Harvester 'Goldthwait' baritone and bass.
Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2014 4:51 pm
beautiful, fat planks of queensland hoop pine - used as roof beams in a sugar warehouse in 1934, recently remilled by a friend of mine.
this stuff behaves like kauri or huon or one of those other more famous, clear, buttery antipodean timbers.
the shapes are drawn freehand, but obviously derived and up-sized from old harmony bobkats that i have hanging from the rafters here.
the padauk necks are set at full width into long mortises for a rigid les paul junior kind of feel.
i can never settle on a headstock shape for a run of guitars - i try and make the rest of the guitar do the 'branding'.
sunbursts.
* with a bit of rustic charm around the edges.
for the bass i made up a brass bridge - with an ebony saddle and a little tailpiece.
both of these guitars were experiments in scales that i haven't used before.
so there's a baritone at 28.5 " scale tuned B to B.
with 2 x P90 ( 'howling goats' from manlius in NY ) and a gotoh 510 bridge.
i wanted to make a bari that has a little more guts - they often seem to be either twangy sort of retromobiles or metal monsters.
the bass has a 32" scale - splitting the difference between my little wooden-bridged Kay basses and the full Fender scale.
i've borrowed it from myself for a few noisy gigs and had a lot of fun with it.
the bass pickup is a P90 sized steel rail from jerry sentell ( with that gorgeous gibson green wire which set the colour scheme for the bass ).
i used little sperzel trimlok tuners for the bass.
these are NOS, ex- Ken Parker factory with unique small buttons on them.
the veneer on the bass headstock is koa ( an old offcut from a hawaii ukulele maker )
the crazy headstock on the baritone is traced from an old Welson bass ( italian sparkle/fetish-guitar brand form the 60s ) ...
thanks guys, AP
this stuff behaves like kauri or huon or one of those other more famous, clear, buttery antipodean timbers.
the shapes are drawn freehand, but obviously derived and up-sized from old harmony bobkats that i have hanging from the rafters here.
the padauk necks are set at full width into long mortises for a rigid les paul junior kind of feel.
i can never settle on a headstock shape for a run of guitars - i try and make the rest of the guitar do the 'branding'.
sunbursts.
* with a bit of rustic charm around the edges.
for the bass i made up a brass bridge - with an ebony saddle and a little tailpiece.
both of these guitars were experiments in scales that i haven't used before.
so there's a baritone at 28.5 " scale tuned B to B.
with 2 x P90 ( 'howling goats' from manlius in NY ) and a gotoh 510 bridge.
i wanted to make a bari that has a little more guts - they often seem to be either twangy sort of retromobiles or metal monsters.
the bass has a 32" scale - splitting the difference between my little wooden-bridged Kay basses and the full Fender scale.
i've borrowed it from myself for a few noisy gigs and had a lot of fun with it.
the bass pickup is a P90 sized steel rail from jerry sentell ( with that gorgeous gibson green wire which set the colour scheme for the bass ).
i used little sperzel trimlok tuners for the bass.
these are NOS, ex- Ken Parker factory with unique small buttons on them.
the veneer on the bass headstock is koa ( an old offcut from a hawaii ukulele maker )
the crazy headstock on the baritone is traced from an old Welson bass ( italian sparkle/fetish-guitar brand form the 60s ) ...
thanks guys, AP