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Here are some of my most favorite guitar shapes. Muddy Wood Guitar Maxxas 540Pii WRB Iceman/Destroyer combi Performer

When you do it all by hand, aren't you in full control off this. Meaning.....if slimness is the goal, you can just trim it down as much as you like.

You're aware of this link, right? http://www.speakeasy.org/~sven/site/radius.html Never done a Sabre shape myself.....but do know some builders on this site have attempted it with some very nice results. Look here: http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.ph...ic=26137&hl Maybe you should PM him and get some pointers. Didn't seem like awful complicated build. The thing that throws me is not the curve on the body but the input jack. Would not know how I could pull that one off. That's route I would take, make a template...and practice curving body on cheaper piece of body wood, but not through industrial copy-carving route, but involving more elbow grease and simple sanding disks/blocks/scrapers/etc. Sometimes these things look sooo complicated but once you start with them they seem rather do-able. With S body in the house, you should get decent measurements, and should come close.

Would the mover & shaker consider building one from scratch? Seen couple of other builders pull this off in the last few years. Contour of body equals Radius plans that sing around the web. Bought one of these SC500N's recently, and it has the same Sabre body shape. Never knew it was such a fine shape, considering I have had my fair share of exposure to the JS / Radius shape.

Do you mind sharing where you found that vareigated gold leaf?

Maybe a stupid question.....but what does a B-Bender do exactly? Never mind......

Not sure if I'm such a fan of the straight corners in that trem route. I would have used the smaller 3/8" router bit for it.

That's work by Charles Goldman not my pile.

Scrapwood? Every body I have cut out body blank resulted in some pieces of scrapwood. Some big, some small. The big ones are mostly too small to built new body from. Is there clever idea to use them in future body. Know MIM Strats are made out of 7 or 8 different pieces of wood with veneer on front and back. Are there other more clever solutions. Just wanting to pick you brains.

Why didn't you position the pinstripe a bit lower, so it wouldn't be covered partly by the neckplate? Just wonder.

Normally not a big fan of this relic craze that seems to be going on lately. Do love the SRV and Rory originals, but like I said the originals. Not the fake copies. Till I bumped into this. link I think they are simply gorgeous. Almost too perfect. I was wondering how this was done. The first thing that popped in my mind was walnut shell blasting. Like sand blasting, but less aggressive. The other thought was that the paint may not have been taken off, but slowly build up. Can't believe how this otherwise could have been done. As layering in the paint is so nicely exposed. link Here are the original links here and here One pic per post please unless in the in progess and finished topic section. just a friendly reminder!! Mikro

Comes pretty close.

Has anyone seen the DVD ZZ Top live in Texas? On there, Billy Gibbons play this old Telecaster with the front routing exposed and some kinda little 59 as a bridge pick-up. It's missing it's pickguard, I guess. Funky thing is, the control routing seems to be done from the back. Is this normal? I'm not very familiar with the telecaster, but all the tele bodies I see on evil bay (et al.) are all front routed for the control cavity?

Not using Tremolo's also makes you can use a thinner body.

Work, shitty weather, and other BS has kept me away from making sawdust lately. I did glue up a nice Wenge/Zebrano/Wenge/Zebrano/Wenge neck blank.

All I can say: I like it....... and I wouldn't be very surprised if I suddenly see myself doing something similar.

Just one simple request... Take the guitar out in the sun again, and snap some more pictures. I like to have a better look at this thing. Any nice pictures of Satriani's original snake you have are also welcome. I googled it, but not that many pics showed up.

Body shape reminds me of Ibanez axstar guitar

Hence my reservation in this build. The compound headstock is a funny animal, and this geometrically perverse hurdle I still have to jump. Therefor will do simple mock-up with some scrap pieces to see how this all fits together. With normal straight nut, the headstock angle of 14 degrees will flow straight from the nut. With angular nut, the headstock angle will flow angular with the slope being angular too. That's why this is such a great build. *the damned fanned frets *the necessasity of a custom fanned bridge *the funky perverse headstock angle Ever noticed that this guitar building thing is never ending story of finding solutions for unwanted problems.

Love the way you incorporate your pinstripe line in that neck of yours. Might steal that idea in future build. Think Zebrano on Blackmachine is just a veneer layer. Mearly just decorative...... Not sure how to I will incorporate the laminates in the headstock yet. Have different size pieces of Zebrano and Wenge in the house, incl veneer....so will work something out. First have to run mock-up/test piece of how that oddly scaped (angular) headstock will work out. Cause don't like Conklin's solutions of still having triangle of fretboard stick out behind the nut. And there are other cool compound options: http://www.dingwallguitars.com/images/img_...ockangle_lg.jpg

This build really is one of those journey builds........some things I haven't figured out yet. I'm very happy with finding the wood to do a Wenge/Zebrano neck.....and mirror the body wood. But concerning the bridge and the fanned frets I still have lots of figuring out to do. It will have fanned frets and it will have a fanned bridge........but for now I'm gonna concentrate on getting the neck blank ready and figuring out this compound curve in the headstock. In headstock I will work with some Zrebrano/Wenge laminates......as I really like how it turned out in my 540Pvii neck.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I hear you...... Your Zebrano/Wenge project got me inspired again. Work and life is keeping me away from building lately. Project also got stalled as I could find right neck blank for this project. Recent trip to local wood supplier got that hurdle covered. Few days ago, I had Wenge neck blank cut at local Lowe's/Home Depot type store. They provided this service. Here is rough cut body, with Wenge/Zebrano laminate neck: Added the Ebony fretboard: Added the Fanned fret mock-up: Still lot of work to do. Zebrano Laminates have to be thinned down some. Neck blank has to be glue-ed up. Body has to be brought to spec........still have blob of wood on jack side......as haven't decided what type op jack configuration this puppy will have (JEM style, or regular RG). More later....

Did you use one or two trussrods in that neck.

I have nothing to add to that sentence........LOL!!!! And to be honest.....seeing that neck of yours made me run to my local Home Depot type store to have'm cut my Wenge neck blank for my own Wenge/Zebrano 8 string build that was gathering dust. Guy helping me, dumbfounded remarked when the blade hit the Wenge: "Sir, the blade doesn't like this wood". But I do, I remarked,...so keep on cutting!!!! ;-)~ Wenge is absolutely one of my favorite woods. It's a bitch to work with.....but what a character!!!! Very cool 8 stringer, sir!!!

Seeing that neck sure got me spiked again...... Is that small veneer of Wenge and Maple besides that Zebrano??