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10pizza

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  1. Thanks Norris, I feel guilty not being here that much, but with 2 little kids, 2 jobs and running a guitar service shop as a hobby I find my time quite limited for visiting .... 🙄

    @Bizman62 the upper part has similar lines indeed! Looking good! Hope you believe I didn't nick that part from you!

    The lower part is actually Mosrite inspired, I always like the asymmetrical shape of that guitar.

    a few weeks ago I got me a nice Metabo band saw. Will use that with some MDF to make my template. There will be some new things to find out in this build though: carving, designing a headstock. Not sure about the electronics yet either.

     

  2. Hey all

    I've been wanting to create my own custom model for a while and recently I got some wood and starting designing my own shape.

    very, very hard. I ended up loaning some nice things of various guitars I like (see If you can identify them 😉 )

    anyway, hope to get started on building soon. Good thing is I have most of the parts needed, so not much acquisition needed.

    here's two pictures of the design process.

    First one didn't leave enough room for the neck cavity , a bit too quick drawing the pickups. Second has a neck cavity drawn with AANJ.

    hope to create a template somewhere this week.

     

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  3. thanks guys!

    I have done dent repairs like that as well in the past, usually on fretboards. The damp cloth and soldering iron works good on those small dents. I'm afraid these are to big for that, but I'll give it a try anyway. Not much harm to be done, it will improve to some extent.

    @Bizman62 I'm not sure if it's a decal or not, but as the surrounding area is lighter then the rest it probably is. I haven't used decals on oiled finishes myself. Does that even work/hold? If so, I'll maybe create a new decall and apply that. Allthough the semi-faded one has something to it as well, given that it's a 31 year old guitar.

    I'll keep you guys posted using this thread. There's some more work to be done as the wiring is messed up and I found out the middle pickup had it's ground-wire broken right at the pickup-cover. Too bad those EMG's can't be opened. I did manage to measure a resistance between the hot wire en the place where it's been broken, so I'll try to solder on a new ground wire on the remaining threads.

    Overall however it's a great guitar. Nice woods, good quality build and top quality hardware: Kahler trem, Kahler Pro top lock, Schaller tuners, EMG pickups.

    thanks again and I'll try to keep in touch from now on. Still have plenty of projects lyin around!

     

    rock on

     

     

  4. hey guys! Hope everyone is doing allright!

    it's been a long, long, long, long time since I've last been here! sorry about that, I was very busy last year with work and building a new add-on to my house.

    I would like your advice on the following: I recently bought a 30 year old custom built guitar ( by a local luthier, who unfortunately is not alive anymore). This luthier (Heins) was a big influence for me to start customizing and fooling around with guitars ( and ultimately building) and I've always wanted to find a guitar built by him. Now I have, and it's in need of a lot of TLC!

    The wood ( mahogany as it seems) has been dented a lot below the pickups, probably through oils/sweat and stage-abuse. Also the builders name which has been inscribed in the body has faded a little. 

    The challenge I'm facing is the following: I'd like to get the guitar in an 'as good as new' state and get rid of the dents. This will require sanding and refinishing with tung-oil.  I don't want to lose the builders enscribed name however.

    How would you guys go about this? Happy to hear your thoughts and ideas!

     

    all the best,

     

    Age

     

     

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  5. wishing everybody here at ProjectGuitar a great new year with tons of satisfying new builds!

    It's already been 3 months since I last visited. things have been busy. Nice thing is more people are coming to me for guitar maintenance & repair services. So i've been working on guitars a lot, just not my own ;-)

    This year will bring some interesting projects for me. I'm awaiting my shipment of acoustics out of Nicaragua which I'll complete and try to sell locally. Also I'm in contact with a local artist to see if I can build him an electric guitar, so that would be my first customer ordered build which is pretty exciting given that so far I've really just built one guitar :blink:

    In stead of  posting in multiple threads I'll just combine my stuff in this thread for the year. Will try to get some regular updates.

     

    also: I'm preparing a tutorial/demo video of a guitar-staining finish with Keda Dye, which I'll be sharing here ofcourse.

     

    all the best!

    Age

  6. Trying to keep cost down in building I'm always looking for alternative suppliers for everything.

    One thing that always amazes me are the prices for guitar-related electronics. Caps at $10, pots at $12 etc., whereas if you source capacitors for other electronics they cost around $0.05

    anybody here ever found an electronics supplier to get stuff at 'normal' prices?

     

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