S.Dodding

As always, great looking work dude.

Can't wait for that PRS style one to be finished!

Great, clean looking work Hyunsu, as always

Love that spalted strat!

A really hard choice this month, all the guitars posted are deserving of gotm, but it came down to two of them for me.

Love the PRS style by JFC, Love the doubleneck, but the drop top just won out in the end.

With regards the the acoustic design, you might want to take a look at these acoustic Vs http://www.guitarmaker.de/scorps.htm

Some interesting V acoustics there, including a doublneck!

Go to http://www.craft-supplies.co.uk/ and download their stringed instrument .PDF file. They have a large variety of preslotted fretboards.

I'd fully agree with Wes' assertion on those strat/electra tests, while, i'll admit. the differences are impressivly small for a coil tapped humbucker, there is still enough of a tonal change to tell.

I can't see any access points, or a cover. So... something to do with the truss rod?

I want one

Split coiled humbuckers wont sound anything like strat single coils, in the same way strat single coils dont sound the same as all other single coils. They just have the wrong characteristics.

If you were to use the same woods and the same pickups as you'd find on a strat, the tonal difference should be small.

Wow

The pots on guitars such as the 335 are put in, and out via the wire routing hole from the trebel pickup, it's a very tight fit, and bloomin fiddly to get in and out.

To get them in, it's best to use the aformentioned string idea. When taking them out, you need to gently manouvere the pickups to, and as far into the hole as you can by pulling gently on the wire, and when you can actually get to them, pull them through the hole with some long needle nose pliers, or something similar.

Love the way you've done that quilt.

Great stuff!

Really nice guitar there dude, love the design

I love watching the progress of all the great guitars you build hyunsu, and follow all your posts closely.

All the pictures you've posted really helped me get my first project underway and it's inspirational to see your work.

Great stuff

Was so tempted to vote for that beautiful RG, but in the end something about Metal Matt's guitar just did it for me. Great design and woods used there, absolutley love it.

No problem

While this is'nt actually a lumber merchant, and as such is'nt the cheapest way to buy there is, Craft Supplies do maple neck blanks for 6 pounds (you'll need to go to their instrument section and download the .pdf catalogue).

Their Fingerboard woods are pretty good prices also. Definitley worth a look. They're fairly quick and customer service is good, i've used them for a couple of bits and bobs so far.

After recieving the long awaited router bit I needed for the templates, I finally decided to stop procrastinating and actually did some more work

Made a template for the body and routed the body blank to it's proper shape, After spending ages sharpening the spokeshave I also did some more work on carving the neck. Fingerboard has had some initial coats of oil applied and looks spectacular.

Headstock still has'nt been shaped yet, so thats the next job. I started on filing the frets flush with the fingerboard, but it's very slow progress as I dont' want to accidentally scratch the sides of the fingerboard which are planed perfectly smooth.

Work is now on a hold again as I got a letter from the company I bought the router from recalling it, due to potentially lethal parts being exposed if dropped So now i've got to wait until the new one arrives.

Anyway, onto the pics...

Body

Neck carve

Top of Fingerboard closeup

Bottom of Fingerboard closeup

Enjoy...

The best way (in my mind) to do it without a machine jointer is to use a plane and shooting board. It's best to use a nice big plane, preferably something like a no7 bailey pattern plane. However shorter planes will work also. I would'nt want to use anything smaller than a No5 jack plane for this however.

Take a look at this link to see what I mean. Although the person in this link is using a wooden plane, it's the same as with a bailey style one.

Reall nice work, love the original shapes and wood combinations

I decided agaisnt putting inlays in the front of the neck as I only ever use the side markers, so the fingerboard is safe

The truss rod is a Two way Gotoh one

Since the last post, i've cut the neck to shape (still the headstock to do) cut the thickness of the neck and headstock, started shaping the back of the neck, radiused the fretboard and installed the frets.

Once the fretboard was sanded perfectly smooth, this absolutley beautiful figure came up in the birdseye maple.

Close up of the top of the fretboard

Back of the neck, still a ton of work to be done here.

None of the pictures are very good, as they were taken in poor lighting conditions, apologies.

Did the truss rod routing in the neck today. This was the first time i'd ever used a router (practised on a couple of pieces of scrap before using it on the neck) and i'm really happy with the result.

Pic 1, as you can see in this pic, I made a small error with the depth of the route, but it was quickly rectified.

Pic 2

With the Truss rod in the slot

Another one with the truss rod in the slot

Progress is slow, but i'll get there eventually

Absolutley amazing!

Really great work, love the flame on that neck

No normal printer will be able to print anything to any particular accuracy, they just arent designed for it.

The only printers that are able to do this are engineering printers, such as Designjets.