evilbetty Posted June 17, 2007 Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 hi im new on here ,just wanted to share this guitar i wanta build,also pick ur brains for info!!!! ive looked at some of the threads on here and im really amazed at what has been done ,awsum quailty and some great ideas, so this idea isnt myne well it is but it isnt my design i should say ,im just going to attemp to do a straight copy,of a guitar maybe with a little bit of adjusting here and there to suit my needs but basicly its a copy,so im not taking any credit for any design !!!! please bare with me on this as this is my first attemp at a guitar ,i saw this one on ebay a few months ago and i nearly bought it ,i humed and hared about it but it was like 1400 dollars and for me thats a hell of alot of money,so the idea came to try and build one like it!!! ok so heres the guitar i saw and didnt buy lol ,maybe i should have just bought it???????? nah im hoping i can pull this off would be kinda cool, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilbetty Posted June 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 so like i thought about it and decieded that i would do the thru neck sorta design on this as the one in the pic was made this way ,but i thought that building the neck myself would be a little bit to hard for my first attempt so hunted one down at steward macdonald, so got a semi finished thru neck with a blank head stock ,24 frets ,made from maple , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilbetty Posted June 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 so i stufft around on the computer for ages trying to get the shape of the guitar , i used microsoft office professional,to enlarge the pick and spread it out over several sheets of paper,then printed it out,and cut it out , now this was just to give me ruff idea and something to get started with not the most accurate way but it was all i could come up with ,i tryed to like draw it out but my art skills arnt the best lol ok so a got the basic shapes and started to work on the head stock, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilbetty Posted June 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 now for the head stock,it was actually like 5 or 6 mm to small for what i wanted to do!!!doh!!!, so to get around this i had to add a couple of strips of maple to each side, sanded the edges of the headstock and the strips and then glued and clamped them to gether and let it dry for a day or so...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilbetty Posted June 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 so heres the ruff shape drawn onto the slightly enlarged head stock,lol gona be a lil tricky to cut out but should be able to handle it....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilbetty Posted June 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 and aftr some carefuly cutting heres the ruff shape cut out ,found out this shape is spose to be called the son of beast ,its kinda cool i guess,but i think i like the black widow style headstock better lol,as i have a bc rich warlock,but yeah this is a copy so thats what it looks like, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilbetty Posted June 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 so heres the rufly sanded up headstock next to the warlock, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilbetty Posted June 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 so that sort of under way,i looked at getting started on the body,first i masked up the neck ,to protect it a bit while i stuff around,and the other day,the alder wood that i ordered turned up so heres that on either side if the neck,,, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilbetty Posted June 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 heres the shape scribed out,ya think its gona be hard to cut?????????? hahhahahhaha well it was ,dont have lots a fancy tools so had to make do with my old jigsaw, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilbetty Posted June 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 so yeah i started to cut out the side pieces ,i hope im doing this right cause that wood and the neck cost me !!! so hopefully ,i havnt stuft it, so heres the first piece cut out and rufly sanded next to the neck, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilbetty Posted June 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 and heres the neck part that i cut ............... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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evilbetty Posted June 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 then i went to cut the second peice but..... my jig saw craped it self!!! so had to get another one lol,then cut the second piece and gave it a ruff sand up into shape and that leaves me here...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregP Posted June 17, 2007 Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 Looking good. Any particular reason you didn't glue up the "wings" before cutting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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evilbetty Posted June 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 yes there was i still have alot of carving and shaping to do on the side bits(wings ?) yeah and wanted to keep them off the neck for as long as possible ,becasue will just make it even harder for me having the neck there ,dont want to damage it as it cost me alot of money,so the idea is to get as much as i can done on those parts before i glue them on,also i dont have all the fanncy tools like band saws and stuff so just trying to do this with the stuff i have , hope that answers ya question cheers , also i have several other projects on the go at the mo (not guitars) so this could be rather a slow one ,heres the last pics i took........... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Setch Posted June 17, 2007 Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 Looks really good so far. I echo Greg's question, and I'd strongly suggest you get the wings glued up soon. Whilst you are right that they will be a bit easier to carve before the neck is attached, you will find it very difficult to get them properly clamped and correctly joined to the body after they are carved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Sorbera Posted June 17, 2007 Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 Looks really good so far. I echo Greg's question, and I'd strongly suggest you get the wings glued up soon. Whilst you are right that they will be a bit easier to carve before the neck is attached, you will find it very difficult to get them properly clamped and correctly joined to the body after they are carved. Agreed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheIRS Posted June 17, 2007 Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 Your guitar is looking darn good especially for someone new to this. Though you really should get those wings clamped and glued before you do any major carving, it will be extremely hard to keep them lined up with the body if you don't. Either way, great work and keep it up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brewu22 Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 I am with everyone else about getting the wings glued on. Did you save any of the pieces that you have cut out? You could use them to assist in clamping. How are you doing the carves? By the way, it looks really good so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim_ado Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 yeah glue when u do the carving near the glue joint and there not glued, when u do glue them they wont line up as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biliousfrog Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 I agree with everyone else, those wings will be a be-atch to clamp up effectively. Very nice work so far though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilbetty Posted June 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 yes i thought about it and i was about to glue them on then my bridge arrived,so held fire on it ,after abit of mesuring and so on i found the the bridge would sit like a mile of the wood so the strings wouldnt be to close to the fret board,if you can undersstand what im on about then your doin well !!! lol so had to adjust something now your probably going to laugh at me when i show how i got around this ,but i didnt want to put a big hole in the top of the wood for the bridge to sit down into so i ended up doing this..................... so i have to remove like an angled section from the top side of the neck but then i would be left with a small section at the back that id need to fill or do somthing with so i figured that if i preglue a peice of maple on to the back of the neck then i could level it down once the wings are on and also level down the top part using the wings as a ruff guide i think this should work ok ,if not then ive stuft up big time!! hahahaha so glued a piece on the back................. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmrentis Posted June 21, 2007 Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 Here is a thread to help you with your problems of neck angle. Neck Angle. Perry made the thread to help people figure out what angle they need to use in order to have good action. Read through it a few times, while I will say that it is explained extremely well and should be easy as pie to use, I at first took a few moments to figure out the drawinga and all that. Soon as I realized what I was looking at it made things so much easier. You can route as you mentioned the bridge down a little or angle the neck. The angled neck I think is more common. There are a few similar helpful thread in the solid body tutorials section, where the thread I posted came from. Best of luck and keep us posted. J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilbetty Posted June 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 then after a bit of cleaning up and sanding i ended up with this..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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