Strato-Master

THANK YOU!!!!!!!! Here is the basic concept Thank goodness for photoshop. It looks a little funny like the body is too big or that the bridge it too far back but it at least gives the basic idea.

Ok so here's the concept I got a body from an old guitar of my dad's that he gave to me I posted about it way back when and never did get around to copying the guitar but I still have the body. It has a hairline crack running through the Pup cavity but it doesn't go any farther than that. I also have a neck from a twelve string Epiphone acoustic that is in good shape but needs a new body. SO being that both pieces were free, the neck pits into the neck pocket of the body already, and I have nothing to lose and a lot of experience to gain. I'm going to try and make these into a twelve string electric. I plan to have an acoustic style bridge with a piezo pickup and a humbucker. A push pull pot on the volume to switch between the two, and one on the tone for a coil tap on the humbucker. Here's a pic of the body an neck. If you look close you can see the crack running through the third screw hole for the trem. Now here's my question. How would y'all go about removing and replacing the wood where the trem cavity and the pickup to get rid of the crack? I was thinking I would route out the wood and glue in a new piece of wood.

Hey not to hijack your thread but I'm guessing by your name and semi hollow guitar preference you like good old Uncle Ted?

I was trying to find a place that sells cigar boxes when I found this wiki. I read it was shocked at the modern revival section. Heres the link. Wiki and heres the lines that bugged me. Idk about you but I'm not a primitive luthier, amature yes but its not like im trying to nail a stick to chunk of log and attach some home made strings made from deer guts. I have seen quite a few cigar box guitars that required a lot of skill to manufacture.

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Congrats dude Me too I just seen your post after I posted mine!

Hey everybody I'm gonna be a dad my wife is ten weeks pregnant we waited to tell people cause she had a miscarriage last time at 7 weeks but doc says everything seems kool this time we have the first ultra sound next week.

Hello and welcome to the forum . I think you will find that people are very helpful here. out Skjaret

Shoot Man If I entered a guitar in GOTM at the same I would still probably vote for yours! Its Damn fine sexy lookin guitar!

Hello and welcome to the forum! out

Um I hate to bump an old topic but I just spent four hours on google trying to find out how to do what this post describes. Then came here and found it in two min. So I'm wondering If mabey a mod could pin this as a Tut or something because it just saved me money and work. I think us newbs might find this very helpful! Great job on this Digideus! Thank you very much!!!!!!! Out

Granted I can't see your pics of the guitar because I'm at my work computer so I cant judge based on that but I wouldn't be so hard on your self at 16 I would have loved to have already built my first guitar. I started building my first guitar at 17 almost 18 and I'm only a few months from my 21st B-day and haven't even completed my 3rd one The fact that you stuck it out and did it is what matters who cares that its it strat copy its still something you did with your own hands and that is what is impressive to me my friend!!

Lets not forget staying up for over 24 hrs can be just as bad. BTW don't work on your vehicals exhaust after a 12 hr night shift. The cuts on my hand and the burn on my scalp are proof of that.

Thanks i'll check into those!

Anybody know of any lumberyards or people in or around the kaiserslaughtern military community that would have woods for building electric guitars? Please and thankyou

3C231 comunications computer systems controller aka tech controller.

I'm Back Graduated from BMT on the 15th leave for my tech school on the 18th.

thanks I wont

Yup you seen it right I'm heading to boot camp on the first of the year. The only bummer is that I wont be able to get my current guitar finished before I go. I just want to thank everybody on this forum I have learned so much from all of you. I haven't been the most active on this forum posting wise but I love it here. I'm on the web site almost daily. So see you guys in 6 & 1/2 weeks.

Just wanted to say everybody has some nice guitars out there this month and I wish I had better pics of mine to compete with! Great job Yall. But I got one in the works that should be ready by the next months GOTM.

This is a guitar I built for a friend of mine in the army. I call it the surplus special. Sorry I don't have any better pictures I would like to have taken more but the guitar is sitting in germany right now with its owner Heres a semi up close shot of the body its made of birch and I tell ya the tone outa this guitar blew me away. Figures my mom would take the picture while I was yawning Nice lil head stock shot nothin to fancy

Hey Guys Can anybody tell what this guitar is it looks like this guitar a Bruno Conqueror but it has a budah looking dude playin a clarinet with the word "Pan" under him. Help need to know what it is. Thanks Strato-Master

I use Howard Feed-N-Wax Wood preserver on my peavey raptor neck. It is a blend of orange oil beeswax and carnauba wax I put like 3 or 4 coats of this stuff on and it works great. I put new coat on about every two weeks to once a month to help keep it shiny smooth and really fast playin neck.

Ok here is my first build and first GOTM entry. It's a Rebuilt Fender Squier Bullet. I designed the body shape my self. did all the cutting routing sanding and shaping my self except for the sawing out of the body on the band saw as the owner of the band saw would rather do that himself but hey I wasn't gong to complain (Band saws kinda scare me) Plus he gave me the wood for it for free! Specs: BODY: Black Cherry with Tung oil and Wax finish. NECK: Maple Fender Neck with decals sanded off 25.5 in. scale Fixed Bridge 5 way switch 2 tone 1 volume Clear Plastic Pickguard This Is the album with one more pic so far and I will add More later More then likely

Sry i dont have any experiance with this stuff but... I think you might wanna think about something first. I am by no means an expert but what I seem to have found when doing research about solid body guitar building is that its only a myth that resonance does't matter with them just look around this site and ppl are always talking about the tonal qualities of the wood for the strat copys. So if you want the best sound it seems to be a combo of the body wood, the finishing techniqe, and the pups. But like I said I am no expert. And besides this place has a lot of ppl experimenting with new stuff so try it mabey it will work great who knows its all what you want not what other ppl think you should have.