Quick Re-Paint........

[Our Souls inc.]

Another long-lost thread from the forum hiccup. I wanted to re-paint one of my very first builds.....

so i stripped off the paint.

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then i un-glued the "set-neck" i had done to it.

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and removed the white pine top i had attached to it too. Also marked out some high-tech chambering ideas...........

[Our Souls inc.]

so i chambered the maple back and whipped up a new top.

Black Walnut this time.

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[Our Souls inc.]

I ditched the Jackson neck and made one out of mahogany with a teak fretboard.

Multi-scale, 25.5"/24.75" 5th fret as the perp.

[Our Souls inc.]

so, after stripping the paint, removing the top, ditching the neck and chambering the devil out of it, I was left with only the maple "back" from the original guitar.

After the ressurection of the poor thing, I ended up with this:

a fanned-fret, hollowed out, overly-F holed guitar that changes color depending on your viewing angle.

^^ there she is by her sister.

[Our Souls inc.]

Outdoor lighting makes a big difference

[Our Souls inc.]

i reckon that'll teach me to want a repaint. Took me a couple of years and some major overhaulin to bring her back.

Thoughts? Citiques?

[WezV]

i really like some of the carve on this - flows and maintains definition better than some of your stuff. if the recess around the pickups/bridge was as sharp it would look incredible.

i like the idea of the sound holes and think they give it a bit of a giger esque look along with the carve. the colour helps with this. but the last pic makes me not like the sound holes as much... i think i would be tempted to pour black paint in the holes to get it all even coloured inside to tidy it up a bit

switch position could be awkward but looks good

dont like the volute! infact it shouldn't be called a volute unless is graceful so lets call it something else. your guitar has the mumps, something that seems to pop up here every so often

[Muzz]

Yep, I can't argue with anything there, the shape, carve and paint job are killer. The constructive criticism is good, is this a prototype that you are developing? Can it get a locking nut?

[Our Souls inc.]

Wez- thanks for the honest evaluation. True words there and all things I've seen myself. ( and a few you left out.)

The first big project stopper was that top F-hole. The star had a bad tear-out and I had to enlarge it a few times trying to salvage it. The soundhole between the pups came out in the wrong spot for the neck humbucker . It's off-center badly. The neck heel could've benefited from some moar shaping too.there's an over-route on the bridge humbucker and it pokes out past the pup ring a little bit. :/

although I do like the volu....mump, but only because it fits my hand like a glove. 1st position barre chord is just right for it.

The main reason this, and the blue chambered body i recently completed took so long was the mistake factor. I flubbed up pretty good on both of em, but i decided to continue rather than give up on them.

One is Maple and Cherry. One is Maple and Black walnut- both chambered but both sound very different too. Unplugged and plugged. I'm happy with the outcome of them both, flaws be damned.

I know it aint everybody's cup of tea, but its the way i build.

Oh, and Muzz , not really a proto-anything, just a one-off from an existing guitar. I imagine I could put a kahler-style lock on it, but there's no tremolo. Thats a hard-tail floyd.