Gogzs

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

4 hours ago, JayT said:

All great entries, but gotta pick one. I'm a sucker for uncommon/unique body shapes so @Gogzs narrowly got my vote over  @Andyjr1515 ... cheers to all! Beautiful & inspirational work all around

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! 

On 3/22/2020 at 4:39 PM, argytar said:

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!

19 hours ago, komodo said:

You aren't wrong!

 I will spend a good while examining how pieces fit next to each other, and filing them so the transitions are better. Also, smoothing curves that are easy to see now, but not when doing the single piece. You can see things in the pictures that is apparent, but in person the pieces are very small and it's not apparent. 

Then, the excavation. There is no way to get this to a Larry Robinson level where the pieces snap in (!) . . . I will be lucky to not make a mess of it. The real trick here is the complexity of the center bit and not blowing out brittle chunks of negative area, as well as having each piece aligned just right. I've got the ebony dust - CA fill tricks to back me up, but the goal is for that to be as minimal as possible. 

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  

6 hours ago, JayT said:

Question, what type of glue did you use?

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  

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