lespaul123 Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 Hey Guys I am posting some pics of my second build finally. I built this thing like 6 months ago but I just now got some pictures of it. It has 3/4 flamed maple top with a 1 1/4 mahogany body. It is a neck through with cherry(one of my personal favorite woods) ziricote, flamed maple o and some black dyed veneer strips. The head stock overlay grain runs from the ziricote fingerboard all the way up the neck(sorry I couldnt get a good pic of this). I also glued a peice of mahogany and dyed black veneer underneth the headstock overlay. I carved some of the headstock to kinda show that off. The fingerboard is fully scalloped with jumbo fret wire. I sanded the fingerboard by hand from 220 all the way up to 12000 so it has a nice shine to it. O yea I used a very sharp chisel to carve most of the scallop and then a rasp on the higher ones. I found that the chisel made it less work to sand than to use a raps all the time.I dont own a profile sander but I imagine that would have worked also. Each fret took about 20 minutes from start to finish. Talk about tedeious o man. As for inlay I did an offset abalone dot inlays with matching side dots. It has a 25 " scale length. Now for the finish I used behlen stringed instrument lacquar. I dont know what you guys think of this stuff. I used the same stuff on my first guitar, and I must say out of all of the lacquars I have used I am just not much of a fan of it. Its just not as durable as a would like it to be. I dunno I will try something diffrent next time. Any reccomendations? Ok back to the finish I did a blue black dye on the raw body. Sanded back then tinted with with black dye. So it look very silverish then in certain angles it goes blue. At first I was really bummed about the color but now I love it. O I know lots of you guys prolly do not like emgs but dont worry Bareknuckles are on the way. O one more thing my woods suppliers were North west timber(top) Gilmer wood (body) Hearne hardwoods (ziricote) Berea hardwoods (flamed maple for neck) Thanks for checking this one out let me know what you think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lespaul123 Posted April 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 O the as for how long it took.It took 3 weeks for all the wood work( I took vacationt ime from work) and bout a month a half to finish, polish and set it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piedpiperX2000 Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 awesome! The top carving is wonderful and classy *thumbs up* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anderekel Posted April 17, 2008 Report Share Posted April 17, 2008 Looks good to me, I really like the carve on the top except right next to the neck, and the carve for the back is awesome. I still haven't decided how I'm gonna do it on my build, I might have to take some off yours lol. Very nice lookin' instrument. Don't know what to recommend as far as finish, gotta know what sort of finish you want, i.e. glossy, matte, whatever. And there are a lot of people here that like emg's, I don't, but a lot do lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lespaul123 Posted April 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2008 thx guys I really appreciate it. But 51 views an two comments I know there are a lot more opinions out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inisheer Posted April 17, 2008 Report Share Posted April 17, 2008 Cool! Very clean and professional looking work. Perhaps you could post a few pictures in this thread rather than linking to the album, that might help generate some more responses if you want them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lespaul123 Posted April 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2008 good thinkin I will do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hector Posted April 17, 2008 Report Share Posted April 17, 2008 awesome! really beautiful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirge for november Posted April 17, 2008 Report Share Posted April 17, 2008 Looks absolutely great, How many frets does the guitar have? (I noticed the pickups where quite close together, so I reckon many frets). I really love the color. What kind of dyes did you use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted April 17, 2008 Report Share Posted April 17, 2008 i really like the carve - nice and original and very modern looking. i think we need a bigger pic in teh thread but you wont always get lots of replies... you get more if you start doing stuff wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanthus Posted April 17, 2008 Report Share Posted April 17, 2008 Wow, A+ work! scalloped frets, jumbo wire, that thing must play itself! I really like the color of the top, and the overall execution. This could definitely be GOTM material. What was the total cost? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lespaul123 Posted April 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2008 Wow, A+ work! scalloped frets, jumbo wire, that thing must play itself! I really like the color of the top, and the overall execution. This could definitely be GOTM material. What was the total cost? Thx man. I used transtints for the color. The guitar cost about 700 with out the pick ups. I really need to spend more time shopping to get the better prices instead of just buying it all right before I start to build. So now I always have my eyes open. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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