Andronico

I´m sorry to hear about it Mike. This project was looking great.

Prostheta / Xanthus / Anderekel : I really appreciate your support. This site is a good place to learn a lot and to show our own ideas and results. Prospheta : about the strap, I don´t know how to make a cow, do you ? Can you teach me ? Xanthus : don´t worry about the heal joint, the mahogany is about 20mm thick, has a jacaranda strip and I´m using four screws with metal inserts. I think that is strong enough. About the pick ups, I´ll try to make a sample record in the future to show you. Regarding GOTM, I don´t know..., there are several guitars with better characteristics and details than mine. Thanks again friends.

Thanks man, I´m glad that you changed your mind about this project. Tomorrow I´ll take some pics of the guitar in its case.

Here are more pics taken outside but with direct light : More pics : http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...velGuitar11.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...velGuitar13.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...velGuitar14.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...velGuitar16.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...velGuitar17.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...velGuitar18.jpg I feel like a child with a new toy... having all the Sunday to play.

Hi friends, the baby is born ! I was testing the guitar and all works ok, she´s extremely quiet, more than my Gibson S-1 ! (I have to check the isolation of the S-1...) The balance is very well if you play standing and is very confortable to play seated too. I´m very satisfied with the results. Here are some pictures taken outside without direct light : More pics : http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...velGuitar02.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...velGuitar04.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...velGuitar05.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...velGuitar06.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...velGuitar07.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...velGuitar08.jpg

Welcome Steve ! Your first build looks very good and clasy !

Thank you Prostheta, I´m waiting to see your biohazard guitar finished. She´ll looks beautiful !

Thank Xanthus ! About the pickups, I bought them at GF website about 18 months ago, the price was cheaper at that time. I don´t know who is the manufacturer really.

Very intelligent idea, removable cutaway pieces for the bender !

Thank you friends for your kind words. Yesterday during the morning of our legal holiday I made a little progress. I installed the pickups using a small piece of metal in order to screw them to this metal instead of the wood. Then I used a piece of rubber foam as a spring to adjust the PU´s height. I spent one hour checking and leveling the frets because the last four ones were a bit more taller than the others. Hope that next weekend I can finish this baby.

Beautiful !

Well, not the finished guitar but the body is ready. The mahogany looks better in person, I don´t know if it´s my camera or I have to take pics outside. More pics : http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...tar/Paint06.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...tar/Paint07.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...tar/Paint10.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...tar/Paint11.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...tar/Paint12.jpg Tomorrow is legal holiday in my country, so I´ll have some time to begin with the final joining.

The case for my guitar is finished ! It was more difficult than I expect. Sewing was very difficult because the materials are too thick and I didn´t used the right tools to sew ! But I think that the result is fine. Inside the case : http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...ar/Funda057.jpg My friend TAZ examining my final job : http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...ar/Funda052.jpg Details of the plastic ribbon used to cover the ugly sewing : http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...ar/Funda047.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...ar/Funda048.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...ar/Funda049.jpg Another pic : http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...ar/Funda055.jpg

BUAAAAAA !!! Why I hadn´t this information before !!! Next time I´ll try to obtain this tool, thanks

Fantastic work ! It must be very special to build a guitar for your son and he looks happy too !

Beautiful work Luis, the pickup rings and switch knob looks great, as usual ! But please congratulate your wife because her inlays are fantastic !

Beautiful, beautiful and beautiful !!! That´s great, congratulations !

Thank you Dean, I really appreciate your kind words. When I began this project I knew that some of the steps could be a small adventure because I haven´t worked in similar things. I know that my guitar is far away from the perfection but the important things for me are learn new skills and have fun during the process.

What a beautiful wood ! You can radius before glue and left a bit to adjust after the final shape.

The last three days I was sewing the bottom, the sides and the top. What a difficult task ! The layers to sew were too thick (vinyl leather + push + push + vinyl leather) and were impossible to use a domestic sewing machine ! I was talking with a shoe repairer and he told me talk the only solution was : sew manually using double polyamide linen, a thick needle and tweezers... Well I tried this way and I have to say that is very difficult and slow, more than I thought. The result is very ugly as you can see in the pics, but he told me that in this way the joint will be very strong and then I can cover the horrible sewing with a plastic ribbon. More pics : The ugly sewing in all its glory : http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...ar/Funda038.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...ar/Funda039.jpg Inside the case : http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...ar/Funda040.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...ar/Funda041.jpg Sewing the zippers : http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...ar/Funda042.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...ar/Funda045.jpg I really hope that the zippers be strong enough because if I have to change them... I quit !!! Now I have to put a ribbon all around the case, and the handles.

Thanks Anderekel and Kiki, Yes the mahogany turns dark with the peteribi stain but is you look at it under the sun light or a strong light you can see the wood stripes very defined and the rest of the wood with a little honey colour. These days I was working in the case, perhaps I can upload some pics later.

Thanks. I had not thought of it that way. I have done what you said and green + white is one coil, brown + yellow is the other coil. Both coils work separately for the neck pickup (which makes sense because it is working OK) but only brown + yellow work for the bridge pickup. I guess this means that there is something wrong with one of the coils on the bridge pickup. Any suggestions on how I go about fixing that coil? You can try taking off the tape that protects the coils (please be very careful) and see if one wire is broken in the joint between the coil and the external wire. If the coil is broken inside, the only solution is replace the pickup or re-coil it (not easy for a first time...)

Apparently you are not sure about the colour code of your pickup, in order with this I suggest the following. First try to test each coil separately to be sure if the colours of each coil are right. Begin with the green wire and test this wire with the other ones to determine the other extreme of this coil. In this way you can know the right colour of each coil and if both are working well separately. If this is the case you can join the end of the first coil to the beginning of the other one and test again. If works well the problem isn´t the pickup, perhaps the pot or toggle switch.

Last days I stained the guitar body and the GT2 cover. Then I began with the clear coat. The following pictures shows the body and cover with the first four coats. More pics : http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...tar/Paint02.jpg After the 4th coat I covered the GT2´s cavity with a brass sheet : http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...tar/Paint03.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...tar/Paint04.jpg

WezV, I love the shape of your Vendetta Perhaps my second guitar will be inspired on her.