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22 minutes ago, ScottR said:

Good stuff!

Like usual.

SR

Tks Scott!!

The final pictures!

The updates for headless guitar. In fact it's finshed! hope you like.

Hi folks! Here some updates for the 6string bass. Frets, nut, head plate paint and varnish missing. Think that this week is fineshed this steps.

The bass had the truss rod access was routed and pre-sanded. Fretboard are sloted, inlays applied and glued on the neck. Machine heads holes are open.  Attachment screws holes and bushes open and installed. Custom pickup cover was laser cutted and wait for the pickups to final assembly. It's stagered cut because I don't know the final heigth of bobbin pickup only width and length are know it depend of custom resistence ordered ( 12 and 14k).

The guitar is almost fineshed, frets are instaled, eletronics are fitted on cavity and so on.

5 minutes ago, ScottR said:

This body shape would lend itself to an angled or diagonal fade, dark starting at the butt end on the treble side and angling across to being light at the treble horn.

That might look very cool.

SR

Exactly! or something like that!

3 hours ago, ScottR said:

Looks like red with a black burst to me.

SR

The first ideas was red or blue, but the last seven strings that I made was red and blue ones. Two of them was a red variation, solid or dark burst red like you suggest. 

I'm thinking about that modern burst. Instead a contour burst that fades from edges to center, the oposite. Dark part begins on center and fade to edges. In this case red or blue.

Or side to side. Starting from the "butt" darker fading to cutways. In this case almost like a sunburst, balck red and yelow finishing before the end of the body, lefting a part of original maple color.

I don't know too if make bevels like confort lines at superior part of the body, like some models of Skervesen or Kiesel. I'm affraid that looks so close with this brands. 

Let's talking ....

I'm in a huge doubt to define what finsh do on this guitar.  Any suggestion? 

The hedless guitar had Ceddar body with flamed Maple top, Pau Marfim neck and fingerboard (26,5'' to 25''), Nova Guitar Parts bridge, EMG P81 an SAV pickups, Jescar vintage stainless frets. Nothing to much different form other two

So I started two new projects. A 6 string bass and another headless

The bass had Ceddar body, Pau Marfim neck and fingerboard ( 37'' to 32'' fanned), Gotoh tunners, Nova Guitar parts headless bridge (yeah both tuning systems) and custom wound jazz bass pickups by Customy Pickups. Jescar nickel frtes and "square" inlays ( like fenders 70's JB).

The main idea is make a modern 6 string jazz bass, the old concept with a new visual.  

3 minutes ago, ScottR said:

I always love your work!

SR

Tks Scott!!

The final Pictures

Here it stars the year with two headless guitars!
First of all, I'm sorry about a lot of pics and for not post them at same time that it was taken/build.

Both guitars uses the same brazilian woods species, Marupá (Simarouba amara Aubl) for the body, Pau-Marfim (Balfourodendron riedelianum) for the neck and fretboard.
The hardware is from a braziliand manufactor, bridge is Nova Guitar Parts, an pickups are Malagoli. 

The withe/green have a pushpull to split bridge pickup and a killswitch. The black one have two minitoogles on-on-on. In the middle position is the humbucker, sides could select inner or outer coils to split.

Jescar nickel frets 26~25,5 scales, with luminescent inlay dots. Finish is PU matte. 

Hope you guys enjoy!

2 hours ago, Prostheta said:

James was a big influence on my playing from an early age. Brutal jackhammer right hand, but strange way of holding the pick! (thumb, first two fingers)

But so strange like Marty Friedman... LOL

Is Finished! Hope you enjoy it!

1 hour ago, Prostheta said:

I'm trying to remember if the Eet Fuk Explorer was an MX-220 shape or not. Still, iconic regardless. Looks great man.

Tks Pro!

The client give me this for reference: http://www.guitarscollector.com/1987---esp-mx-220--eet-fuk-.html 

It says ".... without the pickguard like Gibson, but with almost the same shape...." and them  "..... These guitars were originally known as the EX, but later became known as MX-220II. ..." 

In fact, it is a replica but with my considerations to the original project. 

The headstock outline looks like a lot but is different, a little bit smaller than the original giant one. It has 24 frets the original does not. 

The neck heel too. Due to the used mahogany cut I had to make an amendment to the base to make the whole set higher in line with the height of the bridge and achieve satisfactory setup. The outlines in this part was changed too. I hate the way that it was originaly concepted, there's no ergonomy on that. Every guitar that I made this part have a special care to let the musician achieve the highest notes in a easy way.

It has no angle on the neck, since the guitar is already big, getting a hard case is already a problem, putting an angle would only make the headstock's life in danger in that sense. It would have a real risk of breakage.

Of couse, this is not complete without headstock breaking scars. It was drawed on directly on paint, and carefull peeled off and sand to finish.

Today I applied the PU varnish, just a thin coat to let wood veins be a little aparent as an old nitro. Some parts will bee sanded to wood or almost for a real finish. Some smashed, scratches and so on will be done too to looks that the guitar was at stage in many gigs.

Aging with some yellow/tobaco stain the body (the varnish will receive the same).

The stickers are fake in fact. They are drawed directly on the body, but have a mask work to looks like the original stickers.

Some varnish next, and the rest of relic work,

Painting! Next steps are the stickers and relic.

Sealing ...

6 minutes ago, ScottR said:

Those look great Alessander. The light colored fretboards are striking.

SR

Tks Scott!! Some times I get impressed myself with results. I like a lot!

Old school neck shaping!

New projetc based on James Hetfield EET FUK explorer. Basicly the same specs from original, nothing special on that.

Closing the topic with last two ones finished.

I decide not wound my self the pickups, instead, they was custom made for this las two guitars.

Hope you enjoy!