andyt

Mississippi BJ

This is just posted up to thank the guy who I knicked the number plate idea from, I saw it here ages ago but couldn't find anything searching, they were so cool made from old found wood & rusty bits, anyway.

Quick cheap parts build as I had some tele hardware lying around.

Ash body £20, add belly and arm cuts.

Neck £30

Wilkinson bridge

Duncan little59 bridge, generic hotrail type neck

NOS nobease knobs

Fluro orange

Funny how I never noticed this build of yours, Andy! Great work as always and I hope people see and respect that, rather than complaining that it is not a perfect replica because of this or that detail.

What's your opinion on the Mo Joe?

Cheers, Mo Joe sounds good in this, better that the one I've got in a real JS I think. Its a full sounding pickup, but still pretty balanced & pick harmonics just scream out.

Dirty Frank

Built with whatever wood and parts were lying around in the shed

Sapelle body

flame maple neck and board

mismatched scrap parts

Schaller floyd

Dimarzio MoJoe

build thread

http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/topic/47174-striped-frankie-probably/

tape off

more relicing and another mockup

I'm still tempted to clear it, think its kind of perverse to put a thick shiny coat on something so wrecked

might dirty the neck or just truoil it

then a coat of halfords finest toolbox red

and taped up again

sprayed black taped up and sprayed white

taped off

black and white relicing starts

Nice heal, looks comfy. Any idea of its weight? I have a lot of sapelle and thought that without weigh relief it would be too heavy.

My luggage scales says 8.3 lbs as it is.

I made almost the exact same thing last year,but with mahogany for the body and a multilam neck.The one pickup I found to be nice,but I miss not having a neck pup even though I rarely use it

Cheers Wes, just went back and found your thread, cool stuff

oh yeh, I forgot it's a 24 fret so I thought I would experiment, glued in the neck then roughed out some heal shaping

and couldn't resist a quick string up

So the plan is to stripe the body & maybe relic it before clearing it

I was playing around with the neck and made it a soft V to C as I'd never played one, but not sure I like it, so might shave it off

Start trem route

and single hum

back route with jem style angled jack

quick mockup

Hi, long time no build, had a hankering for one of the new evh cheap striped series recently, but thought why not build one, with a few twists mainly because a had a manky schaller floyd sitting around.

Reverse headstock, of course

sapelle body - had some lying around

Quarter sawn board on the flame neck

Neck fit

SWIRLYSEVEN

Ok, something a bit more subtle this month, had this body sitting around for a while after swirling & got round to make a neck for it.

Basswood RG body, recessed bridge, OneShot enamel swirl, 2k clear

5 piece maple/bubinga neck, ebony board, 2k clear

few more pics, and also 2ked the maple neck one.

and to add the usual do woods effect the tone I was quite surprised how different they do sound. Bodies from the same plank of wood, same hardware, electrics and bridge humbucker, just the neck difference.

Rosewood and wenge board, warmer, fuller, more low mids & louder acoustically

Maple and maple board, brighter, maybe more balanced.

Donnie24

Lots of brown this month.

Ibanez JS copy with 24 frets, Donnie Hunt style paint

2 piece Lime body, 2k clear

1 piece rosewood neck, wenge board, medium jescar frets

Ibanez edge trem

Build thread

http://projectguitar...showtopic=46810

Cheers ears

Very nice Andy, glad to see your back on the Ibby copies and keeping the jemsiters happy lol

Exactly enough of this quilted, flamed fancy top nonsense.. I do appear to have a Donnie problem though

The late summer in the UK was good last week so got some clear done

Get back to the RG's tomorrow sanding then swirling

and started painting the JS's Donnie style

pencil it out, fill it in

black outline

started on the 7's

one sapelle

and a lime

sketch out the contour lines & it the edges with a roundover bit, doesn't do much but seems to get the shaping started, then attack with the angle grinder - so quick on basswood its like carving butter

aanj for the back

quick mock up

& a shot of primer

Came back from summer holiday and realised I'd nearly run out of wood, so popped down the local supplier who had actually moved nearer to me (result) & picked up some body wood and bits and pieces.

Lime and sapelle planks for the bodies, some flame maple and bubinga for necks, didn't have any rosewood so used what I had for fingerboards

Plan couple of Ibanez JS's but 24 fret ones & a couple of 7 string RG copies to be swirled

Used the last of my rosewood neck blanks & maple & bubinga for the others

couple of wenge that I had lying around, maple and ebony, doh ran out of fretwire as well

couple of lime bodies for the JS's

cheers

That came out very nicely. Any chance of getting a demo vid?

In case you missed the other thread

cheers all

It's beautiful Andy. You said you were going to compare the sound of this chambered guitar to the solid PRSish one. How did that come out?

SR

Finally got round to making a noise clip - with the 'correct' amount of gain not a lot of difference, as you would expect. Acoustically it conforms to all the clichéd expectations, chambered body - louder, more open / solid body - thicker more focused

da/50

Chambered sapele body, flame maple top, rubbed on spirit stain, 2k clear

Mahogany and wenge 5 piece neck, ebony head cap, cocobolo fretboard, jumbo jescar fretwire

Built as a present for my brother in laws 50th birthday

build thread

http://projectguitar...showtopic=46495

noise clip

The stain and finish looks amazing. Very clean work all around. If I'm being really picky I'd say that the top join is a bit too obvious.

joint not flat in the middle, came out doing the carve