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Oh yeah, you can def play a V sitting down, you just need to hold it like a classical guitar.

Wings are white ash, just have some spalting in them. Fretboard is zebrano. I'll need to order the neck wood next.

Some kind of a heavy metal triangle idea anyway. Wings rough cut. They have such nice figure I'm tempted to try how it looks all natural.

Here's as far it's going to go in my hands, friend wants to mess around with the wiring options so he'll do those. I'll do the control cavity cover once I get the plastic in the mail.

Time to get this one done! Nut filed, just the fret crown and polish and control cavity cover left.

Thanks! It's laser printer on waterslide paper.

Haven't updated this build in a while, but made steady progress regadless. Frets installed, neck shaped and dyed. Shellac plus three coats of oil, logo done and 10 coats of nitro sprayed. Now we wait. Frets installed Neck shaped Couple coats green dye The way shellac enhances the grain is really hard to capture on photos, it glimmers in a 3D way. Last coat of oil Nitro went pretty well, not much sanding to do before final polish.

My fourth build, "the Ochre Owl" or "Carrot", can't decide which is better. 25.5" scale superstrat Ash body, flame maple top, flame maple control cover, ebony board, Schaller tuners and bridge, EMG 85/60, pretty normal stuff. Satin oil finish, alcohol dyes. My fourth build so far, I wanted to push myself further with this. First tilted headstock, binding. Took some inspiration from Blackmachine B2 model. Neck profile is stolen from ESP Horizon, board is 10"-14" compound radius. Build thread: https://www.projectguitar.com/forums/topic/54166-couple-superstrats-coming-along Sound (and visuals):

Yeah I expected the dye to lift a bit since the shellac was soluted in IPA. I agree the color came out pretty nice, very organic. Great info for future use there Prostheta, thanks!

Thanks! I quite like how it turned out. Applying shellac sucked some of the dye out but I think it improved the look.

Sanded the green back to 320 grit, dyed again with less blotchiness, shellac and couple coats of oil on now. The ss frets I got from my friend for the guitar were ready cut pieces with no radius. Hmm. Let's see how a small amount of Titebond on the tang plus clamps for 30 minutes works. So far so good, pretty slow going though.

You're in luck since I happened by a manufacturer just yesterday, and they're german. https://www.carsystem.org/produkte/detail/abdecken/fine-line-tape-blue-spedzialabdeckband

Green guitar moved forward again! Knob positions and control cavity done, new fretboard installed and body dyed green. I'll have to sand it back, missed a couple scratches. Dye is a bit blotchy too.

My fourth build, "the Ochre Owl" or "Carrot", can't decide which is better. 25.5" scale superstrat Ash body, flame maple top, flame maple control cover, ebony board, Schaller tuners and bridge, EMG 85/60, pretty normal stuff. Satin oil finish, alcohol dyes. Started building guitars thanks to having extra time on my hands since the apocalypse happened. I run a small indie record label and put up my work shop in the label stock room. I'm building two of these right now, this one's mine, another one, a green version on the way for a friend. I used JEM templates for the body, and some inspiration from Blackmachine. Haven't done a tilted headstock or bound fretboards before, it went pretty well I'd say! Definitely will be doing these more. Neck profile is stolen from ESP, board is 10"-14" compound radius. Build thread Sound (and visuals):

Thanks guys! It's my Kemper, profile I made of the rackmount Dual Rectifier I had. Profiling setup : Maxon OD9->Dual Rec->Matamp OS 2x12 V30->Great River mic pre->Kemper

Fine, just for you I created a channel.

I don't have Yootoob so here's a fb video. Always wanted to learn to play this song, finally after 16 years I got around to it. https://fb.watch/8dx6nmbh-N/

If you're operating a lathe or drill press then obviously don't use gloves. Or long sleeves. Or long hair. With a router or angle grinder personally I feel safer since it's rotating fast enough so the gloves get torn first as a warning sign before you cut yourself. I couldn't find a definite answer though, so YMMV.

I've felt much safer with the piece steady against the table rather than the router clumsily around corners. One mistep and the bit is in your groin. I always position the workpiece and my hands so that catching is minimized as a risk, plus I wear heavy gloves. I've worked as a sheet metal worker in power plants, and many times having that small extra bit of protection has saved my hands. The plate has multiple screw hole locations on the underside that you can drill through. It fit my Katsu router nicely, which I believe is the same size as Makita RT0700.

I had a few similar experiences with the router biting bits of template when having a slight lapse of concentration. I fixed this by installing the router into a cabinet, much safer and easier this way, imho. Got a free cabinet from classifieds, routed a cavity for this plate: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000283280834.html

Some Fear Factory nostalgia to celebrate completion. https://soundcloud.com/nakedzen/lumiaalto-004-fear-factory

Thanks! Not perfect but always improving my skills.

Exactly what I was going for!

I've been lurking in that thread, very nice. Here's a bunch of promo pics of the end result.

Sure is! I'm very much an outdoors type of person. It's also the name of my record label translated to finnish. (Snow Wave Records)