Osorio

1 hour ago, mistermikev said:

doubt it helps... but the one I was referring to was sold to me as 'western cedar'.  Obviously not a scientific name and I would have no idea... but I'm guessing someone here will know what the common cedar is in the use.

so in short... I'm useless.

 

edit according to wiki Thuja plicata ... "It is not a true cedar of the genus Cedrus" someone might want to confirm me.

Western Cedar - Thuja plicata (Cupressaceae), its another family! But I think that is more closer to the traditional coniferous used on acoustic soundboards.

33 minutes ago, ScottR said:

Mike, I strongly suspect the cedar Alessander gets down in Brazil is different than what we are used to seeing up here in the northern section of the Americas.

You'll still like it though.

SR

Let's discover if our Cedar are the same. Here I used two species of cedar (even knowing that they're not from same family):

- Cedro Rosa (pink cedar)  that have a characteristic smell wich is Cedrela fissilis (Meliaceae).

- Cedro Arana don't have the same smell of Pink wich is Cedrelinga Catanaeformis (Fabaceae) 

Wich is that you guys are using?

1 hour ago, ScottR said:

I'm looking forward to this. The top woods sound very intriguing.

SR

Here they are. The two first pics are Eucalyptus, the third it's Cinamomo.

1 hour ago, mistermikev said:

dang diving back in head first w 4 builds - good for you!  love the idea of a solid cedar guitar.  such a beautiful wood.  look fwd to seeing that one specifically but all of them too.  cheers

Yeah MisterMike 4 its a big dive! I have made other two 7strings (have some entry on the GOTM) with Cedar back and Umbuia top one of them it's mine and I tell you: sounds great! 

Well

After almost an year working just on repairing and setup guitars and basses, I decided to build something new. This project have a lag of a year, some stuffs of my day life/job/study makes me put it a side, but now it started and I'll share this with you guys!

Will be four seven strings guitars, with multiscale (25 to 27 inch) 

Willkinson hardware, Cabrera pickups (two guitars), Jescar stainless frets.

The woods are Cedar (2 bodies), Tauari (2 bodies), Marfim (4 necks and 2 fretboards), Imbuia (2 fretboards) , Eucaliptus Root (2 tops), Cinamomo Roots (1 top). I'll send the species later.

That's all for a while!

Pics of day one, rough cut and glue.

16 minutes ago, Mr Natural said:

good to see you back! great job- so- how do they sound? 

i have to admit when I read skate board deck I had a flash back to the 80s (surf punks ring a bell anyone?)

 

 

 

Tks Natural! They sounds goog, with mids and midhis pronounced and killer harmonics when pluged in. At least the first one with ken armstrong pickups. I'm making the eletronics of the another ones. But its almost shure that sounds like the firstone. I made one for me years ago and sounds equal.

Hi all! Miss you guys so much, but time in last days as rare!
Here is a project that I'm finishing for a brazilian skate brand as part of the sponsorship of a local rock festival that will perform at Nov 25.
It's 4 skateboard guitars made from "reclycled" old skateboard decks and guitars that became trash.
I worked hard to find 4 guitars that have well intonated neck to use and recycle necks and hardwares.
The bodies are all from maple plywood skate decks the rest is recyled from other guitars.
Here some pics

two Winners this month!!

58 minutes ago, Woden said:

Can you show me where? The VS100, when I google it, has a one-piece base but yours are individual bases for each saddle.

ohhhhh the BASES!!!

sorry my bad! the bases I prototype myself with an L aluminum profile!

15 minutes ago, Woden said:

Lovely work, well done.

Please tell me where you found those individual Wilkinson saddle bases - they are exactly what I'm looking for to finish a prototype fanned fret model I'm halfway through.

tks woden!

i've buyed two Wilkinson vs100 ro do these ones!

The Twin Girls

Hi all! Here my two last builds, you can see my threads here or  facebook.  
Hope you enjoy!

