Canuck Brian

This one is totally finished yet (tuners dont' have the lock down screw drilled yet so they're not lined up yet), so the pics look like they're taken with a potato. The better ones will be coming once i do the music store test and have way better lighting.

I can't photograph this thing worth a poop, hence the flash on/flash off pics.

This one comes in at under 6 pounds fully loaded.

SFLx7
25 frets, 12-25 scalloped, 26 inch scale
Tigerwood fretboard
Figured Myrtlewood top on black limba core
Lightly figured maple neck with dyed green maple stringers
Battleworn gold camo BK Aftermaths
Petrucci 3 way
3 mm Luminlay indicators

Heh - i lost my account information for the longest time and just gave up trying to get it reset - definitely going ot post more stuff!

Figured there were other consolidated threads so all my stuff will be in here.

Just put #15 in the can.

SFLx7 (1.25 inches thick)
26 inch scale, 25 frets, 12 - 25 half scalloped
Bookmatched cocobolo top
Solid rosewood core
Rosewood neck with figure maple stringers
Cocobolo fretboard
Rosewood headstock with cocobolo cap
Seymour Duncan Pegasus and Sentient pickups
All Hipshot hardware
Petrucci 3 way
Pushbutton Killswitch
3 mm Luminlay side indicators

Man!!!!

That's a beast of an 8-string! Love the carve on the back of the horns and the way they blend into the back of the neck. Really nice job.

How far in does the neck sit into the body ?

Where did you get the roasted flame maple from Brian ? I posted a question here the other day asking about sources for roasted figured maple. I've only really seen that one guy on ebay in the US selling it but his shipping prices are horrendous to the UK and he seems to offer more birdseye than flamed anyway.

Allo! The tenon goes right to the back of the neck pickup cavity. I do all my guitars like this. This thing plays way easier htan i expected though - 30 inch scale was really easy to adjust to.

I go to www.exotic-woods.com - they're located within a 40 minute drive of me, but they ship worldwide and have TONS of roasted woods (figured roasted maple, roasted maple, roasted birdseye maple, roasted ash) I specifically get the flooring grade ones because they're already surfaced on all sides, 3.5 inches wide, one inch thick and flatsawn. When you cut them up for laminates, you get a perfect grain structure. Great guys there.

Wow, that Purpleheart just looks PERFECT in there. Kind of how Jack looked perfect as The Joker. Is it me or are six of your ferrules nickel and two gold? Looks like a fun guitar!

That they are. I ran out of gold ones doing a customer guitar and didn't feel like waiting for another set of them for my own. I had a pile of chrome ones so i just used those.

The graphtech nut is awesome. I ordered the slab blank they offer and cut it as they dont' offer 8 string ones yet.

Looks great. What's the tuning going to be?

F#BEADGBE

What's there? I'm guessing you are saying the top is in the view from the back and it covers the notch from the front view. I'm guessing the notch is for the jack socket. What's the small cavity for--are BK Nailbombs active?

SR

Yep - the top of the gutiar hides the notch in the back. The little control cavity is for the output jack like on an RG.

How is it I can see grass through that notch in the back view, but can't see the notch at all in the front view?

SR

Sorcery!

I took a close look at a high res version and it's there, just not easily seen from that angle and lighting.

I started this one a while ago, but its a personal guitar for me so it doesn't get enough attention.

Originally started as this render:

And now we're here - i've since installed the tuners and i'm just waiting on the 8 string bridge. Pickups will be 8 string bareknuckle Nailbombs with gold poles.

All the tuners i use are the Hipshot ultralights - these 3 have a decent balance with no neck dive, but i had a client order a black limba body with a ash top in with the super thin body style i have (1.25 inches thick) witha maple neck and a reverse inline headstock. Kinda worried about the diving.

The Saber is pretty much my favorite guitar of all time. I almost got picked up the one particular model I've been after for years - HSS equipped, jet black with a low pro edge. Eventually i'll start getting Floyd guitars happening, but right now it's just these guys.

Hi guys!

The BK's oddly came with the poles on the neck humbucker closer to the bridge. I asked BK - they said thats how they're supposed to be....very strange.

Pros - thanks for hooking me up on that account!

This ash is pretty heavy, but since i use really thin bodies, it ends up being a pretty lightweight guitar. I don't have any soundclips of the guitars right now as I dont' even have a recording setup. I think the last time I sat down to actually PLAY a guitar has been over a year now.

