chopp3r

Did you plane that headstock angle by hand?...looking good.

looks great! any finished pix?

great pics... thanks! dont guess you have any pics before it was glued in? I too am curious about neck angle...

thanks for the reply.... yeah I'm sure my project will end up with plenty of my own specs (but due to MY incompetence) but I'd love to have some more exact numbers to guide me. the neck joint is really a mystery to me... it looks to me like the back of the body forms sorta of a heel cap or something? I have been searching for good pics of this... wish I had an exploded view really. thanks

don't forget steinbergers... they have pretty awesome sustain and no headstock. =)

Hey there... I got some templates for a 58 flying v but I still have a few questions. Like what is going on at the neck joint/heel? How thick is the body? What are the headstock and neck angles? I have a gibson flying v but it's a 25.5" scale flying v 90...don't think it would be good for anything but the body thickness measurement, maybe? if anyone has this info it's be much appreciated! thanks

wow...I can't believe I am just getting back to this--- Anyway I am getting sorta serious now. I have some 58 v templates and about 2 grand worth of stewmac stuff headed my way! My first project is still to make the body for the steinberger neck I have-- I think I'm going with a non-rev firebird shape though.... so that is my first project to get myself more comfortable in da shop (have enlisted my best friends girlfriend = a pretty baddass woodworker with a nice little shop.) Anyway my longer term project is to build a couple of flying v's...ala the 2002 v customs. I LOVE THE LOOK OF THOSE THINGS! I am sure I will have lotsa questions and pix along the way... 1. I can't seem to find a good pic of the 58 neck joint/heel area, any suggestions... I have a gibson v90 ..which is 58 shaped body, but I'm not sure if this is the same neck joint used on those v customs.... thanks!

how does one measure the moisture content? thanks

Hi All, Lotta great stuff on this board/site, I have barely scratched the surface. I am reviving my interest in building guitars and am still in the research phase. I did build one guitar body about 10 or so years ago while attending art school with access to a decent shop. It was pretty cool one piece mahogany sg shaped sorta- made for an old fender mailbu neck I bought off a junked bolt on acoustic (I will try to get pics some day.) I have also worked at Steinberger (nashville) but in the mold room ...which is kinda distant from traditional guitar making. Tobias basses shared the same facility so I did get a glipse of their process. anyway I am still a total noob. My first project will be to make a body for a steinbergeresque gs (headstock model) neck I have. It needs a fret leveling and maybe a different nut- but I will worry about that later. I want to make a rrV shaped body for it I think. I had a little balance left on my paypal account so I scored this yesterday wood. I am thinking about a mahogany back and that top. Some kinda good tremelo unit...preferrably one with the ability to play as a fixed bridge or trem, any suggestions? Could someone point me to a good tutorial on glueing up a body this way(bookmatched top+back)? Will I need a joiner/planer to get everything perfect? thanks... I can't wait to get started.