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I was short on string blocks so I went ahead and made a couple up on the Bridgeport tonight. I’ll get them over to the powdercoater and they will be ready for these two guitars.

Awesome! Can’t wait to see the progress on this. I hate planing zebrawood and always have a fit with it so I will have to remember that.

Pics don’t really do justice to the body colors, I’ll try to get some better ones at some point. I do have one question, on my last build I painted the headstock face and mountain logo then top coated it in polycrylic. Does anyone know how I should go about this one? I want to leave the headstock face natural and paint the mountain logo, I was thinking just do a couple of coats of polycrilic as a “primer”, paint the logo, top coat everything with polycrylic as normal. But would the polycrylic make an ok “base” under the paint or should I use something else? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I found some extra time this weekend to do guitar stuff, I did a few things on the m11 Black limba padauk twin but nothing to really show. I’m waiting on my bridge and tuners to come in from hipshot for that one which they should be here today. I spent most of the weekend working on this aquaburst ta28, I started it right before I took my hiatus last year so figure I’ll knock it out real quick. I already had the body completely finished, dyed and tru oiled. The neck was scarf jointed and 12 degrees, neck and headstock shape cut, truss rod installed, fretboard made/radiused/blind slotted/glued on, neck was carved. So this weekend I installed my side dots and offset feet markers and also fretted it. Now just need to Finish sand the neck, do my mountain logo on the headstock, tru oil and fret level/crown/Dress and the neck will be finished. Specs so far are: ta28/6 model, solid ash body at 1.5” thick (a little thicker than my usual), honey roasted maple neck, honey roasted curly maple fretboard, nickel silver medium jumbo fret wire, aguaburst top dye, blue jean back dye, tru oil I’m sure it will get dimarzio pickups, hipshot bridge and tuners Here’s some pics of where I’m at with it at the moment

This is so awesome! I’m definitely gonna watch this. I agree, proportions look good to me.

And... I really hate those pics so I need to grab some better ones lol. Next up on the chopping block will actually be one of the m11 Black limba/padauk twins, I’ve got one of those really far along so won’t need to much work to get that one knocked out.

thanks Guys, it’s good to see y’all here again too! I totally thought I was going to have more time, so things are slow lol. I finally got around to completely finishing the n12 offset, I had considered it finished but I had a few things left to do. I buy pre made nuts and then cut the bottom to get the height I need, I can’t remember the company that I got this one from but it was absolutely terrible, so I cut down a new graphtech black tusq, releveled the frets (first time using the katana and I have to say, that is an amazing tool!), crowned and polished the frets and got the setup dialed in. I have to say, out of all the guitars I’ve made this is hands down my favorite, the feel, the aesthetics, the tone, it all just speaks to me. So consider this one completely finished, for anyone that hasn’t seen my old posts I’ll post a few pics and specs. Arete n12 offset, alder body, 5 piece rock maple/padauk neck, padauk scarf joint laminate, Birdseye maple fretboard, 2 way adjustable truss rod, hipshot licking tuners, graphtech nut, nickel silver fretwire, hipshot chrome fixed bridge, dimarzio air norton/air zone pickups with the neck pickup coil split, twisted copper wiring, painted plum crazy.

Today I did my mountain inlay in the headstock with a piece of curly maple. Tomorrow I’ll put a few more hours into this neck and see if I can get it to the point of glueing it into the body. Most of my shop stuff is in boxes in the attic so 90% of my time right now is just trying to find shit.

So... I’ve been gone for pretty much all this year, with working 80 hours a week, buying a house, moving and trying to have quality time with my son I pretty much quit building for a while. I’m gonna slowly start building again, I no longer have a shop so right now will be working out of my garage and spare bedroom. I’m probably going to try and build a shop in my back yard at some point. Anyway, I’m going to be taking it slow this time around and try to focus on one guitar a time, I started this semi hollow n12 last year and am gonna go ahead and knock it out and then go from there. Heres some pics from where I left off last year last year.

