Dean

If you make some money on a guitar, it will soften up the wife.

I would think it would depend on the frets and what they are made of.SS strings just wear longer and clean easy.

Welcome Ken ,

Do you want my address .....I am willing to try out and review say five or six of your pickup .....I could use a couple of p-90's ,a couple of archtop pickups and then just suprise me ( free of course ) ahahaha hope you enjoy it here.

That's awesome Deano, thanks. The treble side where the belly carve and forearm carve would be on a strat is roughly 3/4" at the edge. The opposite edge is about 1.5"....maybe a little less, and the control cavity is at 2". It's about 2.25" under the bridge. It is pretty hard to put a number to; hardly anywhere is flat.....and absolutely nothing on the back is flat.

SR

One of the pictures made it look thinner.You know I like the carving , it looks really streamline and smooth.I will be starting another thread soon, as I am on another build myself.Oh , that heal is killer ,I like the smooth transition .I be watching , so keep on keeping on.

Scotta, man ,that is sweet.It looks thin ,is it? Carve on brother , we will have no straight lines in this world.On a scale or 1 to 10 I give it a 15.

Shelfing and wheels works wonders.Hangers help too.hahaha

Shakey ,about Neil young...Life = Keith Richards....Rock Roadie

I would just use a little glue to hold them in place .Second way is to shim them with a small piece of tape.I am sure there will be more answers to come ,hahaha .Good luck on your build.

I read over some of the replies ,so here is my story

I started building as a hobby.....I have been doing this five plus years ,in the last three years I picked the archtop style as my guitar of choose.I spent a little over a year learning on my first build.....I sold it for $ 2600.00 ,my second build was started right after the first one ,it is solded for around $1500.00 ,but it is also in the process of tring to get a guitar legend to look at it.The price is less due to woods and not amplified .The one I am now building will go for at least $3000.00 or more.I get better each time I build one and the wood used gets better ,too.The one I am now building is Black walnut , cocobolo, mahogany ,ebony,zebra wood, and triple a spruse top.It will be acoustic electric with high end hardware .

I plan to build the same style guitar till I get $20,000.00 and up per guitar.Part of the equation of guitar building is to believe in yourself and knowing what your work is worth.My location is good for this ,too....I live in Thousand Oaks ,Ca.....I let any and everybody watch and look at my work and word of mouth has got a lot of people looking at and talking about my guitars and wanting to buy one .So far I have someone wanting to buy the one I am working on before it is finished.....this is my advertising so far.Right now ,I build at my own pace and pick everything that goes into the guitar .Soon I hope to let the buyer be evolved to a point .

Well this is my experience so far,hope it helps.I am not good with words, but will try to help WTH this thread.

All the best to you ,Roads

Scottttaaaaa, NICE....When you get done ,send it to me for a review...hehehehe

Hey not , very cool ....keep it comming.I to am working with walnut right now.

Hey man, love the build, thanx for sharing.

Glad you like it , got the wood to start another one .

Scottaaaa , here we go again , hahahaha looking good. I be watching with my good eye.

This is a shout out to YetzerHarah, thanks for following this build and your likes. I really appreciate the interest .

Thanks Scottttaaa, I wish you could hear it .I am going to up grade my Internet and then hope to post a video.This thing really resonates .

This guitar has a great acoustic sound and the whamy bar works fine .

Hope you like this build ,it is done.....I might build a pic guard pickup later.This has enough volumn as is,anyway here it is I will call it hobo for now.hahaha

Let me know what you think ,or any questions you mite have

Ok,ok,ok,more.....

More for your injoyment ,

OK ,HERE YA GO.....

They do not need any extra support. They will be fine as is.

I really like the back carve, but it never occurred to me that it was anything other than artistic. Cool concept.

SR

Scotta, yep there are a few things going on , there is also a bit of a cut away on the low end .It lays into your body better.No side braces keep the inside clean.I beat up the wood pretty good when putting it together ,helps me know there will be no problems later with glue joints and such.I stress the wood all along the way , pushing ,bending , clamping ,forcing it into place kinda thing.Then I jam a blade or something into a nuckle to apice the wood gods.hahahaha No creaking or cracking when stringing it up and it fell into tune really nice.The whammy works really good ,too well that's all I can think of right now.

Oh, one more thing ,no edge to cut into your arm when playing .

Well, my bass idea seems to have worked....on the low side ,the back is carved flat like a standard guitar.The high side is carved ,back and front .Right now I have 12's on it and am still dialing it in.It's a little stiff ,but starting to warm up.There are no side braces ,as the top is blended into the sides.The bridge is or carved in a stacked shape ,putting forse on the top and center.The top was forced about a quarter inch on the neck end when attaching it to the sides ,putting more tension on it.everthing feels really tight and light.The tail piece gives a nice vabroato and stays in tune.Now I will take it apart and finish it up.

a few more

Well back to work....if anyone would like to leave feedback ,please do......or ask a question????

I am far from done ,but a few more pics..