C.R.S.Km.D

The scratch plate should be extended all the way down for the jack to be mounted on.

i was trying to avoid that as i didnt want to cover up to much of hte paint work

any opinions on the scratch guard shape

hey been a while due to the weather down under.

but i have made some progress only thing left is to make the input jack cpver plate. i had a circle as is common for the flying V but it looks...bad.

so here is a picture of it as is im thinking ill make a trapeziumish parallelagram, parallel to the pickguards edge and then the other two sides following the body.

but i am open to suggestions

hey i have tried a few time to get the wiring right with this set up and i just cant do it

i have 2 tonerider generator humbuckers

1 shadow kill pot in the volume position

a 3 way toggle switch

and 1 tone.

how should this be wired!

thanks in advance

CRSKmD

and now for 700 coats of clear top coat

Looks great! Just be careful laying it on that towel... i did that on the first body i refinished and it left towel indentations over the whole back of the guitar. Not cool.

dont you worry it dried in a protected area for 48 hours before i removed the tape haha. i hope it turns out good, playability as well as look

taped

black

tape removed

I would put the killswitch right before the jack. Use SPDT and put it on the hot wire so that one position connects hot to the hot tab of the jack, and the other position connects hot to ground.

the kill switch is part of the pot though. interferes when u press the kill switch the imediatly change pickups they are half on until you hit the kill switch a few times

does any one know how to wire a 1 volume(shadowkillpot as volume) 1 tone 3 way switch with a HH (toneride generator) pickup set? i have done it how i think it should be but the kill switch seams to interfere with the pickup switch

haha i wish i had found that kit but he saga ones body routes are different http://www.sagamusic.com/catalog/details.a...&BrandID=77

i got the body and neck blank from my local guitar shop the resembalence is uncanny to those pictures though

Are you painting the black strips like in the mock-ups you did? If so, those are not really chevrons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_%28insignia%29

But I'm figuring that those (The mock-ups) were just done really quick to get an idea of the pick-guard?

-Stormy

nah it should pretty much look like the mockups i tried the military styled 'arrow chevrons' and it didnt work as well, but the tape is reffered to as chevron tape at my local hardware store. and here as well http://www.landw.co.za/products/view/1

and as i said im going for the electrical harzard tape

cheers anyway but i dont think the arrowed chevron will work because the body is already v shaped

If you can manage it, I would also try to do some more industrial inlays, whether they be of some metal material or some type of acrylic that matches the body or overall theme.

un fortunatly i ahve done the block inlays already but it fits well enough

andy way have done a bit more its YELLOW now

still more coats to do

here is my attept at showing it black and still shinney

and to compare the silver

i have to say im still liking the silver as my idea behind this project was to look industrial. i think with the chevrons (electrical hazard tape style) and the standard tread plate it forfill this goal better as most work places would not bother to pay more for less visible tred plate. just MHO. but i still want to hear all of yours

I'd go plain black also, looks better IMO. I like your shirt... "Back to the future" series is up there with my favourite movies of all time Nice build aswell, wish i played guitar in highschool.

haha cheers the t shirt is my design/rip off i printed it at home but yer the head stock is going black

Probably that pickguard would suit better if you painted it black.

thats one thing i am not sure on i can always get it anadised after but if ur handy with photo shop u can colourise it ?

I like the pickup guard the way it is....Black headstock for sure.

yep black it is but pickgaurd probaly will stay as it is

got the undercoating done today by the way i went with a half built neck (truss rod installed, fretboard slotted, blank headstock) and the finished it with the head stock and inlays i wanted

mixing paint and thinner (nitro)

before painting

painting

first undercoat done

btw my opinion is without becasue it looks like an afterthough with the matching headstock although im still interested iny our opinions

im not sure whether it work or not with this pattern here is some pictures tell me what you think (and dont say its my choice as i know that but want to see what you guys think)

WITH matching headstock

without also ignore where it says gibson

im not sure but i think he has a airplane in his garage

btw pretty cool so far.

yes that is indeed an aeroplane it is now gone down to the hanger and is being painted and run through final tests before flying (yes it will fly because it is not the first one we have built)

and cheers the guitar has been undercoated and should get first coat of paint on today.

