S.Dodding

Absolutely awesome work!

I've not got any inlays planned for the fretboard no, just the usual side dots, nothing on the face of the board. I am going to be doing more elaborate things on future builds, however at the moment, this is pretty much going to be a straight replacement for the original neck.

Awesome work, I really like the designs. That neck joint looks a bit special as well.

Really beautiful guitar. Love the woods used!

Nice clean work, I like the accents on the scarf and the headstock particularly.

Love the bass! interesting thread over on talkbass too.

Well it's been a year or so since the last building project, since then everything i'd done basically went into storage, and hasn't been looked at since. After recently motivating myself to start up again, I decided the neck I'd been building wasn't up to scratch... various little mistakes meant that i'd never really be satisfied with what I'd done so far. So, a new neck build, having learnt plenty of lessons from building the last neck (The main one being to check and double check everything before moving on!), hopefully this one will turn out nicely. This was the previous neck as it was before I stopped work on it The new one will be the same design as the previous neck, except with a Rosewood fretboard instead of a birdseye maple one. So far i've more or less just cut the fretboard to size, tomorrow i'll scarf the neck. Pictures to come once there's actually something to show!

I don't post a whole lot on here, mainly lurking, or the occasional rare update to my build thread (which incidentally hasn't been touched for months) but who can resist posting about their gear? Pic of my Prs Custom 24, I love this thing, the straight natural finish on it was what really made me fall in love with it before I even touched it, just nice subtle flame. Tis my pride and joy. [img]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/Sdodding/Prs%20Custom%2024/prs-custom24-26.jpg[/img] [url="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/Sdodding/Prs%20Custom%2024/prs-custom24-15.jpg"]Another one of that flame[/url] [url="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/Sdodding/Prs%20Custom%2024/prs-custom24-12.jpg"]Love those inlays[/url] [url="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/Sdodding/Prs%20Custom%2024/prs-custom24-16.jpg"]Back of the guitar[/url] [url="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/Sdodding/Telethinline1.jpg"]Fender '72 Tele Thinline[/url] [url="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/Sdodding/Prs%20Custom%2024/prsandengl1.jpg"]My Engl Thunder 50 head and 2 by 12 cab loaded with vintage 30s[/url] Jackson PC3 H&K Tour Reverb Boss RRV-10 reverb unit Digitech Df7 (not used anymore) Digitech Chorus (not used anymore) Washburn D46SCE 12 string acoustic Old Johnson Acoustic, not sure of the model

I'm loving the wood on that thing, nice!

Great looking guitar, I like it! This wouldn't be the Baileys course would it?

Awesome work, really clean looking. I like it!

20 dollars works out to about 11 pounds, Craft supplies sell preslotted boards from 10 pounds upwards depending on wood, the ebony one being 16. Then again, they just don't have the options on scale length and such that the US vendors have.

Looks great, sounds great!

If that is your work, it's good stuff. I'm interested to know about the cavity paint though, as Algee pointed out.

Uglogirl is partly right in what she says. If you remove the first fret, and put a nut exactly there, it will shorten the scale length by exactly that amount, the only problem is that all the dot markers will all be one place out. While this doesn't help with all the other problems doing this on an existing guitar will create, I thought the first particular point should be cleared up. This isn't comparable to fitting random a new neck to a warmoth body or something, this is a mathmatically solid. 25.5 minus 1.43 (the length from the nut to the first fret) = 24.069 So we take a 24.069" scale length and work out the distance to the first fret, you'll find that it's exactly the same as the distance from the first fret on a 25.5 inch scale length from the first to the second fret. First off, the distance from the first fret to the second fret on a 25.5 inch scale length is 1.351" So now to work out the where the first fret on a 24.069" scale length is from first principles. 24.069 times 25.4 (to convert to mm) 611.3526 611.3526/17.817 (rule of 17) = 34.313 34.313 which converts to 1.351" which tallies with with where the second fret is on a 25.5 inch scale length. Therefore it does modify the scale length. If you read up on it, the simple theory of the rule of 17 proves this anyway, simply by how it is actually used to work out fret distances. Feel free to try it for all the other frets, but you'll find the result is the same. The bridge will still be situated in the right place also

Holy crap! That is one hell of a piece of work!

Aaaargh! my eyes! my ears! Aaaargh!

I bought a bookmatched 4a quilted maple cap from craft-supplies a good while ago. It was more or less the only piece they actually had in stock at the time, and it has two small cracks near the side in it (which I was told about on the phone, and given a discount) before I actually placed the order. Now i'm no expert, so I don't know if the figure on it qualifies as 4a, but it is a very nice piece of wood, which I will be using for a guitar at some point. Their customer service and delivery times are fine, the woods you're sent can vary slightly, but i've never yet recieved anything I've been unhappy with. That said, if you can get to a lumber yard, or are happy to order from any of the other aformentioned places, give them a try first. Craft supplies is not the cheapest, or the best place to be buying wood from.

What a month, I love every one of the guitars entered! Something about Setch's Les Paul just made me vote for it though, just seems like a really special guitar.

Looking good! GregP is right though, there isn't enough curve on the inside upper part of the top horn, and so it looks slightly odd.

Not much of an update today, got the neck humbucker pickup route done, and then had to stop for various reasons. Still, should have the routing finished by tomorrow.

And sorted photobucket stylee

If geocities keeps being problematic, then I might just do that! At the moment, the pictures seem to be working though.

After leaving the project alone for far too long, i've finally got off my backside and done some more work. Namely, the neck pocket. Came out pretty well, and it's a nice tight fit, it's no problem to lift the guitar up by the neck when it's just sitting in the pocket. I'm making a big push now, so that I can get this project finished, should be updates a bit more regularly now Anyway, the pics... Neck placed in pocket Mockup of the whole guitar (note, pic was taken before pocket was routed)

What the others were no doubt going to say, after getting over their apoplectic fits that is, was that mahogany is probably one of the most used woods for luthiery around, good for necks, bodies and all that.