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Beautiful bass, I think the redwood and cherry look perfect together...and those are some very nice pictures too!

Looks beautiful! I love spalted maple, and think the hardware goes well with the design. I generally don't like anything to do with teles, but the bridge actually looks really cool with it too.

Welcome back! I noticed a long time ago that you hadn't been using the forum much anymore. Good to have you back, and I can't wait to see what new things you come up with!

First of all, welcome to the forum David! That sounds a lot like the project I'm working on (a PRS style guitar), but I haven't had time to work on it for ages. I hope it all goes well for you, and we would love to see pictures! I think this topic belongs in the Works in Progress category though. Good luck!

That is some great work! Much better than my first attempt at painting a guitar. I kinda agree with Geo that the first couple pictures look cool with all the colors from the masking tape. But the finished shots of the guitar look awesome!

Pariah, could you explain a little more what you mean about the Kinkead book? I have heard that the Cumpiano's book is a little outdated, but the Kinkead book is pretty new. What do you mean there is misinformation and calculation errors? Any advice would be appreciated. I am trying to learn as much about acoustics as possible, and Kinkead's book is all I have to go on so far (and the OLF).

Looks good, congrats! If you want to change it, that is up to you. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by putting MOP dots around it, but it might be cool. I personally think it would look good with a thin darker accent around the inner and outer edges to make it contrast with the top more (either purfling or a darker wood). Looks good how it is now though too, and once you put some finish on there it will look even better.

Cool! I just got the Kinkead acoustic book recently, but I would love to have as many resources as possible when I finally get around to doing my first acoustic. Once this comes out, I would love to hear some reviews about it.

Looks amazing! Very clean work so far and that cocobolo neck is gorgeous. I can't wait to see this one finished! Also...Prostheta is right....the maple is on top of the table, but is also part of the table....? lol

Looks great! Very elegant looking and clean work. I can't wait to see what other projects you do.

If you don't have any building experience and don't own ANY tools, then it might be kind of difficult to make a guitar. But, it can definitely be done. There are tons of people who have made very nice first guitars without any experience. I actually got interested in building guitars a few years ago when I stumbled on to this site. I didn't have much woodworking experience, didn't know too much about how guitars were made, and didn't have much money to buy parts or tools. I decided that I really wanted to build a guitar and do it for cheap. I planned on buying the cheapest parts available and use minimal tools. I was going to use an old jigsaw to cut out the body and use a chisel for the cavities.

Once I started learning more about building and actually practicing with scrap wood though I figured it would be best to invest in certain tools. I ended up getting a router (you definitely need one of those I think if you want it to be easy and accurate), a bandsaw, a small drill press, and some other tools. Over the last two years I've spent about $500 on tools and could easily spend twice that on more tools. If you have money to spend, then you should invest in certain tools. But if you are patient, you can get by without spending money on certain tools (bandsaw, router)....or you could borrow tools from people.

As for the guitar parts, that is up to you. You can spend a lot of money on great wood and parts, or you can build a cheaper (slightly lower quality guitar) guitar. Some people spend well over $1500 to build a guitar, but you can make one for less than $500. I'm currently working on my second project and it will probably end up being around $500 or so for the wood and parts. THe last project I did was a bass, and here are some pricing specs that might help give you an estimate of what to expect if you want to do a cheap project:

alder body blank- $50

premade neck (with tuners) bought on ebay- $40

EMG select pickups- $45

wiring kit- $25

knobs/shielding/neck plate/etc $40

TOTAL= approximately $200

I went as cheap as I could and the quality wasn't that great, but you can see that it is possible to make a guitar for fairly cheap. As you progress you can spend more to make better guitars. For my current project I've spent almost $200 on just the wood, and I would have preferred to spend more. The total will probably be around $500 and I keep getting tools as I go along.

So....sorry this is kind of long, and I'm not sure if it helps you much. Basically I am just saying that you CAN build a guitar for fairly cheap. If you are serious and have the money though I recommend good tools. You have us here at the forum for help, so feel free to ask about where to do your parts/wood shopping and how to build guitars. Good luck with your project!

