bigdguitars

Its been a while but time to post my latest.  Full build vids included in playlist.  

This is a Jack Daniels Barrel Top Guitar.   I purchased half barrel tops down in Lynchburg and could just get a tele top from them.  I resawed the top and let it dry, then pieced it together.  Back is reclaimed barnwood with an Oak Core drilled out.  Neck is a WD rosewood neck that is unfinished like the rest of the body.

Aged Chrome hardware with Bigsby trem and custom wound pickups.  Final vid has my terrible playing...  

Youtube Playlist

I am cleaning up the shop, trying to simplify my life, and need to sell this lot of Korina.   I can't ship it too many boards get a great steal here.   I am in brentwood TN.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/302042458608

So I need to get rid of my copy carver. Its sitting in my basement, will need to be taken off the board and brought up. you get the carver, and router I need the carving templates still.

I am in Naperville IL outside Chicago, and would rather sell it to someone on the board than let it go on ebay. I need it moved in the next 3 weeks.

here are the two vids I have on it. the one dated Sep 19, 2010 is where it is in my basement.

Asking $500.......................

Send me a message if you are serious. I cannot meet you halfway I don't have my truck anymore. So you will need to pickup in person.

Custom Paisley Tele with Clay inlays and hand wound pickups.

I was sitting on a paduak hollow body tele and had no idea what to do with it. Saw a few paisley guitars and had to make one. This ended up being a guitar for my oldest daughter who needed an instrument to take to school, well I missed the deadline for that but I think she is happy.

2 Piece Paduak Hollowed out body

Maple neck with Ebony fretboard, used some pearl paints for the back side very neat effect

Clay inlays taken from the paisley design in the wallpaper

Custom shop magenta finish with 2 part automotive finish

I wound the pickups myself these have a great sound.

Here is the vid series for this guitar:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvHM0_cyyFLzd9jb5tpYp_3ZUGpfY1EDy

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I started playing around with Leather Dyes gotten some interesting results.

Here is a yellow, green, and blue fade with leather dyes.

https://youtu.be/q01dQ_I7h3A

very nice work. Very clean nice job. I went with model two, now that I have been doing this for a long time I see the value in a nice thought out custom design. Having worked with paisley its a neat medium.

Custom Slash LP

Took me forever to complete this one, filmed most of the process, this is the body from my Les Paul build. Here is the playlist:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvHM0_cyyFLwZPaOTGxyLgniEhx5Vi04p

Flame maple top, with African mahogany back, Honduran mahogany neck, Honduran rosewood fretboard, ebony face plate

Custom man-made turquoise inlays and knob tip. Truss rod cover was custom made of the turquoise but it looked terrible so I sprayed the top black and left the sides blue

2K speed finish on the top and tru-oil on the back.

Signature Slash Pups, guitar sounds and plays great. Used Keda Dyes for this top, not sure I liked them. RS Guitar works pots, jumbo frets, double action truss rod, and crushed inlay man-made turquoise inlay logo

I always love entering never know who says what. I thought I had it this month, but I am a huge fan of a firebirds and old mahogany boats...

thanks for the nice comments, glad to get one more vote other that mine... HAHAHA

This is my custom neck through firebird project, documented here on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvHM0_cyyFLx058GM4UmZd_CfmM-3fO5t

multi laminated walnut and maple, with birdeye maple fretboard and walnut inlays. Finished in waterlox.

guitar sounds great and plays perferctly. The gearless tuners are interesting, not sure if I would use these again.

thanks for the nice words and votes.

I never really thought about black hardware, I think I may swap that out.

best part about entering is getting everyone's comments!

Howdy folks been a long time since I have posted still lurk in the background everyonce in a while. This guitar has been 2 years in the making, its for #3. She was born a year and a half ago so I finally got around to finishing it.

Les Paul Burl Top

Rosewood board, gold shell inlays, flame maple neck binding, red burst top, 1 piece back, and one piece neck. Finished in sanding sealer and about 10 coats of tru-oil. No pore filling, really dislike doing that. 4-ply plastic binding on the body. I tried with the maple I could not get it to bend.

Guitar does sound great here are the pics.

My neck build process:

My body build process:

My process of building a les paul:

Its been a long long time...

