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factory5150

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  1. Here is one I completed last month. I call it Precious Moment It was based off of Joe Perry's white guitar. It is a solid body ES-335. Here are the specs: Body: 1 piece African Mahogany with Maple cap. Neck: 4A flame Maple with flame Maple fretboard Inlay: Tree of life - faux Turquoise for the big leafs, abalone shell for the small leafs, and Indian Rosewood for the stem. Turquoise and Abalone for my logo. Hardware: Gotoh tuners, bridge and tailpiece. Scale: 24 3/4 Pickups: EMG 81/85, standard vol and tone with 3 way switch. Paint: I did the base white and clear in 2k urethane, but the airbrushing was done by Mad Momma Designs out of Pittsburgh. The neck was finished with TruOil and waxed. Sorry I don't have a full guitar picture, my photographer hasn't sent me one yet. More pictures here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/47467970@N05/ Hope you all enjoy it!
  2. Im all for the CNC topic and sharing files. I have no problem trading out drawings for standard shapes. My CNC should be online next week, my gecko drive should be here Tuesday, and I am using a 1 1/2 MDF board as my temporary tabletop until my aluminum t slot one comes in. Cant wait to make some stuff lol.
  3. Yeah the strat body is full size. I should be able to fit 3 bodies side by side to cut them in one setup. My gecko g540 should be here any day now and then it will be up and running. I am still waiting on the aluminum tabletop but I will use MDF as a temporary fix. I cant wait to make dust with this thing!
  4. Just a quick update... I got my router last week from George.. Quality and construction is superb. It wasn't quite worth the 4 month wait, but close. The cost compared to a k2 router is not even in the same league. A 24x24ish router from K2 is 1400 plus motors and electronics. So I got a machine double the size for the same money and for that I am a happy camper. I hope to have it running in the next few weeks.
  5. The Warmoth necks should fit, but you should really measure your neck pocket to make sure. If it doesn't fit, then no big deal a router will solve that problem. I doubt highly a Fender trem will bolt right onto your squier body. Weather its a 2 post or 6 hole vintage, either way there is a 25% shot of it fitting. Stew Mac sells a template that works for Fender trems for when you dowl the old holes and your ready to drill the new ones.
  6. Even shoe polish on pick guards is a waste of time. It will eventually fade from the sun or wear off from you touching it. Airbrushing some "amber'd" lacquer onto the pick guard is the best way to go. As for tinting and aging the neck. Its best to spray the toned lacquer onto the neck rather rubbing concentrated stain. After all the sun is what changed the color of the clear coat. The old necks were never "orange" from the beginning, time did that to them. After your neck is sprayed you can mark the spots in between the strings and gently use a dremel with a wire wheel on it to wear through the paint. The fast way to make it look old is to mix up some sort of stain that mimics a dirty fingerboard. Or you can wait and let the natural oil and finger gunk wear into the exposed wood, but that could take a while.
  7. I am going to do my best finishing the work Scott started. I joined late but from what I gather he was a well respected luthier on this board and I hope I don't let anybody down on the final product.
  8. I really like those knobs you posted in your link. What would you guys get, black with blue cap or gold with blue cap?
  9. Well the gold bridges came with the body and necks so I really didn't have a choice. I still have time to add a binding or purfling of some sort. I am open to opinions on what to do. I also agree the blue clashes with the limba and the gold hardware, but we will figure it out lol. Thanks for the kind comments, Chris
  10. Its getting cleared. I would most definitely shed a tear if I painted a solid color over this beautiful wood.
  11. Not much progress due to another project that I got going on. I started fretting the necks. I tried out some Stew Mac fret wire (was using Dunlop before) and I really like it. Also this tread isn't creating the buzz I thought it would when I revived it. Anyway here are the pics: The 6 string neck still needs leveled, dressed, polished, and the ends beveled. I think when I get some free time this weekend I will do that. I will probably place another order to Stew Mac next week for the ferrules and other hardware. It will be a while before I take the loan out to buy the tuners BTW that wierd "dent" on the treble side on the 12string at the first fret is a wierd cosmetic issue that I have no clue as to how it got there. But the fretboard is completely flat, so other then an annoying eye sore it shouldn't effect playability. Thats all for now. Chris
  12. It was hard for me to justify the cost for all the fretting tools. Then I thought doing a few fret jobs for customers would pay for the tools, then its profit from then on out. I personally think its more fun building a neck then a body, its much more rewarding to me.
