justin squire Posted December 12, 2013 Report Share Posted December 12, 2013 Finally finished this guitar build that I started out almost a year and a half ago. I'll post a few pictures of the build process here. The Wood that I started out with. The 5 laminate pieces cut out for the neck Gluing it up The top of the neck after being jointed Ready for truss rod slots Truss rod slot cut Fretboard being tested for placement The top piece being created Cutting out the profile Huge chunk of white ash for the body Body sides glued on and roughly shaped Rounding out edges Checking fit for components Hollowing out the body chamber Strings are a little too close to the edge of the fretboard for comfort. Solution! maple edge strips Pickup hole cut, and bolts installed fretboard finished off a little better after gluing side strips on fret dots being installed gluing on fretboard recesses for pots done pressing in the frets on a drill press smoothing out the edges jack hole cut out tuner holes drilled out a small mock up of the guitar almost done finish sanding here starting Tru-oil coats on the neck ...and body cover plate shielding wiring it up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justin squire Posted December 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2013 And now for some glamour shots: This is the first guitar that I have designed and built from start to finish. It plays very well and sounds great too. It doesn't have as much sound and resonance acoustically that I was hoping it would, but it is still considerably louder than a solid body guitar when played acoustically. Neck: laminate - bloodwood, maple, purpleheart top plate: laminate - zebrawood, maple, bloodwood, purpleheart body: solid white ash components: -tuners - gotoh 510 -pickup - tv jones powertron -pots - 2 500k push pull -knobs - bloodwood -bridge - schaller roller bridge -tailpiece - bigsby tremolo Let me know if you have any questions, and what you think about the guitar. Thanks for reading Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted December 12, 2013 Report Share Posted December 12, 2013 Very creative design and nicely executed build. Cangrats. SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justin squire Posted December 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2013 Thanks! I appreciate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Posted December 12, 2013 Report Share Posted December 12, 2013 Congratulations, That looks like it was a lot of work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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