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  • Birthday 07/08/1973

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  1. Hi thanks for the real nice comments .This guitar will be no 10 . I started building guitars back in 1997 . I was influenced by Brian May who built his own so from that first guitar built for my self it became an addiction of some sort . Most guitar builders would of built close to 100 guitars in that time . Hopefully i will get some sort of interest in this style of guitar , its the first of my own design.
  2. Thankyou for your kind comments the finish i am using is a nitro type laquer that dosent crack or craze after a few years. Its called excellac 100 made buy a company called sherwoods paints. All i did was wipe the neck down with prepsol which a grease and wax remover. Ps you allso have made some great looking guitars as well keep up the excellent work .
  3. Hi the neck has Had about 8 coats of clear on it . The cocobolo is such a hard timber that it dosent soak that much laquer up at all .
  4. The round holes you see are magnets to hold in the back control cover that is also made of a matching peice of maple.
  5. This is a guitar that is almost finished . Cocobolo neck 220 mm neck tennon curly maple front and back American walnut centre chambered pigtail wraparound bridge sperzel tuners adesons lucifer pickups. http://www.diquattroguitars.com/images/cur.../images/002.jpg http://www.diquattroguitars.com/images/cur.../images/006.jpg http://www.diquattroguitars.com/images/cur.../images/009.jpg http://www.diquattroguitars.com/images/cur..._guitar_008.jpg http://www.diquattroguitars.com/images/cur..._guitar_016.jpg http://www.diquattroguitars.com/images/cur..._guitar_017.jpg http://www.diquattroguitars.com/images/cur..._guitar_023.jpg http://www.diquattroguitars.com/images/cur..._guitar_043.jpg http://www.diquattroguitars.com/images/cur..._guitar_052.jpg http://www.diquattroguitars.com/images/cur...inished_001.jpg http://www.diquattroguitars.com/images/cur...inished_010.jpg http://www.diquattroguitars.com/images/cur...d_greco_034.jpg http://www.diquattroguitars.com/images/cur...d_greco_040.jpg http://www.diquattroguitars.com/images/cur...ar_coat_001.jpg http://www.diquattroguitars.com/images/cur...ar_coat_004.jpg http://www.diquattroguitars.com/images/cur...ar_coat_013.jpg
  6. This is a guitar i made for my son it was finished in march 2007 . name of guitar AB1 Brazilian mahogany neck and body Flame queensland maple top and back Grover machine heads tonepros wraparound bridge with tp locking studs. tv jones filtertron pickups classic plus in bridge standard in neck push pull tone for out of phase sound dimazio three way toggle switch nitro paint extra long neck tennon that extends all the way to the bridge pickup . Queenland maple headstock veneer and trussrod cover.
  7. I wish there was something like that in Melbourne there was a show on once a year called the Frankston guitar festival but it longer happens.www.diquattroguitars.com
  8. Hi everyone this may sound like a stupid question but how do i go about entering my guitar in gotm comptetion. thanks www.diquattroguitars.com
  9. Hi i love this guitar your building i was wondering how did you manage to rout out the recurve on the body with out loosing control or keeping it so nice and consistant . I would like to try the methode my self . Any advice would be a great help. thankyou.
  10. Do you have any inside shots of the PRS-style hollowbody? That one is really nice looking. Just curious how the body is designed and what you hollowed out on it. Is it a semi-hollow or fully-hollow design? Nice job on it either way. -Cheers Hi Dave have a look at my site under currant projects and you will see pics of the inside of the guitar. Also have a look at Edromanguitars.com and look at the section were they cut the top off a hollow body prs .You will see good photos there.
  11. When i built my Hollow body guitar i carved the top and back inside and out and i was a little worried about feed back at high volumes . So what i did was i made the neck with a extra long deep set tennon that goes all the way underneath the bridge pickup . I also put a solid sound post in that links the top plate to the bottom plate the core of the body is made of a two peices of brazillian mahogany . www.diquattroguitars.com Instead of routing out the body to make it hollow i cut each half with the bandsaw before glueing the two together . That saved me a lot of dirty work with router, now the only feedback i get at high volume is form the strings it is fantastic.
  12. When i built my Hollow body guitar i carved the top and back inside and out and i was a little worried about feed back at high volumes . So what i did was i made the neck with a extra long deep set tennon that goes all the way underneath the bridge pickup . I also put a solid sound post in that links the top plate to the bottom plate the core of the body is made of a two peices of brazillian mahogany . www.diquattroguitar.com Instead of routing out the body to make it hollow i cut each half with the bandsaw before glueing the two together . That saved me a lot of dirty work with router, now the only feedback i get at high volume is form the strings it is fantastic.
  13. HI Dave Check out my website www.diquattroguitars.com and have a look at the hollow body i finished in March . If you have any Questions i will be happy to help you out.
  14. My vote goes to hoogle bug i have never seen such a carve like that brilliant peice of work .
  15. Thankyou for your help everyone it is much appreciated , Only one question snowgtr what type of glue is bondo , i have never heard of it before what is it close to. The timber im talking about i bought from ebay ,the seller said that it is for guitar building ,and we did have a very hot summer this year . When i bought the maple i had it stored in the house and now its in the work shop . So that i think has had alot to do with it . Bondo is auto body filler. How severly cupped is the wood? (say you put a straight edge across it, how far off would it be in inches or millimeters?) Across each peice it has a cup of about 3mm aprox.
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