evilbetty

cheers guys ,yeah i didnt realy know to much when i started probably would have been the smart option doing the channel first but we live an learn aye, as for those companys only cole clarks got back to me there pretty chocked with staffa t the moment but he said to come in for an intaview maybe keep my name down ???? been a bit sick latley so cant realy do much there yet ,,,

also i changed my mind about the strings going thru the body so you can see the holes for them and also i just got the jack plug hole finished so a lil bit done next im looking at how i fit the neck pick up or if indeed im going to use it???? i have a seymour duncan hot rails pick up,not sure how going to drill the hole for it as the neck dosnet come off so its sort of in the way ,also not sure how to fitt it so that it can be raised and lowered to the right setting,cause theres no outer ring thing for it,wouild i have to make a ring???

and together

and heres the pick up its a seymour duncan invader humbucker,think it looks the part too,

and also i managed to get the pick up fitting,now this was a big deal as i never used a router before in my life so got to play with a new tool and found that they are quite handy aye!!!

so heres a small up date nothing to exciting but a few more steps closer,, first the bridge has been fitted,its a tune o matic type with rollers ,was harder than i thought to fit thought got it worked out in the end...............

hay mate yeah for sure it can be done have alook here this is how i made my bc rich style head stock

hahahah thats crazy i emailed all of them !!! cheers for that mate i had no idea these places even exsisted down here!!! wait an see how we go ,

awsum mate cheers i know where al those places are,ill get on to it right away!

are you serious????/mate that would be unreal,im looking to get out of my current job and get into something that actually interests me!!!weather it be in a factory,music shop or custom guitar shop,,think that would be nuts,any ideas how id go about looking into that???/

yeah thanks guys im learning but really want to learn more!!!!!! may even want start doing this more often!! cant beileve i havnt tryed this before!,, im from melbourne by the way,, is there like an aprenticeship for this sort of thing???????? man that be an awsum job,

yeah i like it too ,ive just emailed grover and they have enformed me that it dosent mater which way around i place them they work either way so stoked can set them how ever i need to ,so will see how i decide soon ,just waiting of a few parts to continue progress, the original guitar is a bc rich draco only 100 were made world wide 50 0f them being in the usa, i live in australia so getting one here was going to cost me a fair bit anyway ,so diy to the rescue!!!lol well thats if it works hahahahhaha, have to say im enjoying this all so far and im learning alot ,so yeah keep watching

and here i swaped the right to left and left to right and set them on an angle, which i like a little better, so does this really mater if there r to l or l to right????????????????

and now for my first real stuff up!!! feel pretty stupid about this one, i spent several hours marking out the holes for the tuners and i was sure they were,right how ever......... i drilled them and they wernt hahaha well its not that bad its just putting them in a possition that they are usuable is a little tricky due to the shape of the head stock and also trying to keep in mind the strings not touching each other, so a question can the tuners be fitted any way at all????????or do the y have to go in a certain way?? i mean as long as the string goes thru and isnt touching the other strings does it mater if they are upside down back to front side ways front ways or other????? im using some grover tuners,but sitting them in the way i drilled doesnt look right,however if i swap the left to right then its not so bad,ill try to show what i mean.... here is how they were spose to be set ,well how i thought they were spose to be,the 2 bottom ones stick out more than the others ,dosnet effect the turning of them i just dont like the look

wow thanks for that,yes i try to think about each part ,and ive been reading alot on here from what the other members have done so im starting to learn a little bit , doh so i should have drilled the wiring holes first????!!!! hmmm hopefully i can get around it some how, i want to use a seymour duncan invader and i also have a seymour duncan classic stack single pick up,wil these be ok together???? or should i try use a rail pick up like the one in the picture??? i normal dont play a hell of alot with the neck pick up so may i could leave it out all together???? or am i best to fit one just for extra control over the sound??? also the original guitar has a push pull volume pot to control the pick up selection and volume, so what about the tone????? would i be best to fit a tone pot as well ?????and is this sort of pot harder to wire up???? i kinda like the idea of just one control on the guitar keeps it clean looking, sorry bout the most probably stupid questions ,but i really not sure on this sort of stuff yet, ive ordered that book some one sujested so hopefully can learn a bit from that, well i managed to finish of the ruff shaping of the guitar looks pretty good ,still not that happy with it tho,carving wood is another new experience for me so yeah ,

ok thanks will do

noo im just doing it from pictures and yes it is hard hahaha well probly not for you guys but havnet really done much work with real wood before ,im really enjoying it ,is there a such job as a guitar builder??? be a coool jo b to have i think very creative , can any one tell me how hard it is to wire the pick ups in and what could be an easy way for me to doit.not too sure on the wiring side of things

and so here where im up to just got 2 of the shapes finished,took ages to get the shape looking ok with out like straight lines in it just rounded over and smooth ,but pretty happy at the progress,gona look reasonable i think???????????????????

and heres a shot of starting the carve process,now to be hones i have no idea what im doing here!!! hahahahha sort just guessing it,not sure how they managed to create that shape but i have just done a simialar sort of shape just not as vicous,

k well few more shots,started shapng the back of the neck a bit better and smoothing it out looks good ,feels smooth so pretty happy with that

no worrys mate this is my first attempt i say attempt becasue have no idea if its gona work or not!!!! i just used a belt sander with 40 grit to take out the excess ,once it was down a bit i used 80 grit on a block to level it out better,its not 100 percent yet but its gettng there ,alot of sanding to do on this thing!!!!!cheers

yep straight black trying to keep it as close to the original ,except fr the string thrus at this stage,

and after knocking down the excess on the top and the back i got up to this ruff stage.............

then after with it dryed