Our Souls inc.

Is it really that hard to disassemble a righty bridge and swap the saddles around??? Dick Dale and Hendrix swere flippin geetars over decades ago, it can't be that hard ta do...

http://frets.com/FRETSPages/Luthier/Technique/Finish/CelebSig/celebsigsig.html

wow.

Finishing is one area that I'm sorely lacking experience in. That link taught me a lot, so while I wasn't the intended reader, I do thank you for posting it.

don't thank me, you're the one building the great looking 5 string. I have a few of them on the table right now. I'm not even a 5 string guy, but once I jumped in, i just jumped right on in. luckily for me its a hobby so no one is waiting on them.

The attention to detail and execution of these builds is mindblowing.

http://www.greasygroove.com/Strat%20PGuard%20Flash/Strat%20PGuard%20Flash.swf

play around there and see whatcha find. I think it looks kinda close, but the bottom horn is a bit fat on the allparts body.....

ok.. 6 years later - i'm gonna finish this project!! haha.. seriously, i have moved twice, changed jobs 3 times, stuff just happens. Got the neck's back profile halfway carved tonight and made a new fingerboard blank. I used the one for this on a maple neck for another project. Still zircote - but a different piece. I will do a few things to make the project a bit easier - no hand turned knobs, etc.. gonna keep that stuff a little more simple. Anxious to get this finished though. I doubt anyone in this original thread is still even on here - but if nothing else, i might get some new feedback from some new folks.

cheers,

marcus

... and I thought I had some stuff on the back burner.....

Looks good so far. What color you gonna do it up in ?

Just venturing a guess here, but the neck pocket says "lic. by Fender" so I'm thinking a HSS setup or "Fat strat" PG will work out fine.

www.greasygroove.com

makes every kind of PG you could think of... give em a shot.

http://www.greasygroove.com/StratPGStyles.php

........ I finished a build and went to setup the guitar and the hex key rounded off first turn. Cheap chinese crap.

.......So what did I learn from all this?

Here's what I've learned about TR's so far... no matter who makes them - I always test them before installing them. Lock em down and torque in both directions. Once they prove to me they work, then I install em.

Now- to just never shape one so thin again !

Thanks for that link.... I know of Allied but have never ordered from them. All my necks have been built with a SM hotrod- I still have one or two left too. I've never gone through to the truss rod rout before, but I also *usually* make pencil marks to follow when shaping - this time I skipped that part.

Won't be doing that again.

On a side note : the "save" was glued up last night... we'll see how it works out today.

You do not futz about, do you?? This looks great.

Glad you see it too. ... and don't read too much into it- your design is your own, and looks very professional.

Would love to see a real live version soon.

There are two more on the back

The high B and E strings have octave strings along with them . Its tuned like a Fender 6, one octave below a guitar. Having the two ringy strings has some neat sounds. Its really easy to play the intro to 'wherever I may roam' by Metallica, for example.

8 strings, lots of octave stuff going on. Octobass.

Yep. They are definitely both guitar-shaped guitars.

no... mines a guitar shaped bass.

Thanks Wes. You're the man.

He knows.

I know I'm in the minority, but I prefer white limba to black.

I have a piece with some serious black graining that I just glued up top be used for a body that I'm going to be painting. Lemme say that again... I'm painting over black limba. I only told y'all that so your heads would spin off.

Ehh... To each his own I guess. I see no problem painting over limba of any kind. I'm not a huge fan of black limba per say. My approach was to use the most mottled, streaky, variegated wood I had in stock. On this particular body blank, I do like the look of the end grain. It works well with the motif. I plan on using a black grain fill also.

i thought of this as well when looking at it : the grain looks killer on the blank, but how much of that will be left once the shaping/sanding is done ? Just a curiosity I guess.

Great theme for a build tho. Iceman indeed.

Number 2

Pardon my roughness in this pic- but this is the design I thought was similar, lol ..... definitely not a carbon copy, but similar, for sure.

and just to complete the "updates" from above.... here's the 8 string Octobass

and here's the final version of the bass I built for my brother

I've been working on a save in my head, and I think I may have it.... it makes me wonder though... how many times do I 'save' a neck gone bad ?!? Its a nice neck- bloodwood, elm and cocobolo, but man ! Its really testing me. I think I have it tho... I'm doing up a back strap of maple to cover the burnthru , then I'll reshape the neck. if it fails, I'll make a fire and post the vid.

hey..... no polka dots, but I do like the camo .

Good stuff.

I just dented a top by laying it down on the table and not realizing there was a small chunk of bloodwood on the table top under the body. After flipping it over and finding a small piece of BW semi-indented into the swamp ash, I thought I was S.O.L. ..... I'll try the steam method and see if I can reverse it any.

why do I get the feeing that I'm the only one who feels like this:

...

when reading about sustainer projects?

LOL :-D

awesome clip

forget AGC and bi-lateral drivers, all we need are two hydrocoptic marzel veins and a drawn reciprocation dingle arm !

you musn't forget the lunar waneshaft.........

why do I get the feeing that I'm the only one who feels like this:

when reading about sustainer projects?

I simply assumed he took of small piece of unfigured maple, bent it to the exact radius of the lower bout, used a series of jigs and tools to prep the inner surface through the soundhole, and found some way to clamp the support in there before he drilled that hole. You're saying he didn't?

Anyway, the DIY piezo thing is a good trick. Imho, most piezos sound pretty much the same anyway, and these can be placed anywhere you like, as that will vary the tone some.

Thanks much for the tip - I may end up using that trick .......

I can't beleive I didn't mention the headstock.

I do like the inverse angle at the end, but the 'slot' makes it kind of tuning-forkish. I don't think strength is a huge issue, but finishing might not be too fun inside that little groove.

Also, since you're still designing - might want to angle the sides of the HS a little bit more to get straighter string pull.

Then again, you might like em just how they are.

cool. and cheap. but even I cringed about that HOLE in the side.

Never heard of an end-pin jack, I suppose...........

End pin jacks cost money. Holes are free.

I'm thinking that area wasn't designed for supporting an output jack / cord and the pressure that they may put out over the years..... I'da still tried to mount it somewhere sturdier on the guitar than there......