Scott French

LC Guitar... this is one of the ugliest instruments I've seen in a long time. That being said it is so weird and unique that it gets my vote this time.

Thanks, guys! Getting closer!

Spent the day sanding and got the first coat of oil applied.

My GS Mini has some little plastic clip on the inside of the waist on the bass side, anyone know what it's there for?

Likely to hold a wire for pickup/preamp/battery.

I have two... the big one I used a lot, the small one I never use. I'll check when I get home.

Already started moving some of this to eBay. If interested in anything speak up!

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74 Straight Abalone Strips

95% sure these are Paua.

1" long x .1" wide

Retail: $90ish

Asking: $45.00 shipped!

Ambrosia/Spalted Maple Top

Super thick for carving.

22.5" x 14.75" x 1.125"

Sold

Sperzel Trimlock Tuners, Black, 3+3, #5 Button

Brand new

Retail: $70ish

Sold!

Used Black Bass Tuners 4 Inline

Not sure the brand, probably Schaller

Heavy and smooth, decent plating with some dings and chips.

Asking: $25.00 shipped! (heavy)

Seymour Duncan Humbuckers

Retail: $75ish

SH2-N Jazz w/SD Logo - Slightly used, drawer wear: $35.00 shipped!

SH2-N Jazz no Logo - New but drawer worn: $35.00 shipped!

SH2-N Jazz no Logo - New w/plastic: Sold

SH3 Stag Mag - New slight wear: $40.00 shipped!

Tons of blend pots, Chrome 3TDP Switches, Barrel Jacks, Dunlop Strap Locks, etc.

Make an offer on any of this stuff. I also have a ton of 500k Alps and super mini 500k audio pots that I'm no longer using if anyone is interested.

Barrel Jacks, mini switches and strap locks are sold.

I have so much stuff sitting around my garage that I can no longer bring myself to buy new things to try. That's a problem as I'm always finding new stuff I want to check out! If I were still selling guitars with any regularity it would probably be much easier to rationalize all this stock, but for now it just seems silly. I've gone through and done a first round of culling my inventory. Hopefully I'll be able to try some new stuff soon! I'm looking forward to trying the new Hipshot "D" style bass bridges.

All prices below include USPS Priority mail shipping to the continental USA unless noted otherwise. Any other location send me an email.

Hipshot "A" Style 6-String Bass Bridge

Spacing: .708 String Spacing

Material: Brass

Color/Finish: Chrome

New Condition, screws/allen wrench included.

Retail: $151.80

Asking: $75.00 shipped!

Precision Electronics 500K Audio Taper Pots

Full tech specs: http://parts.digikey.com/1/parts/737948-pot-500k-ohm-2w-log-taper-ka5041s28.html

These are big, heavy, smooth, Canadian made pots. This is my go-to pot now but I bought a big pile of them.

New condition, still in plastic.

Retail: $12.12

Asking: $10.00 each shipped!

Bartolini Split J & Musicman Pickups in Custom Ebony Covers

Handmade ebony covers, unfinished, corners are still square. Radiused tops. I think these are the first covers I ever built so they are a little funky. Still worth saving if interested. I just don't want those giant things on ant of my basses.

Pickups have never been used but these are showing "drawer" wear after so many years getting shuffled around.

Retail: The pickups alone are over $200 plus the covers.

Asking: $125 for the set shipped!

I have more stuff, will post when I get home later.

You can never have too many clamps.

Thanks to everyone who voted the SF3co prototype GOTM for March!

Looks awesome! I've been facinated by your guitars ever since I saw Spencer's beard bursted SF guitar

Thanks, Manet!

This is an old company that's made a lot of instruments (and a few of them have helped directly affect the course of musical history). My guess is once you find a formula that works you might be hesitant to change it. There's also a lot of buyers out there that want the "authentic" original product and watching the video gives me no reason to doubt McCartney's bass was built in a VERY similar manner, possibly with some of the same jigs and tooling.