should the body match the head stock or not....? (same pattern on headstock as body)

cut and routed and beveled out side of pickguard

bevel

even though i could ahve made all of the body from scratch i thought it quicker to get a body and neck blank. this is purely due to time constraints for school.

unfortunatley in my eagerness to start i forgot to take pictures from the begining.

any way here we go

pic guard template

NECK

maple neck

rosewood fretboard

block inlays

cream binding for neck

BODY

basswood

this project came about when i found a way to include it into my Visual Arts Studies practical. i thought id try for something simple because of time restraints, hence the V no curves and went with a tuneomatic instead of a floyd rose like last time.

the theme of this guitar (at present) is industrial i had the idea of painting it with black and yellow chevrons 9electric hazard style) and with a tred/diamond plate pickguard.

gold hardware

'Tone rider Generator pickups' if any one has used these please tell me how they sounded

Nitro paint? yes or no

I was just curious...what was sparking when you were cutting your neck on the bandsaw? Looks good....did you inlay the fret board?

the sparking was from the blade occasionaly touching the guide and i think the density of the Ebony i used. yes i inlayed the fret board from scratch ( not an easy job XD)

Hey Guys i though that after all the S*Bomb i got about it being a kit id but up a thread showing some photos of how i made it.

The idea for this project probably started just after I started playing guitar. I had the idea that it would be cool to make my own guitar. I had always had my eyes set on an Ibanez JEM 777VWH.because I liked the way it looked. Later I found that this guitar was also a very good instrument.

Unfortunately this guitar’s production ceased 30 years ago (1977) and even when they were in production they retailed for alot.

To tackle such a project is quite a learning experience. I think that more then even skill, your patience gets exercised to the limit. It's very time consuming and trying to see quick results will usually cause setbacks.

It takes a lot of time to plan the project and to just even figure out what kind of guitar you want. I wasn't really sure at first and was leaning toward making a V style but eventually gravitated to a JEM style as that is what I have always wanted.

Originally I wanted to have white and gold Dimarzio Evo 2’s set (3 pickups) because that was the pickups used in the Ibanez JEM 777 VWH. But after about a month of constant research I found that the pickups could only be special ordered at US$300 each (that’s US$ 900 all up for just the pickups).

Instead I decided to settle for EMG pickups which are an active pickup (the magnet is an electro-magnet, this helps to reduce buzzing)

EMG 60A is in the neck position because this pickup is made with alnico magnets apposed to ceramic which give it a fatter, deeper sounding tone (old style jazz and blues).

EMG SA single coil pickup is in the middle position because this pickup gives a vintage Stratocaster sound (think Eric Clapton) which heavily contrasts the bass sound of the EMG 60A with a more pronounced middle and treble tone.

Last but not least I chose to use an EMG 81 in the bridge position because this pickup delivers high output pickup designed especially for the lead guitarist. It has a razor sharp attack, and incredible sustain.

Body: Brazilian Mahogany

Neck: 5 Piece (rockmaple/ebony/rockmaple/ebony/rockmaple)

fretboard: Madagascar ebony ( upper 12 frets are scalloped)

Pickups: neck=EMG 60A Mid=EMG SA Bridge=EMG81

Bridge: floyd Rose original (gold)

tuners: grover locking tuners (gold)

Pickguard: custom

natural finish

i will add more photos when i get a chance, but with dial up internet its a slow task.

cheers, i hope to get some constructive feed back

my first guitar i have made, i made it custom to what i wanted at the time from the ground up. im gonna call it a 'R-Jem' as i combined my own ideas with a RG and JEM 777

it is based on the original ibanez JEM 777. I have changed a few things including, neck joint, floyd rose routing depth, neck shape

Specs:

Body: Brazilian Mahogany

Neck: 5 Piece (rockmaple/ebony/rockmaple/ebony/rockmaple)

fretboard: Madagascar ebony

Pickups: neck=EMG 60A Mid=EMG SA Bridge=EMG81

Bridge: floyd Rose original (gold)

tuners: grover locking tuners (gold)

Pickguard: custom

natural finish