argytar

Some of the progress of the project....

I eventually went another way. I wanted to make a Gretsch-Tele hybrid so I planned the top to 6mm , re-routed for TV jones and installed black/white binding. I ll make a bolt on neck with an ebony fretboard and neoclassical inlays and use a rocking bar bridge. I also rounded the body a bit, and broadened the f-holes so that a pot can fit through. Here are some pics, the project is still under construction. Still in the works but I think I like how it' coming about! I 'll paint it orange (you guessed it!) Maybe it will look something like this, only with nickel hardware and a bound fretboard with neo-classical inlays...

Hello again and thanks for the great ideas!! The following is the guitar body and 5A top in question! Thing is , the top is quite thick now.. I was wondering... Should I bring it down to 7 mm or maybe get a carve at an edge of say 3mm and use 6mm binding going into the mahogany (3mm) at the edge?? (Or should I leave it like it is? Top thickness is 10mm, overall thickness is 45 mm , a usual tele is at about 44 as all of you know) Here's a pic showing the edge Thanks for any insights!!

Hi again! The guitar is called 'Stagones' Northern ash weight-relieved body (back chamber) Mahogany QS neck Rosewood fretboard 12" radius Black 3-ply pickguard ''Cabronita''- inspired 25.5" scale Arcade style kill button Sole volume pot - no tone knob Jumbo frets Fore arm contour Deep belly contour Tone Rider 'Rock Song' Pickups Wilkinson Tuners Wilkinson WVP6 tremolo (SUPERB! for the bux) plexi glass back cover teak oil 'distressed' finish Added a chrome cover to the neck humbucker lately Played and tested live , the guitar rocks , I enjoy it and it's really light at 7 pounds! Enjoy! P.S. The placement of the amp mike is wrong in these pix , it was corrected during the live show !! :) And a video of me playing the guitar

I sure chose the wrong month to enter! Kudoz for everyone for a great job/ideas/originality! Many useful things to learn here!!

Guy thanks a mil! That was quite helpful!

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I got a 5A flame maple top that looks amazing. I was wondering... a. would you use it as a drop top say on a thinline tele style build or b.would you carve it leaving a 2mm faux binding line??? (maybe use some cream plastic binding) Thanks for the help guys!

Hi! If it is posicle I would like to add the following video to the Kleopatra project entry Thanks!!

Hi! Long time no see , I doubt that anyone remembers me, I 'm the doc from Greece (PRS project and Esperanza). I 've started building again so for this month I have the following attempt: It s a lefty guitar I made for my best man. It's got a 2-piece mahogany body , QS mahogany neck set to an angle of 3.5 degrees, indian rosewood fingerboard and the headstock reads KLEO (ie Cleopatra the name of my wife's maid of honour and also his wife). The guitar sports Tone -Pros tuners and tune-o-matic bridge and the strings go through the body , ending in chrome vintage ferrules. It s light at about 7 pounds and has a set of tonerider alnico IIs installed. There is also a splitter switch and of course volume - tone 3-way switch. It was pore filled with wood putty and finished with teak oil. Hope ya like it! and one from the back when it was being constructed , now it has a black plastic cover http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc223/argytar/DSC00263-1.jpg

Hi again this is another entry from Argytar!!! it s THE VAGABOND Ok I know that this is no innovation but I had to post this guitar at least to share my joy with you guys! It sounds and plays fantastic! It has tons of sustain and tone I just can t believe it! So obviously this is a Les Paul copy with the best features I could imagine! It s like the holy grail of tone, it s resonant, it pops, it screams and it growls! I made it together with our former bassman Chris Papapostolou and we call it the Vagabond! (that s also written on the headstock) Vagabond is also the name of Chris 's guitars maybe you 'll be seeing some of the stuff he makes soon! So here go the specs: One piece mahogany body hollowed on the upper bout (it s 30 years old we got it from a retired furniture maker that had these in stock and he said it s from latin America) ONE piece curly maple top (heavy stuff) Extra long tenon mahogany neck from the same slab as the body(reaches the end of the neck pickup cavity towards the bridge-really tight) Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard (old stock from munich germany) I didn t believe it but it really taps like glass!! Ebony headstock veneer with Les Paul Model sticker decal dunlop usa strap locks TUSQ man made ivory nut Tone Pros upgrade tulip tuners (nicccce!) Tone Pros locking tune-o-matic bridge with graph tech saddles Tone Pros aluminum locking tailpiece bulky neck profile WCR handmade Godwood pickup set neck-bridge (incredibly PAFy) RS guitarworks modern pots and caps set The rest of the hardware is Gibson historic originals. So this is like the perfect Les Paul for me and it really snaps for funky stuff too.. This guitar plays itself! Oh the sustain!!! I have it wrapover strung now and it 's super butter-y to play!! Hope ya like it!! http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc223/a...ar/Image221.jpg http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc223/a...ar/Image218.jpg

hi guys! Need enlightment! I want to finish a strat rosewood/maple neck. I prefer teak oil finish as it looks ok and feels sweet when i play the neck...however is this dangerous for the neck ? will it warp more easily? should i shoot nitro to protect it? can i shoot nitro over the oil? (i ve already applied three coats..) your help is super appreciated thanks!! ARGYTAR -Greece p.s. -remember me? i built esperanza some months ago and she also has an oil finish ,should she worry? thanks

hi again this is argytar! Guys thanks for all the comments! First of all I am going to specialize in surgery after i finish my country service! So the carving had a lot to do with surgery ...and patience!! It took me a lot of loving labour to hollow out the guitar but as i said i did it through the small backplate the f holes and the jack plate. believe it or not the guitar is half hollow. As for the finish, it is matte as most of oil finishes are i sure am no photo expert,i wanted the guitar to feel old and currently i am 'adding' some dings when i use it live.. all the other instruments are just superb!! for the people who want to see some photos of the making progress here are some links but these photos were taken with my cell phone's camera so these are a little fuzzy for sure! These prove though that the guitar is my one piece wonder!! http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc223/a...ranzascrap2.jpg http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc223/a...eranzascrap.jpg http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc223/a...cacarveplan.jpg http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc223/a.../esperanza4.jpg http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc223/a...zarehearsal.jpg http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc223/a...zafretboard.jpg http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc223/a...nzatrussrod.jpg http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc223/a...ckupcavity2.jpg http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc223/a...ickupcavity.jpg well that s about it for now!!anyone caring for some sound bits lemme know! gotm is really exciting!! cheers!