Why are these guys so fast/good? They are factory workers! They have a quota to fulfill and each person is responsible for a single task or small range of tasks. I worked with a few ex-Gibson Custom Shop employees years ago at First Act. These guys were insanely fast and efficient at certain tasks because they had come up through the factory doing that work all day every day for years. A few people might make it all the way to the custom shop and eventually be responsible for an entire instrument from beginning to end. They always made a delineation between the factory people and the custom shop people though... you might spend 30 years installing frets and get very good at it, but that doesn't necessarily make you a guitar builder.

I'm with Prostheta, most of these hand methods aren't worth the risk in my book, but I am impressed with the skill, history and the system that these guys are working inside of.

I would love to be proven wrong but pretty sure those Musician Friend specials are not German made.

I watched this the other day. Very inspiring!

Not sure about the magnets but my guess is it would not be a big deal if they touched the grounding paint. I'm pretty sure the one I did with magnets would have been touching as I have no memory of sealing them away after installation. As far as the paint goes keep mind there are different types and they will behave differently. I had a lot of problems with the waterbased stuff from Stewmac being wimpy (scrape/chip off) and in one case popping a glue joint in a hollow guitar. I moved over to the acrylic/nickel stuff and it is much more robust. I still do some form of star grounding in addition to the shielding paint as you know even the most robust paint will wear off in the area where the pot meets the hole over time. I've never noticed any negative effects from doing both.

Not sure if this related but sections 2008 through 2012 of the gallery area are returning 404 errors (missing file).

http://www.projectguitar.com/menu/gallery.htm

That is so unbelievably cool Mr. French. You gonna do a production run of these as well? I'd think headless, reclaimed wood guitars would be pretty sweet.

Thanks! I'm not doing production runs of anything though. I'm happy if I can get 4-6 hours in the shop every third weekend. I doubt I will take these in the eco direction. Too much of the hardware is either imported and/or plated and that doesn't really fit the vibe for the SF3co guitars. I do want to do an SF3co bass at some point though.

Holy crap, that's one of the nicest travel guitars I've ever seen. I love the smooth, flowing design. WANT!

Easily the coolest headless iv ever seen in my entire life.

Its things like this that keep me coming to this forum

I love the neck join and carve. These are almost more artwork than guitar. From the rear they look like a sculpture of a candle flame.

Thanks a lot, guys!

Wow...what's the scale???

I'll have to check when I get home, I started this a long time ago and can't remember. It's definitely a full guitar scale. The first one was 25.5"

Love the black limba, I wish I knew where the he'll I could buy that stuff from.

I really like the carve of your heel, but where ghat little bit doesn't line up keeps catching my eye.

Your original one looks quite tasteful also. Very nice selection of timbers

Thanks!

Not sure about the current supply but in the past I've got it from the local hardwood store, Woodworker's Source, Gilmer and Gallery Hardwoods.

I you're talking about the little block between the body and neck it drives me crazy too. I thought I had it lined up right but when I started carving it slowly went more and more out of alignment. Bummer!

Here's a few pics of the first one as I'm too lazy to describe the system above.

Custom knobs, pickup rings and 3-way switch button by David King. I've made knobs and rings in the past but it's such a pain in the ass I'm willing to part with a few bucks to avoid the hassle. David King does awesome work and is pretty quick so I'm happy to send stuff his way.

Custom gig bag by Glenn Cronkhite in Berkeley.

Hey Y'all,

I'm finishing up my last custom ordered guitar. I figured I'd show it off as it's getting close to completion and has some weird stuff going on. I did one like this a few years back and I'm pretty sure it won GOTM. I'll post some pics of that one later on but for now here's the new one.

Front:

Black limba body and neck, claro walnut top. Steinberger tuners on the body with the ball ends at the headstock like the first one. I did a few things different on this one, the big one being combining the belly carve and heel into one big weird carve.

Starting to plan the carve...

Roughed out... first on the end of the edge sander then rasps, files, palm planer, scrapers, and finally rough sand paper.

Final product, a little weird but I'm pretty happy with it.