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Both guitars look super cool, love the outdoor workshop.

The Intercessor looks fantastic, nice work

It is so interesting to see all the different techniques different builders use to carve the neck. It is more fun to make shavings than sawdust at this stage, I just hope you got your trajectory just right throwing those curlies so they sailed out of the window in a perfect arc to land around the Gerberas

What a beautiful bass, all the features and wood choices work together, and the tone is bangin, awesome.

Cheers Akula, Yes absolutely mate, and it was a lot of fun to finish this one, I had to change tack a few times to get everything to fit together, for example I had never realised how wide a flying V style headstock is at its widest point and the maple headstock facing I had for the project was not going to cover it. But in the end, it's got some Straya timber in it and it sounds all right so happy days

Yep, that is really gorgeous, the colours all work so well together, the lines and workmanship are schmicko

"The Moon" is melodic, soaring and uplifting, great first song.

That is very true about subtle differences having significant effects on guitars, a few years back I saw two same model LTD ST-213's (stratalikes) in a store and the visual impact at least was very different due to grain differences in the wood. That model also makes some changes to Leo's design that have an impact, a more comfortable heel and the vibrato block sitting directly on a slanted wood rest in the body. The great thing about guitar making is we can make these kind of changes. Getting the right pickups for a guitar really does unlock an amazing array of tones and I don't think you can go too far wrong with the one's you are considering. That's right that I have recently made a guitar that looks very similar to an old Gibson model but sounds nothing like it and It's great to see you and others embrace the opportunity that there are so many different ways to transform the disturbances in a magnetic field into beautiful noise. I have put a few examples under of different processors, a tube preamp, a solid state preamp, an all tube amp and a couple of VST plugin amp emulations. And these are just examples of the gazillions that you could plug these guitars into and sound incredible. You are on the downhill run now and close to that amazing feeling that every guitar maker gets when they put strings on their latest piece of art for the first time and connect it to amplification. I think in this vid, the ADA is being used to generate the overdrive and the Axe Fx is just supplying the delay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLhIj3WG25g

When you play this for the first time what song and what amp?

Awesome score, looking forward to seeing a guitar respawn around it,

Love the instrumental at the end of Hotel California, I have seen the song described as a Trip Advisor review followed by a really great solo. Definitely yes, The Knack came bursting out of the gate on their 1979 debut album with the absolute banger "Let Me Out" which to my ear shows a lot of influence from Cheap Trick, just in case that wasn't obvious I think they included a little 'easter egg', listen in Let Me Out for the word "tonight' followed by a set of quavers, which is a nod to Cheap Trick's song "Clock Strikes Ten".

I am glad that I sparked your interest to check out more of The Knack's catalogue, and you have in turn sparked my interest to do the same. They have quite a discography and now I want to have a listen to more of their musical legacy. Some of my favourite artists have shown a 50's/60's influence in some of their songs, like Joan Jett, T.Rex, Queen, Cheap Trick and even KISS, check out their cover of Any Way You Want It originally by the Dave Clark Five, it's awesome! Cheers. and one of the resonances that I don't miss was a rattle with certain notes, that disappeared with the replacement of the old neck. The sweet resonance spots in different guitars, however, do draw people back to those areas on the fretboard. One of the great things about overdrive or distortion is that it magnifies those sweet synergy resonances. Just think of all the years we could have been born on this planet, and we arrived in time for clipping, score With the solo for My Sharona, I wonder if the other guys in The Knack told Berton Averre to play the Free Bird solo, but just don't repeat the trills so much and throw in some killer melodic phrases.

Blonde Marauder So named because it is a homage (with some changes) to Gibson’s 70’s oddball model, the Marauder, and because of its colour, although when the light hits it right it gets an orangey hue. The body was made about 14 years ago, my first go at guitar building, but at that point I wasn’t confident to make a neck so I used a commercially made neck from the company “Dr Parts”. The Dr Parts neck, however, had a few issues, for example the bottom surface that sits in the neck pocket wasn’t completely flat, so last year, I decided to make my own neck for this instrument. The body is made out of Araucaria (species – Araucaria cunninghamii ) also known as Hoop, Hoop Pine, Queensland Pine or Morton Bay Pine), this genus of trees has been around since the time of the dinosaurs, they can grow up to 60 metres/197 feet tall by 2 metres/6.5 feet in diameter and the First Nations Australians used this timber to make boomerangs. The body has been played in pub gigs and has some light natural relicing, for example you can see some minor buckle wear on the back and it has some scratches where it has been dropped a few times. The neck is Rock Maple and the fretboard Rosewood. The scale is 624 mm/24.67 inches, the radius is 305 mm/12 inches. I drew the plans life size on white card with a pencil, T square, ruler and flexible curve, I made all the templates out of 6 mm MDF. What is different to the Gibson model? Instead of a 2.3 kOhm bridge pickup I used a 16.6 kOhm pup to smash a tube amp into creamy distortion. There is no gaping void hacked out around the truss rod nut in the headstock, instead there is a 9 x 6 mm channel, The volute size has been reduced and the scarf joint is in the headstock not the neck. Joints are not visible in the front of the headstock and the arm rest is a rounded curve instead of a bevel. The bridge pickup is a Seymour Duncan Hot Rails single space Humbucker and the neck pickup is a Korean Woo Sung Chorus humbucker. The machine heads are Gotoh vintage style and the tune-o-matic hardware is from Dr Parts, the frets are medium jumbo and sit 1.4 mm high. I am a hobby builder and while the body is the first I have made. the neck is the fourth, both were made in my basement man cave and out in the open air of my garden. I have always loved guitars that mix it up and break out of the usual moulds so I set out to build a guitar to satisfy that craving. Thread at

