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Simply fantastic work Blackdog ! Your first guitar was beautiful but this one will be better !

No, I built a GT2 close using the Tonepad information a year ago and works great. Here is the link : http://www.tonepad.com/project.asp?id=22 Is not an easy project but sound really good. I have to build another board to put inside the guitar.

Thanks Blackdog ! (your name is one of my favorite songs...) Bariloche, what a beautiful city ! Did you have to travel to that paradise a week or two frecuently ? I envy you ! Hey Blackdog, you have the skills to make a beautiful travel guitar, perhaps you need a little push to begin...

If you are a beginner with metal like me, you need a lot of patience, make things slowly and taking measurement step by step. But it´s Regarding the carnival, my wife said me (when she was my girlfriend) : you can see (the other girls) but not touch !

Yes, I tried with a centrepunch but I haven´t the right tools to fix the brass bar under my drill. The pegs are 15mm long so when I start the hole centered in one extreme, it´s not centered in the other one... My friend will make the pegs (with his lathe) next saturday morning.

I like the shape ! About the pickguard, I can´t see well if it´s one pickguard for all the pickups or a pickguard in two parts.

Thank you for your comments Prostheta ! Yes, I have to do a small groove in the beginning of the headpiece to accommodate a Fender style nut. Tomorrow morning I´ll buy the nut, take measurements and finish the headpiece (polishing, etc, before chromium plate). Today, I was talking with a friend that has a small lathe in order to make the tuner pegs. Because is impossible to make a centered hole in a brass bar with my drill press.

Reporting more progress : I was working on the headpiece. I used a piece of brass, my drill, metal saw, and files to try to make it. This was my first time making metal parts, please be gentle... Step by step pics : http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...Headpiece01.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...Headpiece02.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...Headpiece03.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...Headpiece04.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...Headpiece05.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...Headpiece06.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...Headpiece07.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...Headpiece08.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...Headpiece09.jpg More ¨almost finished pics¨ : http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...Headpiece10.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...Headpiece11.jpg I´ll use allen screws to attach the strings. Now I have to begin with the tuners...

I hope you are well now. The neck is really beautiful.

Beautiful headstock ! Are the dots half on the fingerboard and half on neck ?

Really fantastic man ! (as ussual)

Great idea ! Perhaps the next build.

Your welcome, if you have questions, please ask.

Hola vecino ! No, la caoba la compre a 2 km de mi casa, el amigo Finlandés me pasó las medidas tomadas de su propia guitarra. Realmente fueron una ayuda invaluable. Saludos.

Hermosa guitarra, hermano ! Beautiful guitar, brother ! I like so much !

Hi PTU´s, thank you for your kind words. About the router I bought a Skil one at Easy 6 months ago. About usd $ 100.00, and 12 payments with credit card.

I have to put the GT2 stuff in the following way : The left part of the cavity will be used for the GT2 board, battery and front switches. The right part for the GT2 controls, front pots and output jack. The right part have to be recessed Of course. The idea is fix the cover using small neo magnets. You can see that the cover can´t be straight. What material you suggest to use for the cover : metal, plastic, wood, other ? Any idea is welcome friends.

Sorry Aidlook I can´t take a picture as a mock-up because I´ll be begining with the tuners during weekeng (I hope). To clarify a draw a very simple sketch using Paint. Hope that helps. You have to think about the tuners like a tremblock (as Mickguard did) but fixed. Thanks for your interest.

Simply beautiful !

Yesterday I was working in the recessed cavity for the tuners, the GT2´s compartment and the front holes for switches and pots : http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...itar/Body11.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...itar/Body10.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a...itar/Body13.jpg My problem is the GT2´s cover. I can´t be flat because the most part of it covers the board and battery but the other part (nearest the end of the body) must cover switches (2 toggle ones) and pots(4) that will be recessed ! I can decide if make a wood cover or a simpler plastic one. I don´t know, time to think...

Great ! If you need measurements, remember that Hande is a very friendly guy and he has an Unicorn bass too.

Wez, do you know which were the first to appear ? The Riverhead Unicorn or the Flyte ? Only to know...

I prefer screws for metal and not for wood because my Gibson S1 uses them and think that are more reliable, specially for an unexperienced guy like me. And choose allen ones because they are very easy to obtain near my home and looks good too. About the finish you are right, I prefer to see the wood. Don´t worry about your english or spanish. My english is near to poor and my portuguese don´t exist ! Are you during carnival period ? How are the garotas ?

No problem, the idea is to install the pickups without rings. This is one of the things that I change from the original design.

A little more progress to show : I decided to put metal inserts to use screws for metal instead of wood : http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a.../NeckScrews.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a.../BodyNeck03.jpg http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/a.../BodyNeck01.jpg Now I have to do the GT2´s compartment, the recessed for the tuner pegs, etc, etc...