  13. If your going to get a replacement body if the one you have is plywood...Just skip all the hassle of modifying a sss routed strat body and get "the frank" from this site: http://www.kneguitars.com/kit_bod.php
  14. When I built my first franky I used one of those "saga" guitar kits and modified the hell out of it. I bought a mighty mite maple neck and routed for the Floyd Nut. I had a Seymour Duncan SH-11 in it, and it sounded pretty good. One word of advise, if you are going to take the effort to mask the guitar off and paint it. At least put the stripes in the right place. Here is my new franky that I made. Who would have thought buying vintage parts would be so costly *sarcasm*
  15. http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Finishing_supp...and_Holder.html There ya go, just hook that thing up to a stand with a vice on it and your good to go. Im gonna pick one of those up because I am tired of holding heavy ass guitars on the end of a stick while spraying.
  16. Its the lighting...But the right side of the fretboard follows the contour of the neck, into the headstock.
  17. Sorry I haven't posted updates, I have been busy figuring out what I am going to do with this thing. Today I routed the neck pocket so the 6 string neck will actually fit. I don't have an updated picture of the body but all the tool marks have been removed and the heels have been shaped. http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/6472/013mh2.jpg http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9891/014cv5.jpg Here is the mirrored fretboard. Both necks are shaped and finished sanded. All I need to do is buy tuners, nuts and fret wire. Next on the agenda is to mount the 12 string bridge and install the ferrules (string and neck). Somehow the body isn't flat, when I put my straight edge across it gaps in the middle by 1/16 of an inch. So now I have to figure out how to make it true. the naked eye cannot see it, but it will make wet sanding after paint a pain in the ass.
  18. I will be using "Kustom Shop" 2k polyurethane paint. I wont be painting my 3 projects until spring because its entirely too cold to be painting right now.
  19. LOL never thought about that, its superglue corp though. I guess we will see when it comes time for paint.
  20. I got the 6 string neck shaped today, just needs finish sanding. The guys on jemsite want me to swirl it, but I would hate to hide that awsome wood. I am thinking of clearing it, or some variation of clear coat with a burst.
  21. I used 2 part epoxy so seal inside the lions claw on my custom jem I am making. I figured it would be easier then shooting 3000 coats of sealer. With the epoxy those thin points are now as hard as a rock and should be good to go. I also took the tip of a drumstick (crude yes but it works) and some 400 grit sandpaper to smooth inside the cut outs.
  22. Here are the pictures. I still have to finish shaping the volute and the heel on the 12 string. Obviously I have to shape the 6 string, which I will most likely start today. Heres the body, I have not touched this yet, I will most likely leave this one for last. On the 12 string I am going to add another screw/ferrule for stability. The 24th fret chipped off and Scott started to repair it. After I trued the sides of the fretboard to the neck there were still some visible cracks and the bass side of the fret slot was huge so I needed to fill it and reslot it. Here are the rest of the pics I took. http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/6682/guitar005od3.jpg http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/7891/guitar007nu5.jpg http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/8991/guitar006ck9.jpg http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/8706/guitar005pt1.jpg http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/8234/guitar004sg8.jpg http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/5222/guitar003gg4.jpg http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/4526/guitar002vw6.jpg http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/3341/guitar001fu9.jpg Let me know what you guys think. Chris
  23. Scott quit building due to a job change and not enough time to build anything. He said he still does repairs every now and again, but no more building. The guitar came today. The condition really wasn't as bad as the auction made it seem. I got the 12 string neck all smoothed out and I put a thicker asymmetrical profile on the back. I wanted to keep that neck thicker due to the extra tension of the 6 extra strings. I started to radius the fingerboard, but there are some cracks I have to fill in with epoxy and ebony dust at the 24th fret. I feel like I got a lot done today in the couple hours I worked on it. I will post pictures tomorrow. The body is beautiful, once together this thing is going to be a hell of a guitar. Would you guys keep the Schaller Floyd on it or would you swap it out with a low pro? I'm leaning towards swapping the bridge and routing the cavity to accommodate the new trem. I didn't know that the 6 string neck was a reverse headstock but its not a big deal, and it looks cool. One weird thing is though the headstock almost looks stupid long, but looking at pictures of a pgm it looks like Ibanez reverse headstocks just look longer. Ill be sure to post a bunch of pictures of all angles of the guitar so you guys can drool over it lol.
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