Juntunen Guitars

That would cool yeah but I am not good at bursts unless I do them with a blow torch but I don't think that glue would hold up to that We were thinking of staining it black with some ebony stain then sanding it back so it works as a grain filler then putting Danish oil on the entire guitar since we like the way it looks and feels.

I tried to get this going again got it all set up to work on (been to busy) but noticed the top split down the glue joint the crack is to small to fill and I can't get it to close so this will be burned this winter to heat my house I will be practicing a few techniques on it before that and I will be starting a new seven string this spring or winter.

I got the body cut out tonight. I also found out I need a new blade for my band saw since it fell off the wheels twice and barely could cut this. I will be routing it soon and getting the neck guitar soon as well.

We got the back cut out tonight.

Finally got the camera fixed but don't have many pictures of what has been done recently. We had to bookmatch the back with a hand saw because the band saw was not tall enough here is the back glued up The sides. We still need to plane these The workboard. I still need to cut a hole in the center before I start bending sides.

contact my cousin Henrym. I am not sure if he is still on the forums or not since I haven't seen him around lately. He lives in Kajaani and could probably tell you where he gets his wood for builds. I cut my own lumber up here in Minnesota which is a lot closer than Finland ... I take that back I did get one 10'x2'x2" board of mahogany for free once but other than that I use birch, walnut, redpine, oak, basically whatever I can get my hands on and that my saw will take care of.

Thanks and yeah I wish I had someone to teach me as well I am still learning from everything on this site. I will be posting new pics sometime today. I had a mishap with the camera so I need to fix it first ...

Yeah you would need to find a spot for the springs to be but if it was to thick it wouldn't resonate so no acoustic anymore. I don't thnk it's possible. Pity though that could be fun.

HAHA I used to wonder if it would be possible to put a tremolo on an acoustic but I hate the bigsby things that they put on some les pauls and the older semi-hollow bodies so I tried thinking of a way to put a floyd or strat tremolo but decided that there would be to much tension and it was impossible. Nothing like a guitar shattering dive bomb on an acoustic. So I built the work board today. My sister said she didn't want to mess anything up (she hassen't realized there will be plenty of mistakes anyway like there is with everyone) so that is done I will put up new pictures tomorow.

I definatly like the green with no inlays best but the blue is coming close behind. I wish I knew how to use Photoshop like that ... then again maybe not I would be more excited to design than build.

A while back my little sister asked me if I would show her how to build a guitar. After figuring out prices we decided it would be easier to go with an acoustic because of price. I have never finished an acoustic yet and she has never built a guitar or had much woodworking experience so this will be a learning process for both of us. Specs: -Wood: White ash back and sides and Red Pine (Norway Pine) top, Black Walnut Fretboard, Binding, Bridge, maybe the braces to but not sure yet. -Tuners: Chrome Gotoh Schaller style -White bridge pins Here are some pictures of todays work. Measuring the wood. Tracing the shape out. I'm glad I finally found a use for this board. We have the wood planed but I forgot to take pictures of that and later today we will be bookmatching the board and getting it ready to glue.

Did you do the inlays free hand with a dremel or did you use a template?

Definately a nice burst. What did you use to spray it? Did you bump it on something as well? There is a spot below where the tone knob goes that looks like you hit it on somehting.

I think if you would have left this out and just asked the questions as questions you both could have not had this argument.

Tim37 - I have a 120V to 12V converter for this. But it can be done with a small battery charger too. A guy I know rigged a home stereo with a car power amp and used a battery charger to power it. ansil - I know it would be easier to get a carvin power amp but their cheapest one is $279 and the whole point of this project for me was to save money

I must have read the specs sheet wrong, I was tired when I did I know the RP would work like I said before I have had conversations with the computer programmer I know. I was originally going to get a Digitech GSP1011 but got the RP 355 since it was cheaper. They have the same memory chip in them (can't remember the name of it) and I mainly wanted to get one so I could use it with this amp. I don't like to spend a lot of money and didn't feel like spending over $300 for a amp I can use for gigs so I figured I would use an old amp I have around. Stereo effects are something I have never messed with but I will definatly try it out.

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I thought about that at first and then thought how does that work if a cd deck is putting 17 watts into the RCA inputs and it does not do that. I did have a few original questions about using the amp for this, what speakers to use, that sort of stuff and I asked one of the guitar players in my band who is a computer designer/programer and he gave me a bunch of into on how to make it sound right and stuff so I am good there. I just thought if I built a preamp I could get more tonal possibilities out of it plus I am the type of guy who likes to wprk on things and do things myself so I think of building a preamp as a challenge I want to do just to try and if it works hey I have a new preamp. Ripthorn that's a good idea I didn't think about stompbox preamps. I will check that out.

I have been thinking about designing a preamp to work for the amp I am building. I have designed some diagrams but nothing like a preamp and am not aware of the cost or what all I would need. I do know that it will be solid state because tubes and transformers are expensive and I can't afford those. So does anyone know exatly what all is needed for one besides the obvious treble, bass, volume, etc. knobs and a power supply? I plan on this being built as a rack mount preamp and I will be adding a power supply for my amp that I already have designed for this. The amp is a 2x12 cab with a 250 watt sony Xplod car audio power amp powering it. As of now I will be running my pedal board (basically an RP355 multieffects proccessor and Digitech whammy) into the RCA inputs on the amp. The speakers are bridged to get 250 watts into the two 8 ohm carvin speakers. I want to have a seperate preamp/power supplt thing that I can put the effects into though but need some help on it.

Got the body out of the clamps today and started to draw out the design.

Same here. I started by taking guitars apart and re-building them and doing set-ups. It is very rewarding when your work is apreciated.

Good to see you back it's been a while, I am heading down to the shop now.

I agree with Wezv about keeping a record. That way you can find out how much you are making hourly as well, which sometime isn't always fun depending on your price. I usually charge so I make around $200 profit since I am not the greatest at building and I just enjoy building.

Yeah that's only part of it. I had almost double that in there last summer but got kicked out of the garage and now store the rest in my shop which is pretty small as it is. I will be starting this up officially tomorow.