mistermikev

so... just wanted to take a moment to appreciate this tool: leftover from my days working with laminate. have had it for 20+ years now. I don't do laminate anymore, but for applying any tape... man this makes it stick soo much better! doh, so this is how I will process my headstock. learned a lot on this build. started this eons ago - before the two teles and first time doing an angled headstock on my machine. also my machine is only 23.5" of workspace and this is a 35" scale neck... so challenges upon challenges. I learned that, for this style of neck - a scarf joint - it doesn't make any sense to try to do your design including the angle. my original design did... and ended up breaking it down into 3 pieces... and treating them as two .9" thick pieces and one .625" thick headstock. different zero points on each. anywho... hold my beer I'm going to go try something!

thank you sir. slowly but surely.

little progress today... got my prototype neck here on my 'final product' body. super thin profile - had a lot of concerns about rigidity. idk if it's the sapelle/oak or the carbon fiber reinforcement... but feels incredibly rigid. everything fits good so... process the headstock and then on to the purple-heart/maple version.

you must be the hardest working guy in the biz. constantly cranking out stuff that is breathtaking. I very much admire that about you. very inspiring.

love that you did your own pickups here-bravo! coming along nicely too. rawk on.

my initial thoughts were 'looks like there is going to be some really pretty wood revealed under there'... not disappointed. very sharp build.

can't wait to see that giant inlay... for once I can look at a tittie on the internet and not have my wife get mad lolz. looking nice.

wow, some very clean work there. nice job.

sounds like a winner... look fwd to seeing it come to fruition.

you know me... always trying to throw a wrench into your designs lol! clear epoxy edge? epoxy holes so you could see the branches through the top? Well perhaps someday if I do one that will be what I'll do. Your stuff is always inspiring!

wow, with the "live edge" on that top... really looks like a tree... but sort of an artistic tree. noice.

now that you mention it... I do recall something about that. was just thinking it'd be cool to see those tree limbs from the top down but even cooler to have a sweet burl there. looking fwd to seeing that. again, nice job.

wow, the delicate branches... vcool. are you doing some sort of glass top for this? really emerging. nice work.

i get a lot of ideas from daydreams. meandering thoughts. upholstered guitar - on the one hand crazy, on the other- not as crazy as you might think. I guess not really upholstery but the pink paisley is certainly similar. similarly the jem 77fp used fabric intended for curtains. zztop had someone create a furr guitar... altho also tech not upholstery. i believe fender did a tweed/deluxe tele quite a few years ago and I have seen several since including one of the members here who recently did a lovely tweed tele. pretty sure there is a high end builder who did a silk dragon fabric top guitar but his name escapes me. Starts with "R"? Have often thought of doing a jem and using some sort of silk flower fabric... would be pretty cool. I will def follow your thread if you do so... looking fwd to seeing what avenue you take.

yes... congrats!!

looks pretty sharp. that faux paua binding against that top(dark flamed maple? walnut?). nice job.

if someone can steal your design just by looking at your guitar... then it likely isn't that unique. I probably wouldn't hand out my cnc files... but I've provided enough documentation on most of what I've built that if someone had moderate skills they could most certainly do what I've done. I think that you are only as good as your next idea and there is almost nothing that one could give away afa guitar building that someone else couldn't figure out on their own. most the wiring is so simple you couldn't even copyright it if you wanted to. about the only thing you COULD preserve is your own headstock design or perhaps a unique shape... but even then all someone else would have to do is make a slight variation on it and it's likely not going to be worth it for you to go after them. I think the things that make a builder really great are within that builder and it'd be next to impossible to steal that. better to concentrate on making the best guitar in the world!

Would it help w safety? i dunno. it would help w smoothness of the curve... but it is already going to require a fairly long bit... and afa I know 2.5" is about as long as you are going to find and as factor in the base plate of the router, and how much of the bit would be exposed as you raise up the edge of the router my guess is it is going to barely be practical as is. but whatdoiknow lol.

i don't think there would be any easy ways to do it... at least not that I can think of. I would think you'd need to build a jig that is sort of like a ramp at one end that would lift one side of the router up as you approach the pull out spot. the trick would be that you need to ramp out... and then hold the router there as you shut it down... which is a fairly dangerous/precarious position... or perhaps carefully lift it off the jig once the bit exits. that's the best I can think of.

if you are getting his when you touch the strings... r u sure you didn't wire your output jack backwards? double check that. make sure the neg is going to the ring and the pos going to the tip. also make sure it isn't making contact with anything.

"so yer sayin' there's a chance"...

yes, our dog is just a rat terrier... but she gets those duck treats in her and lookout. my wife did laugh hehe. btw I hope on this project... maybe this is the one you will leave it all "bumpy"? I know, I know... it'll look cool smoothed out too... but it looks really great and you can see a thousand chisel strikes right there in the piece.

hehe... you don't make it to 35 years without some farts lol. Have only made it (carry the one) 27 here but in that time I've realized that there is always going to be one of two that will want more sex, one of two who will do all the cleaning, one of two who will spend all the money, one of two who is responsible and does the bookkeeping... and if you are lucky you get to see that flipped back and forth between the two. that said, I have pretty consistently been the farter, but lately our dog has been giving me a hellofa run for my money. haha! I hope you won't mind that I share your story w my wife lolz. also... table is coming along right nicely.

well earned, congrats!

congratulations on gotm win!