Ricky Anderson

couple of shots of the neck shaping:

it's done

about the shape, I put asymmetrical shape on this one.

I did it little by little, until I feel comfortable when I put my hand on it.

the thickness at 1st fret is 20mm and 22mm at 12th.

but it doesn't feel too chunky, maybe because it's a very wide neck

hi, I'm back again

here's a pic of hstock design:

and well, the hstock itself:

I don't know why, but every picture that I put on flickr came out smaller than its original size

move on to the neck

actually I forgot where did I put the rest of the pics of this build, so here's what I found:

neck blank with truss rod channel

and with truss rod installed

after that, I glued the ebony fboard.

rubber band instead of clamps?

I got exactly same question, but the man who supervised my work said it's ok, so I just follow him.

after I removed that rubber, it looks ok

Dude, for a first build this thing has some ELEGANT curves (no offense to other first builders). You seem to have an eye for things quite early in your building, congrats.

Chris

hi Chris, thanks man

I dreamed about this guitar since I was 18, I think, and I'm almost 25 now, so it's quite long time

maybe it seems too much for a first build, but I got a lot of help from the best luthier here.

back to the woods

here it is after the clamps:

do you guys see a face on above image??

yeah, I like to play

it's time to spread some glue

and I call this camp of clamps

about the chambers, nothing special about them.

I made them just to reduce some weight.

will it affect the tone?

honestly, I don't care too much about it, because my main goal for this build is just to build a guitar that is playable

I'm back

after the drawing, I cut a template out of plastic board

then I made the body (mahogany)

and maple top

here they are

well, it all started with this

an old drawing of mine, about 4 years ago.

when I designed this, I wanted a guitar that will feel comfortable to my body when I'm playing it, standing or sitting.

(after lurking around here, I found out it looks similar to Ola's design )

but it's ok, I think.

he's a better builder, anyway

then became these

since I have no woodworking experience at all, I decided to go to one of the best luthier here in Indonesia.

I asked him if he would teach me how to build a guitar in a proper way.

he said he could, then he asked me to re-draw my design in 1:1 scale.

I didn't know it could be so hard to draw a full scale, it was pita, but I did it well .

so, here's my full scale drawing

yes, it's a multi-scale guitar, 24.75"-27"

3pcs mahogany body

2pcs maple top

5pcs mahogany-maple-mahogany-maple-mahogany neck, AANJ joint

24 frets ebony fboard

so, enjoy guys!

ps.

this build is almost finished, I just didn't have enough guts to put it here until now

and sorry for my not so good english, it's not my mother tongue, though.

and in case u guys are wondering about my name "Ricky Anderson", I got it from my grandma.

she is a half swedish (that's what I believe).

Look at my guitar...

I painted it using same paint like IWishIcouldShred...

Instant in cans...

Actually it's not that good, but it's the cheapest way to achieve crackle finish.

And look at novax guitar, they called it fanned frets, but I believe it's multiscale...

@ Dino: It's strange that you don't know that kind of multiscale fretboard, since you live in the US, and you're a guitar builder

Just a Strat...

Hi Arjan, thanks for your answer...

Btw, look at this picture...

Your headstock design looked similar to mine (I made this design 2 years ago), but mine is less sharp.

If you didn't cut out your headstock yet, I'd be glad if you put my design on your guitar, since I haven't build any guitar yet, so I think it's better if somebody else use this design.

Thanks

Happy building

Arjan, nice guitar!!!

Btw, could you tell me what tenon is?

Happy building!

Josh, is it ok to put oil on guitar like yours, instead of paint it?

I know I'm late, but what about this colour for your next guitars?

Or this one?

I can't decide which colour I'm gonna use for my current guitar, both of them look so good, but I got only 1 project for now

Hi Perry, what do you think?

It's a Doubleneck Balawan Series by Stephallen Guitar.

The guitar builder told me that he can't build fanned frets guitar anymore because it's copyrighted to Novax Guitar...

Is it true?

I mean, is it right that nobody can't build a guitar with fanned frets because of this restriction?

I ask this question because I saw that you built a guitar with fanned frets...

Here's another pic

Thanks in advance...

How about this?

hope this one looks better

Bassically, it's just a squier strat...

I didn't use any borax, because it's illegal here in my country, they don't let us to buy borax personally, I just put some amount of paint (red and black, I used latex paint here, because it's cheap) into a big bucket full of water, let the colours spread, then I swirled it using a piece of wood, then I dipped in my guitar (yellow colour) into the water, blow the water so there was a "hole", then I pulled out the guitar, let it dry for several hours, and finally put some layer of clear coat over it.

It's very simple, buy I get the right colour after trial and error (I did 8 times of experiment using the same guitar with different basic colours).

What do you guys think?

Hi there, I'm Ricky from Indonesia.

I have a plan to build some guitars for myself, and I think CNC will be good enough.

My questions are:

1. Is there any downside of using CNC, and will the result better than handmade?

2. What kind of CNC machine should I use and where to buy?

I live in Jakarta, Indonesia (a very beautiful country ), and I think it's hard to find CNC here, can I buy it from ACE hardware?

Thank you, guys