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Well deserved, what an amazing display of craftsmanship. Cheers!

I'm glad I finished mine last month and lost in a blaze of glory. This month is really next level, awesome job everyone

Transition from dyed shiny top to raw edges, just wow. And yeah, the purple is something else, amazing builds.

Now, the templates for the top carve are something, awesome. I'll have to look up some of your older builds, I love where and how this is going. Love your take on the "Les Paul", godspeed!

Hot damn, there is so much to like about these. I'm surprised to see some details I drew up on my sketches but didnt knew if they would work. One of those details are the "pickup rings" that aren't really rings but just two "rails" on the sides. Love how it looks, definitely going for that as well. Where from Croatia are you? Can I stop by your shop and see them in person?

Those renders look a bit unrealistic, tone down the amount of reflections and I might believe it's real but seriously, wow.

Clean sweep, well deserved! Congrats man

This is exactly the method I found on this forum and used on my build, works like a charm. You don't accumulate errors by using calipers from fret to fret. Great tutorial with nice pictures, I'm putting this one into my favourites so if someone asks me how I did the frets, I can link them this

I was sure I'd have an easy time voting when @Andyjr1515 submitted his SG, but then you finished both Teetotalers and @ShatnersBassoon resubmitted his awesome headless build. Ahhhh...

Glad to see this is back on track, godspeed mate, can't wait to see this!

This is still one of my favorite pictures I've seen around here. So raw to the point I thought you were joking haha. Turned out so great. Looks awesome, and sounds even better, props!

Yeah, filing them down to perfection is one issue now, marking and excavation another. And with such fine details, even the smallest offset will be like a punch in the face. This is nuts on so many levels, I'm sure it'll look stunning, but damn man...

Wow, looks like the easy part is done

Wow, the pink one looks really nice actually. Great job on both of them. As @Bizman62 said (minus the visible bellybutton and pony tails)... I'd slap a sticker or two on it and play some Dead Kennedys

I'd also recommend going to music shops and trying out everything they have, that's what I did before building mine. The only thing I can't get my hands on is a Strandberg with the odd asymmetric neck shape. I imagine it could be comfortable, but I don't wanna put all the effort into making a neck like that just to figure out I don't like it. So yeah, go out and try a lot of guitars.

That's a very nice process of figuring where the strap button go. Can't wait to hear it play.

Amazing job, I feel underdressed for this thread. Very classy, props!

This should be illegal, I need to find where I can file complains. Awesome job!

Damn, there's a lot to like about the work so far and get excited to see it done. Definitively following this one closely

I used universal glue from Pattafix but just like @Bizman62 said, I'm pretty sure lacquer would be enough as well, just give it a bit more time to cure and it'll be hard to peel off. It's not like the shielding will be put under lots of stress and stuff, so any decent universal glue should do the trick.

Yeah, I have a cutting board and when I knock on it it sounds very bright, could be interesting, even tho, in the end the pickups are mostly responsible for the sound from what I've seen, but that's not the point of this debate. I also know the dark boards are light boards heated so they get dark, it doesn't change the properties, just aesthetics. I'm just wondering how I should lay the grain to get the most out of it for the neck, but seems to be no problem if the grain goes in the direction of the neck. Looked also into the Yamaha ones, they had 2 acoustic models, interesting... I'll probably be ordering the material in the upcoming days and go for it... I'll have a really stylish cutting board if it fails completely haha.

Hey folks, I'm looking around for wood for my second build, and bumped into bamboo. First I was looking at it for the fretboard, and I'm pretty sure it would be suitable for that. Started searching around and found some archived threads showing that there are companies building sticks completely from bamboo. The material in question is: https://www.designholz.com/product/Solid-Wood/Bamboo/Bamboo-black-board-Schokoboo-Schokowood-121x40cm-17mm.html https://www.designholz.com/product/Solid-Wood/Bamboo/Bamboo-board-caramel-121x20cm-19mm.html I'd laminate stripes of the light and dark one for the neck (building a neck through again) and for the wings I'd laminate a 14mm dark board on the bottom, to a 14mm light board in the middle and something more natural for the top that would be 5-7mm. So all together I'd get 33-35mm thick core, and again, I'd go the same way like my last build, and contour it and make it thin around the edges so even with the bamboo density, it shouldn't be too heavy. So the question is, do I need to take anything else into consideration when it comes to the neck? http://stick.com/instruments/sg12/ Looking at this, I'm pretty confident it would hold up the tension of 6 strings without having some wild deformations. Some rough sketches in paint, it wouldn't be headless, I just couldn't be bothered drawing the headstock. So yeah, build #2 is officially starting

Name: Prcknow R.S. Hey folks, here's my first build ever. With little prior woodworking experience, it's been a wild ride but I'm extremely happy with the result. I decided to name it Prcknow (derived from the Croatian word "prkno" that is slang word for ass...) because whenever I brought the topic of building a guitar among friends, the joke was "if you build it, it'll sound like ass" hence the name. R.S. stands for "racing stripes", just like on racing cars, the racing stripes along the neck/body make you play faster haha. (lame jokes among friends, but oh well...) The whole journey was documented here: Neck-trough part is made by laminating wenge and pear stripes, the wings are mahogany. Neck thickness is 20mm at the 1st fret, 21.5mm at the 12th fret but around the 16th-17th it starts getting thicker a little bit faster. I always felt I didn't have anything to hold onto while bending strings at the upper registers hence why I made it to start getting thicker towards that end (we're talking about 24mm at the 17th fret, so not extreme, but nicely noticable). Fretboard radius is 10". The inlays are made from the same pear, positioned above the neck stripes, to make it look like they are showing through the rosewood. Body wise, I tried to keep it pretty slim, the body is 36mm at the thickest part around the pickups, going down to 13-15mm at the edges. It balances pretty well (center of mass is around the neck heel joint, a bit towards the body) so no noticeable neck dive. Picture of the back side + neck: Hardware wise I used a Schaller bridge, Kluson tuners, Graph Tech Black Tusq nut, Fender standard frets, Q-Parts Dome Potiknob with the Celtic weave and Göldo string trees with the rollers. Tendency was that all hardware is black. Electronics wise, the pots and mini toggle is from Göldo, Dimarzio X2N and D'Activator pickups and a Göldo audio jack accessable from the top. No problems plugging/unpluggin cables. The volume pot is a pull/push one, so there are 6 configurations all together: Volume pot pushed down: Neck, Neck + Bridge, Bridge, Volume pot pulled out splits the coils: Split Neck (with the coil closer to the neck working), Split Neck + Split Bridge, Split Bridge (with the coil towards the bridge working). It was all finished with minwax wipe-on poly, with the front in a full shiny mirror finish, while the back side was made to be more of a satin feel so the hand slides nice along the neck. I will try to get a video demo of it playing, really happy with the sound, the DiMarzios scream pretty wild, but can deliver surprisingly nice clean tones as well.

Yeah, works like a charm, just make sure to get it over the edges and on the pickguard, so when you screw it down it makes a full enclosure.

I catch myself staring at the top, just to snap out of it, wondering how long I was gone. 11/10, will stare at it again when I finish with work