I am glad you liked it, that Rockman is an amazing gizmo. See what you think, the A on the fourth string does sound nice, and that high C really seems to be resonating. I agree, it is interesting how different instruments can produce different sweet spots on the fretboard, I wonder if scale size can affect that. Cheers, I am hoping it evokes some nostalgia or interest for the 70's! Here are the photos of the finished result in this experiment on a homage to my favourite of Gibson's odball guitars. It got a few changes, a rounded rather than bevelled body, a reduction of the truss rod void in the headstock and standard size pickups, Here it is getting the solo from My Sharona played on it.

Stripey goodness, and that headstock, oh yeah!

Cheers Scott, It was dying to be played, Its first played song was an original called Movin On that a friend and I wrote. If you are interested the demo track is here Then I played some classic rock on it, Led Zep, Rock and Roll and Black Dog, then Acca Dacca, Back in Black. I'll record a vid of the solo from My Sharona on it and post that soon.

I have just finished and strung up this guitar, its dusk so I have snapped a couple of phone shots, I'll take some shots in better light soon and shoot and post a video of the guitar getting played to let anyone who is interested hear what it sounds like.

I checked out your accoustic guitar build, absolutely beautiful, good luck with the thinline, hollow body.

There are some amazing bottle openers at http://www.home-designing.com/cool-and-unique-beer-wine-bottle-openers-corkscrew my favourites are the T.Rex and Alessi Diabolix. Today I got time to do some neckin. I did the one solder joint that was required. All the rest were already done. Then I screwed on the loaded scratch plate and tested everything was working using my iphone. I also tested the height of the nut, all OK, and glued it on then marked out the holes for the truss rod cover. Drilled in and screwed the cover on. Now I just have to let my nut glue dry overnight and I can put some strings on this thing.

That is fantastic, I will have to make a BOWWANII bottle opener some time. If I ever use these tuners again on rock maple, I am going to drill 9 mm holes to start with and push the grommets in with a little bit of glue. 8.5 mm holes (I am guessing) would be fine in mahogany but in rock maple they still needed a lot of grating with a bastard file before the grommets would go in safely. Anyway. they are in now,

It's good to remind/remember the technique to avoid chips when enlarging the the tuner holes. I am going to Kango those holes into the right diameter so the the headstock wont split when I tap in the grommets with my beer hammer which seems to have come up in the conversation a few times in this thread. On that topic I am feeling so lazy watching Graham Norton's show that I couldn't be bothered going underground and getting that tool for its secondary function and I have just used the world's worst ever bottle opener.

I tried the neck fit without any screws, it's snug. Then I went to put in the tuner grommets in the front of the headstock, it was too snug a fit. I measured the diameter of the grommets again, it was not 8 mm as i thought, it is 8.5 mm. So I burnt rubber up to Bunnings for the gazillionth time to get an 8.5 mm drill bit. The screw holes for the tuners are all marked out. The grommets will go in tomorrow, as will the neck screws.

My favourite Yorkshire slang is "twerk" which does not mean waving your gluteal muscles around, as in 'Ee I better get rollin and catch the bus if I want to get twerk on time'.

The cream definitely works, ties in nicely with the binding

Cheers Prostheta, it scrubbed up alright, amazing what some sponjing, a sticker and some nice tuners can do Cheers Bizman, so glad I discovered the existence of template following router bits back when, life-changing So it is now time to start putting this guitar together, first I have to hack the veneer away from the truss rod nut, measure out where the machine head screws go, bash in the sink-in front washers and then screw in the neck. If all goes to plan the neck should drop into the body, like it was made for it!