ElysianGuitars Posted August 3, 2008 Report Share Posted August 3, 2008 (edited) thats what it used to look like, its the bright red one on the left. it was my first guitar. when i got it, it was a sweet pearl white... but i was in high school then, taking auto body class, and decided i wanted to paint it 98 camaro red... only it turned out pretty crappy. later in its life, i did various pickup changes, halfassed of course, and i tried to do a wilkinson style tremelo, but that didn't work out, the mahogany didn't hold up to the wilkinson posts and it wound up tilted. so i retired it to the closet for a few years... until today. the neck on it is a Mighty Mite 22 fret strat neck. it had a rosewood fingerboard, and was a pretty decent neck. i had tried to install a roller nut, but failed. so last night, i pulled out the trusty iron, and got to work. rosewood board got pulled off, and this morning, i started making a maple board for it. instead of 22 frets, i made it 24 frets, and move the nut position back by about 1/8". theres an overhang for the 22 frets, and the 24th fret goes slightly beyond that overhang, but i don't forsee issue, as its the 24th fret... its really only going to be good for tapping, as i'm not going to be reshaping the body any to make access to it easy, so 22 frets is easy to access, and 24 will be for widdly tap. i'm going to be blocking the pickups and the trem and rerouting all of it, so the change of nut position won't effect that aspect of it. this guitar is getting a single coil in the neck position(probably a dimarzio virtual vintage), and a slanted humbucker in the bridge position. its getting hipshot locking tuners(open back), a graphtech tusq nut, and i'll reuse the floating fender style trem i got for it. heres a shot of the headstock, modified to be pretty similar to my 6 i already built, only slightly shorter because i was limited to a small strat headstock. the fretboard is already being glued on, so its moving along pretty fast. later tonight i'll radius the fretboard, 20" radius, probably route my channels for the scallop, and possibly start hammering in frets tonight. i'm excited, this is gonna be a sweet project. Edited August 3, 2008 by ElysianGuitars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElysianGuitars Posted August 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2008 heres the blue its gonna get, its a bit sparkly, but not too much so, its actually a color some guy was going to use on his hotrod, but i guess he changed his mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElysianGuitars Posted August 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2008 (edited) got the neck fretted, fret ends are rough filed, gonna finish the fret job tomorrow, done enough today. its gonna get blue offset dots to go with the body color, and silver side dots. http://www.elysian-online.com/YamahaProjec...ahaProject1.jpg http://www.elysian-online.com/YamahaProjec...ahaProject2.jpg heres the alder block being glued into the body. http://www.elysian-online.com/YamahaProjec...ahaProject4.jpg sorry for the blurry pics, i have to use my blackberry until i get a new card reader Edited August 4, 2008 by ElysianGuitars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElysianGuitars Posted August 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2008 heres the headstock with the reversed hipshot locking tuners mocked up, pretty good fit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElysianGuitars Posted August 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2008 http://www.elysian-online.com/YamahaProjec...ahaProject7.jpg scallop is halfway done(though only sanded to 80 grit right now, i'll work the whole neck up to 220 soon) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElysianGuitars Posted August 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2008 (edited) http://www.elysian-online.com/YamahaProjec...ahaProject8.jpg scallop is done up to 80 grit now, man it was tough. ebony is so much easier to scallop than maple. next step is to sand the neck up to 220, finish the fret job, tape up the frets, and lacquer the neck/board. but i can't spray any lacquer till i get the inlay dots, so that'll be later this week hopefully. Edited August 4, 2008 by ElysianGuitars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElysianGuitars Posted August 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2008 theres the old trem route, looks so bad, i was so new. http://www.elysian-online.com/YamahaProjec...haProject11.jpg filling the old trem route with older, it basically has an alder toneblock now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElysianGuitars Posted August 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 http://www.elysian-online.com/YamahaProjec...haProject13.jpg theres the alder blank glued in, gonna send it through the planer later today(but not until after my job interview.) and man, nearly 250 views and no comments? do i smell funny? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToddW Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 Nope least not over the internet. I'm just watching and learning. -Todd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElysianGuitars Posted August 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 Nope least not over the internet. I'm just watching and learning. -Todd well at least i got one reply Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carousel182 Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 This is a pretty cool project. I wanna do something like this one of these days to make one of my first guitars a better player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 cant forgive you for that mex.... i love those Yammy SG's!!! EG - loving the plain maple scalloped board... dont add dots or anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElysianGuitars Posted August 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 cant forgive you for that mex.... i love those Yammy SG's!!! EG - loving the plain maple scalloped board... dont add dots or anything not even offset dots? or even 12th fret dots? totally blank? i guess with side dots itd be alright eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 the plain board looks really striking to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElysianGuitars Posted August 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 the plain board looks really striking to me well, considering all the great instruments you've built, i'll take your advice on this one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElysianGuitars Posted August 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 this used to be a 1991 RG570FM. it is now my single coil pickup template, or at least, a template i make other templates from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElysianGuitars Posted August 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 (edited) http://www.elysian-online.com/YamahaProjec...haProject16.jpg as you can see, i started routing for the trem, routed the neck single, and scalloped the neck joint. Edited August 5, 2008 by ElysianGuitars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piedpiperX2000 Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 bangin..... bangin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengers63 Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 and man, nearly 250 views and no comments? do i smell funny? This is really common. It can be really frustrating at times, but it's just the way it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElysianGuitars Posted August 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 does anyone here have experience with KTM9? i sprayed the first bit on the neck today, and immediately found out it runs very easily, gonna have to sand it down tomorrow morning and reapply, gotta mess with my gun settings some more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElysianGuitars Posted August 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 (edited) sanded the runs down, sprayed some in the booth to check my gun settings, and still wound up getting runs on the neck... gotta keep working on it edit: looks like theres really only one run, the rest is flawless, so thats not so bad. 4 more coats today and i'll get back to it tomorrow. Edited August 7, 2008 by ElysianGuitars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElysianGuitars Posted August 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2008 Got the finish all figured out now, needed to thin it out a little with denatured alcohol(should have read the instructions!). 2 more coats today, and then tomorrow ill flat sand it, and do it again. I did the side dots today, used a 3/32 bit and filled the holes with ebony dust and the used superglue to set them, sanded that down, and sprayed finish over them, they look great, but no pics until later, my internet is down until later tonight. I'm also working on finishing up the body, I'm making the cavity cover routing templates right now, and ill route out the covers later today, fill any screw holes, start finish sanding, and pore fill it with the epoxy pore filler I got with my ktm9 kit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElysianGuitars Posted August 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 alright, internet is back up, heres the side dots if pore filling goes well tomorrow, i'll be spraying finish on it tomorrow, getting a color coat in as one of the coats. i'm stoked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted August 9, 2008 Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 who needs face dots anyway!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElysianGuitars Posted August 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 http://www.elysian-online.com/YamahaProjec...haProject19.jpg i sanded it to 220 grit, also raised the grain and knocked that down with 220 as well, and now its getting pore filled. in about 2 hours i'll sad it down with 320 and tomorrow it'll get its first 4 coats of ktm9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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