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justin squire

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  1. And now for some glamour shots: This is the first guitar that I have designed and built from start to finish. It plays very well and sounds great too. It doesn't have as much sound and resonance acoustically that I was hoping it would, but it is still considerably louder than a solid body guitar when played acoustically. Neck: laminate - bloodwood, maple, purpleheart top plate: laminate - zebrawood, maple, bloodwood, purpleheart body: solid white ash components: -tuners - gotoh 510 -pickup - tv jones powertron -pots - 2 500k push pull -knobs - bloodwood -bridge - schaller roller bridge -tailpiece - bigsby tremolo Let me know if you have any questions, and what you think about the guitar. Thanks for reading
  2. Finally finished this guitar build that I started out almost a year and a half ago. I'll post a few pictures of the build process here. The Wood that I started out with. The 5 laminate pieces cut out for the neck Gluing it up The top of the neck after being jointed Ready for truss rod slots Truss rod slot cut Fretboard being tested for placement The top piece being created Cutting out the profile Huge chunk of white ash for the body Body sides glued on and roughly shaped Rounding out edges Checking fit for components Hollowing out the body chamber Strings are a little too close to the edge of the fretboard for comfort. Solution! maple edge strips Pickup hole cut, and bolts installed fretboard finished off a little better after gluing side strips on fret dots being installed gluing on fretboard recesses for pots done pressing in the frets on a drill press smoothing out the edges jack hole cut out tuner holes drilled out a small mock up of the guitar almost done finish sanding here starting Tru-oil coats on the neck ...and body cover plate shielding wiring it up
  3. I have already built one guitar and posted the results here on the forum, but I have recently started a new one totally from scratch. I have built a rough neck blank from 5 laminated pieces of wood, and tried to plane the top and back side flat, with decent luck. It still seems that the top surface is less than perfectly flat, which needs to be fixed before I can rout a truss rod channel and put on a fretboard. I will be traveling to Wisconsin and staying there for about 3 weeks this June, and was wondering if there are any fellow guitar builders with the tools, such as a jointer, and expertise to help me finish out this neck blank. Please let me know if anyone can help. I will be in the Madison area. I hope this is an appropriate place to post this message too. Thanks, Justin
  4. That's really looking great! I love the look of the open grained wood on the back. The oil finish really seems to fit this guitar well.
  5. Thanks for the responses, I do plan on drawing it out to scale soon and I have since altered the horns a little, because I started to look at them and saw that they didn't quite fit. As far as the back side, I may just do the body wings out of one piece of wood. I am still thinking about my wood selections and I will probably go check out the local lumber store in the next week or two. Another question, is there any easy way to draw up blueprint style plans if you don't have much experience with CAD or other programs? I suppose I can just take my time and draw it out to scale carefully on a large piece of paper too.
  6. I recently finished my first build with a maple/purpleheart iceman design and I am now planning my second build. I have sketched up a few pictures of some preliminary ideas, but I was looking for a few suggestions. I decided that I wanted to do some sort of chambered/semi-hollow body design and include a pattern on the guitar top, similar to an F-hole, but with a different design. In my sketch, the design to replace the F-hole is a series of circles. Here are the pictures of my sketches: I am wanting to build a through neck, with some very colorful woods laminated together. The back side will be different contrasting colored woods, with the top being something with a very nice figure, maybe birdseye or flame maple. Does anyone see problems with my design? Or criticisms?...constructive or not haha. Being fairly inexperienced with guitar building, I have a question as to how the shape of the hollowed out portion of the guitar will effect the sound. I am planning on chambering and hollowing out both sides of the guitar, not just the side with the hole designs. Any thoughts/suggestions?
  7. Well after about 20 hours of work between Friday and today, I managed to finish my guitar. Here are a few pics: And here's a short video of me making some noise with it: http://youtu.be/thrSxGhU7r0 I was quite surprised to have the electronics work perfectly the first time I played it. This was the first guitar wiring job I have ever done, but I just followed the wiring diagram and added the necessary ground connections. The guitar is not perfect, and maybe a tad too heavy, but I like it for my first one. Thanks for the help along the way.
  8. I put on 6 coats of the finish in two days this weekend, waiting about 2 hours between coats. I left the neck bare wood and will apply watco teak oil next weekend probably. Here are a few pictures of the finish on the guitar after several coats of ktm-9: It looks really good in the light but a little dark otherwise. I still have a little work to do before it's all finished but I made some good progress this weekend.
  9. I am just about to apply the water based lacquer finish this weekend, but I have a question somebody may be able to help out with. Should I apply the ktm-9 to the whole guitar including the neck? Does anyone have experience with the feel of a water based lacquer finish on the neck? The main concern I have is that the neck will feel too sticky and be too shiny, but I don't have a lot of experience with finishing, so I may be wrong. What would be the best choice to finish this thing?
  10. Here are a few more pictures from my progress this weekend: The guitar after hours of sanding: The recessed bridge and string-thru locations after sanding: A view in the shadows after sanding: Holding the guitar: I think it is just about ready for the finish next weekend. I am going to apply ktm-9 water based lacquer after a few more finer grit sandings. After I let it dry and harden for a few weeks I think I will be ready to assemble things.
  11. Back cavity covers made: Headstock router template: Headstock finished, tuner holes drilled and fitted: Test fit of tuners: And finally, the step that I am at right now: Getting the string through holes recessed a little into the body because my break angle of the strings is borderline at around 7-8 degrees from the bridge. It is very rough right now, and I'm still trying to clean it up and make it look nice! That's all for now, hope you enjoy the pics. I'm a big fan of this forum and have been lurking a long while before I tried to build my own guitar and post on here. I hope to stay involved with the forum throughout my build and hopefully future builds. Thanks for looking.
  12. Roughing out the back cavities: Routed pickup and bridge cavity Electronics and controls mockup: Bridge mock up: String thru holes drilled: Retainer ferrules ready to go in:
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