Hello all,
I've lurked here for a while, thought I would post my current project and get some opinions. There's nothing really new here, just a shape I drew inspired by a lot of guitars I've seen and liked. It will be a hollow-body, similar to the Myka Dragonfly guitars. Top and back are walnut, middle is hollowed out african mahogany. The neck is bocote with a camarillo fretboard. It is 25" scale, 22 frets. Will have a TOM bridge and string-through. Not totally sure about the pickups yet, but leaning towards a benedetto humbucker in the neck position, and .... something else.... Ideas? I'm after a versatile jazz type guitar, and just experimenting too.
Here is the neck and part of the body:
I am trying out putting the access panel in the side rather than the back.
And the walnut top, I've since added 3-layer binding - white beach, walnut, white beach (about 0.03" per strip):
And a couple more of the neck:
One more fret to install, ran out of fretwire.
As I wrap this one up, I am starting a 27.5" scale 7 string version, though I may wait a bit and see if I learn anything here that I want to apply on the next one.
Anyway, thanks for looking. Let me know what you think of it.
srt