eddiewarlock Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 when i saw the lion on your avathar i thought you were from Göteborg. Very nice city, i loved it, i spent a week there in April last year, i have to say Göteborg is almost a perfect city to live and the girls are to die for! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aidlook Posted February 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 when i saw the lion on your avathar i thought you were from Göteborg. Very nice city, i loved it, i spent a week there in April last year, i have to say Göteborg is almost a perfect city to live and the girls are to die for! hehe...funny thing...that lion has nothing to do with göteborg...and I've had it since before I moved here.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slabbefusk Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 Götebor is a nice city, I live in Norrköping. Not quite as big . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aidlook Posted February 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 Götebor is a nice city, I live in Norrköping. Not quite as big . Nice industrial view though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aidlook Posted March 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2007 Bought ash for the body today, found a nice supplier for wood now.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
another doug Posted March 2, 2007 Report Share Posted March 2, 2007 Out of curiosity, what did you end up doing with the fretboard/scale length? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aidlook Posted March 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2007 Out of curiosity, what did you end up doing with the fretboard/scale length? I bought new wood for the neck and kept it at the original scalelength. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwedishLuthier Posted March 2, 2007 Report Share Posted March 2, 2007 Bought ash for the body today, found a nice supplier for wood now.... Do you mind sharing the name? I have a very good lokal suplier (stockholm) for Mahogany (even for one piece bodies), valnut, maple (got some flamed maple last time) and some other spieces. Only proble is that I have to buy whole planks. A 22" wide, 2" thick and 8 meters long board costed me like 6000 Swedish crowns last time. Maybee I can sell you some from my stash in the futute and vice verse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
another doug Posted March 2, 2007 Report Share Posted March 2, 2007 I bought new wood for the neck and kept it at the original scalelength. Good choice, IMO. Keep up the good work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aidlook Posted March 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2007 Bought ash for the body today, found a nice supplier for wood now.... Do you mind sharing the name? I have a very good lokal suplier (stockholm) for Mahogany (even for one piece bodies), valnut, maple (got some flamed maple last time) and some other spieces. Only proble is that I have to buy whole planks. A 22" wide, 2" thick and 8 meters long board costed me like 6000 Swedish crowns last time. Maybee I can sell you some from my stash in the futute and vice verse Interwood in Gothenburg. they had a pretty big warehouse...I was in a bit of a hurry and didn't really look around for that long, but it looked like they had lots of stuff. Many sizes of mahogany. I bought a 2,5m long 5cm thick and 16 cm wide board for 400 crowns (american ash). I'll contact you for future projects if you've got some spare wood to sell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aidlook Posted March 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2007 I've now planed the boards and I really love the grain pattern. I will probably put an oil finish on this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aidlook Posted March 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 Finally took some progress pictures with a real camera. Since that picture I've also routed for the neck pickup. Back headstock view Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aidlook Posted March 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2007 You shure are a quiet bunch... anyway, I routed for the floyd rose now and if you look close enough you can see I installed 3 tuners as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted March 23, 2007 Report Share Posted March 23, 2007 Really nice, I love the body design. The grain flows with it extremely well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord-of-the-strings Posted March 23, 2007 Report Share Posted March 23, 2007 (edited) I love the body design, but I really dislike the headstock. Not the whole thing, just that little "nub" on the treble side. It would look strange in you simply cut the nub off, but if you made flow a bit instead of just a point I think it'd look rad. Edited March 23, 2007 by Lord-of-the-strings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aidlook Posted March 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2007 Thanks, I'm going to work some more on it tonight, hopefully get it stringed up and see if it's playable at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aidlook Posted March 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2007 finished drilling for tuners and got it stringed up today. Will need a bit of shimming in the neck or to have the floyd a bit more recessed...But it played very good and no fret buzz whatsoever anywhere on the fretboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddiewarlock Posted March 24, 2007 Report Share Posted March 24, 2007 what the hell do you guys put in tyhe water in Sweden??? ALL of you swedish guys build awesome, and very clean guitars!!! Hell, i'0d say all scandinavians build awesome guitars!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cameroo Posted March 24, 2007 Report Share Posted March 24, 2007 Looks nice! I really like the headstock, I've never seen one like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aidlook Posted March 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2007 what the hell do you guys put in tyhe water in Sweden??? ALL of you swedish guys build awesome, and very clean guitars!!! Hell, i'0d say all scandinavians build awesome guitars!!! ..well we do have very, very good tapwater... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slabbefusk Posted March 24, 2007 Report Share Posted March 24, 2007 Where did you get your wood from? And is that regular ash or swamp ash? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aidlook Posted March 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2007 Where did you get your wood from? And is that regular ash or swamp ash? Interwood in Gothenburg, they claimed it was "american ash". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddiewarlock Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 what the hell do you guys put in tyhe water in Sweden??? ALL of you swedish guys build awesome, and very clean guitars!!! Hell, i'0d say all scandinavians build awesome guitars!!! ..well we do have very, very good tapwater... Hahaha, you do, you do, specially in Göteborg...i guess i should have drank water from the poseidon fountain! hahah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slabbefusk Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 Where did you get your wood from? And is that regular ash or swamp ash? Interwood in Gothenburg, they claimed it was "american ash". Ok cool, is it heavy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aidlook Posted March 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 what the hell do you guys put in tyhe water in Sweden??? ALL of you swedish guys build awesome, and very clean guitars!!! Hell, i'0d say all scandinavians build awesome guitars!!! ..well we do have very, very good tapwater... Hahaha, you do, you do, specially in Göteborg...i guess i should have drank water from the poseidon fountain! hahah I think drunk people piss in that fountain every weekend though.... Slabbe, I'm not really shure if it's heavy...depends on what you compare it to I guess... The body is quite small but was unbelievably comfortable to play sitting down. The upper horn made the guitar rest nicely against the ribs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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