I'm dying a aqua blue burst right now and will be tru oiling it. I'll post pics up of that after oil to give you a better idea.

Yeah man, you don't see people use tru oil over dyed woods a whole lot but I've been doing it for years with refinishing and now in my building. Prostheta is right, it will add a slight amber tint to your color so I've always tested on scrap to make sure I'm gonna be satisfied with the end result. Which I almost always am. That blue semi hollow above has tru oil on it and I refinished an old ibanez s1620 in green which I really liked. I use transtint dyes.

Thank you all! I hope that you all had a great New Years. Yep paul, I twist it with a drill. I buy it in regular ole 20g copper wiring and then twist it.

The 2nd n12 is a semi hollow 6 string. Sapele body, curly maple back, curly maple top, with a blue dye job and I'm still finishing it in tru oil. I will be starting on the neck this week, it will be sapele but not sure on the fretboard yet. And im really sorry guys, I'm terrible at posting build pics, I'm gonna try and work on that. Lol

Ive also started 2 more n12's. The first is a solid body 7 string, ash body, curly maple top, bound in 1/2" black binding, with a red to black fade dye job and im still finishing it in tru oil. I had a curupay 7 string neck I started making a few months ago so I'm gonna use that with a macassar ebony fretboard. I'm just waiting on all my hardware to show up so I can finish the neck.

Haha thanks pariahrob! I don't know if I'd say a neat freak but just trying to step my game up a bit in areas. So as for what I've been up to this last week, the purple n12 offset is completely done. This is hands down my favorite guitar I've ever built, not sure if I'm gonna want to sell this one. Professional photos should be done next week.

Thank y'all so much! I actually got to sleep last night, that was pretty awesome! since this is a guitar forum I gotta throw up a guitar pic haha. here's some wiring I did on the n12 offset yesterday.

Thank y'all so much Scott and mr natural!

I've been absent for a pretty good while, my son was born on November 31st so we had a lot of preparing to do to get ready for him to be here. I've just started to get back into the swing of things so it's slow going right now. I'm just mainly trying to finish builds that have been hanging on the wall. We will be moving houses soon so I figure it'll be easier to move complete guitars instead of a bunch of pieces. Ive fretted one of the black limba m11 twins, got it finish sanded, fretted and am oiling it right now. I'm changing it up from my normal odies oil and am trying out tru oil, I'm liking it so far but it is a lot more work than odies. I've also got the purple n12 offset cleared, polished, and oiled the neck. I've just started assembly on that one so hoping to have it finished this weekend. I'll also add a few pics of my boy, definitely the most amazing thing I've ever made (he must have gotten all his moms genes)! I can't wait for him to be making his own guitars lol.

I've started this one a few weeks ago, figure I'll go ahead and share a bit on it. This is a prototype I'm working on which is based off my n12 model but I've redesigned the body to be an offset so I'm calling it the n12 offset. Its an alder body (a bit thicker than my normal bodies this ones 1-1/2" thick), 5 piece maple/padauk neck, Birdseye maple fretboard, 2 way adjustable truss rod, nickle silver med/jumbo fretwire, tusx xl nut, hipshot chrome open gear locking tuners, hipshot chrome bridge, chrome pickups covers and all of the chrome will be burnt if I can get it to look right. Dimarzio air norton/air zone with coil splits. Im in the finishing stages right now which have been a nightmare as usual but I think I've finally got it where I want it. The faceplate of the headstock is painted white with my mountain logo painted in purple and covered in satin polycrylic. The neck/fretboard will get a coat of some odies oil. The body has been where I've had trouble! I originally painted it white with my mountain logo painted on it in purple which turned out pretty cool I thought. I tried to top coat with polycrylic which was a terrible mistake, I tried spraying it and it just had runs all over it and ended up sanding thru the paint trying to level it back out. I decided to give it another try and this time painted it all purple and tried to wipe on the polycrylic, huge mistake, had brush lines and inconsistencies all over the place so had to sand it out again. I have now repainted it purple, and went and bought a 2k clear from the local auto paint store and am gonna give that a try.

