Noobie to Guitar building

[Auscar]

Hi All,

My name is Tony Calvert, I live in New Zealand and I don't feel complete unless I have a project (or sometimes two) on the go. I don't own a guitar as I have always had access to about 5 of them owned by other members of my family but I now live in a different city to them all, so I thought I'd build myself one. I started out thinking I would build a rosewood acoustic Dreadnought kit from LMI but in my research I stumbled across John Fishers "Building a Les Paul the hard way" website and decided it was probably the prettiest looking guitar shape around so yesterday I went out and purchased the mahogany.

Here is a run down of what I plan;

An Ebony coloured Les Paul look alike, mahogany neck and body, rosewood fret board, gold gotoh tuning machines, gold tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar, gold plated Seymour Duncan classic cover humbucker pickups, Stew-mac "wiring kit for Les Paul" and Gibson style gold knobs. ( Any suggestions will be appreciated especially on pickup and wiring kit choice).

Although not guitar related I have a website site showing a few of my past and current projects, Kayaks and racing cars.

http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/acalvert/

Thanks to everyone for providing a great resource for newbies such as myself.

Cheers Tony

[canuckguitarist]

Cool site! and Welcome to the forum.

P.S. any relation to Brian Calvert? [pondering]

[Auscar]

No relationship that I know of, Excellent surname though

[rabidmoose171]

For your pickups, what type of music will you play, it will really effect the decision you should make. Also look at some dimarzios, i prefer them to SD.

[Auscar]

My playing skills are not as good as they should be but I tend to play a little of everything. I try my hand at anything that is currently on the radio, a bit of blues and a bit of country rock. I pretty much try and play anything from Buddy Holly to Linkin Park I know I'm not going to get a pickup that will do all of this but a good allrounder will do

[westhemann]

duncans are fine pickups...every bit as good as dimarzio with a really versatile selection.i would go with a custom custom at both positions

i am assuming it is h-h?

[Auscar]

i am assuming it is h-h?

Does h-h mean humbucker-humbucker, if so the answer is yes

[guitar_ed]

Hi Tony,

I was just checking out the race cars. I liked the Brabham. I assume that you are into Vintage Car racing. I spent some 20 years invovled in racing, and I came to love vintage racing. If you ever get the chance, The Monterey (California) Historic Automobile Races are wicked good. They get Lola T70's, 917-K30's, Bandini's. One year they had about 40 of the 3-wheel Morgans with the V-twins out front.

Sorry for the side trip..... Welcome to the world of building guitars, which is what we are really here for.

Take care and lots of pix.

Guitar Ed

[Otter]

Helloooooooooo