Dan Salter

I knew this was gonna turn out sweet, im all for the classy, vintage vibe...not into radical stuff...

The faded burst worked out beautiful and the pickguard rocks.

Nice one mate

Dan

Looking good mate and i havent got round to saying well done on winning the battle of the wenge guitars !

:-)

Never gold....Never never never...it is gross and should be banned from use on any guitar ! ha ha

(ok ill forgive SRV's strat) ;-)

I voted chrome of course...chrome or nickel preferably or satin nickel but would need to see what style of guitar it is? trad vintage style or some weirdy modern design?

Oh is it over ha ha? i didnt even know...i thought it ran for a month till the next one starts..

oh ok cool i guess i came third then ! im happy with that thanks everyone

Dan ;-)

What about your real name?

I always wish people would put their real names at least in their signiture or something, cos I feel silly addressing a post to some made up name like 'Mr Taco'!

Like i have you mean? ;-)

Personally i hate godin guitars ( the real ones) so anything other than that is progress ! I know you as the "milk dud" guy so maybe thats the winner? Didnt even know what a milk did was till last week...

But i still think people should just use their real names its not 1981 anymore CB handles are dead guys !...but if we are going back in time then you all need to start calling me "Little legs" ;-)

Breaker breaker 1 - 9 Rubber Ducky...we got ourselves a CONVOY ,......Purlease !

Not my taste...reminds me of an e number packed sugar coated marzipan infused childrens birthday cake !! lol...what acid were you on at the time of building?...

...and that wont happen till my old mum buys a new house and lets me put one in her garden !...shoudl be later this year sometime.

Mickguard " Yeah, I solved this problem by just leaving my old mom and getting a wife. Of course, she sometimes try to act like my new mom, but that's just the way wives are. At least, this is my place, I do what I want. "

I knew as soon as i posted this that someone would presume i am still living with my mum...not so...bought my first house at 22 !!....but admit no i havent got me a wifey yet.

Funny thing is....i AM going to move back with my mother this year...long story...my "not so nice" step father and mother have finally decided to split....im desperate for my own workshop and to try and make a go of it with a small guitar building/maintenance/repair workshop...cant afford to pay my rent and do it so moving back with mum, getting workshop in her land and trying to get the thing off the ground ...once its hopefully ticking over will look to move into my own flat/appartment again ( or whatever you yanks call it)

my two penneth...

Since i saw the link for these asian guitars yesterday i have been pouring over the site....That green les paul is stunning...soooo much so its now my desktop background and also "I must build a green top les paul" is on the list.

Im a real "vintage/trad" kinda guy....Gibson, fender, les pauls, strats, and teles....and other gibbos....im not a fan of the PRS brigade....but ...some of the guitars on that asian site look amazing...and ok so its off from tradition but that green trans, blue trans looks so sweet on the les paul body shape...with the zebra pick ups..

My view...Sure...they are asian....but you can see from the pics they are made well....and my view on cheaper guitars....if they are made of the correct timbers....real maple caps and not veneer etc....then with our "knowledge" and "skills" ( im talking all us budding luthiers) we have the ability to make pretty much any guitar play well, stay in tune and maybe with new pick ups have killer tone.

For $600 ( about £350) i would have one of these guitars....full set up, fret dress, replace pick ups...and for £500 you would have a killer guitar...back up, or something that just looks amazingly COOL for that song or 2 !!

we should all by now with our luthier skills be able to pick up say a Squier or jap fender and make it play as well as a US built guitar? ( maybe a debateable example but you get what i mean) or an epiphone to hold up well against a gibbo?.

saying all that....a while ago i very nearly plumped for an xaviere shell top zemaitis style ( Tony came from my neck of the woods as did Sid Poole )...but they seemed too good to be true?...and the headstock looked a bit "cheap"...but again i was happy to spend a couple of hundred quid (pounds) on it...but are they really that bad? anyone played one? is it just bad set up and fretwork? ...are these so called GFS pick ups as good as the hype or terrible?....

and the person that mentioned the Aria...i have a 76 aria pro les paul custom....as a spare/back up for my gibbos...and it handles very well...!..

Start young or don't start at all, dan.

Oh i have started mate ( and finished) ....just on a temporary pause. have big plans this year though ! ;-)

Wow....Ok so we are in a "wenge" battle right now but please remind me not to try and do battle with this one when it turns up in the GOTM !! ...

And i didnt even realise till i saw the pic of your that your just a kid !! make me sick i tell thee....sick !

Nice work fella.

Im getting frustrated i cant start building anything until i have my workshop...and that wont happen till my old mum buys a new house and lets me put one in her garden !...shoudl be later this year sometime.