I should have another 3 or 4 guitars up for pics within the next 3 weeks. Need to order a pile of pickups and do WAY too much fretting.

The black one is finished with a polyurethane clear coat over a black dye. The other two are finished with a few coats of tung oil followed by a coating of Monocoat. Turns out pretty awesome.

These are all three beautiful builds--excelent craftsmanship and wood choices. I'm very impressed with the figure in the ash; I'm not sure I've ever seen that much in ash.

BTW I think Alesander was referring to the location of the adjustable poles in the BK neck pup. We're used to see those on the neck side of the neck pup. These are on the bridge side. Is that typical of this model of BK pups?

SR

I'm really in love with that ash - unfortuantely teh supplier has run out and I've only got 3 more blanks of it. It's so nice.

With the BK - i asked them about it as the poles were from what I could tell on the wrong side, but they're saying it's all good like that.

Pan - yep - it's a nice cut of cocobolo. I've got about 100 board feet of cocobolo at my place now with varying amounts of sapwood and heartwood. I love the stuff.

Nice builds!!

How sounds the barekuncles? The neck pickup is rigth with that poles position?

Awesome ones!

Thanks!

The BK's line up perfectly on that build. They sound super clear though - really impressed with all the BK's i've received to date.

6 string

Figured european ash body

figured roasted maple neck with rosewood stringers

ebony fretboard

26 inch scale, 25 frets, 12-25 scalloped

asymettrical neck carve with offset heel

Nordstrand humbuckers

6 string

figured european ash body and headstock

figured roasted maple neck with purpleheart stringers

cocobolo fretboard

Bareknuckle Cold Sweat pickups

26 inch scale, 25 frets, 12-25 scalloped

Asymettrical neck carve with offset heel

I tried to get my old account working but it's tied to an email address that I dont' have anymore so i couldn't reset the password.

Anyways! Here's what I've been doing in the last few months!

7 string

figured european ash body and headstock cover

figured roasted maple neck with zirocote stringers

zirocote fretboard

25 frets, 26 inch scale

half scallops from 12-25

Nordstrand pickups

Hipshot hardware

Asymettrical neck carve with offset heel

I've been using these over the .73 green dunlop D3's (very similar to Jazz3) for about a year. SUPER stiff with a good point, but the entire edge is bevelled heavily. It's easy to get different types of attacks and it's very helpful in keeping really fast alternate picking runs fluid. I love it for rhythm too.

Has anyone noticed a significant difference in their playing or sound with the turtle picks? I think the last "gimmick" pick i tried was the Stylus pick...and it sucked.

I was eventually going to take enough of my scraps to do a guitar with and call it Patches.

Hey guys! This guitar is definitely a heavyweight, but the damn thing resonates like mad. If I play it on my lap, I can feel the vibes in my feet. It's so weird.

Overall it plays pretty good and sounds pretty good. I didn't really see an issue with the scale length being 25 as Epiphone put out a bunch at 24.75 which i've played. The tension on this thing is quiet good actually!

The sound thru the amp is really really tight and focused. It could use a wee bit more bottom but c'est la vie.

Figured I'll make my first dive into the GoTM competition.

Zebrawood 3/4 inch cap on a quartersawn mahogany/birdseye maple back. The neck is padouk with a figured maple fretboard in a 25 inch scale. The cavity cover is a piece of mun ebony - nice and strong and won't split under screw pressure.

The hardware is all hipshot - locking tuners and their floating ball bearing trem. Pickups are an EMG 81-7 and 707.

I'm just calling this one "Redcap" because of the padouk headstock and the crazy body.

Neck Joint - notice the ribbons in the mahogany!

Close up shot of the back

Hey guys,

Here's FINALLY another finished one. Zebrawood 3/4 inch cap on a quartersawn mahogany/birdseye maple back. The neck is padouk with a figured maple fretboard in a 25 inch scale. The cavity cover is a piece of mun ebony - nice and strong and won't split under screw pressure.

The hardware is all hipshot - locking tuners and their floating ball bearing trem. Pickups are an EMG 81-7 and 707.

I'm just calling this one "Redcap" because of the padouk headstock and the crazy body.

Shot of the back

Shot of the fretboard and headstock

Neck joint and ribbony mahogany

Back of the headstock

I wonder what a white/black/mid-grey/light-grey swirl would look like?

er - - smokin', i would imagine

How did you do the control recesses in the carved top?