecaster pots, selector switch, built in-passive overdrive, strat style output jack cover, and standard telecaster cover plate. I still havn't bought the bridge/tremolo, but I'm think about a locking floyd rose. I'm open to suggestions as far as the bridge goes.
I plan to make the body out of mahogany, and a neck out of maple or mahogany. It will be 24 fret, and will either be a set in, neck through, or 3-bolt on neck (depending on what my wood materials are and in what shape/quantity they are). I want to contour out the neck joint in some form for access to the lower frets.[/sp]
[B]
Disregard that, that's old.[/B] The guitar is made of padauk for the body and maple for the neck. It will use standard telecaster pickups and a vintage style telecaster bridge. The body design is new, but will resemble a telecaster. Rather than the bottom mounted output jack, I will have a top surface mounted strat-style jack.
I have recently been working, and I have bought my own band saw, and I am going to purchase a small planer, and possibly a portable table saw. All the other tools I need are ones that are already in my household.
Here's all the hardware I just bought:
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[B]Nov 8[/B]
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I'll be updating my progress as I go, but big progress won't start for at least a week or two. Feel free to give me suggestions and comments.
Aw, nice, your guitars are always awesome.
Nice pickups by the way.
Also, a Floyd rose bridge will be a lot harder to install than an ordinary bridge, as it involves a lot more than just bolting it on.
Thanks
Nice thing about making Floyd rose cavities, is that you don't have to file out an angle so you can tilt it, it just goes in a straight up box-cavity. the crucial part is getting the pivot screws aligned properly
stegosaurus
[QUOTE=Reaver1991;16825852]stegosaurus[/QUOTE]
Next one, I maybe promise.
I may have to go with something other than a floyd rose. i only have about $600 or so. if I can't find a good planer for less than $450, I won't be able to afford the floyd rose until next paycheck. I suppose I could always wait until then, but I want to start making it asap.
The black ice capacitor is fun, I had one in my Ibanez for years until it burned up from being soldered so much. Now I have a one off custom capacitor that my uncle made for me at his work.
hypno your guitars own
i would so buy them, although im pretty shit at guitar.
I didn't do the fret job well enough on my first few ones to sell them online :( The top E string can buzz a bit on a few notes.
I learned how to do some more advanced fretwork this summer, so I'll be doing that for this one.
Try Set in or neck through. I got one and i love it. But bolt on is good too thats just preference. I wish I had the patients to make one. I love guitar. Good luck! :)
HEy another guitar project, cool!
Got any sketch of the shape?
Here's a very crude concept. Note that there is probably going to be more frets on the real version. I may also buy a different bridge, but I'm kinda liking the way the tele bridge looks on that.
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The areas where there's darker blue, they are contours.
In case can't tell it's gonna be that color of blue.
I personally think its some sort of "super tele" much like an Ibanez RG would be a super strat
Comment, damnit.
I like the design, which is strange, because I don't like Telecaster bodies.
Do something super awesome with it
Personally i think its way too bland with just the one color.
[img]http://i27.tinypic.com/nxqqu0.png[/img] looks better to me, but its your guitar do what you like.
and the wood top looks out of place. i would paint it black or blue.
[QUOTE=K2cougar;16849190]Personally i think its way too bland with just the one color.
[img]http://i27.tinypic.com/nxqqu0.png[/img] looks better to me, but its your guitar do what you like.
and the wood top looks out of place. i would paint it black or blue.[/QUOTE]
You mean the headstock?
And I wouldn't use white for a design, I'd go with a good accenting color instead
Or leave an accenting pinstripe along the design.
[QUOTE=SolidSnake52;16849222]You mean the headstock?
And I wouldn't use white for a design, I'd go with a good accenting color instead
Or leave an accenting pinstripe along the design.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://i25.tinypic.com/2rptqfl.png[/img]
looking at it now, it would be cool having the dials be in line with the dark lines.
Cool story bro
Both those designs look neat. I'm a fan of pinstripes, but I'm not sure how to make stencils for that :(
I could do that straight stripes thing.. but I'm not a fan of the black, the white and blue is a good combo. Suppose I could always hand paint it.
Also, an update on my tools situation.. I'm going to go out tomorrow and buy a planer, and get a replacement tire for my bandsaw. After that, I should be able to start making this.
[QUOTE=RawrRawrvtwo;16850146]Cool story bro[/QUOTE]
Not sure if you're trolling or if you're just a dicknose, but here's some threads you can thumb through when your busy schedule frees up a bit.
[url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=721619[/url]
[url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=750017[/url]
I don't think the horn will look good at all, the inner curve is too straight.
[QUOTE=mynames2long;16881433]I don't think the horn will look good at all, the inner curve is too straight.[/QUOTE]
Yeah the way the horn is just straight on one side looks wrong. make it like this:
[IMG]http://i31.tinypic.com/29mnl8n.jpg[/IMG]
It was supposed to look like the way I did it. It's look weird in the picture, but one the edges are routed, It'll make more sense.
Ur not getting tired of these designs are you?
if i were you id build something extraordinary
Yeah I agree, it's kinda just like a tele
[img]http://i27.tinypic.com/nxqqu0.png[/img]
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It's a takeoff on the design, but face it, electric guitars have been designed in mass quantity for 60 years, all the good designed have been taken, there's really nothing that's completely new and extraordinary anymore (the Telecaster [I]was[/I] extraordinary when it came out). You'll just end up with a combo of a bunch of different guitars. Best thing to do is improve on and modify current designs.
I went out today, and bought a portable "Ryobi" 13' planer, and bought the wood for my guitar. i was planning on getting maple and mahogany, but I got some [I]African Paduk[/I] for the body, instead of the Mohogany.
Here's an example of paduk on a guitar:
[media]http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i125/Jack71_photos/PadaukSD.jpg[/media]
And here's some pictures of the stuff I bought.
My thickness planer :3
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The maple board
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The Paduk board
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Since the paduk is really nice and exotic, I may forget about the blue, and just do the white pattern on the top surface. Or I could just paint the top surface only, and leave the sides and back as the paduk.
Thats so awesome. how much was the planer?
$275
Thickness planers are scary as fuck, btw. I've seen a lot of nasty incidents with them.
Damn dude I'm jelous, Sweet looking guitars :3
Wish I could do this because the majority of bass guitars I've seen in shops look fugly, would love to be able to design and build my own bass. :3
I'm gonna try and go out tomorrow after work to buy a replacement tire for my bandsaw.. I could probably start work on the neck and body once I get the replacement part.
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;16890374]$275
Thickness planers are scary as fuck, btw. I've seen a lot of nasty incidents with them.[/QUOTE]
In my woods class freshman year, a classmate of mine put a board with a nail through one of those machines. it was the loudest sound ever
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except it was a huge thousands of dollar industrial one like this: [img]http://www.kaboodle.com/hi/img/2/0/0/92/e/AAAAAq-7gsEAAAAAAJLq3w.png[/img]
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