BetterOffShred

Yeah I bid on the top on ebay and I might win it, but if not I'm heading up to Addy washington next week, they have a big pile of figured Claro for 10$ board/foot. I'm going to have to ghetto resaw it/'book-match' to thickness using the table saw flip and the bandsaw the leftover strip method. Then run through the planer till it's close to flat and take the rest off with a block to keep from tearing out. I know it's super boring and there's no pictures and progress shots, but I have finals this week and we're redoing the tile on our kitchen cook top area. I also want to make sure the ducks are in a row. Thanks for looking. -Brett

OK well I got a router, the craftsman one with a plunge base and a regular flat base. I got some 6/4 poplar as well, which looking at it now is a little thinner than I wanted. So it's like 33.5 mm thick, I wanted roughly 1.75" total body thickness, and binding, so if I use the 1cm binding and a top just a hair shy of 1cm, I'll come out at like 43 mm which just short of 1.75". Any gross errors in this line of thinking? Thanks for looking

Thanks! Yeah the laminate was actually pretty easy. I ripped the straps in the table saw and then planed them a hair and then glued it all up and then ran it through the planer down to .755 if I remember correctly.. Yeah I'm going to scarf it for sure, and I'm currently making a little opposing color sandwich to put between the head and neck when I glue it up for cool colors at the volute area. I'll probably mess something up and have to redo it anyway hehehe. -Brett

Yeah there's some of it! -Brett

Lets see if this works..

It's nothing amazing it's just a 7 piece neck blank and a flame maple fingerboard blank at this point. But yes I should get them up and going. All the pictures are on my camera so I actually have to re host them to photo bucket. I'll do it today! -Brett I'll just take a few pictures with my phone and post them

Beauty thanks Andrew. That's what I thought I just wanted to make sure I wasn't grossly off base there. I'm going back and forth between ash and poplar. Poplar is apparently similar to basswood which I have in two Ibanez guitars I love, but I think it looks kind of crappy compared to alder.. ah decisions

Well I still haven't managed to sort out the pictures yet, imageshack went full pay so that's why links are broken, and I'll have to re upload them all to photo bucket.. So I have a couple of quick questions, I was hoping someone would chime in on. I am leaning towards poplar now for the body, instead of mahogany, but I'm still looking for a top. I am probably going to buy a piece of Claro walnut and have a fella here in town split it for me for a cheap book-match. So all that being said, I wanted to bind the body with a single strip of the pearl purlfing, but it seems to be most common in 6mmx1.5mm .. So the body woods all seem to be available in only 8/4 around here, meaning of course I would have to plane it down which isn't a problem. Since I'm planning on a total body thickness of inch and 3/4 or about 45 mm, should I make the top just shy of 6mmx1.5mm thick, and make up the difference with the body so the binding will 'cap' the whole top? I'm going for a flat top simple super strat body really similar to ibanez RG size etc. There's still lots to do before this needs to be decided, but I like to have a plan, and I need to be able to pitch a list of goods to my wife and order as much as possible at once rather than nickel and dime it all. Thanks for looking. -Brett

You mentioned in the first video you were thinking about upgrading pickups? Any thoughts on what you might go for? I have a 2002 SG supreme, and I put BurstBuckers 1 and 3 in it, and man they shred. The neck is huge and smooth, and the bridge screams. I have a 500T in the bridge of my paul, and that one sounds pretty amazing too How do the bridge saddles look? The stock gibson bridge on my SG was pretty poor. There was burs and the chrome was lumpy etc. I put graphtec saddles on an aftermarket bridge in the end. Fun stuff -Brett

Ah that's awesome. I will do this. Thank you so much for tip I love this forum

I saw one like this where the guy built the box, then literally sawed it in half with the fret saw, and then screwed the two halves to a piece of mdf or whatever. Is yours a similar technique? This was what I was planning. Please do elaborate thanks for looking -Brett

I'm looking at a fret slotting saw, and with that said let me explain my position. I want to get something pretty cheap that will work for a few builds before I go spend big money. I found this little beauty with the help of cigar box nation, https://www.scalehobbyist.com/product.php?sn=/ZNA00035380&kw=zona And it looks pretty dece. 0.020" kerf (fret wires are like 0.023" ?) So that should be ok? I understand that high quality tools work better 9 times out of 10 (or more) but im still extremely fiscally limited and want to get a lot of stretch on those bucks! Thanks for looking! -Brett

I saw this on the guitar builders Facebook group, really inspiring build for such a budget! It's going to be a very unique addition that already impressive stable you have there! Very cool -Brett

Well it's been a long time, and I didn't give up! The family had had financial difficulties over the last year and me being a full time student means that we don't spend money on wood! Things are better now, and I got a paid internship so I'm going to work on this project again! Over the last year I've been building some effects pedals and finally set up my warmoth telecaster really smooth. I also finally successfully 'Blackfaced' my 1968 Fender Bassman head, and put in a couple mods like the adjustable Negative Feedback Loop circuit. But the call of the woods has always been there in my ear, and I'm going to start up again with my 8 string project here. I am going to start trying to finish up the neck first. I'm going to use the single rod, with two square carbon tubes next to it as suggested earlier in this thread. I also have a couple decent pieces of walnut I was going to make a fret slot cutting jig out of. I need to acquire a few more power tools, probably some Craigslist scores. I also have been buying up big vacuum hoses whenever I see them at garage sales so I can make some sort of dust accumulation and rejection device haha! Anyway, ill post some pictures of my electronics stuff that's been keeping me.like going, and fix the broken links to what I've already posted! Glad to be back -Brett

Cool man, I'm glad to see that you still have it and are still working on it. Gives me hope that my project will eventually be finished. I'm trying to get an Mech Engineering degree so my woodworking has taken back burner for a while Does the cat shred too? -Brett