bigdguitars Posted December 3, 2004 Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 basswood with quilted top... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moreau Posted December 3, 2004 Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 hey looking good so far. hope to start mine soon. where u get your top? i just bought 2 off ebay that are 5/16". cant wait till they come. What u planning for hardware and such? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlGeeEater Posted December 3, 2004 Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 One thing, why did you choose basswood? Any signature characteristic? Thanks, Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhemann Posted December 3, 2004 Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 man,d, i would love to see you use some templates on your neck pockets and pickup cavities. or you could do like i do and only freehand routs as close to your lines as you are comfortable with,and clean up the rest with a good chisel. clean routs would give you a much more professional product. i speak from experience on this.i did my share of freehand routs.now i at least use a steel straightedge as a guide,clamped to the body Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdguitars Posted December 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 used templates on this cept for lines between the pickups. Neck pocket and pickup cavaties have tape in the so that the glue does not build up. no idea on this one. just building away, thinking green hornet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crafty Posted December 3, 2004 Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 I'm just curious, it looks like you first layed out the design in pencil, then turned the body 180 degrees and redid the layout. How come? Funny how the holes for the strings ended up where you originally drew the neck pockets. As for freehanding the pickup routs, meh, who cares? Having 'em a little rough gives it a little character. It certainly doesn't seem to hurt anyone if it's under a pickguard. But I do suppose we should all be striving for quality and perfection, so I won't say perfection is bad either. Should be a nice axe with a good meaty tone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PerryL Posted December 3, 2004 Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 Just a small tip if you do this kind of body again, Drill a hole with one of those long drill bits from the neck pocket thru the neck pickup route all the way down to the bridge pickup route. It'll look really clean and you never see it either, unless you remove the neck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Setch Posted December 3, 2004 Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 Nice looking quilt there! Any particular reason why you routed the basswood before glueing on the maple top? I'd understand doing any chambers or wiring runs first, but p'up routes and control chambers which are going to be routed in the maple too? Seems like you're going to be doing the same job twice... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdguitars Posted December 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 No idea what type of hardware I will be using. Standard tele stuff. quilted maple top came from a billet I got off ebay. I thought that I was going to do a all basswood tele then I found this top as I was cleaning out my wood piles. so I had the pickups and neck pocket semi routed a couple of days ago and then decide to add the maple top. I was going to do the long drill thing if I had done a full basswood body, just decide to add the top last min. There was a knot in the wood that I did not see on the one side so I flipped it and now its cut out. Basswood has a great tone, good highs good lows, I have had some basswood guitars and loved themm, so I'd figure I would make one finally. I glued the top last night and will clean it up later... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdguitars Posted December 5, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 update added some binding. first time at doing that... my hands hurt now... Here are some pics: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xebryusguitars Posted December 5, 2004 Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 . looks great big d. That was your first time doing binding? well you did a great job doing it, what color you doing that quilted top? i cant wait to see this guitar finished. I have a couple of questions myself if you dont mind. I just bought some quilted and curly maple and wherever those black spots are on your body, its REALL rough. Is it supposed to be like that? Ive never dealt with raw curly and quilted maple before. Also, is that was its supposed to look like when you "sand back"? Thannks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdguitars Posted December 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 not bad if I may say so.... what you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xebryusguitars Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 looks great big d, cant wait till that things clear coated, its gonna be quite pretty. good job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Fruit Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 Wow, looking good. and a good first binding too. Matt (pretending to know what hes talking about ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlGeeEater Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 Matt (pretending to know what hes talking about ) So do i oh bigD, were did you get the binding from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Sorbera Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 WOW Thats some nice quilt, If I were you I would have done it deep green burst... o so nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoryKer Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 Bound deep blue on quilt is one of my favorite looks for a "showy" tele. There's a couple great examples of it in Warmoth's gallery. I don't speak from experience, but that binding looks VERY clean. Lately I've been really wanting to build a telecaster. It'd be a relatively uncomplicated first project, and I could use some tele tones as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Setch Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 Nice!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maiden69 Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 I must say that it's looking much better than usual, and yes, I love the blue tone. Most my guitars end up being blue on the long run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhemann Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 i think i like it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drak Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 Derek, wanna have a Blue Bound Tele runoff? I can do one of mine in blue and bind it. I can catch one up to where you're at in about 3-5 days. I'm itching for a competition of any sort now that Carrie's dead, and you're in my ballpark now, buddy. Home team advantage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdguitars Posted December 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 Drak would be honored. but here is the problem, I don't have the neck, nor do I have the hardware. Plus I can't finish it till spring... So as of right now I am done with it. I just touched up the biding and thats it. If that spray thing works. I will let you know as of now this goes to the finish pile... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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