juze Posted November 6, 2008 Report Share Posted November 6, 2008 (edited) So. Let's start. BODY, NECK AND WOOD: (American) Walnut for body, thru-neck. Jackson Dinky shape. Jackson headstock. 26" scale (660.4mm), 22 frets, 7-string. Nogal (Peru walnut) for fretboard and nogal veneer to headstock and cavity covers. ELECTRONICS: Only bridge pickup: Dimarzio Blaze Custom DP703, volume pot and tone pot. HARDWARE: ALL BLACK! Wilkinson tuners, string-thru-body ferrules, Tune-o-matic, dunno about the saddle yet :S. FINISH: I've decided to paint it. Some dark color. Hmm. Am I missing something? Tell me. -Juze aka Ghroath Edited November 7, 2008 by juze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 How's about a Tung Oil finish? Hand rubbed and your good to go but you do have to keep up the maintainence on it from time to time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juze Posted November 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 Hmm, sounds nice. But I've decided to paint it. Not 100% sure about the color, but it's gonna be dark color. But hey! Should I make the neck blank almost ready before attaching the wings? Or should I glue "wing-blanks" to neck-blank first and then start making shape and neck. -Juze aka Ghroath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j. pierce Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 Depends on your design, but I found it easier to prep the neck-through and wings to be joined, and then to do the majority of the work on the neck before actually gluing the wings. It makes it easier to shape the neck if I'm not trying to work around the horns of the body. If you're rounding over the edges of the body wtih a router, or doing binding, it may be easier to make those routes on the body edges before you glue them to the neck-through as well. Just think about all the steps you have to do, and how each step is going to impact the other ones and do it in the order that makes sense to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhemann Posted November 8, 2008 Report Share Posted November 8, 2008 I complete the neck before joining the wings... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim37 Posted November 8, 2008 Report Share Posted November 8, 2008 why use walnut if your gonna paint it maple will give you a very similar tone at about half the cost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juze Posted November 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2008 why use walnut if your gonna paint it maple will give you a very similar tone at about half the cost Because I already have the woods, and I almost got them free. My dad works in parquet factory so... I just have to wait till next Friday when I've woodworking in school. And I thought it would be easier to first prepare the neck and then attach the wings. Thanks for your advice! -Juze aka Ghroath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhemann Posted November 8, 2008 Report Share Posted November 8, 2008 Walnut and Maple sound nothing alike.Walnut is creamy and smooth sounding,while maple is cutting and almost shrill. I would not hesitate to cover straight grained walnut with paint...it is not an ugly wood,but it isn't that eye catching either. Plus..straight grained plain walnut is almost exactly the same price as straight grained maple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zyonsdream Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Walnut and Maple sound nothing alike.Walnut is creamy and smooth sounding,while maple is cutting and almost shrill. I would not hesitate to cover straight grained walnut with paint...it is not an ugly wood,but it isn't that eye catching either. Plus..straight grained plain walnut is almost exactly the same price as straight grained maple. I have a solid maple guitar with a bolt on maple neck and rosewood fingerboard. Nothing shrill about it in-fact it even has an active pickup and it still has more bass response than treble. Dunno, it is BE maple which tends to be a bit softer than rock maple but I've seen alot of maple bodies that aren't too shrill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juze Posted November 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2008 Yesterday I got very slightly improvement to my build. I glued the blanks together to make one neck blank and two wing blanks. My planks were 200cm x 15cm x 2,54 cm so I had to glue two planks on top of other to make it thicker. Waiting till next friday. Now I should make some drawings here at home. -Juze aka Ghroath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juze Posted December 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2008 (edited) Oh yea. I received the parts today. Parts( 2-action Truss rod, MOP inlay dots, String-thru ferrules, a pile of fretwire , potentiometers and black halfdome knobs for them, hardtail bridge, two nut blanks (2 b/c if i screw up) and tuners.) Maybe tomorrow me and my two friends will make order to thomann. I'll get Dimarzio Blaze 7 Bridge pick-up, PU ring for it and some strings. I'm sorry that I don't have any progress pictures of my build. And it makes me crazy that I can work on this build not until next year. -Juze aka Ghroath Edit: Posted pic of my build plan. BTW:COULD ANY MODERATOR MOVE THIS TO IN PROGRESS&FINISHED? Link Edited December 4, 2008 by juze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 Looks like it's going to turn out nice. Keep us updated on the progress. Cheers Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhemann Posted December 4, 2008 Report Share Posted December 4, 2008 BTW:COULD ANY MODERATOR MOVE THIS TO IN PROGRESS&FINISHED? Sure thing dude... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juze Posted December 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2008 (edited) Thanks Wes! Looks like it's going to turn out nice. Keep us updated on the progress. I try to update us much I can. Here are some pics of the parts: Tuners Bridge, 15 6mm MOP dots and nut blanks. Pots with knobs, ferrules, about 2,5 meters of fretwire and trussrod. -Juze aka Ghroath Edited December 4, 2008 by juze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElysianGuitars Posted December 4, 2008 Report Share Posted December 4, 2008 (edited) Thanks Wes! Looks like it's going to turn out nice. Keep us updated on the progress. I try to update us much I can. Here are some pics of the parts: Tuners Bridge, 15 6mm MOP dots and nut blanks. Pots with knobs, ferrules, about 2,5 meters of fretwire and trussrod. -Juze aka Ghroath none of those pictures work edit: weird, i got the "moved or deleted" image earlier on all 3, but now they all work Edited December 4, 2008 by ElysianGuitars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juze Posted December 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2008 none of those pictures work edit: weird, i got the "moved or deleted" image earlier on all 3, but now they all work Yea, that same happened to me . But now they seem to work. Comments pls! -Juze aka Ghroath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keegan Posted December 4, 2008 Report Share Posted December 4, 2008 This had better be some ugly walnut. Hardware looks good, I hope those tuners will fit the 7th string. Now you just need to start building it =P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhemann Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Because heaven forbid you might want to make a guitar with good tonewood then cover up the wood with a nice color...? You guys really need to lighten up...I am so sick of butt ugly wood colored guitars..give me a nice paint job any day...black is always good...but anything is better than clear coated walnut...unless it is highly figured claro walnut... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keegan Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 I did say "ugly walnut", that's like 90% of it anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juze Posted December 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 I do like the look of walnut. I'm not sure are you joking or serious, but it doesn't matter. And I'm not sure yet about which finish I'm going to use. -Juze aka Ghroath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElysianGuitars Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Because heaven forbid you might want to make a guitar with good tonewood then cover up the wood with a nice color...? You guys really need to lighten up...I am so sick of butt ugly wood colored guitars..give me a nice paint job any day...black is always good...but anything is better than clear coated walnut...unless it is highly figured claro walnut... i agree mostly, except i'm so sick of black guitars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhemann Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Why you gotta be anti-black? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keegan Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Maybe if it was matte black... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toneseeker Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Justa wacky thought...matte black pickup truck bed liner from a can...seriously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guerrilla Radio Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Why you gotta be anti-black? Racist. Kidding, of course. Anyway I'm liking this build... can't wait to see more of it done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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