Nicksguitar Posted August 7, 2004 Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 Howdy everyone. First I'd liek to thank all the peeps who make this board so interesting and useful. I've been a daily visitor for the past 6 months or so. You guys rock. I started this with no other wood working experience than 8th grade woodshop an alarming 14 years ago. I bought a bandsaw, palm sander, router and dremmel multi pro. That little bugger rocks. Not counting the guitar hardware, I spent $400 or so on tools. Another $175 or so on wood and finsihing supplies. Not too bad when I figure a lot of the cost will spread over other guitars. Now for the cool stuff. I just finished putting on the paint layer of my first project. Someone posted their plan for a guitar similar to this and I decided to give my own interpretation. Samick also has a new Greg Bennett designed guitar that is similar to this as well; I found that out afterwards... Oh well. Here's my take on it. I tried to give it a 50's look and feel. I still have to shoot the nitro clear gloss on it and do up the logo, etc. My guitar pics The pickguard is just a template that I had built up but it's not quite perfect yet. Stew Mac has my material on backorder. The pickups are just some covers I had lying around. I'll be switching some Lace Sensor Gold's into it from one of my Strats when it's done. I may go for the Lace Holy Grail depending on finances. The neck was a cheap paddle head stock that I tricked out. I think it cost me $36 including shipping from ebay seller musicvalue. It's really not a bad neck, but it had some funky grain showing on the headstock so that convinced me to paint it. Funky bad, not funky pfunk.I already have a flame maple neck ordered from Warmoth but I wanted to use a cheap one the first time around in case I forked it up. The body is from a 2 piece Alder blank that I bought on ebay from burl.quilt. It was pretty much paint grade. with some bleaching I could have done a transparet finish. The bridge is a Fender hardtail bridge that I had been wanting to use in something for a while. Maybe the next one will get a hipshot. Or a reverse headstock and a bigsby w/ P-90s. Who knows. Let me know what you think. Sorry for the text heavy post! Rock on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nouseforone Posted August 7, 2004 Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 hey man great job, i really like the headstock shape fits in well with the design Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicksguitar Posted August 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 Thanks man. I wanted a Fender-esque look without the Fender-rip-off look. I can't wait to play it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnson Posted August 7, 2004 Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 Wow dude, you did some tough curves with no woodworking experience. I hope you didn't just mess up and make it a "Feature" . I'm actually going to a guitar pretty similar to that, black with a white pickguard with the cut-away not so sharp. Congratulations, hope it plays like a dream, and kudos for breaking outside of the box, instead of the same ol same ol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicksguitar Posted August 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 I was smart and heededother advice. I made a few templates with plywood and messed around with the carves... They were done with the sanding barrel on the dremel ans then touched up with a dandom orbit sander and the mouse sander that I have. I was pretty happy with how it came out. Good luck on you r project! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Jabsco Posted August 7, 2004 Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 wow, i really like that! its traditional, but very original at the same time. kudos to you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www Posted August 7, 2004 Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 Great lines. The body looks retro while the headstock looks radical and together they look good and quite original. Great work for your first guitar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
litchfield Posted August 7, 2004 Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 Like a blend betewwn a Strat, LP/PRS Singlecut, and a lot of originality Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregP Posted August 8, 2004 Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 I like it! Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skibum5545 Posted August 8, 2004 Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 I dig the headstock! It reminds me a lot of the Reverend headstock. It's got a great surf look to it, and the color you chose is perfect for the look. All it needs is a bigsby IMO.... Great build, great work. Can't wait for the next one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nirvana_RATM2 Posted August 8, 2004 Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 i love it looks so retro like said before.... the headstock is no doubt looks cool..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikke_998 Posted August 8, 2004 Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 Surfers get ready!! a really nice guitar especially coz its a first!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicksguitar Posted August 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 I dig the headstock! It reminds me a lot of the Reverend headstock. It's got a great surf look to it, and the color you chose is perfect for the look. All it needs is a bigsby IMO.... Funny you should say that. I just odered a bigsby for the next one I'm building. It will be setup like a tele, with a tele-ish pickguard, controls and have the bigsby. I'll be doing that one in the fifties Fender pale blue. My goal on this was to have one body style that I could equip like either a Strat, Tele or LP. I have the wood to do all 3 types but I'm taking it slow and try to learn from the gotchas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeR Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 Excellent guitar man! I was wondering, though, maybe you could put the pup selector in the same position as the Les Paul? It would take alot of buggering around, but I think it would look REALLY cool- and add a bit extra 'gibson' vibe to the guitar (as well as the fender vibe). Just a thought- great work once agin man! Luke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicksguitar Posted August 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 I was wondering, though, maybe you could put the pup selector in the same position as the Les Paul? It would take alot of buggering around, but I think it would look REALLY cool- and add a bit extra 'gibson' vibe to the guitar (as well as the fender vibe). I was thinking that too, but my plan is to build on setup like a Strat (StratoVision), one like a tele with a tele style pickguard (TeleVision) aand one with attached pickguard but 2 humbuckers and Les Paul control and switches (just plain Vision). Then maybe a double cut variant (DoubleVision). Yup, I got some free time to day dream on my hands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicksguitar Posted August 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2004 Okay I'm back with more pics. I had to fashion a pickguard out of a trash barrel 'cause Stew Mac is backorder on the 3 ply material. I wired in my sensors from a strat that I have. I also had some Fender USA tuners kicking around so I put those one. Strung her up and started to work on the action and intonation. I blew out the high E as you may note in the pics. Out of string now. Man, those 10 packs go fast. I still need to take her apart, wet sand teh finish and go through a ton of clear coats. The other body in the pics is my next iteration. She'll be setup like a Les Paul but with P-90s and a Bigsby b-5 or b-50 depending on my funds situation. The tope is 1/3" flame maple that I took a whirl at carving with power tools. I don't have much of a selection of carving tools so I used mostly a drill with a 2" sanding barrel, my Dremel pro with the lil barrel and my router. Add a lot of elbo grease and here it is. I chambered the body but forgot to take a pic before I glued her up. I didn't do the best job seamlessly bookmatching the top. There's always something to improve on I guess. Here's the new pics. Let me know what you guys think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beno Posted August 20, 2004 Report Share Posted August 20, 2004 Can't see the pics Beno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruyzalim Posted August 20, 2004 Report Share Posted August 20, 2004 can´t see them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicksguitar Posted August 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2004 They may take a minute to load. I just tried it from home and my work. They're at http://www.geocities.com/nickparece/guitar.htm Or here. They may take a second to load, there are a bunch. I'll take off the old pics to make it faster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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