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I have one waiting to go in a guitar I am working on. I hope I made a good purchase.

southpa, any more pics of that guitar?

its going in an Epiphone LP jr (i know i know, POS, but wait until you see whats happening with it), and i was wondering if i needed to route a channel for the extra stuff for the active pickup?

thanks everyone for the input

by the way, can anyone point me in the right direction of a wiring diagram for an active emg? id have to route my guitar to put one in right?

Please stay away from the passive EMG's or you'll be the one that lay dying.

haha well said

whats wrong with passive emgs?

I am putting together a beater guitar and I have been looking into an EMG passive pickup for the bridge but I am pretty lost about which model to get. I run my guitars through a Marshall DSL50 with 1960a cab and I am looking for something that gets a really heavy sound similar to something like As I Lay Dying. Any advice?

nice james, that neck came out so nice.

I got the fingerboard inlays flattened down and sanded the fingerboard and it looks sweeeeeet. Also I planed down the neck and the simplicity of it makes it look even better. Not worth pictures though.

I was able to get the inlay done with some free time today. To cut out the holes in the fingerboard I used a 1/4" router bit in a drill chuck in a vertical miller at 2500 RPM (I had to improvise, but it worked perfectly). Once the glue drys I will grind down and polish the abilone. I wasn't able to do the side dots on the fingerboard since I don't have the right diameter Dremel bit, but later this week I will do it in the machine shop at RPI. The pictures are blury because the lighting in my dorm room is terrible.

I am thinking about dropping the cash on a Dremel Stylus. Does anyone have any experience with one to say yay or nay on getting one?

how were you able to stain just the maple top and not the purple heart in the neck? it looks great!

how were you able to stain the body sides woods and not the lighter color wood? it looks so nice

It's not stained. That's the natural color of Padauk.

And yes, it looks REALLY nice!

wow im going to have to make my second guitar out of that then, its amazing

how were you able to stain the body sides woods and not the lighter color wood? it looks so nice

what brand of stain is that?

you can click the link in my signature if you want to check it out

I have noticed that you have made the headstock ears. Please do not glue them to the neck before bandsawing the neck side profile, because it is hard to do proper sawing that way.

I'm pretty sure Macimalac just meant that it would be easier to cut the profile if you had a flat surface to run through a bandsaw. I happen to agree with him, but there is more than one way to skin a cat.

By the way, this project is looking good. I've been thinking about doing an sg myself, so I'm looking forward to seeing more progress. Good luck!

i have extra pieces of wood from the neck that i can double stick tape on the other end of the neck to make it a flat surface when i bandsaw it so it should work out.

too late, the ears are glued, but i am doing the scarf joint first some time next week, then i will cut the neck profile. it shouldnt be too bad.

wow those are incredible, im building my first guitar right now and i hope mine comes out as nice as those did!

I was able to get to the wood shop and plane the body to 1.5" which is still thicker than the final design, but I want some room for error once I glue the body to the neck and then sand and plane those together.

This is a close up of the chamfers and tapers on the sides and back of the guitar. I was able to turn the tearout on the back of the guitar into a nice ergonomic shape for playing while standing up, so that worked out.

I have a question - do you have access to a laser cutter then? Is that through a firm or do you work with them? Would you be at all interested in cutting me some custom templates?

i do have access to one, but it is through my school. its hard to find times when people arent using it so that might be tough

just planed and sanded the body sides down to 1.5", although the tolerance is +/-0.05" in a few spots but i can deal with it and plane it down to the final thickness once i glue them to the neck. id post a picture but its not worth it.

yeah i saw that thread and i can only hope mine comes out half as nice as that one did

got the headstock wings glued on today. i plan on planing the body down on friday. i wish i could do more but i am so busy with school that i have no free time

I bought a router bit with a bearing template guitar which was definitely a good investment. Routing the final body shape went pretty well but the left body piece had a two inch long chunk of wood ripped away on the back side. I'm not too worried because I was going to plane down the body to approximately 1.4" in thickness, the sides on the front and back will have chamfers, and the back side will be shaped/carved to play more comfortably when standing up rather than just a flat back. You can see some of the residue from the double sided tape I used to keep the template on.

Here is the neck being laminated together. The outside pieces are maple and the middle is mahogany. I am using Titebond to put them together, and you can see all of the clamps I bought. I found a discount surplus hardward store and got a really good price on them ($4 each for the vise clamps, and $2.80 each for the 3" C-clamps). I probably should have a few more clamps on there, but this should be fine. When it was resting on the cardboard some glued dried to it so it looks ugly, but that will all be sanded and planed off.