albertop Posted August 14, 2004 Report Share Posted August 14, 2004 Hello all, I was looking for some Explorer measures because I would like to build one. I saw the couple of plans at Guitarbuild, one says that the body thickness is 3,5 cm (1 3/8") and the other one 4,5 cm (1 3/4 "), I wanna build a Gibson Explorer type, do you know what´s the thickness in that model? Besides the guitarbuild plans are not exact replicas: one is a 25,5" scale neckthrough when the original one was 24 3/4" and the other one is a bolt-on (the original was a set neck). Also I would like to know what´s the measure from the end where the switch is the the other extreme, the upper end where you put the arm; and the distance between the two bottom ends (where you put your arm and where the control knobs are). I´m planning in calibrate an image so I need this to make an accurate template. I have searched through this entire forum and always the answer to the Explorer specs is "go to guitarbuild", please don´t send me there , I already have the plans and they´re good I guess, I just need the confirm the measures. If you want, I can put my drawings in this forum, so you can see your contribution for this great forum . Thanks a lot for your time and patience and sorry for my english it´s not my native language. Alberto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MzI Posted August 14, 2004 Report Share Posted August 14, 2004 the body thickness is 1 3/4 but you can make it whatever you want like 1 1/2 or 1 7/8 personally preference, just remember that explorers are gonna be heavy cuz of their size, as for the other measurements im not sure on i dont have a tape measure here but the plans from guitar build are accurate both of them MzI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertop Posted August 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2004 Thanks for the answer MzI, yeah it seems like it will be rather heavy. Does anybody else have same measures?, please grabs your tape measures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathcorip Posted August 17, 2004 Report Share Posted August 17, 2004 ok from bottom point fin to the top back point its 28" t measuring arond the curve just straight from the top back point to the bottom back point its 17 1/2". hope that helps,explorers are brilliant guitars i've two,one i built and one i bought.heavy fu ckers but nice to play and balance and i've plans to build 2or 3 more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertop Posted August 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2004 Thanks deathcorip, that will help me a lot; i´m having trouble printing to scale those plans. And yeah, they´re pretty big uh? It´ll kill my back but I don´t care thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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