Mr_Buttman

Very nice design, Matt!

But why EMG select ?

Very nice!

What finish are you suppose to do?

TNR

Sapele body

1 piece makore neck

24 9/16 scale

Grover locking tuners

Seymour Duncan SH6+Golden Age Hot

Strap Locks

Building topic here

The big problem of the necks from ebay is almost always bad fret work, bad nut (i'm taling about Mighty Mite necks).

My friend has ordered the necks from chinese company and they were made at the same level but 2-3 times cheaper

I'm not against the necks from ebay or stewmac (and sometimes use them) but what's wrong with making then neck for yourself?

Maybe it seems so difficult but it's not, not more difficult then to build a really good body (especially carved).

Yeah I know, from this point all out all guitars will have Sorbera on the headstock inlayed with MOP.

I was talking about that

awesome guitar and very nice, deep color!

But i think you miss one thing - the company logo on the headstock or any other logo, cause without it guitar looks like 'handmade'

Thanks, bluesy, i like your build very much , especially the top that you use ^)

jay5, i realize that it will be weaker then with parallel orientention but i can't say it's VERY weak. The wood is 3 year air dried, the gluing suface is big. We tested the neck joint and it's very strong.

When i started to build this project i had a nice big piece of sapele. But not big enough to cut out 3 parts of the body with correct orientation, so i had to use the wood economically

But anyway, thanks for your remark, next time i'll find another solution.

Btw, have you ever had some problems with such neck joints?

After the painting the guitar was assembled and this is a result

Other photos:

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Freatboard+assembling

1 - freatboard with binding

2 - inlay dots

3 - inlayed freatboard

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5 - making humb holes

6 - sanding

7 - cutting inlay

8 - ready

9 - inlayed headstock

10 - almost ready to go in the painting room

Body building:

1 - bottom piece

2 - middle piece

3 - top

4 - top with f-holes. Unfortunately the top was spoiled with a router (it haven't stop though i released the start button).

But we've repaired that after gluing the body

5 - body gluing

6 - as a result - body and neck with rough shapes

I agree, it's very nice wood with great sound but i don't like that it's very difficult to polish it. And i like makore a bit more

Neck building:

neck billet

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3 - making headstock

4 - shaping the neck

5 - interim result

6 - result with sanding

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8 - routing truss rod channel

9 - ready

Hello guys!

This is my first guitar building topic on PG, hope you'll enjoy it

My friend, the guitarist of russian band Times New Roman asked me to build him a ES-339 style guitar but with strange requirements -

he's playing heavy music so the guitar must behave well with distortion.

So, the specs:

Makore neck

3 piece sapele body (top, back and middle parts)

set neck

24.56 scale indian rosewood freatboard

hardware:

grover locking tuners

nashville tom bridge+gotoh tailpiece

Electronics:

Seymour duncan SH6 bridge humb+golden age hot neck humb

The guitar is already finished and i can say it looks awesome and sounds perfect, just like the customer wants it to sound.

I'll post the photos of the process from the very beginnig and at the end i'll post the finished guitar and (i hope so) the sound demo

Thanks for your attention

Beautiful clean building. Venge neck is incredible

I think you can buy this one http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Truss_rods/Adj...es.html#details just cut it and make a thread. Realy nice project.

I just LOVE your LP! Well done pal

This is realy great, pal! Wel done!!!

Incredible...