Dan

You should consider yourself lucky to be grouped with me.

Totally kidding.

Oh i do....you have all the milk duds !

My view on Wenge, even with the fantastic photography, photos don't do this wood justice, up close you just want to take a bite out of this stuff.

Haha why is it each time people list a run through and comment on each guitar they leave me out of it?...lol

Believe you fall under the category of edible wenge.

Thats plain wengist !

Thanks for the votes and the support, I'm very happy to get more than 1 vote with such wonderful guitars up there!

Orgmorg said it best about Setch's "Exceptional detail without overstatement". My view on Wenge, even with the fantastic photography, photos don't do this wood justice, up close you just want to take a bite out of this stuff. Scott, love the design, killer workmanship and the color works for me. South, my first guitar was an SG, good work! Verh, I know some guys around town that would absolutely freak over that guitar!

Haha why is it each time people list a run through and comment on each guitar they leave me out of it?...lol

maybe i entered too late or something and people havent seen my effort? lol ;-)

I agree....I would go with the pick guard...but i would opt for a more trad style lp junior one.

And i agree with mickguard.....either both soapbar or both dogear...never mix styles...

Same with mixing styles of knobs on one guitar? it looks wrong.

Guitar is looking beautiful though ;-)

How about trying a water based stain after the grain filling then oil on top, or leave the grain open for that raw wood look I think that would work well.

The bridge is now fitted

Bridge test fit

and the P90's are test fitted, not yet wired up.

Test fit 1

Looking super sexy now my friend !

Dan,

Really like your LP, but, I had to go with Setch. I hope you're proud of yourself... you and Godin are going to start a run on Wenge and lead to massive deforestation. I wouldn't want that on MY conscience.

Im all for conservation so i pledge for every wenge tree i use i shall plant a les paul in my garden hows that !

I cant believe im "currently" running in 3rd? thats amazing

Thaks to anyone who has voted for my work

Dan

I meant it's bound on top and on the bottom, instead of just the top!

Dont worry....i would have called that double bound too ! ;-)

Anyway....back to the guitars right? ;-)

Dude, so far, I'm loving it. So much so I'm tempted to go look for some spruce for one of my electrics..

Seriously though, consider an angle grinder and a flap disk for top carving. Totally the dog's nethers.

Mattia....I think you mentioned the same thing to me once...can you go into a bit more depth how you carve with this method? obviously im aware what an angle grinder is but whats the flap disk etc...I enjoyed carving my top by hand but like he said anything that makes it easier/quicker less strain on the forearm muscles. ;-)

It's a food, a dark little ball of chewy stuff. In one of my older posts somone said my body shape looks like a milkdud that you chewed up and spit into your hand. Hence the ongoing joke of my milkdude guitar.

Ha ha...so it has "Sucked sweet syndrome" a term i saw on another post ? ;-)

I have only one thing to say to all the "milk dudders"

Thank you that is all.

Dude? i dont even have the first idea what a milk dud is? ( must be a yank thing) but im sure your guitar looks like one anyway? ( kidding) ..

whomever mentioned these wenge tops should have gold hardware obviously has a very sweet tooth and likes sickly stuff?

No, I actually detest gold most of the time. Yet somehow both of my guitars have gold hardware...

It may have just been the lighting in your pictures. If you could get a picture of the top in natural sunlight I might change my mind.

There are 2 or 3 shots in natural light ( from window) in the linked pics. ;-)

Ahhh wimps will do ! thanks mate.....didnt know it was THAT strict but its cool.

Thanks for the guitar compliment....your neck joint is looking good ( and familiar) ;-)

Seeing as it looks like setch will clean up and as i like the battle of the wenge guitars idea i thought i would vote for godins wenge entry...also because although we built at completely different times we shared a similar vision of wenge matched with chrome pick up rings and hardware....whomever mentioned these wenge tops should have gold hardware obviously has a very sweet tooth and likes sickly stuff?. ( joke) personally i detest gold hardware , i still wont like it when they invent some gold plate that doesnt wear off in a couple of years....I hate bling and as i mentioned elsewhere i hate gold full stop on people, jewellery, car badges, guitars....BUT it may be a british thing...In the UK we have this awful CHAV/PIKEY/GYPSEY culture ( Anyone see SNATCH? the movie?) ....and GOLD is linked with all of them....too much gold which is cheap looking.....

I also think with the dark dark wenge top gold would just not look right. But its all a matter of taste. ( Knowing me ill build a les paul custom next with gold hardware ha ha)

ANYWAYS.....im so chuffed i got some votes i cant stop smiling....good luck peeps...

So yep...GODIN got my vote!