Boggs

Cool! Feel free to leave feedback on any of them. I hope you realize that if you click on the cover photo, usually there are more.

Anybody take me up on the invitation and see anything they liked or hated?

Good place to see guitar eye candy and to post your stuff too! http://www.guitarmaker.com/ . It's not a forum... It's just a good place to show off your stuff and maybe be inspired by other luthiers' works... Mine are the RockBeach Guitars... Cheers, and Happy New Year!!! Boggs

Nice builds, for sure. I'm a wood nut so I had to go with the Burl LP...

I voted for the Humingbird bass, but I wanted to comment on a couple of other builds.

Boggs, I really appreciate that your designs are unique and may not appeal to some but they are immediately recognizable as your own.

But to me, the use of a "stock" strat pickguard kind of ruins it, especially since it doesn't really flow with the contour of your original body shape.

Mefgames, it looks like a fantastic build, but I find it shocking that you don't acknowledge that it's a Klein copy. Nothing wrong with building copies in my book, although it has sometimes been debated, but I think mentioning the name of the actual designer would have been the least of courtesies. My 2cts...

Cheers,

Thanks for the feedback, Sunday. I understand what you are saying, for sure. I kept the pickguard stock primarily because guitarists are fiercely traditionalist and I wanted to keep that traditional look and "feel" specifically for them. When I bring my guitars out to play at open mics, that model is the first one everyone wants to play for that reason and the RBT(ele) is the next favorite. Gotta keep the traditionalists (95% of the market) happy someway.

Actually, I didn't... If I felt mine was best (like a previous month), I simply put in a null vote. I was just joking because I actually got one this time...

I didn't vote for me... Really I didn't...

RockBeach CamelBack CB-III

Claro Walnut on Birdseye Maple body.

Tesla pickups (Opus-1 neck and middle and VR Extreme Bridge) with push-push series/parallel switch on bridge humbucker.

25.5" scale Birdseye Maple neck.

Hipshot hardware.

LOTS to like this month, but I went with Hitone and Supernatural #1 due to its originality as well as execution. That guitar is just cool as hell!

I'll get the ball rolling with an untraditional RockBeach Mantis.

I would have voted for RAD given that I refuse to vote for myself but I have to say that I am not really a fan of the headstock shape. I personally liked mine best this month (and that is never easy for me to say) but I will not pad my votes by voting for myself so I gave it a null.

RockBeach CBB-4 34" scale 4-string bass

Oregon Myrtle on Tulip Poplar body

Cuban Mahogany control cover

Tesla pickup wired for series/single/parallel

Olivewood neck with Pistachio fingerboard and 1/16" layer of Wenge between the two

^{Electric... Probably a Godin like an A6... If price were no object for an acoustic, definitely a Wingert.}

I picked the wrong month to enter again... REALLY tough to choose. I ended up with Curtisa but it was a close call for sure...

Another RockBeach CB-III in Walnut and Tulip Poplar with an olivewood neck and pistachio fingerboard. This is sporting Tesla pickups (Opus 1 neck and middle and VR Extreme bridge) with the bridge pickup switchable between series and parallel with a "slap pot switch". It is not a push-pull. Very convenient to use.

I've gotta do that stuff more often!

I just threw a mask over the Oregon Myrtle to show you how the neck will match up with it. I know it is a bit crooked... 4-string 34" scale. The neck is olivewood and pistachio with a thin layer of wenge between the two.

^{I finally got to plug it (RBTele) into my Bugera V22 as I brought it home from church. It's like two different guitars! Very warm and creamy on the neck pickup and some nice twang particularly mid-neck on the bridge pickup. Has some really nice lead tones when driven... I need to get somebody to record a few takes with it that have a little more skill than me behind the instrument.}

demonx - sorry, but i've no care for 7 & 8 string guitars

shad peters - you had be at "avengers" , but.....

hitone - got my vote

hits on nearly every quirky thing i love in a guitar

boggs - i'm really digging the bigsby-style vibrato

any info an it you can share?

sunday luthier - you have my applause for not being a slave to tradition

Thanks. It's a GFS vibrato. All rollers in the bridge and vibrato so action is smooth. It's not a dive-bomber, but not a bad alternative to the B5 Bigsby. Remarkably light.

RBTele by Boggs of RockBeach Guitars. It's impossible to show how the purple pearloid comes through the black overlay finish in the photos. It's just my take on a classic. It does have a forearm relief cut and also a belly cut.

Yes. It was a Christmas gift to my wife a couple of years ago...

Did you do the airbrushing?

The grill on the comfort curve looks excellent

No. I just have to do the guitar assembly, electronics, and setups. The owner is the artist and he goes by the name Brian "The Brush" Briskie. He is a car painter/detailer and sign artist and I got him into doing guitar bodies as well which is something he has always wanted to do. He is available for hire...

That's a crazy bass. Is that a Poplar top?

No... It is a tulip poplar midsection but the top and back are bookmatched Myrtle from Oregon. That crazy cheeta-esque top and back on the Mantis body in the middle is actually Tiger Myrtle from Tasmania...

Fair number of builds going on...

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Excellent to see voting equally divided this month. All I can hope for is a 3-way tie. You all deserve it.