hi there people! This is my second build , I call her 'ESPERANZA' because I made this guitar while I was expecting the time to pass so I can be hired at the hospital. I am a young physician. I used a chisel to double carve the top and back and to hollow out half of the guitar. The guitar is made out of ONE large piece of african mahogany. YES it s one piece, no glued parts (except for the rosewood fingerboard). I hollowed half the guitar using a chisel and rubber hammer through the f-holes ,the jack hole and the small back plate. The guitar has sweet sustain and great resonance! The sound unplugged is almost acoustic! No feedback problems though, this guitar can rock out and give sweet overtones!! To sum up Esperanza has: -ONE piece african mahogany (no glued parts body and neck are from the same uncut piece of wood) -Wilkinson gold aluminum wraparound bridge which also functions as a normal bridge because i added string through construction ferrules (adds bottom end and sustain) with locking studs -Wilkinson gold EZ lock tuners -Schaller gold strap lock buttons -2 cream SEYMOUR DUNCAN vintage p-90 neck and bridge (wax potted with sweeeeet tone ) -golden knobs with green pearl dome -cream coloured 3 way switch -the guitar is finished with teak oil which makes it super resonant and the neck carve is fat ,the way i like it. the strings go either through the body or they can be top loaded to the wraparound bridge! cheers ! argytar ,greece ,europe hope you like it!!

hi again! i didn t really know all these details so people... thank you very much it really isn t worth the trouble... is the brw in these guitars only for looks? i mean does it have such a different tone that the warmoth site puts it in a whole different tone category??? anyway madagascar rosewood is sold inside the european union so i guess that might be cool to try btw does anyone know what constructing differences make those 50s les pauls the 'holy grail' of tone? is it the pafs with the old Co in AlNiCo? Is it the aluminum tailpiece? the long tenon neck? the honduran mahogany ? the braz rosewood? the hands of eric clapton maybe?? hmm thanks for your help guys i really appreciate it!

Hello there! this is argytar from greece europe. I am looking for a couple of brazilian rosewood fretboard blanks but noone sends outside usa and i can t seem to find anyone in europe that has them... so the question is: does anyone of you have any for sale or know any european suppliers?? I found magadascar rosewood in one spanish site? does it have the same tone with brazilian? by the way i am trying to build a les paul 50 s style. any help will be super appreciated! thanks fellas!

hi all! verhoevenk thanks for the good words, I really appreciate it! I just came from a ski trip and I m very pleased that some people have liked my project ,thank you all so much!!! and of course congrats to the winners!!

hi again! it sure is a neck through i sculpted the whole thing to look like this! the center part is visible in the photo of the rear. the middle part is dried out mahogany (really old) and i just painted it to look like the neck was set in, but no it s a neck through and i got the pics to prove it! )) but where should i upload them??? maybe i should have just applied a clear coat but i wanted a gold top , this is my first build and the guitar is a present from me to myself, the band i play in is very happy with the sound by the way!

hi i m new too just visiting the forum hi y' all!

thanks, i would appreciate it if someone should help ,so at least people can see the guitar and say an opinion. it is my first built and fourth guitar i own. any ideas on where i could host the photos?? i have uploaded at a yahoo group named bootypest (from an exchange trip to budapest when i still was a med student now i m a doc) anyway thanks again you guys mm'kay?

really ???? you still can t see my pictures??? they are visible with my browser! what s going on?? can an operator help please? thanks

hi ! this argytar sorry for the mix up with the pic links!! As mayden69 told me i ll post them here to the vote area so you can all see them... here goes.. by the way the nickname of the guitar is also 'goldie'.thanks again hope this solves the problem! http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/8FsERjbIHGB-6...Ej/DSC01143.JPG hope it s ok now. I think my pics are visible in my last reply.maybe you should delete the first one with the broken links or replace them with these ones (they were broken after i resized the pics) thanks!!

hi y'all! My name is Argyris Krommydas from Greece ,Europe and I am new to this forum and site! I just finished making my fourth guitar so i thought why not post it here to the forum! It is inspired by the PRS guitars but it is actually a neck through guitar. For the middle section I used a dried piece of mahogany that has been sitting around for about 25 years! (resonant) and for the wings I used two pieces of gambon type mahogany (lighter coloured but still mahoganoid). The hardware is mostly from PRS: eg the fixed bridge (i used vintage steel Tonepros studs for better coupling) the pickups are two prs dragon II pickups treble and bass (coil splittable via a push/pull tone pot) . I wanted to make a gold top guitar with chrome pickups, the binding is natural. I made the finish matte and on the headstock 'Goldie' is inscripted in silver that s the nickname of the guitar. The tuners are sperzel locking tuners and the guitar sounds Greeeeeaaaat awesome sustain and versatility of tones. Oh ! i almost forgot,the fingerboard has inlaid roses made by antoniotsai of taiwan. So, enjoy! I resized the pics for easier view. with kind regards argyris ,greece