Tiago Brasil

When I read 'Osorio' on the headstock i thought I know a city with this name on Brasil... Beautiful guitar fellow riograndense!! Tiago

Hi, im from Brasil. If you do some search on this forum and on the net, you´ll be able to find what you want. I know that on www.guitarbuild.com there´s an outline of a semi-hollowed PRS, wich is the same as the normal. I built a PRS copy and did the carved top looking in every picture of a PRS that I could find on the net, for example on ebay. For the les paul search in the mimf forum - www.mimf.com About the trem on a les paul, you have to be careful that LP bridges are higher than tremolos, hence the neck angle. One alternative would do the carving of the top so that the bridge sits on the same plane of the neck, so virtually there´s no neck angle. Tiago

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Sorry, I think I done something wrong in the search, now I found everithing I need. Thanks for your response. Tiago

Hi all. Can I use an acrylic spray to paint a guitar? I can´t buy some equipament to paint it with a gun. Can I use just a sealer and the acrylic spray? Tiago

Yes, I live in Brazil. Here we have wonderful woods, like mahogany, rosewood. But even for us is hard to get these woods. I never found any brazilian rosewood, and I talked to luthiers and they say it´s very hard to get. About painting, my friend will paint in an opaque color. To take easy with him, this is not his area. Tiago

WOW, I wasn´t expecting so many greats comments. You guys are so sweet. Yeah, the bridge is a litlle short on the bass side, but it intonates good. There´s a lot of little mistakes, less than the first guitar, but still far from perfect. About the specs: I´m from Brasil and used woods from here. The body wood is called loro-freijó, I think it´s the brazilian ash. The neck is ivory, looks like maple and is very hard. The fretboard is ipe, dark ipe. I think I saw here a thread about using ipe on guitars, and I can say that for fretboard it works very well. It´s VERY hard, strong and uniform. Good to make some inlay. I´ve spent about R$40,00 (US$ 15) in wood. I´m also using a roller nut and locking tuners, so I can use the tremolo arm to some extent without going out of tune. The pickups are cheap korean ones for now. But they sound good. And good looking Thank you all for the comments. I will post pics when finished. Tiago

Hi all. I´ve been watching this forum for over a year, and this is my first post. Since all the questions I had from building guitars were already answered in this forum, I built 2 guitars without asking nothing here. This forum is GREAT. Thank you all. And this is the result of finding this place: right now It´s painting in a friend. thank you all again Tiago