Woods (Both):
- Body: Ceddar
- Top: Imbuia 
- Fretboard: Rosewood
- Scale 28''-25''
- Mate PU Finish

Twin #1 (Chrome hardware)

- Stewmat 150 fretwire
- Gotoh Tuners
- Wilkinson Saddles with aluminum custom base monorail bridge
- Malagoli Custom 84 pickup bridge
- Malagoli EVO pickup bridge
- Two way trusrod
- Dunlop Strings 10-64
- A standart tuning

Twin #2 (Gold hardware)

- Jescar stainlles fret wire
- Schaler Tuners
- Modified Schaller Hannes Bridge
- Seymour Duncan Nazgul  bridge pickup
- Seymour Duncan Sentient neck pickup
- Two way trusrod
- Daddario Strings 13-74
- F# standart tuning

On 08/11/2017 at 7:07 PM, KempGuitars said:

Finished: Custom 8-string KR3 - Buckeye Burl top on Swamp Ash body (wings), Wenge/Maple 3-piece thru-neck, Marblewood fretboard, ABM 3210s, Hipshot Grip-lock, BKP Painkiller (custom 16 degree baseplate) w/ aged cream coils...

Amazing Job!   This top is incredible!

1 hour ago, ScottR said:

Stunning job!

SR

Tks ScottR

14 hours ago, Zoltar said:

absolutely bloody gorgeous. I dunno which I like more, silver or gold hardware, both look great on that dark wood. And that shape is such a cool fusion of classic and modern. Hats off to you Osorio, you've played a blinder

Tks Zoltar that's idea, classic, modern and futuristic.
If you guys have liked, you had no idea about me!

1 hour ago, pan_kara said:

Beautiful!! I adore the body finish which to me looks like some dark old furniture, with the super-modern specs - 7 strings, multiscale etc. Plus all the little touches like the unusual carve etc.

Truly awesome!

Pan, that's ideia, looks like old furniture or some coffin finishes. tKS!

1 hour ago, Prostheta said:

Wow, agreed on all counts. That's a very novel use of the Hannes bridge also!

Only one entry got GOTM though! haha 

Tks Prostheta, should I engaged GOTM?

The shcaller bridge it's all a question to find de rigth screws you can use in any multiscale.

They are finished! Don't know about you guys, but I like so much the final result, more pics is comming ...

updates from this week.

I use a stained sealer to get a little dark finish, made some ligth burst with 4 or 5 coats. I like the results.

At least semi-mate pu varnish was aplied

26 minutes ago, Prostheta said:

That Imbuia is spectacular, Alessander!

yesss is awesome!!! I have two more of then .. I guess.

On 02/11/2017 at 8:46 AM, pan_kara said:

I like the creative approach to some multiscale-specific thing here: compoung scarf? who needs one, I'll just do a normal scarf and tweak the fretboard edge. Also a cool solution on the other side too! (bridge end of the fb)

And the bridge - is that wilkinson saddles attached to a wooden block with custom screws threaded into the holes where intonation screws normally live? that would be another novel solution! Will it work ok with no baseplate however?

Tks pankara, some ideas was collected over the internet from other brands, I just made a mix of then, that think be nice on the project.

I decide to not use the wood bridge, basicly because the volume knob position. If it will be used, a stainless steel plate will be used too.

On 31/08/2017 at 12:37 PM, StratsRdivine said:

Here is a recent video showing the quilt in 3D - skip to end, but the previous info gives context.  BTW - I just shipped a quilted CF panel 14 x 21 to Ron Thorn.  Ever heard of Thorn Guitars?  

Test video (Kickstarter) showing products leading up to the quilted CF

this is sick!!!! awesome!!!!

Here some updates, going to the end!

Tks folks!! Like I said before, with my master of science running, time is short. In fact I usualy use fridays to work on my builds only. My production is smaller than some years ago. Now I'm more rigorous with the final result of my work. Trying to choose special projects to do. It's creating a culture that I'm a specialist in vintage or restorarion instruments here. Even more and more old and broken instruments arrive at shop to make a setup or restoration. So the builds keeps at second place sometimes. If you take a look at instagram will see some 50, 60 and  70's instruments.

1 hour ago, ScottR said:

Amen, I was going to point out those as well. I also love the body carves and that bridge surround you made. Lovely work and you need to come around a bit more often, Alessander. We love seeing your work!

SR

3 hours ago, Norris said:

That's beautiful