Wow, that is really fantastic work! The front of the guitar is kind of graphic, but it is very detailed and expertly done. I personally prefer the back, but the whole guitar is awesome! I checked out your website and the other work is all great too. I especially liked the progress pictures to see how painted this step by step. Again, great work!

Yeah, something does seem weird here. Fookgub has made some pretty cool guitars before, so I'm sure he knows how to make some sawdust. And the writing does seem different. If it is a family member logging in, maybe I can understand...but can accounts really get hacked here? What happened to the real fookgub?

You were right, those are some better pictures! That guitar is absolutely beautiful, and the last picture now took possession of my wallpaper. Great work! Also, I was browsing through your other photos and saw this one....interesting view!

Excellent work, I love swirl guitars! I actually prefer the first picture best, the swirl looks nice and even (as opposed to too much green on the front of the second guitar).

I agree, that is a beautiful guitar. Every acoustic I see from you seems to get better. I am really a big fan of your work, as well as that of Fryovanni and Mattia. Congratulations on making an awesome instrument! Btw, that second picture is now my computer wallpaper.

Wow, this is my favorite guitar you've done so far! It looks awesome! Now I really want to make an explorer. And that bubinga top is beatiful.

I'm not too big on the shape...but you seem to have your own style, and that's cool. But, I LOVE the details! The wood choices are beautiful, and I like the use of the different wood inlays throughout the body and the neck transition. Great job!

I know what you mean about your guitars not getting finished. I have my current PRS style build sitting in the garage. The neck is mostly finished. All I really have to do with the body is the pickup cavities, drilling, carve, and paint. It doesn't seem like much, but I've been too busy with trying to do this IM stuff that I haven't had time to work on guitars lately. There are actually quite a few members at WA that are college students, so my situation is not that unique I guess. Wish me luck!

That is AMAZING! I love how Bubinga looks, and I love explorers, so this is a great combination. I can't wait to see it finished!

I agree, that is a very nice guitar! Lately I've been finding myself interested in acoustics a lot, and would love to see any progress pictures if you have any.

Orgmorg, this looks like a cool project and I can't wait to see it finished. Not sure if it will be a mandocello, but at some point I would like to build some small scale type of instrument.

Weezer2112, cool projects too. And that first one is AMAZING!

Something about the shape reminds me of a Fender J-bass. The woods all look nice and I LOVE that bocote neck! I can't wait to see this one come along.

Edit: Decided to remove this, since it doesn't apply to guitars as much as it could.

It comes down to traffic and page rank. Google (and other places) give each website a page rank and smaller forums (I have one too) rarely get hit because your page rank is really low. This site has a higher page rank therefore it gets more attention from the bots. After all, the same bots that Google uses to determine page validity are the same bots spammers use to flood forums and blogs with their links. This would explain how you use the same methods to activate users and why you don’t get spammed much.

I'm not an expert on how spambots work, but I'm not sure this is the case here. Like Neil said, the Page Rank for PG really isn't that high. Here is just a quick comparison to other sites:

TalkBass.com- Page Rank -5 , Alexa rating- 24,586

Ultimate-Guitar Page Rank- 5 , Alexa rating- 289

Project Guitar Page Rank- 1 , Alexa rating- 107,923

So....saying that PG is targeted for spam because it is popular doesn't seem to be the case. Out of the possible 10 PR scores available, PG has a 1 while these other two sites have a 5. Also they get MUCH more traffic (especially UG) than PG ever gets. I love this forum and use it more than any other, but it is definitely not the busiest. You can check the forum at the end of the day and read all the fresh posts fairly quickly. Try doing that in the main bass section of TalkBass! There are new posts every few minutes.

Anyway, both TalkBass and Ultimate Guitar get a LOT more attention than PG and they don't have the spam problems as much. I'm not sure why this site is targeted so much, but I don't think the PR has much to do with it. Not really sure how to stop spammers from being interested in this site, but I think some change to the registration process should help with the problem. Like other people mentioned...it is embarrassing to come to this site and see the headlines about free porn or something. I hope we can figure out some way to fix this problem. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help.