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8 String Guitar For Connor Brown Of Putrefy


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(This is a duplicate of a thread i have started over at Talkbass.com but ill post it here as well for the hell of it.)

8 string Guitar for Conner brown of Putrefy

heres what were going for ultimately:

8 string, 30" scale, Baritone guitar with one custom built Seymore duncan Invader pick up

and one aluminium 8 string bridge made by E.T.S guitar hardware in Germany.

Maple purpleheart neck-through, ash body with flamed maple top.

Green stain with burst, high gloss on top natural wood and satin finish on the back and sides.

24 Jumbo frets, wenge finger board with a large pearl 'PUTREFY' inlay.

yea boiii!

http://www.putrefy.co.uk/

connerssmaller.jpg

mock up of the inlay:

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j164/THI...rtionlarger.jpg

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j164/THI...MS/100_2004.jpg

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j164/THI...MS/100_1997.jpg

the happy camper himself:

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j164/THI...MS/100_2016.jpg

neck profiled, volute carved and headstock cut today, shes shaping up nicely and we have decided to use a different more gooderer top i found on evilbay:

hunk o' tree:

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j164/THI...MS/100_2086.jpg

cut down and sanded:

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j164/THI...MS/100_2093.jpg

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j164/THI...MS/100_2097.jpg

better shot of the headstock, a sort of Ibanez/E.S.P hybrid on steroids for extra badness! :

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j164/THI...MS/100_2100.jpg

and the new improved top:

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j164/THIRSTYGUMS/KD68A.jpg

ONE PIC PER POST RULE ON THIS FORUM

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Like the design....body/neck/inlays.......headstock doesn't do it for me. Too pointy......doesn't match well with rest of guitar. The rest looks well balanced. Headstock looks outta shape.

Don't get me wrong...not trying to throw rocks at your greenhouse.

Good luck with the project.

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Like the design....body/neck/inlays.......headstock doesn't do it for me. Too pointy......doesn't match well with rest of guitar. The rest looks well balanced. Headstock looks outta shape.

Don't get me wrong...not trying to throw rocks at your greenhouse.

Good luck with the project.

Though i like the headstock it's irrelevant as its the choice of my customer. He wanted something with a bit of attitude, as well as being big enough to comfortably support 8 tuners.

But yeah, cheers for the input!

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Though i like the headstock it's irrelevant as its the choice of my customer. He wanted something with a bit of attitude, as well as being big enough to comfortably support 8 tuners.

The customer is always right of course......even when they're wrong. I stand my ground on the headstock. Me don't like it. Attitude or not. I think it's also the job of the luthier to stear a customer away from bad choices. Rest of guitar looks pretty cool.

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!!WICKED!! Another Builder of morbid axes HAILS AND WELCOME TO YOU

I feel like ive seen your Work before! are you on the seven string forum?

!!METAL MATT!!

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hi matt, no im not on the sevenstring forum that im aware of?!

anyway heres a wee update, i did an ash and black line veneer today on the back of the headstock to beef it out and add alittle more support, (then thought of 8 strings tuggin on that thing while being thrown around on stage gave me the willys!) i also like the look! I like the look of anything non-standard in fact- but heres a couple of photos:

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and less blurry, the ash which will match the grain on the body:

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update,

here im cutting the frets, tip! this may well be the oldest trick in the book but i didnt know it till it was pointed out to me so ill pass it on nonetheless: Take a candle and rub it briskly up and down each side of the saw blade teeth until the metal starts to look cloudy, blow off any little fragments of wax left behind then do the same on the side of your steel rule. The saw will cut effortlessly through the hard, brittle wenge or ebony and you will minimize any tearling out and splintering.

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I like your headstock design!

Also I don't think I have ever seen a backstrap that follows a volute contour like you have done there (I hope I am using these terms correctly :D ). Nice craftsmanship.

It's nice, but it's a pretty common type of 'finish' among handbuilders. I think Setch has done a few like that, I know a lot of acosutic builders who do it routinely, but regardless, very slick.

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Yep, I do it as standard now. I think I stole it from Mark Swanson, and god knows where he saw it first. It's a very sexy look.

I promised to post a demo on how I do it, but I'm having computer trouble, and can't get the *$%£! pictures off my digital camera onto the computer. As soon as I get that sorted I'll post it.

Mr.Gums - lookin very nice, and clean - I love teh clean!

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I managed (amateurly) to curve Koa on the headstock of my Tele build around 60° of a 2" radius curve. It just takes practice I guess, and hell I need it! I just wet the wood with a SecretMixture™ and applied gradually increasing amounts of pressure using cauls and clamps, whilst adding more SecretMixture™. Took about four hours to do, and left it for a couple of days under pressure to dry through.

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