Hey guys!
I started my 8 custom. I read the rules, but i think that's not too much 1 pic per post.
but i'm going to be good with the rules and post the links.
Thanks for the info that you post here, now i'm making my guitar.
I don't have pics, because my cam it's ****ed up, but tomorrow a friend brings him and we take some photos.
I used this things (but i have to buy the hardware):
-Neck: trhu 5 pieces, Argentinian woods, Marmelero/Cancharana/M/C/M
Cancharana
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elm...rana20thumb.jpg
Marmelero (sanded, in the pic it's without varnish)
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elm...armelero-ch.jpg
And some people use it for the floor
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elm...o_marmelero.jpg
-Wings: Mahogany Sapele
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elm...0/sapeleFSw.jpg
-Fretboard: Ebony (oh, you know it, but here it's a pic the real tree)
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elmeier100/ebano.jpg
-Top: I was thinking about Quilted maple or spalted maple, but here we have some amazing woods apart the know maple:
Imbuya
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elmeier100/imbuya.jpg
Thuya
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elmeier100/thuya.jpg
But i still love quilted maple, maple art i hate you!
http://www.mapleart.ca/stairs.htm
-Frets Jumbo
-Pup The unique and the only one that i can bu here, because the "Adolfo De Castro" Custom 8 string pickup was 160 dollars, and EMG it's 100. And i need 2.
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elmeier100/45hz.jpg
-Bridge I buy the 8 tinny shits, and then i go to a friend, that he does things on metal, aluminiun, stainless steel, etc. And we do the bridge.
It's going to be something like the hipshot one
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elm...0/176_large.jpg
-Tuners Akkord 4+4 set, blindada (?)
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elmeier100/akkord.jpg
Hardware = Black :metal:
I was thinking on some nice knobs, like Schecter Avenger ones, or maybe black skulls or the normal metal knobs (like rectifier one), the old stereos knobs.
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elm...00/clavijas.jpg
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elm...100/barrel1.gif
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elmeier100/knob.jpg
This one it's amazing!
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elm..._knob_large.jpg
I love them!
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elm...NickelKnobs.jpg
About the design... you know, i'm a bored guy with the models I like the RG model and other extreme shapes, but i always preffer the RG.
Here it's what i was thinking:
A RG body, but with a nice top
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elm...izorIbanez8.jpg
I was thinking on these 2 colors.
Paul Allender's Purple:
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elmeier100/prs.jpg
Or Connor Brown's green:
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elm...0_2733part2.jpg
With a nice Binding, mother pearl or abalone. The thing that the guy in the shop had in stock.
Puer sex!
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elm...00/510-edge.jpg
Inlays, i didn't decided nothing, i was thinking on roman numbers with the same material color as the guitar finish.
Here an example:
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elm...100/GREEEEN.jpg
Headstock:
I had 2 designs in my mind, the Conklin head and Richard Fay's one.
Richard Fay:
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elmeier100/82c2-1.jpg
Conklin:
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elmeier100/ab9b_3.jpg
This are some pics that i have of the process:
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elm...magensvf004.jpg
The body shape:
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elm...magensvf007.jpg
I thought on LGM headstock:
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elm...magensvf009.jpg
Here my first guitar:
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elm...magensvf018.jpg
And a some knobs that i found:
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n38/elm...magensvf023.jpg
That's all. i have to sand the neck.