Doctor Madness Posted September 25, 2005 Report Share Posted September 25, 2005 Hello. I really enjoyed to learn about building a guitar in that forum and so I will document the build of my own Explorer, the EXP2! Pleas excuse my bad english, I'm from Germany. Yesterday I was at a local joiner to get some wood. Because mahagony was out I got a plank of beech-tree for 20€. [Pic] I calculated that it's possible to cut 2 guitars out of it. I planed to cut my Explorer in one piece. The headstock won't be angeled. It'll be like one of the Strat headstocks. First I printed the bodyoutline and glued the plan on the plank. [Pic] The contour I cutted with a jigsaw. After that I smoothed the edges with my beldgrinder. The result: [Pic] Next sep was to remove the plan. First a pose with the cutted body: Now the paper is removed completely Soon I'll post some new pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattia Posted September 25, 2005 Report Share Posted September 25, 2005 Umm...1-piece body and neck? Probably also means no angle (you don't really want to plane an angle into the neck. Runout ahoy!). Is this a nice, quartered chunk at least? Also, you picked a bridge that's low enough to let you get a playable guitar out of this (trems are out, TOM are out, even Fender bridges are pretty much out unless you sink 'em low), and you realize you'll have very, very little distance from the strings to the face of the guitar, right? Probably need the pickups flush to the body. Draw it out, full scale, side view, and accurately. And go from there. It's a nice chunk 'o' wood, and I'm assuming it's well and properly dried, right? Because 1-piece body and neck? Risking some warp. There are reasons beyond the practical that 1-piece instruments aren't at all common. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Madness Posted September 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2005 So if you look at the guitarname you can see, that it's not my first guitar. The neckangle will be added tater. I did it on the other guitar to and it was great. The bridge will be a tune-o-matic. I tested and it fits. I can't finish my first Explorer, because I got a wrong plan and the scale doesn't fit with the pickup holes and the buied fingerboard I had already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Setch Posted September 25, 2005 Report Share Posted September 25, 2005 I think you're asking for a world of trouble orienting the grain like that - you've got a good 10 degrees of side-to-side run out. A good knock to that neck and you've got thousands of diagonal grain lines waiting to part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Madness Posted September 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2005 So the next pics will take a few days. But I realized, that this thread is in the false board. Maybe a Mod can change it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al3x Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 able to send me the plans for the neck? im making a custom guitar insane.prawn@gmail.com if u can help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvalentine Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 WOW!!! Whatever happened to this guy's project? That is insane on so many levels, but he said he pulled it off before. Please, project update! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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