Juntunen Guitars

Did a bit of routing today. I realized that the whole I routed for the truss rod adjustment nut was in the wrong place after i finished so it's a good thing I can fill it in, cover it with a top, and cover it with the fretboard I'll put some gloss black paint in the pickup cavities so the LED shines through a bit more.

Thanks and yeah it must be the angle because it's all square I will check it again today before I route for the pups. I started routing the control cavity yesterday.

It's been a while since I have been able to do anything with this guitar but I got everything drawn on it and I have most of the electronics now and I got the headstock glued and cut out as well. Here is the headstock, it will have a tamarack cover put on it and then I will probably put some walnut binding on it. Here is the body with everything drawn out and with the knobs on it to give an idea how it will look. I don't have a 3 way switch and am trying to save some money so I pulled these switches out of an old Fender keyboard amp and might use them as individual switches for the pups what do you guys think or should I just go with a three way switch? The other thing I am trying to decide on is how I will put the LED's under the pups, I am not sure how to mount them in and keep them there plus I don't know how to wire them I posted a topic on how to wire them but no one has replied to it so if anyone know how to wire them up post it there.

Your idea of butternut I would say to toss, it's not hard and like I told you earlier today on the phone it makes good canoe paddles since it's so light and not dense. Personally I like maple bodies for your type of music, I like the brightness of it when I mix it with my pedal board since I can get a nice clarity on the notes but use my pedals to get the lowness you need (I use a digitech grunge for distortion). I have a cousin in Finland who just made a neckthrough that was completely maple and he plays stuff like Ozzy and that type so there is your option there. Have you looked into using Oak at all? I know a guy who uses red oak on acoustics for the back and sides and then uses a Norwegien Pine soundbaord, that combo has a pretty good high and low reponse which you might like as well. As to using rosewood I would highly not recomend it. In my experience and in the above mentioned luthier we both don't like it. It is very unstable, meaning it does not handle temperature changes like we get in Minnesota well. It will twist and warp easily unless you can build it and finish it in the same tempurature and humidity. And for fretboards try to find a way to seal it because the frets will move like with any wood but it seems that with rosewood it's the worst. I use birch quite a bit as well and I like the result I can get from it, plus I'm sure you can get a lot over where you live. All in all I would say just test things out and see what you like and if you don't like it sell it and start over it's as simple as that.

If it was me I would say go for it. I have made a guitar out of Ash for the neck and Mahogany for the body and it has a nice bright deep tone and insane sustain. I am not sure however on the ash top I don't think it will affect much for the sound but should have relatively the same effect it did for me.

Very nice

I bought a couple of these http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.js...460#tabsetBasic recently and am planning on putting them under the pickups of my seven string I'm building, Build Thread, but I don't know entirely how to wire them. I know how to find the resistors and all that stuff but I don't know what peg needs what wire. I am used to using 2 peged LED's not 4. Any help here anyone? The reason I went with these ones and not 2 Peg is that these are brighter and that's what I wanted since it is under a pickup instead of shining out in the open and because these are smaller.

Yeah, it does look a little odd, but remember it's the extended fret board causing that, it has 36 frets instead of 24. It would probably look normal with less I don't think anything can make this look normal. yeah true and yeah i bet it would look more normal without the extra frets

Cool project I like all the strings but think I would get lost on it The only thing I don't like about this is how small the body is compared to the huge cutaway and how big the neck is. I realize it would be like putting a truck on a guitar strap though if everything was proportional looking good though

That's going to look good with all the laminates. What angle are you using to separate the necks?

yeah I cut that a while back used one on a guitar hated how ash turns out as a fretboard and learned they make good as you say clamping barriers

Got the body all sanded and smooth today and re-routed the binding channels. I won't be getting the top glued until the next couple days it looks like. I just realized I burt part of the maple ends on accident ... well looks like i'l be sanding a bit more now.

Just got the whole thing clamped up again so hopefully I will be getting this sanded and everything tomorow and then I plan on glueing the top on tomorow too. It kind of slipped in the clamps when I got it in and tightened so it's not 100% flush, it's not that bad but I'm not happy with it.

This is a pretty cool explorer. I was unsure how it would look in the beggining but now that it has the finish on it looks great I'm glad you didn't waste this wood on a tele

I took the neck out of the clamps today. Here is a mock up of it.

Thanks. I will take it out tonight and get the wings in the clamps.

Ok so now that I have had some time to spend (calving season on a farm is always busy) I got the neck re-glued with a couple more strips of walnut. I will get the neck glued to the body wings now in the next couple days then get back on track with the build.

looks good but no PRS style carves on the cutaway like in your drawing?

Nice idea. Many wouldnt do that at this stage anymore Yeah I was a little unsure about it at first but then realized that i can just cut it out with a band saw and run the old neck through the jointer then sand the body wings flush it worked out perfectly and i'm planning on glueing it tonight.

looks good. I like it.

I'm going to be a little behind schedule I decided to cut the neck off and add a couple more strips of walnut to it so I am re-glueing the neck within the neck couple days then get to glueing the top.

I am liking this build. I really like these basses they are balanced very good and look awesome especially this one, I like the black binding on the white finish.

what are you buffing it with?

I would have gone with a hand rubbed Danish oil you can get a nice finish out of that. I just ut it on a strat It looks really good that strat is walnut and maple, I think it would look good on your guitar but either way a clear coat would be good on it too. I am curious about oils. Is danish oil same thing that is put to gun stocks. And does surface stay as wooden or does it give thicker finish. Just tell everything I am not sure if it is the same thing as on gun stocks I think it's Linseed oil but I'm not sure. I know a relative of mine uses tung oil for gun stocks and I have used that on guitars too, it looks good but has a thicker finish in the end. The up side is it isn't spontaniously combustible and you don't have to wipe it every coat. Danish oil is nice but the only thing to consider is it's sponatiously combustible so when you use it have a metal bucket or something to put the stuff in (Like latex gloves which you really want to have so you don't get that stuff on your hands it's hard to get off and you don't want your hand on fire either ) But about the finish it doesn't get a very thick feel to it the one in the picture I posted has four coats on and still has the grain feel to it. When you put it on rub on one coat let it dry overnight then every coat after that rub it on and wipe it dry, if you don't wipe it good enough it can take several days to dry then you have to sand it a little bit to get that coat off. The nice thing about it is after you put on all the coats (I use 5-6 coats) you can polish/buff it and it will retain the grain feel and be shiny. You could use Tru oil or Linseed oil but I have not used either so can't really tell you anything about it. Personally I prefer oiled finishes they look and feel better to me. I use oil on both the body and neck of they guitar to by the way.

Thanks it always is good to know people like your work. mirrors ha no I couldn't find my camera so I tryed to use that one but it didnt work for some reason and then go figure I found my camera on the table under some papers Anyways I got the top wood cut out today. The one piece just looks lighter due to the lighting in the room. I am planning on getting the neck cut out and getting the headstock glued on and cut this week as well. Here are some pictures of the top