• Guitar Project #4
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[QUOTE=hypno-toad;18036972]Probably a bass of some sort.[/QUOTE] Sweet. How about a 6-string? :smug: (Sorry, I love Dream Theater a little too much)
the second you start getting six string hardware for basses, everything gets way more expensive and harder to find.
Yay, a video :v: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyA1D6YqsNM[/media] New picture: [URL=http://img21.imageshack.us/i/image547pn.jpg/][IMG]http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/5685/image547pn.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
Give me comments or I'll kill a cute bunny :cop:
Looks like a guitar. OK LET THE BUNNY GO!!!
Hokay :saddowns:
Just kidding, I like seeing someone build custom guitars. I built a guitar with a friend in shop class once, I never got the chance to build my own because I left the school and didn't have the tools to do it at home. But here in Alaska I know a guy who owns a workshop with every tool under the sun, so maybe some day I can show off my own here. I like Telecasters, so I like yours so far. I love the look of the body wood.
Please keep that finish and just polish the body, that would be one sexy telecaster. Christ i feel sick saying that.
I'm going to do an oil finish this time. despite what I thought before, it does make a good guitar finish. I'll wet sand it so its ridiculously smooth, then I'll see if I can't buff it to give it some shine. if you think the wood looks great now, the oil will make it look fantastic. I'm hoping an oil finish will leave some of the smell. The padauk smells crazy awesome. It smells like vanilla and chocolate nougat :3:
Moar news! Finished drawing the layout, and I routed out the pickup cavities. [URL=http://img691.imageshack.us/i/image554.jpg/][IMG]http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/6771/image554.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Gonna have a short video up soonish.
A vidier [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4sPHr6XuY8[/media] Gives you the real experience of having sawdust blasted in your face by a router.
Woop [URL=http://img198.imageshack.us/i/image558g.jpg/][IMG]http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/7780/image558g.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
Looks nice, but I think with a black headstock or a headstock with a matching finish to the body would look better. It looks weird against the fretboard wood to me.
Once it's oiled it'll darken up a bit.
you should really look into making guitars for a living.
[QUOTE=Peavy262;18280726]you should really look into making guitars for a living.[/QUOTE] That wouldn't be a bad idea since I'd hate pretty much anything else I'd [I]ever[/I] do for a living. This guitar is primarily a trial run to see how much profit I could make in a field like that. The way I see it, I'd have to make 2 guitars biweekly at 5 hours a day to match the salary I'm currently making ($19 an hour) I spend about 350 dollars (average) on each guitar I'm making, that's including the wood, parts, strings, strap, etc. Fender's deluxe models are sold for roughly $1200, I'd say, being handmade, this guitar #4 would be roughly equal, or better quality than fender deluxe guitars. If I made and sold 2 guitars every two weeks, I'd make $1700 gross in that pay period. That comes out to the equivalent wage of $28 an hour working 6 hours a day, so I'd make 170 dollars a day. $170 a day comes out to $40, 800 yearly, and $34 680 after taxes. Not a huge amount of money, but it's an incredibility high wage considering building guitars (in my case) isn't something I consider working. I'd essentially get paid to do something that I do for free right now. I really fucking hate my job right now, so this might be a good option for a time if I can sell the guitars for $1200 or more. Not sure what the price grade of my guitar is until I sell it to somebody. The way I see it, you either work on something you like for your life and make enough to scrape by, or you be some company's bitch for your entire life as a desk jockey to make that six figure income you've always wanted. depressing, but that's the way it works :saddowns: [B]Edit:[/B] yay, the paduak vanilla smell is seeping through the oil.
Dude, If you can scrape by making guitars, i think you should :) Better doing something you love, than something that makes you want to blow your brains out.
I used lag bolts to bolt the neck on. One of them snapped because I tightened it too much (will get it off next time I work on the guitar). Each lag bolt puts about 200 pounds of pulling force on the neck, hopefully this will improve the tone a tad, transferring more of the tone onto the body. I sanded the next to a point where it was reflective because it was so smooth, and did a danish oil finish and did a wetsanding. It's got barely any friction on it.
