3DogNate Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 Here's my latest build for myself. I posted it in GOTM for April. I'm an avid guitar synth user with my cover band. I just upgraded to the new Roland GR-55 synth, and it came with another GK-3 Pickup. I needed another guitar to mount it on. I'm keeping several of my guitars without a hex pickup, so a new build was in order, I actually built and finished this body a while back but never decided what to do with the neck pickup. So I ended up whipping out a BE Maple neck for it and by the time I was finished with the neck I decided to go with a P-90 in the neck. I've always loved P-90 tone but currently had no guitars equipped with a P-90. I'm an old school hot-rodded Strat player at heart so I wanted to keep this as more of a Old School Charvel style hard tail, with a good bit of tonal character. I may still add a series/parallel pull pot for the humbucker to add another tonal option, as I have this on all my other guitars. Here are the specs. Neck: Bird's Eye Maple Honduras Rosewood Skunk stripe Ebony Fingerboard 12" radius Stainless steel fret wire 22 frets Bone Nut Grover Mini Rotomatic machines Body: Honduras Mahogany (2pc) Nitrocellulose Lacquer Finish Hand wound P-90(A5, 42awg, 9.5k) Hand wound Humbucker (A5, 43awg, 13.5k) 250k Volume Pot 3 way pickup selector Roland GK-3 Hex Pickup Gotoh hard tail bridge Schaller strap locks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ripthorn Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 Looks nice. Any way to get a closeup of the birdseye on the back of the neck? Again, good job, love seeing a nice, simple, but very well executed build. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3DogNate Posted March 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 (edited) Looks nice. Any way to get a closeup of the birdseye on the back of the neck? Again, good job, love seeing a nice, simple, but very well executed build. Thanks... Yep here are a couple of close ups of the neck, and a couple of more of the body. The neck finish BTW is French Polish... Edited March 14, 2011 by 3DogNate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
necroreaper Posted March 15, 2011 Report Share Posted March 15, 2011 Very nice! Can I ask what you used to finish the birdseye maple? That's exactly the finish I want on my current build. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3DogNate Posted March 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2011 (edited) Very nice! Can I ask what you used to finish the birdseye maple? That's exactly the finish I want on my current build. French Polished Shellac, It's actually quite glossy. But not draggy on the hand. I couldn't get a good shot of the bird's Eye and the gloss at the same time. It's an easy finish that looks and feels great for necks. Edited March 15, 2011 by 3DogNate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
necroreaper Posted March 15, 2011 Report Share Posted March 15, 2011 Thanks man, I'll do some research on this technique! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted March 15, 2011 Report Share Posted March 15, 2011 i love the guitar - not sure the synth pickup is doing it any favours though. looks like the borg got hold of it, i would have been tempted to ghostify it http://www.graphtech.com/products.html?CategoryID=2 either that or build a borg themed guitar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3DogNate Posted March 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2011 i love the guitar - not sure the synth pickup is doing it any favours though. looks like the borg got hold of it, i would have been tempted to ghostify it http://www.graphtech.com/products.html?CategoryID=2 either that or build a borg themed guitar I built a Ghost equipped guitar for myself last year... And honestly I think I like the GK better for Both Synth and V-Guitar modeling. I'm so completely over the looks part of the GK... It doesn't bug me in the least, but I agree that it's un-pretty. But this is to be a functional workhorse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted March 15, 2011 Report Share Posted March 15, 2011 as long as you know which you prefer to work with, that is all that counts! although i predict the black plastic box will cost you votes in GOTM... might get some back with a nice demo vid of the system (maybe just because i like demo vids of these things ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ripthorn Posted March 16, 2011 Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 i love the guitar - not sure the synth pickup is doing it any favours though. looks like the borg got hold of it, i would have been tempted to ghostify it http://www.graphtech.com/products.html?CategoryID=2 either that or build a borg themed guitar I built a Ghost equipped guitar for myself last year... And honestly I think I like the GK better for Both Synth and V-Guitar modeling. I'm so completely over the looks part of the GK... It doesn't bug me in the least, but I agree that it's un-pretty. But this is to be a functional workhorse. HOLY CRAP! Do you have a build thread of that one somewhere? I would love to know more about that. It's gorgeous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Our Souls inc. Posted March 16, 2011 Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 I hope you don't consider this an insult, it's meant in the highest form as a compliment, I assure you.... I thought this was a modified factory guitar after looking at the pics. I read the comments about synths, P-90's and then the 'old school Charvel' thing made me forget that you BUILT this guitar. Bravo !! I love how simple, yet competely great this came out. Beers to you, my amigo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3DogNate Posted March 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 HOLY CRAP! Do you have a build thread of that one somewhere? I would love to know more about that. It's gorgeous. I do have a bunch of build photos of the Ghost equipped guitar but never posted it as a build thread anywhere... I didn't think the forum would consider it very cool to post a build thread for a guitar I did a year ago. If everyone is OK I'll can make a build thread. (Can it go as a GOTM entry too?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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