jessejames

No problem! I have always gotten a lot out of this place, thank you for taking your time and effort to make it a great place to be!

Not sure if that means you like it or not, but that headstock design has been a "love it or hate it" style. I am actually thinking about redesigning it for future builds.

The one you showed was painted black, and I suspect if you sanded that back you would see filler in there. Chris did it with figured woods where he had to have it perfect to pull off.

I also love the wood choices and the blue burst. That thing is just tasty.

Even though I have butted heads with him in the past, it would be a crime not to vote for that O'Marlin, the heel on that is so innovative.

Here is the latest update, neck is pretty well done, just needs a carve to the back of it and some tuning peg holes drilled and a lot of sanding, cut the neck pocket today too and mocked up the fretboard.

Updates

That is the same top. I promise you.

Ribbon sapele body, quilt maple, ziricote neck, quilt maple faceplate from the same maple as the body. Will also have an ebony fretboard.

I will be winding my own pickups for this one and making my own oil capacitors.

I thought Killemall's explorer was the best take on an old design and so well executed.

I go on ebay for the majority of my wood.

Anyone know where I can get a good air or pnuematic press? I want to start using a press to glue my tops instead of using 8 million clamps. I can find them, just not with a good enough depth for a guitar body.

I can't see the poll option, but my vote is for Shad Peters. That guitar is perfection.

I don't really like listing what I like and dont like about other guitars, but they are all nice and all better than what I do.

I think you charged right in the ballpark.

Actually I think it's Sapele. I have used a lot of mahogany and a lot of sapele, both of them ribbon grain patterns, and that looks like it has the wider sapele bands to me than it does mahogany.

But I could be wrong. It happens all the time.

I was going to make a post about how I would be afraid that the water base would cause the grain to rise. Then I popped my head out of my butt and remembered you seal it before you spray finish, thereby eliminating that problem.

Or there is a broken wire in there somewhere

Thanks Mike!

I bought a CNC from a pretty shady character, but the price was good so I didn't mind.

Anyway, I plan on using artcam build 151 and a mach 3 controller, anyone know of any good artcam tutorials out there? I have played around with it a little and learned a smidgeon of what I need to know, but as far as making things, I am not there.

Some curly claro walnut

This is going to have a piezo trem, along with 3 rail pickups that will all be coil tapped, should be one of the most versatile guitars ever.

I voted for shad peters, too excellent not to. All the guitars this month were really, REALLY good. It was hard to pick one.

I think you have to fret level each and every build, if not you are going to have a ton of dead spots, even just the manufacturing process of making fretwire is going to cause deviations in the size of the frets.

I use a fret rocker, and a fret dressing stick, I used a file before, but have found that using a fret dressing stick causes less gouging than a file. It does take more time however.

Took forever, but neck pocket routed and top carved.

scrape it with a razor blade then sand the remnants off.