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Mr_Buttman

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  1. Redwood 6 String Bass

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    Simo, your builds are always awesome!

    Perfect wood and shape choiсе and clear work.

    I've mentioned you used Nordstrand pickups for your previous build too. Have you ever tried Nordstrand Dual Coils? (image).

    Thanks :D I'm actually using a Dual Coil for this bass, along with a Fat Stack.

    I'm building 5-string bass now and it'll have 2 Dual Coils Nordstrand pickups. So, one man is building custom onboard preamp for this bass. And he needs resistance and inductance.

    I've called Carey (from Nordstrand) and he told they don't know inductance! (i don't believe this...). Maybe you have ability to measure it? (as i know the special device is needed for measuring).

  5. New Telecaster Project

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    I had so many projects so this build went really slow. Fortunately we gonna finish this in 2-3 weeks.

    So, we glued the binding, inlay, drilled tuners holes and fretted the fingerboard.

    Now you can see the guitar after 2 coats of sealer - i think very nice textured body and neck.

    Next week we gonna add the color.

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    g5.jpg

  6. Abs Plastic Binding

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    I have an opportunity to offer white and black ABS plastic binding for your projects of following sizes:

    0.018"x0.75" (0.45mmx19mm) - black - 15,90$ per 10 meters (32,8 feet)

    0.018"x0.87 (0.45mmx22mm) - white - 15,90$ per 10 meters (32,8 feet)

    0.039"x0.75 (1mmx19mm) - white - 16,90$ per 10 meters (32,8 feet)

    0.079"x0.75 (2mmx19mm) - white - 22,9$ per 10 meters (32,8 feet)

    Black and cream plastic will be available a little bit later.

    Also it's possible to order exotic colors like aluminium and wooden textures (it can be discussed by email).

    All the plastic is 19-22 mm height.

    MIN order - 10 meters (32,8 feet)

    The orders will be sent from Russia, Moscow as airmail parcel.

    Payment method - paypal

    You can ask questions and place your orders in this topic and by email: daviddarno _ gmail.com

  16. Guitar Of The Month For November

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    Posted · Edited by Mr_Buttman

    Awesome wood, awesome realization. Only 1 thing i don't like very much is tailpiece - it's rather simple for this guitar

    Hehe, I voted for this one, and one thing I liked was the tailpiece...funny what sways our votes!

    I mean that guitar is creatively made and that tailpiece looks like "from other guitar"

    For example watch the tailpiece in Dave's Blue Dragonfly http://www.mykaguitars.com/instruments/049/56.jpg

    I think the handmade wood taipiece would suit this Mikro's guitar more

  17. Guitar Of The Month For November

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    Posted · Edited by Mr_Buttman

    Orgmorg:

    First time i saw this guitar i didn't like it. But now i see that the idea is original and realization is good. Wish i have it in my country house (though i don't have any...)

    MATT!!

    The realization is very clear, as always, but the guitar looks lifeless (maybe that's because of simple finish)

    Chops

    As SwedishLuthier told, the body looks a bit heavy. But anyway i like an idea, the wood and finish. Really nice guitar

    Hooglebug

    I like the shape but the finish is too dark and looks a bit "homemade"

    MiKro

    Voted for you!

    Awesome wood, awesome realization. Only 1 thing i don't like very much is tailpiece - it's rather simple for this guitar

    Wish i could hold it in my hands.

    Daniel

    Really like this build - nothing to chicane. Especially i like finish and wood stripe at the end of the neck

    But at last moment i've decieded to vote for MikRo - a bit more original build.

    CRS

    Well build guitar but without soul. And as guys told - no additional info or photos.

    Avenger

    Again i agree with SwedishLuthier - i think you used to incompatible designs in one body so it looks disconnected. Though i like the wood and your work with it

    Also i think that a bolt-on neck doesn't suit here (the better choise would be sapele set neck imo)

    SwedishLuthier

    Very nice build - original idea and very nice realisation. And i really like the shape.

    About finish - i'd prefer more yellow top and more red back but that's only my opinion

    Hope to see more guitars from you in future (with building details :D)

    Perry

    Perfect guitar. But it's "cold" for me.

  19. New Telecaster Project

    in In Progress and Finished Work

    Posted · Edited by Mr_Buttman

    Hello guys.

    When i saw a electric guitar for the first time i thought that the best guitar shape is arrow or something like this with sharp edges. And of course, i hated tele shape.

    But after some years i've found that it's shape is very pretty. Finally we (me and my bro) decided to make our own telecaster but with some original things.

    First of all, the wood:

    Body

    Sapele body+makore top ( ok, it's not the thin top, as usual, but it's thickness is 1.7 cm and the sapele "body" thickness is 2.5 cm )

    You can see body wood here:

    1 - the dark wood is sapele and under it you can see makore.

    2 - in order to machine makore we had to cut it and then glue the pieces together

    3 - the top after some leveling and sanding (i think pretty nice texture)

    4 - body glued

    In our last project (ES-339 style) we used makore for the neck (it was really dark and heavy) and sapele for the body (it was light) but... i'm really suprised how the weight and the color of one wood spieces can differ. Now we have dark sapele and light makore. We selected the most resonant pieces for the body and neck

    Neck

    Another exotic wood in the guitar - Anigre. It's very resonant and rather lighweight.

    5 - the future neck :D

    After that introduction i would like about technical specifications and style.

    Neck- 2 way truss rod, 2 carbon fiber rods, sperzel tuners, binded freatboard with custom inlay

    Body- hipshot bridge, top and back binding

    Golden age neck humbucker and haven't decieded yet about bridge one.

    The guitar will be called ....... "Space Hooker" and will have custom inlay with "sputnik" and stars on the freatboard and also will have the dark blue finish.

    I've made a picture in Photoshop, sorry for it's quality, but you can see the main ideas there.

    Hookerweb.jpg

    Any comments are welcome

  20. Zebrawood Top Lp

    in In Progress and Finished Work

    Posted · Edited by Mr_Buttman

    I've made this mistake too on one of the guitar and i can propose some solutions:

    1. You need to finish the guitar with dark color (for example dark blue or red) with 20-30 % opacity. And before, make the cylindrical small wood parts and put them into the holes. Of course, in detailed view this problem place will be noticeble, but not so much.

    2. You can put a nice inlay there

    3. You can rout rectangular 2-3 mm deep hole in that place and feel it with zebrawood veneer.

    And of course, there are many other solutions. Hope you will finish it.

  22. Guitar Of The Month For October

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    Mr. Buttman: This guitar reminds me of the ones I grew up playing. Red bursts to black semi hollow body. As with the build above yours, the pictures leave a lot to be desired but in your case, I was able to get a better idea of the build quality. A couple of thing to note: The control plate cover on the back. You could have done without that by feeding the control pots through the F-Holes once they were wired to the harness. It's the common method of doing so with F-Holes. Also, the edges look more bubbled than arched. If that was the intended look then forgive me. It doesn't look bad but just different.

    Thx for your comment!

    I would like to tell that we've made that plate because our customer ordered the guitar to play something like metall on high gain (yes, it's strange with such shape). So he wanted the giutar "without noise". That's why we've made a metall box and put all the controls into it so we have't got any noise.

    About the shape - we haven't made the copy of Gibson ES-399 - just the guitar that only remined it. Also we made really thin acoustic cavities - as a result the guitar has 0 feedback on high gain.

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