Doing more vids than anything else at the point. This neck is on a upcoming entry...

go for a bigger band saw, you can get away with a bench top drill press.

Here is my favorite router:

How I burst my guitars.

nuclear burst:

blue burst:

Green Burst:

red burst:

Gibson L5 Build

Hello, wanted to try something different so I went the full luthier route and built an archtop. Lots of fun to build, based off Bob's book and some Gibson L5 plans.

Handcarved spruce top and flame maple back with flame maple side. ebony board with mop inlays, turquoise inlay logo and ebony headstock, I also bound the fretboard.

Here is a video of the building process:

Here are some pics:

thanks for the comments. guitar sounds great. after the move I had to build something to setup shop so this was the result.

the chile and spyder guitars are awesome. I love new concepts. I just don't have a creative mind like that.

I will see if I can get the explorer I am working on into this month. we shall see.

Been a long time since I have been on here. Moved and had another baby so guitar time is limited at best.

I built this guitar to resetup shop. Took about six weeks in all. I documented the whole process on youtube.

Take a look here for the vids: http://www.youtube.com/user/thebigdguitars?feature=mhsn

This is a Les Paul Style Guitar with a 5A Flame Maple top and a two piece african Mahogany Neck and 1 Piece Back. Ebony Fretboard with block inlays and PRS Pickups and of course one of my varitone switches. The Guitar is finished in Tru-Oil about 6 coats in all. I wetsanded with Linseed oil after the 3rd coat and then added thin layers after that. I was going to buff and add some wax but its got a nice sheen already so I am going to leave it. I couldn't do Nitro here... Its winter in Chicago and I don't have the time to do it right.

This has the black binding and a little bit of Faux flame maple binding since this was a thicker top I could do the effect.

Everything was built from scratch except for the inlays I had those laying around the shop.

Here are the pics:

spring cleaning and still selling stuff...

http://shop.ebay.com/varitoneswitch/m.html...p;_trksid=p3686

more to be listed soon.

Sorry the knobs make it worse I tried a couple of different sets and plain gold was well plain. I tried to keep the natural look but that means I should have turned my own knobs, which would have been the thing to do. I didn't want to do a cheesy big d logo because it's the wrong this to do.

This top was really spalty and I Didnt want to do the epoxy mess.

All the guitars are nice again great job to all

just completed this one... a natty lp

completely built from scratch including doing the custom gold inlays and doing the back control plates.

Its a spalted maple burl top that has a sweet carve, with a 1 piece mahogany back. Its a three piece maple neck with a hard maple center stripe and birdseye maple outers. Then African blackwood fretboard, head plate, control covers and truss rod cover.

Dimarzio pups and gold hardware. Guitars action is very low and plays unreal.

The finish is tru-oil and shellac with a couple of coats of wax. thinner neck profile but still has a little meat.

my pictures stink, wanted to get this up before I had to start doing the holiday thing... guitar plays like a dream. the entries are really nice. I remember back in the day one or two would stand out. now its on with all of them.

great job to all.

All gone for the time being. May let some more of this go come spring but as of now sold a bunch of boards.

thanks for asking

-Derek

I have 330 bf ft of 8/4 korina white limba, I needed enough for 4 guitars but had to buy a lot to get a little. started to make some body blanks and sell other stuff on ebay.

This is pure white limba that does not have the streaks in it like some of the other stuff I have seen on ebay. Very very nice stuff.

I have a few 11 and 12 inch pieces.

If you are looking for something let me know.

I can sell you rough or finished blanks. Please email me here for questions:

My email

been a while...

baby and business keepin me busy.

Custom blackburst les paul clone.

Got the headstock and fretboard off ebay all nos stuff. all standard specs. classic 57 pups which are unreal. fretboard was all cracked up so I aged the binding the same way by staining it black with a lacquer thinner based black dye. Aged it a little bit to get an older look. So I sanded the black off in a couple key spots. Exact carved top.

How I got here. was highly figured flame top stained black and sanded back. then I did a burst in black and clear coated the guitar. weighs in about 8 lbs and has a killer tone; action is pretty low. Only thing left is I have to get the nut completely done.

Enjoy!