bluesy Posted August 3, 2008 Report Share Posted August 3, 2008 This is my first guitar. It was started as a project to learn how to use the tools and techniques, but has become a playable instrument. Of course I am happy about that . I posted here about a month ago when I finished the body and I had bolted on an old Telecaster neck. Now I have made my own neck to go with it. The neck is Tasmanian Oak with Rosewood fingerboard and small abalone dots and has a double action truss rod in it. I am amazed that it plays so well with good intonation. I didn't even have to level the frets much. I made a few mistakes while doing all this - none fatal to the guitar luckily. I am now ready to tackle something better - maybe a thinline tele, or something with an ES-335 type of shape. Haven't decided. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piedpiperX2000 Posted August 3, 2008 Report Share Posted August 3, 2008 Good job dude! That neck looks very clean and tight =] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesy Posted August 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2008 Good job dude! That neck looks very clean and tight =] I have to be honest - up close, there are some things that could be better. For example, I slipped while filing the fret ends, and roughed up a few fret tops. [learning - make a better block to hold the file so it can't slip out] Also the pegboard shape is not perfect. [learning - use a template] I also had a disaster while spraying the finish - my wire hook let go, and the neck plummeted a metre or so onto it's heel on concrete causing some damage that I had to repair (the truss rod punched out a small piece of wood in the end - easy to glue back though) [learning - make sure guitars and necks are secure while drying] There, that's better - confession time over Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpcrash Posted August 3, 2008 Report Share Posted August 3, 2008 that's cool! Course, I always like natural finishes. When it comes to hanging (since I've had the same thing happen with less than positive results). I created a hanging rack and a drying cage and faithfully use strips of wood to mount to everything (a handle). Oh... the pain and joy of learning Good job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zyonsdream Posted August 3, 2008 Report Share Posted August 3, 2008 Yup, I bolt my bodies to a board that's connected to a bolt in the joists of my shop and I've never had one drop. I like the way Dan E has a roticery set up so he can turn is guitar while spraying it. Just seems like a good idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo Posted August 4, 2008 Report Share Posted August 4, 2008 Your neck is great. The oversized headstock + offset dot markers + small body = very classy look. How does it sound with that neck humbucker? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesy Posted August 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2008 Your neck is great. The oversized headstock + offset dot markers + small body = very classy look. How does it sound with that neck humbucker? There's so many things different about it, I don't know what to attribute to the pickup The swap from a tele maple neck, to my own made of Tasmanian Oak, as I said, has produced a darker sound, but I have not had a solid body with floating rosewood bridge on pine body before. I put the humbucker in neck position, because that's the one I use the most on a ES-175 hollow body copy I have. I didn't want that trebly bite that a bridge position can give. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 There's so many things different about it, I don't know what to attribute to the pickup Heh, well I would attribute most of the sound to the wood, bridge and pickup placement, since your guitar is unusual for a solidbody. Do you play jazzy riffs on that thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesy Posted August 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 Do you play jazzy riffs on that thing? I like to think so Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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