I got the pics back a couple days ago and posted it in gotm but forgot to post it over here. So here's the photos of the pg17 with specs. Specs are as follows, •Top Wood: black walnut •Body Wood: Curly maple/bloodwood sandwich •Color: Natural •Body finish: matte, odies oil •Bridge: Evertune •Pickup Configuration: H H •Pickup mounting: direct mount •Bridge Pickup: Bareknuckle juggernaut •Neck pickup: N/a for now •Pickup Color: Black •Controls: 1 Volume / 1 Tone / 3 way toggle •Neck wood: 5 piece maple/walnut/maple/walnut/maple •Neck Finish: Matte, odies oil •Fretboard: dark roasted curly maple •fretboard finish: odies oil •Fretboard Inlays: White side markers •Headstock inlays: Arete mountain inlay in bloodwood •Neck Shape: Thin D shape, •Neck thickness: .800 1st fret/.830 12th fret •fretboard Radius: 14" •Scale Length: 27" •Frets: stainless steel •Nut: Graphtech tusq xl •Nut Width: 1.693" (43mm) •Tuners: hipshot open gear locking tuners •Hardware: Black •Weight: 6.5 pounds

@Prostheta @ScottR Haha ok, so the bridge is suuupper interesting... I'll give it that! It took me a good while to figure out how to set up the dang thing but once I got it I actually kind of like it. It's slowly growing on me. I don't like that you have to hog out so much wood from the body, but I do like the holding tune aspect. This was a brand new set of string and once I got it Setup and tuned I haven't had to retune once and it's been about a week, I can completely take the strings out of the tuners on the headstock, put the strings back in, and get the tension right at the tuners (+ or - 1-1/2 full turns from where it was before, it doesn't have to be exact at all) and the bridge will still be exactly in tune. Ive seen a lot of people say that "they kill your tone" but honestly I think this guitar sounds killer! I'm definitely not saying you should buy them and put them in every one of your guitars but I would say definitely give one a try. As for the pickup, he simply ran out of money lol. He's going to buy a neck pickup within the next month or 2 and have me throw it in there for him.

I'll throw one in for this month. I just finished this one up this week and got my photos from the photographer back today. This was a build for a local guitarist named t.a. Sartain of the band hollow words so it'll get a good run threw often. I really don't wanna see this guitar go because it's probably one of my favorite playing guitars ever, everything just mixes so well together and feels like a million bucks to me. Specs are as follows, •Top Wood: black walnut •Body Wood: Curly maple/bloodwood sandwich •Color: Natural •Body finish: matte, odies oil •Bridge: Evertune •Pickup Configuration: H H •Pickup mounting: direct mount •Bridge Pickup: Bareknuckle juggernaut •Neck pickup: N/a for now •Pickup Color: Black •Controls: 1 Volume / 1 Tone / 3 way toggle •Neck wood: 5 piece maple/walnut/maple/walnut/maple •Neck Finish: Matte, odies oil •Fretboard: dark roasted curly maple •fretboard finish: odies oil •Fretboard Inlays: White side markers •Headstock inlays: Arete mountain inlay in bloodwood •Neck Shape: Thin D shape, •Neck thickness: .800 1st fret/.830 12th fret •fretboard Radius: 14" •Scale Length: 27" •Frets: stainless steel •Nut: Graphtech tusq xl •Nut Width: 1.693" (43mm) •Tuners: hipshot open gear locking tuners •Hardware: Black •Weight: 6.5 pounds

This ones been fun but I'm ready to see it go to its new home! He will be picking it up tomorrow so I'm eager to see how he likes it. Im having the professional photos done right now so I'll post those up with specs here in a couple days.

Thank you dudes! It's much appreciated and I'm glad y'all like it.

Thanks andyjr1515 and mr natural!! I really appreciate it. And to everyone who voted for it. That was a really tuff month!