Dirge for november Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 It's a buildoff Join! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengers63 Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 Dude...It uh, looks like ash. Which is what it is. And it looks the same as it did in every other picture. And it's going to look very cool the way I plan on finishing it. I know what ash is... I use it all the time for the bodies I put up on eBay. The grain is just a lot more pronounced now that it's carved and the rest looks more yellow than normal. I'm sure it's the lighting. Dean - here's the lowdown on the Corvus build-off. Corvus build-off thread You can skip to the end to get the final set of rules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattharris75 Posted April 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 I know what ash is... I use it all the time for the bodies I put up on eBay. The grain is just a lot more pronounced now that it's carved and the rest looks more yellow than normal. I'm sure it's the lighting. Yeah, I was joking about not knowing what ash is. And the lighting is very poor in that room, the lamp in there has an antiqued amber sort of shade, which doesn't help. Plus, I adjusted the contrast a bit to help the carving show up a bit more clearly. It still looks like it did in the other pictures, in real life. Thanks for the tip on the curved scraper, Wez, I'll have to give that a go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengers63 Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 Now that I'm seeing it all start to happen, I'm not sure that the tele thing is going to work. This has an oddball shape to begin with, and you added sharp bevels. THAT part looks great. A tele is a really conservative, traditional guitar, so using the bridge & setup the way it's drawn on the face.... it just looks out of place. You've made the Corvus into a kind of metal shape (again - great), but a tele just isn't metal. Is it too late to consider a H-S-S setup? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattharris75 Posted April 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 It's certainly not too late to change it. But I'm not going to. I like it as it is. I like the dichotomy of the whole deal. To me, it's a cool juxtaposition of styles, as the telecaster itself has become over the years, from a musical standpoint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattharris75 Posted April 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2009 I have been making progress on this build. I don't really have any pretty pictures to show, so I guess I'll show an ugly picture. I did the rough carve of the bevels on the bottom, and have worked to clean everything up with a scraper. However, I still have a long way to go with that. I went ahead and did 2 coats of black grainfiller because I was having trouble seeing the contours in the ash. This should help give me a visual representation of where I've worked, and let me see the lines a bit more clearly. The final look of the finish won't be quite so gray, as I will sand off the black grainfiller on the body, leaving the black only in the pores. I'll finish it with tru oil and steel wool for more of a matte finish with a slight ambering of the wood rather than the gray that it appears now. Anyway, as odd and unfinished as the picture appears, I figured I'd go ahead and post it as a visual sign of my progress, such as it is... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengers63 Posted April 21, 2009 Report Share Posted April 21, 2009 ABOUT DANG TIME SOMEONE GETS SOMETHING DONE ON THESE THINGS!!!!!! I'm afraid it may have dwindled down to you & me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chops1983 Posted April 21, 2009 Report Share Posted April 21, 2009 (edited) That looks mad for an ugly guitar! I really like what you've done with the bevels and such. Is it gonna have a neck p/up matt? The only thing i think would look better is more of that lovely ash body to be seen and no pickguard. Just my opinion though Edited April 21, 2009 by chops1983 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirge for november Posted April 21, 2009 Report Share Posted April 21, 2009 Looking good! I'm jeleous of all the progress made by you two. I'm still in all the way, don't worry. I just ordered an Indian rosewood neckblank. Doesn't count as expensive wood pron as it was IMO dirt cheap (27bucks). Wednesday I'll go get mahogany and start work. I won't be quick as this is only my second build and first build actually doing the neck. I reckon that will be the most timeconsuming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattharris75 Posted April 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 (edited) Thanks guys! Chops, interestingly enough, I'm thinking of making the pickguard slightly larger to follow the carving on both sides. Sorry. Edit: And yeah, there will be a standard tele style neck pickup. Edited April 22, 2009 by mattharris75 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihocky2 Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 I really like that. You took a design that I have no affection for at all, and turned it into something apealing to look at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narcissism Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 ABOUT DANG TIME SOMEONE GETS SOMETHING DONE ON THESE THINGS!!!!!! I'm afraid it may have dwindled down to you & me. I'm workin' on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the telecaster kid Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 As am I! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengers63 Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 I'm workin' on it As am I! So let's see what ya got! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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