Robert Irizarry

Mick - that's beautiful! Regards, Rob

Incredible! More pics please! Regards, Rob

Both hands since I was about seven. Regards, Rob

+1. Nice work... Regards, Rob

Congrats on your first build! You should be proud. Regards, Rob

You have not gone insane. A $6300 price tag? I took a look - I don't see what I or anyone else would be paying for here. And, I'm with you - quite a few here could build this for a fraction of the cost. And, don't get me started on the Blackie replicas. Regards, Rob

I like it! I'm a fan of headless designs and its also nice to see something other than the usual. The bridge looks like an ABM headless to me... Regards, Rob

Sounds great. Would you please share that information once you get it? Regards, Rob

While investigating headless guitar resources, I contacted Moses Graphite about their necks. During those discussions, they indicated that the ABM bridge is compatible with Strat type necks. I wrote about it - here An Allparts dealer can get you the ABM bridge. In the past I've dealt with Mammoth Guitars and was very happy with them. (Mammoth Guitars also participates on Project Guitar, btw.) Regards, Rob

Here is a guitar built by Chris Shaffer over at Kronosonic that uses an ABM bridge with a Kahler nut: Regards, Rob

Link works great! Rob

Flickr.com and Photobucket.com are both very good and free. I started on Photobucket but lately have been making more use of Flickr. Regards, Rob

Yes it will work. I've seen several examples of its use with several different approaches to headless designs: A Spanish guitar builder (Cotta Guitars) used it with a Steinberger bridge on a Klein electric clone. Luthier Todd Keehn uses a locking nut in combination with "conventional" tuners mounted at the bridge side (Steinberger gearless tuners on his personal guitar. I posted about it on my blog back in September - Alternative Headless Guitar Design- TK Instruments. Personally, I think this is a great solution that frees you to use a wider variety of bridges, necks, strings, etc. I'm looking at this for a future build. My current build uses a Steinberger bridge and headpiece. Regards, Rob

If I'm not mistaken, the ABM headpiece is for use with doubleball end strings only. You could use a Floyd style or Kahler style locking nut instead which I've seen used on several headless guitars. Regards, Rob

+1 Take a look at TK Instruments' implementation using Steinberger Tuners - nice straight paths - Alternative Headless Guitar Design - TK Instruments. I'm considering this solution for my next build. Rob

The bridge and neck have been on for the last couple of days so I can check on the largely complete comfort contours. Over the next week, I'll be routing for the control cavity and pickups. Rob

Eko - Melvyn's book is popular among the PG Forum crowd but Martin Koch's book is also excellent.

Brian's idea for an Industry section for the forum is great. Other industries have found a way to tap the enthusiast market that thrives on specialized and/or high end components and this seems lacking with guitars. Think about the number of car enthusiasts, diy'ers and computer geeks (myself included) who like to build things to their own specs and you get an inkling of what might unfold over the long term. In terms of making this a paid subscriber service, I think it's a bad idea. The board, in part, thrives because of the input of new blood and making this a pay for site would discourage much of that. Yes, there's a bit of noise on the forum but I'd rather deal with that than see the board turn away a potential good idea or fresh perspective. In the end, I'm excited over Brian's ideas to grow the forum further and come 2007, I will be there with my donation to help continue to support the site. Rob

Um, looks like you've pointed to a default page on myspace. Go back to your myspace page - along the left hand side you should see a box called "Tell People About Your Myspace". Under that heading are the urls that you should give out to point people to you.

I'll throw in my vote for the Dewalt router as well. After going over a number of reviews and checking out the features on the different brands, I bought one of these. It was certainly more expensive than some of the low end routers. However, I decided it was best to spend some money on the one power tool I'll be making extensive use of during a guitar build.

The spinning strap is available from Wittman-Spins.

You can use any number of image tools to resize it. Irfanview is a good choice - its fast, easy, free and devoid of spyware. You can download it from their home page. Install it and open your image in Irfanview. Go to the Image menu and choose Resize/Resample... On the left hand side, you can choose specific dimensions while on the right hand side you can choose some standard dimensions. Choose the new dimensions and then re-upload the image. If you delete the existing one and use the same name for the new one, you shouldn't have to replace the link you use in your post to show the image. Hope that helps and nice work btw.

Very nice work! Any pics of the construction?

I recently purchased a 2" cutting length flush trim bit from MLCS Woodworking that I used on my guitar build project. Its from their Katana line and it cost $21. Click here to go to the specific page.

It's called Tru-oil. Walmart probably carries it - at least in these parts.