killemall8

So i have been thinking. The only part of guitar building i actually enjoy is the making of the body. I love planing, jointing and use the bandsaw to cut stuff out. After i finish these and stop building, maybe i will just sell body blanks or something.

Thanks scott. I ordered some purple and green kandy colors. I am unsure how they will look on this color of wood, but i hope i can use one of them.

Thanks man. I am trying to not blow it out of proportion. It looks better from different angles. Wish i could charge more. But i cant even sell them at my lower prices currently.

And here we see the Quilted sapele super strat in its natural habitat. Here it hides in a batch of green mint plants, waiting to ambush its prey. It has been known to hunt solo, and also been known to shred its prey apart once caught. Most people figure it is at the top of the food chain.

Thank you sir. Your work looks just as high of quality. The more i look at it from the back, the more i like it.

I have gotten that same bit of advice from a lot of people. But the truth is, i have absolutely zero care to do anything like that. It doesnt interest me in the slightest. I am very picky about what i like to do or like in general. I dont want to waste more money and time on something i dont really care to do. I cant complain about the career i have had at such a young age. It has just run its course. I screwed up so much in the past. I could have been so much further along. But this is how it ends either way.

Sorry i couldnt take that order man. It was one of the few guitars i was actually interested in building. I am sure other guys on here can do a better job than what i can though.

It looks very well made and very clean. I am just really picky about shapes of guitars and basses. It is the most important thing to me in a guitar/bass. No need to improve if that is what you were going for.

THe shape isnt my favorite, but most bass shapes arnt. Are those guitar EMGs?

It was originally intended to be reverse. But when i went to join the surface for the ears of the headstock, my jointer had somehow been broken, and it took out a gigantic chunk. So i had to make it non reversed to avoid the chunk taken out.

Thanks scott. The staple hole is between the pickup cavities. I already filled it with a slightly matching grainfiller. You can see it no problem if you know where it is. All the other reactions seem to be the same so far. The headstock looks good by itself, but not with the body. I hate to go back to my other headstock, since i keep having tuning issues with it.

so the madness continues. Finally got some more work done on this. Of course, i make another mistake i havnt made for 5 years. When i glue the veneer on the body, i always staple it in place so it wont slide. Of course, i somehow mis measure where the pickup cavity will be on this one. I have literally done this same method on around 60 guitars, and only done this once. So now i have a staple mark in the middle of the 2 pickup cavities. I am also very unsatisfied with how this headstock looks on this guitar as a whole. Thought it would look better.

You really have to use templates for routing pickup, neck and control cavities, or else they will always look extremely sloppy. Also, you sure those bridge holes will be spaced correctly? that is a really inaccurate way of drilling them.

Do you crown your frets? They look really trapezoid shaped.

The main thing that keeps bringing me back to this is that i have invested so much money and time into tools and other materials. Maybe if i about broke even or a little over, then i might be quicker to discard this career.

Cut out the body from the body blank and got the veneer glued on. Now that i waited all this time to get wood, i dont feel like working on this. This is getting closer and closer to not building anymore. Feels good.

And i would use a 1.3 or 1.4mm tip. But that part isnt as crucial.

Be careful with that stuff... it is extremely hazardous.

So i had gone to the lumberyard about 4 times since that last post. Nothing has changed. Not a single board has moved or even been bought. Which is insanely rare. usually they sell a pallet of that stuff a week. Finally found 1 single board that was useable. It looks like it was from the last batch of the good stuff. Also, It seems like my theory of forgetting how to build after only a month off is true. Been working on a walnut neck, and i have made a ton of mistakes i wouldnt normally have made. First i had a stupid random problem i never had before. I was routing the binding channel on the fretboard, and of course my bit slips and made the channel way to deep. IT was useable, but now it looks like the fretboard is insanely thick. no matter, can work with it. Go to cut the other side of the fretboard, and same thing, except even lower. Dont know why my router randomly decided to drop the bit on this. But now it looks extremely proportionate. Then i went to fret it, and realized half way through that i didnt bevel the fret slots. lovely. Gotta love it when my quality goes backwards in progress.

Unmatchable work as always, Scott. Love that color choice on the front. I personally think the back looked better natural, but i am sure it will look great when finished.

Your 2k clear sticks to cocobolo ok? All of my other finishes failed on cocobolo. I havnt tried 2k on it yet.

It gets black hipshot lockers. Basically normal. Remember I recess the bushings. But why are the screws on the back facing up? like they were right handed tuners on a left handed headstock?

The headstock on that wookie looks awesome. What kind of tuners do you use, that have the screw on the top instead of the bottom?

nice man, that looks extremely clean and uniform. I still cant get maple to take dye that evenly. I always get insanely blotchy spots. Maybe it is the qulity of maple.

It takes more skill to line it up that well and have it match that perfectly. Great job.