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  1. Here you go Demiurge,they say a picture's worth a thousand words so I've taken it apart just for you ( how good am I )

    The strip round the side is glued on and the front and back panels are held on with 66 stainless button head screws

    drilled and tapped into the ash frame.

    Aluminium is a bitch to work on as its scratches so easily and you cant just sand it down like wooda.jpg

  2. Heres the final episode in my trilogy

    This ones called the Terminator and was built for my son who's a Muse fan.

    It has a through neck of mahogany and a frame 3/4" wide of ash to support the aluminium skin which is 0.05" thick

    I've used Sperzel non locking tuners and a Floyd Rose trem in satin chrome to go with the brushed finish on the body.

    Bridge pickup is from a PRS Santana and at the neck there is a Fernandez sustainer.

    It also has a built in overdrive.

    terminator.jpg

  3. thanks for the feedback ,

    the bridge is one I ordered from an ebay store in the USA trouble is I can't remember which one . I'll look through my records and see if I can find out for you . The quality wasn't wonderfull but it was ok .

    The trussrod cover is made from the same rosewood as the fretboard and help on with double sided adhesive tape.

    I've almost finished a full sized twin pickup version of this guitar so I'll post pics as soon as it's done

  4. I seem to remember seeing a kit for doing this sort of thing at our local craft supply store.

    It was called marbling or marblizing or something like that.

    I had some panels done a long time ago by a guy who painted wood to look like marble.

    He started with a dark blue basecoat then painted veins into it using oil based paint, applied with the tip of a feather, next he flicked white spirit all over it and smudged it all about using a large very soft badger hair brush.

    the whole thing was then coated in varnish after a couple of days drying time.

    All the time he was painting he had a pint of beer in his left hand, said it was to balance out the weight of the feather ! all I know is that after doing 8- 8' x 4' panels the effect became much more random

  5. 32 years ago to be precice,

    I recently did a refinish/refit on this one so I thought I'd share it with you

    As you can see it"s a blatent rip off of the yamaha sg2000 shape (only chosen because santana was playing one at the time and he's the man)

    the neck I took off an old Eko guitar I bought off a friend for £15 - one day I'll get round to making a new one for it.

    body is a nice piece of mahogany that I put a subtle arch in the top of - I'm not sure if that shows in the photo.

    the pickups are Mighty Mite Motherbuckers

    scale length is 24.75"

    when I made this the only power tool I had was an electric drill so it was a lot of hard work

    this was the second guitar I built, the first was a school project bass made from plywood , it has a piece of steel bar 1/2" x 1/4" instead of a truss rod (at the time I didnt know what one was - or the concept of neck angle for that matter )

    and featured 1/2 " action!! it was totally unplayable and came to an untimely end during a Hendrix impression.

    That concludes part 2 of my trilogy what do you think?

    Coming soon to a screen near you THE TERMINATOR

    ( you may not like this one so much)sg.jpg

  6. on the design side I tried not to copy any existing style but if youlook in guitar books

    it's very difficult not to come up with something that looks a bit like another guitar.

    the upper fret access is a bit limited as the guitar is actually about 7/8 scale. it has a scale length of 24.75"

    and in order to reduce the reach to the first fret for her (only 10 remember so a small rock godess ) I set the neck into the body a bit morre than usual. I guess I could have cut away the lower horn more but didnt want to compromise the design. Also I wanted to keep it as simple as poss -1 pickup (kent armstrong super distortion) and wraparound bridge to keep it light and cheap.

    thanks for the comments guy keep em coming

  7. The finish is melamine lacquer which is applied with a cloth and buffed to a shine.

    As for not playing I can make noises but if you asked me to play a tune I couldn't.

    I built my first guitar 30 years ago and told myself if I built one I'd learn to play it but I

    guess I just never did and that guitar ended up in the loft untll 3 years ago when my son wante to learn.

    Since then I've done 4 more so stay tuned as they say !

    I showed this pic to a client of mine recently and he said "why would you bother to make it when you can just go to a shop and buy one?"

    and you thought all the philistines were long dead

  8. thanks for the thumbs up guys,

    the wood for the neck was in my dads garden shed for 40 years so I liberated it for the project and found the knot when I started work and thought I'd leave it there as a sort of logo

    the total cost of this project came to £96 thanks to ebay and wood scrounging.

    I'e got no sound clips cause I gave it away and ( confession time ) I can't play !

  9. Ok guys its time to stand up and be counted.

    Last year a friend of mine gave me a piece of ash that used to be a step in his photo studio so in return I made the Mollycaster as a surprise 10th birthday present for his daughter and here it is . your comments would be appreciated.

    The step was large enough for 4 guitars and i've just started the last of them.mollycaster.jpg

  10. Hi Tegro, first off cool shape, nice to see you didnt go for a stratoclone !

    I'd like to suggest a way of fastening your wings on a bit more securely than with biscuits. If you rout a pocket in the top surface of your back half and the underside of your front half you will then have a socket into which you can glue a 'super biscuit' made from one of your offcuts ( make this as long and as wide as you can ). If you do this on both the wing and the body you will in effect create a mortice and tennon joint which should be strong enough as long as the grain on the super biscuit is perpendicular to the joint. - keep up the good work

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