Pex657 Posted February 11, 2005 Report Share Posted February 11, 2005 (edited) After asking numerous amounts of questions and reading books, I think I am ready to start on my first from scratch guitar. I plan on taking it very slow to make sure everything is accurate and correct, I have a friend who is amazing at CAD and also the shop teacher helping me out with tools, so hopefully when I finish this guitar, I will have enought knowledge to go off by my self for the next guitar. My insperation comes from an Ibanez Iceman 400 and an ESP F400. I loved the shape of the iceman and the curves of the F400. I got with my friend who CADs( He draws also) and we came up with this body design. It is going to be 24 Frets with Seymour Duncan Jb/59 pickups.(plans for so far.) Progress: 02/10/05 I had to reglue the neck blank a little, the way I clamped it, it made the wood bend a little forward, so I did not have a solid connection between the two pieces of wood. That was fixed and once again thanks to my CAD man, I had a life size template of the neck, and traced in on the blank, cutting tomorrow. This was the wrong way, to fix it, I just put the other clamp the the other way and problem was solved. To test out the connection when the glue wood was tilting a little bit, he just banged it on a the table, and the second piece just flew off. Now it is nice and tight and tomorrow I am planning on cutting out the neck. Edited February 11, 2005 by Pex657 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePlague Posted February 11, 2005 Report Share Posted February 11, 2005 i really like the design except for one part... the part that i circled in red i think should just be a smooth curve rather than having it go out and back in. the guitar has a very sleek look, and that horn is just too beefy IMO. otherwise i like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill-Murray Posted February 11, 2005 Report Share Posted February 11, 2005 Maybe a little more clamps too?? Lookin good though. Theres also a bump on the left side of the body to, that looks odd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksound Posted February 11, 2005 Report Share Posted February 11, 2005 Maybe a little more clamps too?? Lookin good though. Theres also a bump on the left side of the body to, that looks odd. ← And uncomfortable after a 4 or 5 hour gig. There's another reason I like strats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pex657 Posted February 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2005 Progress: 2/11/05 Cut out the neck today, Changed the head shape a little, and now it will be sanding for the weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripsrv Posted February 13, 2005 Report Share Posted February 13, 2005 wow that headstok dosen tdo it for me at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pex657 Posted March 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 Yeah, the headstock was well...... a wrong cut , but after having to look at it for ever... I came to grow on it. Well I have no given up, but being in High School and as of now having no job and paying for a car, is not leaving me any money for building and the next step I have to do is to install the Truss Rod and the fretboard. As soon as I can find a job, I will continue, I seriously want to finish a project, don't feel like being one who just talks about making guitars but never does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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