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Hello,

Yesterday night (late) I completed my guitar: a semi hollowbody with a piezo bridge.

The specs are:

Body

· Semi-hollow body

· Ash body with flamed maple top

· Finish: flamed black

Neck

· 1 piece of mahogany

· Wide fat contour

· Indian rosewood fret board

· Tree-of-life inlay

· Bolt-on

Pickups

· 2 Sheptone PAF Tribute

(http://www.sheptone.com)

· 1 L.R. Baggs X-Bridge (a piezo bridge)

Wiring

· 2 output jacks

· 5-way rotary switch

I published it on my web site (http://www.power-development.net) you can find the details under Guitars/SC-Hollow.

Here you can find more pictures:

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On my web site I also published the pictures of the building process, to see them just navite to "the building process" section and choose SC-Hollow.

As soon as possible I'll publish also the sound tests (if you want an example of what the Sheptones pickup can do, just give an eye to my guitar SC-Curved).

Let me know if you have any question.

Happy building to everybody!

In this section I also added 2 pictures: the mould and the first unfinished body.

Stay tuned

Hello again!

I put on my web site some details about the project of the new version of our carbon fiber guitar. In particular you can find the specifications and the differences from the current version.

Go on: http://www.power-development.net. Under "Carbon Guitar V2.0" you will find all the information I'll post about our project during the execution.

I also wrote something about the pickups I'll install on it: if you are looking for the real PAF tone, I think you will find what I wrote there very interesting. If you are curious just give it an eye.

If you have any question about our project, don't hesitate to ask, I'll be pleased to give you all the answers

I'll keep you informed.

Hello again!

I put on my web site some details about the project of the new version of our carbon fiber guitar. In particular you can find the specifications and the differences from the current version.

Go on: http://www.power-development.net. Under "Carbon Guitar V2.0" you will find all the information I'll post about our project during the execution.

I also wrote something about the pickups I'll install on it: if you are looking for the real PAF tone, I think you will find what I wrote there very interesting. If you are curious just give it an eye.

If you have any question about our project, don't hesitate to ask, I'll be pleased to give you all the answers

I'll keep you informed.

I asked to my collegue Raffaele to provide me 2 pictures of the CAD geometry of our new project. As soon as he provides them to me I'll post them with some more details about what will be the specifications.

I'm very pleased to see that so many people is interested in our projects.

I'll keep you informed

Thank you!

Thank you.

When we will start with the new project (I hope in the next weeks) I'll take the pictures of the entire production process and I'll keep you informed from the beginning so you will be able to see the progress every week.

Thank you again.

Very cool stuff. I love reading about new approaches. I'm looking forward to more on these projects.

Regards,

Robert

You are completely right on all.

The problem about the web site is that the version of the content manager is old and needs to be upgraded. It was a test installation and now it's becoming "productive" for this site. Anyway, thank you for your tech feed-back I'll, upgrade it as soon as possible.

About the guitar. You're right, the controls are a bit cramped and close to the edge because I installed the Fernandez Sustainer that needs a lot of room in the control cavity and due to the fact that the body is a semi-hollow one that was designed a few months before (with no idea on what electronic would have been installed) there was no chance to extend it at that time.

Thank you for your feed-back ;-D

I've just tried to get on the site & I get a message saying that I need to use internet explorer to view it correctly! I know that this isn't a web development forum but designing a site to only work with one browser is not a very good thing to do...especially when IE is only used by approximately 50% of internet users.

The CF tele looks good but the controls look a bit cramped & close to the edge. I imagine that the pickup switch is difficult to reach behind that wall of knobs.

I had in mind fiber carbon because I built airplain models using fiber glass and kevlar and I asked my self: "What about building a guitar in the same way?"

The only problem is that I don't know, at the moment, how to make that guitar fly

Thank you Dylan for your comment

I love the look of the carbon fibre guitar! Superb work.

I've always liked carbon fibre on cars but I've never seen a carbon fiber guitar. Cool!

Hello guys!!!

I put online a new website about guitar building: http://www.power-development.net

We are a group of 3 guys that love guitars and we also love builging them (more interesting than buying them ). We do not build guitars for business we build them for amusement only, we are curious and we love to learn: doing is the best way to the knowloedge.

I started the Power-Development initiative because I was interested in building a guitar made of fiber carbon so I involved 2 friends of mine. We built the first version of a Tele style all fiber carbon guitar. At the moment we are working on a new version (more complex geometry and more complex building process...). If you are interested I'll keep you informed (on this forum and on my web site).

I also love wood so I also build traditional guitars. At the moment I'm completing a semi-hollow body one with a piezo bridge and I'll publish soon the pictures on my site (I also have the building process pictures)

The web site is still a baby and I need to make it grow so be patient, I'll add progressively some new stuffs.

Kind regards to everybody