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It all depends on the extent of the chambering, I did mine with two chambers that ran down the wings of the guitar and I certainly don't have a feedback problem. For me the chambering seems to knock off a little of the highs and saves a lot of weight.. I guess with bigger chambers you would notice more of a difference. It does seem to give a more "airy" sound I guess you have to play one to find out!

Most flashy basses are made from very hard very heavy woods like varients of rosewood, wenge and all that....

Bubinga or Paduak would do the job nicely I think, but I ain't no bass wood expert, mines made of rosewood and maple and sounds pretty good, but its not all that exotic and your average self builder always wants something flashy!

Greetings from a fellow Yorkshireman!

May all your guitar making be blessed with success.... may I ask what you are building and from what? If you haven't already ordered all your kit i'd recommend craft supplies and highlystrung.co.uk as good places to start. But I guess you probably already know that.

Dodgy classical acoustic that I bought in Mexico

Squier Jagmaster that gets used for esxperimental wiring and stuff

Peavy C4 throughneck Bass (the cheaper one)

and the two guitars I've made in the last couple of months....

I've owned stacks more including tele's, a pacifica an awesome Gordon Smith D/C and all kinds of other rubbish.

all these guitars and i've never really owned an amp that does them justice!

Nope, just a standard jack plane and muchos elbow grease, i've only ever used very hard woods up until now so maybe its taking longer than planing say alder or basswood.

Certainly a good work out on a nice heavy block of ash! Having said that both the guitars i've made are slightly thicker than i've wanted, you just can't keep planing with blisters.

The shark shaped guitar was a Jay Tursey (spelling?) guitar. I saw a weird one in a music shop window made from a machinegun, like an assault rifle or something..... god knows how it plays, but certainly different!

I've got to ask... am I the only person here stupid enough to spend six hours hand planing a blank down to size? Good for the arms I suppose if nothing else!

Well, i've revised it a bit, you'll have to imagine an extensively carved top though and a nice deep amber/orange stain!

What about this then has progress been made? Feel free to have atweak of the image and send me the results if you want.... lets go interactive.

Take a look....

Excellent, top comments all. Maybe I like my tele pickups upside down! Hmmm I checked the anderson site, but maybe I still got it wrong!

Well work is slow today so i'll get to work tweaking it and see what I come up with.... The control layout was kind of just plonked on i'll give that a bit more thought.

I love it when a plan comes together

I'm not a master finisher but a good finish sure makes you feel better about the final product than a "it'll do" one, and if you plan on selling instruments i'm pretty sure it has a massive affect on how much you can charge someone and still be able to sleep at night!

I vote turquoise. Or a nice deep purple/maroon. message ends.

This months GOTM pro winner is pretty weird looking, in a good way of course.

I'm not a big fan of the man himself but the ibanez JS models are very good looking. Maybe if I make this as a dual humbucker guitar i'd have an easier time. But where's the fun in that?

Much to my girlfriends despair this might be my summer project! Shame my "shop" is my kitchen as well. Ha!

Well thats the rub, i'm not sure if I do like it! I just like making things that are at least a little bit different.

I really want a tele pickup, and a trem, but no pickguard and i'm trying to think of the best way of doing things.....

Musing to myself!

I was looking at Warwick basses the other day, and I know they are an aquired taste, but I thought to myself something similar for a guitar would not be such a bad thing.

Anyway I knocked up some quick doodles of what I thought it would look like, and basically i just want some suggestions.

Concept thingy

What do you think, I don't like the look of the sunk tele pickup but I can't think how else to do it and keep the carved top.... unless I go in from the back and lose the trem.... hmmmm.

Spec as follows: One piece lacewood body, bolt on strat neck (ebony board), hot tele pickup for bridge, Some kinda mellow neck humbucker and a two post trem.

I'm too dumb to make my own descisions so help me out.

I love Paduak, I love P90's, I love Jazzmasters' -I love this guitar! Very tidy indeed.

Congratulations! I bet its a bright sounding beast though eh? I know the Padauk I used was very heavy and dense, but I've seen some that is much less so.

Take everything off it.... and then give it to me to put back together! Hey presto a load of scratches and screwdriver gouges! I seem to "relic" any guitar I change the strings or alter the bridge on

I might be wrong..... but...... The SG is a pretty thin guitar and I THINK that you'd have to make it a bit thicker to fit one in, you'll need to (in my experience) make the body a little longer to make the guitar a longer scale length and fit a floyd and 24 frets, unless you are happy with having the bridge all the way down the bottom of the guitar.

I'm planning on making my next guitar out of lacewood and by all accounts it seems like a fine wood, so good luck with your project, you are going to have to dig deep for the materials on this one though!

I've found a site that sells the proper Fender TBX setups for a not unreasonable amount of cash, my question is: Is it any good or a total waste of time. Simple as that!

Anyone care to shed some light on it?

Ta

The Gibson humbucking version of the P90 is called the P100 and has vertical stacked coils to kill the hum!

I love P90's and the Kent Armstrong ones are very good and pretty cheap too. I should maybe work as the the Armstrong marketing guy, i'm always going on about 'em!

Very, very beautiful indeed! You are flying the flag for uk guitar builders..... Did you get the bridge from WD? It looks the same as the one I got for my first project and a fine piece of kit it is too! It'd be nice to think my guitars will be as good as yours in a few years time, kee 'em coming!

Now that is a fine looking guitar! Love the lack of fret markers, I've always wanted a no marker neck! Luverly!

I went with Darren's, tidy. Good luck all, it's a tight group.......

Gotta go acoustic, there's a lot of skill involved in making something like that by hand. The KTL is nifty and very different, but I applaud anyone that can make a decent acoustic.

Good job!

If you are going to keep it natural a little Danish oil would be agood idea to bring the flame out a little more, it'll darken things a little but not in a bad way.

Those Danes know a thing or two about oil! I think it can be laquered after the oiling, but I could be wrong, so by all means somebody set me straight on that.

did you get your maple from touchstone tonewoods by any chance? Looks just like the stuff I got, I was a little dissapointed with mine, but it finished well.