capu Posted October 19, 2007 Report Share Posted October 19, 2007 Hello everybody! I'm back again! This is my last project. I started this project beeing inspired by a Tom Anderson I saw. These are the specs: Body · Solid body · Mahogany with flamed maple top (curved) · Abalone center line inlay · Finish: tiger eye Neck · Mahogany · Thin D profile (Ibanez style) · Indian rosewood fret board · Compound Radius fretboard · Abalone inlay at the 12th fret · bold-on Pickups · Rails Wiring · 3 switch, one for each PU · 1 sitch for coil split Here are some other pics: Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 Image 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TemjinStrife Posted October 19, 2007 Report Share Posted October 19, 2007 Wow, that's beautiful. I especially like the understated inlay at the 12th fret and the band of inlay between the sides of the bookmatched top! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikester Posted October 19, 2007 Report Share Posted October 19, 2007 That looks amazing. I love the abalone inlays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capu Posted October 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2007 Wow, that's beautiful. I especially like the understated inlay at the 12th fret and the band of inlay between the sides of the bookmatched top! Thank you! The band of inlay between the sides of the top have been inspired by the PRS Santana. If you have the pieces of abalone of the right measurements (in particular the width) it's really easy, you just need to have a router of the same width and a Dremel. It took me 15 minutes (and it was the first time I did a job like that). At the same time of the building this one I built another one completely in mahogany and here is the picture showing the routing of the line: Picture I fixed a piece of wood that I used to guide the Dremel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capu Posted October 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 If someone is interested I can post some pictures of the building process :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted October 20, 2007 Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 it looks pretty tasty!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The royal consort Posted October 20, 2007 Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 Yes we'd love to see the build pics.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andronico Posted October 20, 2007 Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 Congratulations Salvatore ! Your new guitar is beatiful, amazing, sexy... Please post in progress pictures ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkcrabby Posted October 20, 2007 Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 Wow! That does look great ! ,,, looks much like this Godin Artisan ST that I have as far as overall shape, at least to me. Your's of course is much MUCH cooler.... I sure wish I could build one like it someday.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capu Posted October 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 Wow! That does look great ! ,,, looks much like this Godin Artisan ST that I have as far as overall shape, at least to me. Your's of course is much MUCH cooler.... I sure wish I could build one like it someday.... Wow, you are completely right the two guitars looks really similar! The inlay on the fretboard are similar too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capu Posted October 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 Yes we'd love to see the build pics.... Here are the pics: Neck blank Body blank Body Profiling Body Profiling Maple top glued Maple top profiled Body curving (first stap) Body curving completed Truss rod installed Fretboard gluing Fretboard Inlay gluing Fretboard inlay Neck before shaping Neck shaped (with a rasp) Neck sanded Headplate before sanding Frets hammering Tremolo cavity routing Tremolo installed Neck pocket routed Inlay on the body Body stained If you have any question I'll be pleased to give you an answer :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 Thats really nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblaty Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 All I got to say is: wow! Nice work as always Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edubl Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 Very Nice. What did you use to do the body curving? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capu Posted October 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 Very Nice. What did you use to do the body curving? Thank you all :-) To do the curving I used a rounded router bit, you can see the result here: Curving, first step Then I used the sand paper to make it smoother: Curving, sanded I'll post a picture of the guide I applied on the router to do this job, stay tuned;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capu Posted October 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 Very Nice. What did you use to do the body curving? Here you can see 2 pictures of how I curved the body, I hope they will clarify how I did it: Guiding the router for body curving Detail Let me know if you need some more detailed pictures ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capu Posted October 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 In the same time I built another guitar that is similar to this one, the differences are: Roller nut instead of Graphtech nut Chrome hardware instead of gold 2 humbuckers and one singlecoil (but same wing) All mahogany body (without maple top) Natural finish I'll post some pictures when competed ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblaty Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 Do not hesitate with posting it.. I´m very interested in your work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capu Posted October 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 Do not hesitate with posting it.. I´m very interested in your work I'll be very pleased to do it ;-) I'm building it for a friend of mine and he is choosing the color, the pickups, the wiring and all the other details. When it will be ready I'll post all the pictures (the building ones are the same as the ones I posted for this guitar). :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capu Posted October 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 A friend asked me what techniques I usually use to stain. Here I'll report some consideration: I usually use a water based stain [...]. I think that is similar to the StewMac ones. In my Blue PRS copy (http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=30177&st=0&p=332072&#entry332072) the technique used was: I applied only ONE coat of a water base stain then (BEFORE IT WAS DRY) I wiped with a damp cloth: this technique enhances the flame. Remember that if the final color is too dark, the final result, when laqued, will be dark and you will see the flame only under the direct light. I did something similar with the tiger-eye color of this guitar: I first applied a single coat of brown stain (mahogany color) then before it was dry I wiped on it a coat of orange stain: this second coat just replaced (washing it) brown with the orange on the surface of the maple leaving the brown in the flame. The result is better than what you can see in the picture. On the other hand, I alway do some staining tests on scaps because each piece of maple react in a different way and the final result is always different. I hope this will help ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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