MasterOfTheWind

WOW ! What an awesome welcoming community !!! Thank you all ! 

Really great constructive feedback from everybody. 

I will definitely make some tweaks based on your suggestions on the next build of this model... I'll call it "Adrenaline Rush".

Also thank you for all the positive feedback, I wasn't sure how this "wild" design would be perceived by musicians... I feel much better about it now.

As for the next project, it is 99% finished, still figuring out what to do with the knobs and the switch but i'll give you a sneak peak.

I called it Dopamine.

1 hour ago, curtisa said:

Welcome aboard, hope we can see some more of your creations in the future. We like a good build thread around these parts.

Feedback and critique? For a first time builder who knows nothing about guitar, it looks pretty impressive to me. Certainly leaps and bounds ahead of many first builds. Only suggestions from me would be cosmetic - the long gap between the bridge and tailpiece and the tilted neck pickup seems a little visually distracting, but if the instrument plays and sounds like it's totally made of awesome, then you've done admirably well for a maiden voyage.

curtisa, Thank you for the feedback ! I completely agree with you about the tailpiece, I didn't realize what it would look like when making the holes for it. also the tailpiece would have looked much cooler had I placed it slanted like the end curve of the body. 

You are also 100% right about the pickup, I had to place it like that due to a design flaw that I didnt notice until it was time to put the pickups. The "step" I made on the top while making the guitar cool, forced me to place the neck pickup this way (:

And yes, you most certainly will see more builds...

36 minutes ago, psikoT said:

Hi, welcome to the forum... I like your explorer approach and specially the fact that you've built it without being a guitar player. That sounds impossible to me. Congratulations!

 

Thank you psikoT ! I also saw some of your builds - they are stunning !!!

Adrenaline

Please give me some feedback and your honest critique... This is becoming my new hobby and I would really like to learn how to make them even better.

I am not a musician but I always liked Metal and particularly the guitar. Before I built this guitar, I knew nothing about guitars.
A couple of months ago my brother in law who is a musician, who also built a few guitars had the Explorer guitar. I immediately fell in love with it and decided to build one but more "aggressive", more "Metally"...  

This is my first build, My brother in law helped me understand the measurements, the electronics, the ergonomics, and off I went to draw it. A few weeks later, Adrenaline was completed !

Body: Basswood

Neck : Not sure, he (see above) gave me one that he had laying around. I only modified the head a bit to flow with the body.

Scale: 25.5"

Pickups: RedActive (active pickups)

Electronics: Simple 3 way switch, tone, volume

Finish: Auto spray paint - Sparkly black and spray clear coat   

I never owned a guitar but always wanted to learn how to play one, so I basically built this one for that purpose...

I don't really have much experience with woodworking but I do know the basics and consider myself to be very handy with tools and have plenty of them. This has been a wonderful experience. I learned so much about guitars from building it...

I had a few musicians play it, they loved it and said it was very comfortable and plays well. One told me: "Its weird, but it works really well" 

Hope you like it. If not, let me know why not... 

I also submitted it to the Guitar Of The Month contest for November, hopefully it will get a vote or two. 

Adrenaline

I am not a musician but I always liked Metal and particularly the guitar. Before I built this guitar, I knew nothing about guitars.
A couple of months ago my brother in law who is a musician who also built a few guitars had the Explorer guitar, I immediately fell in love with it and decided to build one but more "aggressive", more Metally...  

This is my first build, My brother in law helped me understand the measurements, the electronics, the ergonomics, and off I went to draw it. A few weeks later, Adrenaline was completed !

Body: Basswood

Neck : Not sure, he (see above) gave me one that he had laying around.

Scale: 25.5"

Pickups: RedActive (active pickups)

Electronics: Simple 3 way switch, tone, volume

Finish: Auto spray paint - Sparkly black and spray clear coat   

I never owned a guitar but always wanted to learn how to play one, so I basically built this one so that I can start learning...

I don't really have much experience with woodworking but I do know the basics and consider myself to be very handy with tools and have plenty of tools. This has been a wonderful experience. I learned so much about guitars from building it...

Hope you like it. 

Here is my Facebook, if you want to get in touch... https://www.facebook.com/Realtor.in.Broward