Juntunen Guitars

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.

Do you mean a carved top? Not on this one I got the walnut pretty thin for this but I wish that I had thought of that earlier, I could have done a nice kind of carved top I'm thinking of now

looking good

I got the wood all leveled, cut and rough sanded today. I didn't get to the neck musch because I don't have the fretboard cut yet or the truss rod made. I will be getting the top glued on this weekend and I am planning on ordering parts to.

I think this guitar is going to look pretty damn good. I like the grain pattern on it let me know how this sounds.

I'm just about to go run this through the time saver, I just have to wait around for auto shop to be opened so I can get at the air compressor (I'm at my high school )

tell me how they sound I'm always looking for cheap pickups that sound good. And how much were they?

I got the body glued up tonight here are some pictures I'll run it through the time saver tomorow or the day after and start cutting by friday.

Found/cut/planed the hickory.

Thanks and yeah that Hickory looks really nice I just need to find it first.

Just finished planing and cutting the top wood. Learned planing when it's really windy out isn't fun when you have sawdust blowing is your eyes. Anyways been working on this all day trying to catch up a bit. Here is some pics of the top wood. Rough cut I just taped the walnut to the plywood so there was more wood going through the planer After planing I have some flamed Hicory somewhere that if I can find it i might put it between the walnut what do you guys think?

I like the top one and bottom one. I would choose the all black one but the gold is right behind it

that thing would suck to play but it's still awesome! Wev this build is going to look good i think and I like the ocean burst it should look good.

I got all the wood cut out now I just need to get it all jointed and glued up then I'll start cutting out the shape. I'm going to cut the walnut for the top later on today

Patience, just four more days to wait How are yours projects. Well hurry those four days up i'm excited to see how this turns out Mine are good I have several going now I just need to get a buffing wheel for one ... or try to turn the motor on our hay elevator into one.

Yeah I'm making a replacement body for my precision bass.

When are you going to start this?

Absolutely beautiful wish I owned it I really like how that burl turned out it looks good with that finish.

Got the neck glued up today. I'm hoping to plane it tomorow and get the body wings glued tomorow. And this is where I do all my work. I decided that I didn't like the way the ebony stain looked on the walnut and tamarack so I decided to just put a hand rubbed danish oil finish on it seeing as I can't find my tung oil.

Got the wood mostly set today. As of now I am planning on using the tamarack for the body wings and then just putting a walnut top on that. I will post pics of the walnut later (camera is not working quite right). Here is the tamarack. I am going to use maple for the neck and I will laminate some walnut strips up the neck length to. Here is the maple. I bought some Minwax ebony stain today. I plan on trying it out and if I don't like it simply sand it off and start again with that. The neck will still be oiled though.

I apreciate the opinion though because since you mentioned about the different species I decided to do a bit more research and I'm glad I did because the tamrack I looked at before was different from what I have so thanks just goes to show it's best to double check everything . the species I have, as far as I can tell is Larix laricina I could be wrong though seeing as it was originally bought as tounge and groove paneling and couple years ago for a house my dad built. The wood has been sitting in storage for a year now so it is good and dry. And about the heavy body I know it will be slightly heavier than most but I'm used to les paul style guitars so I'm used to heavier guitars and to me a walnut guitar is light. If you want I can post some pics of the boards so you have an idea of what I'm using.

lol looks like you striped off paint and doused it in lighter fluid and dropped the match to it. Very unique in a way though.

I'd have to say I agree that the customer needs to be slapped that looks to damn nice even without a finish!

Not to be rude or anything but, in my opinion, walnut works great for both fretboards and bodies. I have built two strats out of walnut and they sounded great and were slightly heavier than a strat (my prefrance compared to a rip your arm off from weight les paul) about the expansion and contraction, I live in northern Minnesota where the humidity and temp. are never the same one day to the next it can be 70 degrees in the summer with high humidity then the next day have very low humidity and in the winter it ranges from -40 to 30 degrees farenheight with very low humidity so it's is hard to keep wood in the same range (esspecially seeing as I use three different shops in my area) but besides all that I have never seen a guitar where the frets came loose on a walnut fretboard. I got the idea to use the wood as a fretboard from Kevin Skaja (Skaja Guitars) who builds acoustics with walnut fretboards and I have never seen one of his guitars frets come loose over seasons. I'm not saying you are wrong I'm just going with my personal experience on this one. And yes walnut does make beautiful tops especially with maple binding. Yeah the tamarack I have is pretty freaking hard, I looked up and compared it with maple and white ash (the book was printed talking about trees native to Minnesota so I know what to expect out of native woods instead of say maple from some other state, there are differences) and they were almost identicle and I want to try using it, I have thought about the fact that it would be kind of hard to replace it, unless I took the guitar to a band or table saw to cut the center out. I might just end up using it for the body wings though like I said before I haven't fully decided what wood goes where yet. The reason I chose these frets is I have never seen them on anything and I am curious as to if they are any good, and seeing as I am keeping this guitar and not selling it I thought it would be the best one to try them out on. I do bend by hand (no point in buying a modified can opener for $90 when I can do it myself) but I don't just hammer or press them in, I fill the slot with super glue then "slide" my hammer across the fret with even pressure and then squeeze clamp a radius block equal to the FB radius to it and let the glue dry. Doing this I have only had to level one fretboard (my first neck) and yes i do check the frets with a straight edge when I'm done to double check it. Thanks and I'm using Seymour Duncan Full Shred humbuckers http://www.musiciansfriend.com/navigation?q=full+shred

So this is going to be my first attempt at building a seven string and neck through electric. I finished drawing the plans today. Specs: Wood: I am thinking Black walnut and either tamarack or maple for the neck. Pickups: Seymour Duncan Full Shred Electronics: 1 vol. and 2 tone knobs Tuners: Gotoh Schaller-style tuning pegs Nut: Camel bone Bridge: Fixed bridge off Ebay Finish: hand rubbed Danish or Tung Oil Fretboard: Black walnut but Stewmac's Pyramid frets Truss Rod: I will build a dual action truss rod on Monday I plan on cutting the wood on Monday and going from there. The body and headstock are of my own design. I had some trouble with the neck dimensions because there just isn't much info on the internet on seven string measurments so the neck is subject to change to some point or another in this build -Ryan-