Now make me an LP goldtop with just oiled (possibly stained) mahogany back so it looks reddish. Perhaps "natural binding" as in put tape on the edge of the body and remove after the oiling. LP's are always a challenge to build. Not just because of the set neck but largely because of the big, two piece body with that LP bump. So in the future if you decide to try your luck with an LP, reserve a lot of time for it. ;)
b-bu-but I just bought 6 hard tail bridges for solidbody flat top guitars and basses :saddowns: (should keep me going for 6+ months) [URL=http://img22.imageshack.us/i/image566f.jpg/][IMG]http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/5012/image566f.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://img121.imageshack.us/i/image567.jpg/][IMG]http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/337/image567.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I bought a high output bridge humbucker and a few 1 mega-ohm volume control pots, so I'm thinking of making a [I]very[/I] loud guitar next. The 1 meg ohm pot will louden the pickup, and will stop the normal tone bleed-off that you get with most volume pots. I suppose I could always do a hybrid type LP (maybe a chambered alder base, with a padauk topwood) with a flat face, and one bridge humbucker. I do like the LP body shapes. Something like this [url]http://www.travis-usa.com/images/Music/EpiphoneGothLesPaulStudioWithFloydRose.jpg[/url] but with natural wood, one pickup, and a hard-tail bridge. I've fallen in love with padauk, such a gorgeous wood, with such an aggressive tone. Pain in the ass to work with (makes a huge mess and burns eyes and nose) but the results are worth it.
Hell yeah! Make something that looks calm and soft to the eye but sounds like a fucking cement grinder on ecstasy!
I think it'd be cool if you made something a bit like the Ibanez S series. That curved, tapered body could be fun to make. And it looks so sexy
I like the Ibanez S style, but I might try that hybrid LP concept. Wouldn't mind experimenting with tone holes.
did more work on the neck and started hammering the frets in. ran out of fretwire with only 4 frets left, will have to buy some more fret wire tomorrow. [URL=http://img130.imageshack.us/i/image568.jpg/][IMG]http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/7046/image568.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
Looks good. That is some sexy wood.
That wood looks stunning
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;18394999]did more work on the neck and started hammering the frets in. ran out of fretwire with only 4 frets left, will have to buy some more fret wire tomorrow.[/quote] That wood looks amazing, but won't it feel uncomfortable with the controls so close to the bridge?
[QUOTE=PinkRhino;18406425]That wood looks amazing, but won't it feel uncomfortable with the controls so close to the bridge?[/QUOTE] I was thinking that too, but it shouldn't really be a problem. Truth be told, I'm not sure how people manage to hit controls while strumming. I shielded the guitar with copper tape and aluminum foil to help against 60 cycle hum and radiation feedback.. gonna add the jumper wires (for grounding the guitar), then start wiring the guitar. [URL=http://img696.imageshack.us/i/image570.jpg/][IMG]http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/5716/image570.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Also, the tool place that I went to get my bandsaw tires at phoned me today. I missed their call, but they'd only be phoning me if they had them. So bandsaw will be used on my next guitar :D
Finished the making the neck today, I strung the guitar just to get an idea of the acoustics of the the wood combo. The guitar sounds gorgeous, a very bold, powerful sound. Even without the electronics, it's a very loud guitar, almost close to as loud as an acoustic. Not sure weather it's just the natural properties of padauk, or because I used lag bolts on the neck. despite leveling the frets, the guitar has a natural sort of metallic twangy buzzy noise. I play individual notes and don't notice it, but chords have a sort of a buzz to them. It sounds sorta good, like an acoustic guitar. Not sure if that's normal. it might just be the solid metal saddles. [URL=http://img97.imageshack.us/i/image571.jpg/][IMG]http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/9741/image571.jpg[/IMG][/URL] The metal buzzing sounds a lot like the acoustic buzzing in this video: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azeQfmnekG4[/media] So, I'm not really sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing :/ I've just never heard that sort of thing on an electric guitar before. Also, my guitar (unplugged) sounds almost identical to that first guitar in the video I linked; I shit you not, [I]identical[/I]. The padauk seems to give the guitar a thicker acoustic sound. I'm using a graphite headnut, so that might be helping that tone. [editline]09:06AM[/editline] Here's a video of me just plucking some tuned strings. [hd]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Euv5JVPz04Y[/hd]
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