zyonsdream Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 Have you ever managed to really screw up a guitar and then manage to salvage it? http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j287/ZDG...le/100_3324.jpg This guitar started life as an all maple pointy guitar that was supposed to be clear coated with a bocote fretboard. So I Glue the blank up and throw it through the planer for final thickness and all of a sudden, the lower piece loses all of the quilt and birseye in it! YUCK, that’s going to look odd when finished. A bit bummed I move on. Well I cut the profile of the guitar out and everything went smoothly. I even did the bevels on the body which turned out okay. Then I started to cut the profile of the neck, Bass side went okay and the treble side went okay until I got to about 1” from the nut location and then it happened. My router bit bearing guide slipped under my template and I took a nasty bite out of the side of my neck. Well now I’m SOL and I throw the guitar into the pile to be forgotten about. After several months I decided to go back to it. I lobbed the neck off to make it a bolt on. One problem: the bass side of the body meets at the 12th fret and being a bolt on it would be impossible to scoop the back of the body so there weren’t any clearance issues beyond the 12th fret. So I steepened the angle so it would meet farther up the neck and then I cut all the beveled edges off to make the profile of the body smaller. Then I went radical with the bevels just to give it that 80’s ESP look. So, now it’s going to get a maple bolt on with an ebony board. A bridge humbucker and a TOM style bridge/string through. Oh, and winter camo finish http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j287/ZDG...le/100_3715.jpg http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j287/ZDG...le/100_3716.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MescaBug Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 (edited) Looks good to me! Without knowing, I won't be able to tell it went through a salvage operation. The bevels looks very clean! Nice job. The body/neck joint looked better before, going all the way to the 12th fret, which is unusual, but you manage to make it look good. Edited March 20, 2008 by MescaBug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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