Vendelcrow

Hyunsu. I always like to watch your pictures and your progress, and you make some sweet looking guitars. This forum is full of great builders!!!

I agree with basey on the aguilar obp3 preamp. It's really good.

Sweeet!!! I can't wait to see the finished bass. I hope to be able to build something similar.

I have also bought some tops from Sandi1070 on eBay in the beginning of December, but it have not arrived to Sweden yet. It included two spalted maple tops. It goes by boat, and it is supposed to take about three months to get here. I really look forward to it.

Yeah, Frank's right, it really looks like a Cort.

Thanks JFC, I didn't know. The Interpress Shop that I use always put aside copies of various magazines that I use to buy for me as a service, so I don't miss any copies. So they will get my business for the time being. But I have bookmarked press-stop.se for the future.

I need to fresh up on a few subjects relating to building guitars, so I´ll have a look (it´s avaliable here in Sweden). It probably take a week or two before it shows up in my "International Press Shop".

I´m impressed... Creativity and ingenuity seems to be your game.

I'm starting to gather the materials for building my first new guitar for over 20 years. I plan to build a St Blues inspired guitar (made by Strings and Things in Memphis in the early 80s). I think Buck Dharma used to play one for a while. I made one for a customer way back then, and it turned into one great sounding guitar. The weight and balance was perfect, and with a mahogany body and maple top it looked great and sounded even better (I wish I still had it around). Designwise it was a crossover between a Telecaster and a Les Paul, with a Tele styled neck and hardware. I've searched the Internet for images, but have only managed to dig up three pics of low quality (useless for turning into a scale drawing). Can anyone help me out?

Very skilled craftmanship, Jules Verneish design... Looks like something captain Nemo could have played instead of that organ in "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".

I did it like this, and hope to be able to do it again on my new guitars. You dont waste any wood this way.

Thanks for the offer nyjbkim. I asked my son if he would like a trem arm, but he said that he can do without it for the time being. In the future maybee, if he keep up his guitar playing interest. Anyhow, thanks.

I read somewhere that you shouldn't hang guitars on outside wall's, only inside wall's (wall's between rooms). Temp changes outside could affect the instruments.

I was browsing through some old Guitar World magazines today, and found a review in the November 1982 issue on the debut album from Stevie Ray Vaughan "Texas Flood". The review was made by one Bruce Malamut who wrote: Wish we could confirm such hyperbole regarding ex-Bowie axist, Houston's own Stevie Ray Vaughan's first solo outing. Brother to Fab Tbirds Jimmy Vaughan, discovered and produced by John Hammond-via-Mick and Charlie, SRV's tremeloe'd Texarkana blooze trio descended upon an unsuspecting public with all the advance hype of the next Johnny Winter. On the basis of Texas Flood, regrettably, we don't see it in the cards. What we do see is yet another perfectly executed Texarkana trio's non-stop set of boring twelwe-bar blooze, and with all respect to Messrs. Bowie/Hammond/Jagger, that the world can easily do without. I can't help thinking about that guy at Decca who turned down the Beatles with the words "guitar based bands are out".

The fretting was not a big problem, I still had all the tools from way back then. When I had my small custom guitar store I made a lot of refrets, and it is like riding a bike, once you learned it, it stays. The tuners are integrated in the tremelo, that can be locked down. I locked it, cause the trem arm was missing.

Ace, I see what I can do. I don't have a digital camera, so it might take a while.

This is my first guitar project since I joined this forum, and it is you guys that inspired me to start making gutars again. My son of 9 years have been nagging that he wanted his own electric. So in November i visited a local auction, and managed to make a winning bid on a Steinberger licensed Hohner guitar with a broken neck for 38 dollars. No hardware was missing, and the pickups was included - So i think it was a bargain deal. I dumped the body and the neck, and made a new one-piece neck/body in some flamed maple (medium flame), that I have had around for about 20 years. The maple has been to narrow for using in a guitar until now, as it was the exact size for this project. I also made a matching pickguard also in flamed maple, and the fingerboard is ebony. I just oiled the guitar, but maybee I should have stained it a bit to lift out the maple more. It took a while to finish the guitar, since I haven't done this for 20 years, but in the end it turned out great, and my son is very pleased with hos own guitar (light and easy to bash around for a nine year old), even if he did not get it in time for X-mas. The guitar has a very bright tone (due to the all maple design), but with plenty of sustain (the one-piece construction might have added some to the sustain). The only thing that needs improvment is the pickups. The EMG Select is not the best pickups on the block, and I will keep my eyes open for something better.

Avesome guitar, you really know how to use your tools!!! I wish I could get tone woods like that here in Sweden.

Okay Marcel... and good luck with that silky oak top. By the way, Sweden is not a good country for getting good tone woods. Most of my stock came from abroad. The only thing we got plent of is alder and mazur birch ( I think most of the alder stock that Ed Roman is using comes from Sweden). The alder grows a litter slower here, and therefore is a bit more dense.

Hi Marcel/GuitarMaestro, Have you tried MAX CROPP Timbers in Hamburg. I use to go there a couple of times each year to stock up, and I know I have seen Lacewood/Silky Oak. Link Here You can also try Woodland, also located in Germany / Hammersbach Link Here I also use to search for wood suppliers at the IHB Internationale Holzboerse GmbH/IHB Timber Exchange. Its a great resource for finding woods all over the world. Link Here

Fender did some experimental guitars in plexi, and Dan Armstrong had one that was in production for a few years (used by Keith Richard).

I would like to go to NAMM, but the Frankfurt Music Fair is what's counts over here. And it's OK.

Most of the Japanese and Korean hardware makers have neck plates like that (without the Fender markings), and you can hopefully find them at some of the suppliers in the States. They look the same on the images, but there are variations in size.

Sickness forced me to take a long break. I live in Orebro in the middle of Sweden, to Varnamo its about 300 km. The other Swedish guy (from Granna) on the board lives much closer to Varnamo. Hope you get a lot of nice woods and pickups from Santa!

Hi again, Here are the last two scans of the guitars that I made in the early 80s. I hope that my next image after this will be a guitar that I have made now, I have a few plans and ideas that I will start with in Jan - 2004. Merry X-mas and a Happy New Year to you all. Vendelcrow Guitar. Violin shaped guitar in solid maple (body from the same American company that made the earlier Eagle Guitar), with Schaller hardware and Duncan pu. Bass. Ash body with mazur birch flat top and walnut binding, Schaller hardware and EMG pu's. Modulus graphite neck.