I think he meant how much you would charge him to sell him above mentionned guitars or to make them
Well, if that's what he means, I don't do custom orders.
There's not much point in me building a copies, because you could potentially get a better store bought one. My builds (as of now) are of fairly reasonable quality, but I more build them myself because I can build one-of-a-kind guitars like this. Same deal with a neck, you'd be better of buying a machined neck. Due to the fact that I don't use jigs while, my necks my not be the exact fender dimensions, I usually end up taking off a bit extra.
I finished the neck shaping (including flushing the fret ends) applied maybe 7-8 coats of lacquer on the neck. I'll be going out of town for a few days, The lacquer should be cured enough to level and polish by next monday.
Here's some pictures in the mean time. In terms of construction and finishes, the guitar is almost done. After that, will come the electronics, and the fret leveling and polishing, and then I'll go out to find a nice strap that matches the guitar.
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Wow, man. Nice work. :O
that's quite nice
apart from the back-end of the guitar looks quite bare - the bridge looks too central to me
i love the wood you used for the body
You can't just place the bridge anywhere you want, it has to be exactly 12.75 inches from the octave. If the bridge was somewhere else, the entire guitar would look quite different.
i know that, it just looks strange
I'll agree that the 22 fret look with the pickups and bridge all spaced evenly looks better, but I wanted to give a bit more fretting possibilities with the two octaves.
Funny thing is, the neck joint actually goes really deep into the guitar (like a washburn N4), if the neck had been out further, it would have looked even more awkward. But, sometimes you have to take the good with the bad.
The neck is just about done now. I've wet sanding and polished it, and leveled and polished the frets. I've decided to use lag bolts again for a very strong neck joint, to reduce the ugly, I've painted the lag bolts and washers black, so they'll look pretty cool.
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Niiice, I love how this one is coming out
How did you cut out the pup cavities?
I used a router.
Will you make a bass next or just electric guitars?
Basses are electric guitars :3:
Yeah, probably eventually. I feel more inspired to make normal guitars, because I've never been much into bass guitars. I'll probably get around to it because one of my friends is a bass player, and wants something better than his squier bronco bass.
That is one stunning guitar!
I got the neck attached, cavities shielded, and all the necessary holes under the bridge drilled.
The spacing between the tuning peg holes on the headstock is too small for my medium sized grovers, will have to order some mini-grovers so they'll fit :| That'll be a stewmac order, so It gives me more color options. I'm thinking of getting black knobs for the volume controls, so some black tuners should match.
Here's some pics anyways.
Output jack is in now:
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Notice the missing paint in the center, that's one of the bigger mistakes I made. The nitro ate through the paint in that one spot :saddowns: Not much I can do about it, though.
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I ordered a set of 6-in-line mini black grovers, and two tele-style ebony wood volume knobs.
Small update. Got the electronics done (with the exception of the bridge ground wire). I think something is up with the volume pots, though. If one of them is at the absolute maximum volume, it seems to kill the connection and both of them go silent. You have to keep both of them just below the absolute maximum.
Other than that, there is almost no 60 cycle hum (on the neck pickup), even at the highest gain I can possibly do. It's safe to say the electronics are almost hum-free, so it looks like the shielding worked out well. I didn't have any thin wire, so I used some shielded audio cable instead for all the connections. A bit unnecessary, but w/e, may help the guitar keep it's audio fidelity.
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I hope to god I'll be able to find some tuners small enough for the headstock. I'd hate to have to scrap the neck. If worst comes to worst, I might have to buy some of those Steinberger gearless precision tuners. They're nice, and they'd fit, but they are damned expensive.
That is absolutely amazing. I wish I could do half of what you do.
Oh don't flatter me :3: Electronics aren't too hard. Though it took me about 4 tries re-wiring stuff and troubleshooting to get all that hooked up. Problem with electronics is that if one small thing doesn't work, the entire thing doesn't work.
But that is a huge plus in itself. because it means you actually know something is wrong and get it perfected
Well, I understand volume pots enough now that I shouldn't have too much trouble with this again. Pickup switches are still confusing to me, though. It'd be nice if they could just label the prongs or something.
With this one, both the pickups are basically on at once, and you can blend their volumes, no need to flip between them.
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;20866562]Oh don't flatter me :3: Electronics aren't too hard. Though it took me about 4 tries re-wiring stuff and troubleshooting to get all that hooked up. Problem with electronics is that if one small thing doesn't work, the entire thing doesn't work.[/QUOTE]
What brand of pickups do you generally go for?
Whatever is available to me :v:
As of recently, I've been buying stewmac's "golden age" brand. They have a good price, and they are built to vintage specifications. May give the guitar a more older fashioned tone.
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Welp, there's definitely something up with the electronics. I got the strings on now (only temporarily) It plays pretty nice, but the harmonics on this guitar are goddamn ridiculous. Yiou pluck one string and it's like a chain reaction.
Tuning the thing is very uncomfortable because all the tuners are really close together. I'd hate to have to make a new neck, though :/
Over all, very "sweet" sounding, but that's probably due to whatever is up with electronics. The guitar (well, when it's plugged in) is very, very quiet, I probably wired something wrong. Acoustically, it is quite loud. The pickups are both high output, so the thing should be blaring, but it's not. I have to turn the amp way up to hear it. I think I had this problem once before, I may need to reverse the wiring on the output jack,
Guitar electronics seems really weird.
Also I fully support you making an SG next :3:
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