Johnny Foreigner

Chris,

The gun is yours. I live right downtown (near South Station) so PM me nearer the time and we can figure a handover. Cheers, Tom.

Oh, forgot to mention. I have excellent reputation on ebay - username tomdowler2.

Wood! Set B (from the same billet as set A).

bookmatch set of quilt maple. Each side of the set is 21.75" x 7.5" and a little over 0.4" thick.

Caveat: the boards are significantly bowed, as you'll see from the pics. They'd be great if you're willing to soak 'em, stack 'em and get them flat again. The bow is probably too much to be jointed away.

$25 plus shipping at cost.

Wood! Set A.

bookmatch set of quilt maple. Each side of the set is 21.75" x 7.5" and a little over 0.4" thick.

Caveat: the boards are significantly bowed, as you'll see from the pics. They'd be great if you're willing to soak 'em, stack 'em and get them flat again. The bow is probably too much to be jointed away.

$25 plus shipping at cost.

Jet JJP-8BTt Jointer

NOW SOLD

I've come to the decision that my current build will be my last. Lack of time, lack of money, starting my own business, and a slow, but steady realization that I kind of suck at building guitars have all played their part.

Over the next couple of months I'm going to get rid of everything.

Let's start off with a freebie:

Cans of Stewmac waterbase sanding sealer and top coat - both at least half full

Plus the stewmac spray gun - lightly used on one build.

FREE to a good home. Pickup in downtown Boston only. PM me if you're interested.

More to come soon!

^ and ex UK builders

+1

wait... as in the laminates are central to the edges of the neck?

I say who cares. unless that means your neck carve would cut into the channel.

No real progress from me, but my free pickups from my buddy Matt arrived. There's nothing like free stuff.

The packaging alone on these blew me away so I figured I'd share:

I simply don't have words for how good those look.

that's pretty darned sexy.

And if we refrained from everything that "not everyone" approved of,conversation would get pretty sparce

We refrain plenty. Usually the second someone calls "Religion".

No matter who started the thread, I think we all have a right to say if we find something offensive and inappropriate. If I thought dog fighting was a fine sport, and posted pictures of a losing mutt, I'm sure people would have plenty to say.

Not trying to be a douche, but I find posting pictures of animals hunted in the name of sport to be inappropriate content for this forum. If consensus is against me on that, fine, but I'll stop visiting and I think that would be a shame.

Very cool! My daughter is almost 18 now I took her deer hunting when she was 12. She got a button buck with a crossbow. Bonding time is priceless. Your daughter will remember this time for the rest of her life.

Dude!

Can we refrain from the dead animal pictures???!!!

Not everyone thinks hunting is an acceptable 'sport'.

be still my beating heart.

that's beautiful!

nice!

that looks awesome, man!

sweeeet! aren't you glad he insisted?

Here's the updated designed based on a few changes I've made along the way.

Pickups: as mentioned I'll be going with P90s because I'm getting a set free from my buddy at Monty's Guitars back in blighty.

Neck: as I changed my neck, I figured I should update the design

control cover: will now be an offcut from the spalt maple as previously shown. I'll dye it the same color as the top.

truss rod cover: this is going to be formed by cutting a path in the headstock plate (also an offcut from the spalt maple) so it will sit flush with the plate, be held in place by neodymium magnets and removed by pressing on it close to the nut (I'll chisel out a little ledge to create a pivot).

bridge: decided a while back to splash out on the hipshot hardtail bridge. My first build lacks sustain and I think the cheapo bridge I used didn't help, so decided this was one area not to scrimp.

back: I think I'm going to leave the limba natural. partly to avoid buying orange dye that i'll never use again, and partly because I don't think it adds much.

controls: I never really use separate volume controls and I definitely never use a tone control, so just a single master volume and a 3 way toggle (SG version due to lack of cavity depth) will do it.

pearl: my JF ident and my fret markers will now all be mop.

got my neck profile rough cut on the bandsaw - i'll trim on the router table tomorrow

FWIW, I wouldn't hold my vote if a guitar was adorned with a cross, but it would probably knock a few points off.

Thanks guys

We'll see how well the green works out. i have plenty of scrap spalt maple so I'll be able to experiment a little to get the right tone.

Got the TR route done nicely - much much happier with how this went than on the first neck attempt. Learned a lot about the unreliability of my router's bit positioning when changing bit height and was able to allow for it.

...aaaaaaand we're back from the dead.

not much progress on this, but some.

opportunity to build has been very limited due to impracticality of doing it in my apartment, plus the insanity of quitting one's job to go full-time with one's own business.

Still, I've got a little done, and hope to wrap this one up by Christmas.

So i put together a neck from some laminates, got it scarfed, routed the TR channel and cut the rough profile. And it was by no means perfect, and I wasn't really loving the wood choices and how they'd look against the body (it was a 5-piece of bubinga / maple / padauk / maple / bubinga). I also found the bubinga a little difficult to work - prone to chipping.

So I binned it and started again on the neck.

The new one is same woods, just in different amounts / order - so it's maple/padauk/maple/bubinga/maple/padauk/maple with the 5 central strips all pretty thin (.25" or so) making the majority of the neck a nice flamy maple.

I'm pretty pleased with how clean it looks at this stage, so hoping this neck overall turns out better than the last. sometimes you've just got to cut your losses.

getting the stripes lined up was a little tricky.

one other change to this build - I'm probably now not going to use alumitones. A friend of mine back in the UK is launching his own line of pickups so he's going to send me out a pair of P90s that I can put in this - can someone confirm the route depth i'd probably need for p90s (obviously ball park as it's contingent on bridge type/neck angle, etc).

DROOL!

More DROOL!

Done correctly the answer is no. Now if you use the wrong wood or orient the grain the wrong way then yes.

what kind of eeejit would do something like that?

If I hadn't seen it I wouldn't have said it.

So I taught you a valuable lesson, is what you're saying :D

Done correctly the answer is no. Now if you use the wrong wood or orient the grain the wrong way then yes.

what kind of eeejit would do something like that?