Billy Bones Posted March 21, 2005 Report Share Posted March 21, 2005 Hi Guys. I just joined this thing a couple weeks ago. Here's a picture of my first guitar. Almost finished. I'm gonna do some inlay on the fingerboard, and put something on the headstock. I play in a garage band, so it's gonna get beat up pretty good. I didn't work the finish too hard, as I was running out of time at the spray booth I was using. It's gonna get some simple pinstripe work. I know these things came with single coils, but I love these mother of pearl hums. this site is amazing. Body is made from Mahogany (with a piece of pine or something off a shipping crate glued on for the outside bit) Neck is Maple, fingerboard is Cocobollo wood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digideus Posted March 22, 2005 Report Share Posted March 22, 2005 wow, thats different! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Sorbera Posted March 22, 2005 Report Share Posted March 22, 2005 looks great! It doesent look very comfterable for your arm though. And why on earth did you glue a shipping crate onto mahogany? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Bones Posted March 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2005 I originally was going to build myself a les paul jr, because I love the way they sound. So I bought a piece of mahogany. It cost me more money than I thought it would, and I was going to have quite a bit of extra material, so I decided to build two guitars out of it. I didn't quite have enough, so that low point on the bottom side, and about an inch of the horn on the Les Paul are both from scraps I had lyin around that I glued on to make big enough pieces for two guitars. I figured, they're far enough from the strings and pickup, they shouldn't affect the sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digideus Posted March 22, 2005 Report Share Posted March 22, 2005 Well, I have to say I would have bought more wood. the idea of gluing packing crate on my guitar would make me cringe Just dont drop it on the shipping crate bit. Nice job tho. the simple colours make it look really retro. its like something from the 70s that Slade would have played! How does it sound? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksound Posted March 22, 2005 Report Share Posted March 22, 2005 I've liked that body shape since the first time I saw Fang. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Bones Posted March 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2005 I've barely got to hear it yet, and not through my own amp. We're recording next weekend and playing a couple shows (One with Shonen Knife from Japan) so I'll get to hear it a lot soon. I ran it through a fender deluxe (I think) and it sounded all right, but I won't know till I get it going through a twin all out, so I can hear it with the tubes breaking up. I played it side by side with an old airline archtop that I put a p90 in, and it's not as mean sounding as the archtop. A little more treble. I love the tone I get from the Airline. When I show up to a club with it, the sound guy looks like he's going to cry. But for some reason I can keep it from feeding back, and just let it howl when I want it to. Billy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadmike Posted March 22, 2005 Report Share Posted March 22, 2005 looks pretty cool, doesnt look very comfy though... your playing a show with shonen knife????!!! im very jealous, the shonen girls are loads of fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skibum5545 Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 Hmm... I like it. Not too big on the shape TBH, but the color scheme and the Bigsby make me feel all warm inside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyunsu Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 Wow.. you make neck your self? it it amazing ... my first time making guitar is not good.. but your making neck is good.. your fist time making is very successfull.. ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Bones Posted March 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 Thanks Hyunsu, Yeah, I made the neck. I screwed up a few things, and it ended up being a hair narrower than I had planned, but it plays fine. I wanted to do everything on it, so I made the trussrod myself. I wasted a lot of time there, and next time I'll just buy one. But I cut the slot for the trussrod after I cut the shape out on the band saw. So it was tricky to get the slot in properly. Or took a little more time anyways. I built an Erliwine neck jig, and had a radius block to sand the radius into the fretboard, so the most difficult thing was keeping the sides perfectly straight. I had a jig that I used to cut the fret slots on a table saw and had a friend who knows what he's doing helping me along. Billy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickguard Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 Yeah, really nice, nice to see something different for a change...I like the phantom shape a lot, though I've been longing after a teardrop for a long time too...hard to choose! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyldbil Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 Cool guitar, but I think you should have had a different headstock shape. (JUST an opinion...) I have five words for you: Paul Revere And The Raiders! If you don't get that, do a little research and you'll figure it out really quick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Bones Posted March 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 (edited) If I had it to do again, I'd do the headstock shape differently, but I still wouldn't use that ugly Vox shape. It looks like Grimace from McDonalds. Just a blob. I'd probably do something like one of the cool italian guitars. yeah, our band our thinking about covering "Kicks" They did some wicked stuff. Some of it's a bit sleepy, but when they go, they go. Billy Edited March 23, 2005 by Billy Bones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mledbetter Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 That's really cool looking. Is that a GFS pickup by any chance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Bones Posted March 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 It says "Sky" Pickups, designed by Kent Armstrong. I think it's a stacked humbucker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mledbetter Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 It says "Sky" Pickups, designed by Kent Armstrong. I think it's a stacked humbucker. ← Oh ok.. not familiar with Sky.. Am familiar with Kent Armstrong though. GFS has a bunch of pups that look like that.. pearl and wood covered types. Pretty nice looking though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Bones Posted March 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 I'll bet they're sourcing them from the same place as me. Probably the same pickup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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