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Testing carved top toolpath with the little help of my good
friend XPS

Nudger wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 15, 2021 1:30 pm

Nice..Had jags n duos in the past and they never got played.. slapped 25.5 necks on last 2 duos and its just great!
Duo body is longer than strat so really good match.
Stratosonic n Telesonic.

Dude these are damn sexy!

Cheers jobo

I initially built em to sell but so damn playable just sold one and kept Telesonic.

Just off my guitar mans workbench.
Our own fellow formite niksureal made the body for me last year, and it arrived on my bday.
I partnered it with the neck from my first electric guitar. Gave it to my tech to sort out a while ago and I just got it back.
I love it. Thanks Nik
511063AF-A87D-4610-87BD-D8956CF9A309 by Gary Ptaszek, on Flickr

Swept Wing by Gary Ptaszek, on Flickr

Jazz bass body...



Neck is from the old, neverfinished Marauder Bass project.
This will be Bass for my son.

I'm imagining this would look great with a 70´s style sunburst.. Is that an ebony fretboard? Lucky boy !

powerdroid wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 19, 2021 1:45 pm

I'm imagining this would look great with a 70´s style sunburst.. Is that an ebony fretboard? Lucky boy !

It's supposed to be black....now... I will rethink

24" scale St. Vincent for my wife. Poplar body, roasted curly maple and ebony neck, 2 firebird pickups, 2 point strat vibrato, and locking tuners.

I'm waiting on some firebird pickup routing templates.



25" scale Performer for me. Alder body, 2 piece maple neck, lace sensors, 2 point strat vibrato, and locking tuners.

I've never seen a Performer in person, so I wasn't sure how it would feel. But it turns out that the shape is super comfortable. This is a really light piece of alder too. I still need to do the contours, but the weight is down to 3lb 5oz. I'm guessing the finished weight will be just under 7lb.

Some progress on the SD4/L-like object- some weight removal was done and the edges were loaded with epoxy:

Sanded the edges level and smooth in preparation for the transparent red lacquer, and got the Formica on front and rear.
Still a way to go- clean the glue residue off the sides, soften the edges, red lacquer, paint the neck black, reinstate the cavities that are now under the Formica, and I should probably think about a neck pocket at some point.

antisymmetric wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 22, 2021 11:24 pm

Some progress on the SD4/L-like object- some weight removal was done and the edges were loaded with epoxy:
Sanded the edges level and smooth in preparation for the transparent red lacquer, and got the Formica on front and rear.
Still a way to go- clean the glue residue off the sides, soften the edges, red lacquer, paint the neck black, reinstate the cavities that are now under the Formica, and I should probably think about a neck pocket at some point.

Do I see an SG3 there? I'd love to come over and see that thing in real life

antisymmetric wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 22, 2021 11:24 pm

Some progress on the SD4/L-like object- some weight removal was done and the edges were loaded with epoxy:

Sanded the edges level and smooth in preparation for the transparent red lacquer, and got the Formica on front and rear.
Still a way to go- clean the glue residue off the sides, soften the edges, red lacquer, paint the neck black, reinstate the cavities that are now under the Formica, and I should probably think about a neck pocket at some point.

Dang! It looks bloody great already. One of these days I'd like to see a family picture of all your cool builds

Maple veneer and binding applied to samba top:

Sort of "Thinline" cherry telecaster...

So many little bottles...


...trying to achieve...


...some sunburst!


Tomorrow will try to glue figured pear veneer..

... on cherry body blank.

had some fun today de- and -re modding my old Jim Harley Les Paul, in all its glory with its plywood body, non-operational trussrod and misaligned parts.
It was set up for behind the bridge amplifying, but it never worked out as well or as useful as I would have liked, so I did the logical next silly step and added a cheap bigsby knock off. Yes, to my already least stable guitar

I had a set of flatwounds lying around, this guitar has never played better, quite happy with this mod ! I also tried the Joe Gore mod with a bass cut pot, which seems to be wired correctly but does nothing. At least it's pretty easy to tinker with the wiring with a Les Paul, this is why I don't mess with my Jazzmaster as much ! (kidding, I do but I'm swearing the whole time).

I'm not a big fan of stickering my guitars, but the pickup behind the bridge left an ugly hole, not structurally problematic but a nice occasion to use a sticker for a friend's cancelled 2020 festival...