Projects in the pipeline thread!

[jeremyb]

then finish it properly later

Never gonna happen. Speaking from experience

[willow13]

then finish it properly later

Never gonna happen. Speaking from experience

I think it was my way of saying i'm gonna rush it and live with it

[jeremyb]

[sty]

The body and some parts arrived today from Adrian, so my daughter and I can get started on finishing the body now and start the project in earnest

as promised here are a couple of photos of the pieces and a quick trial assembly:

The Parts

Test Fit

This is actually my daughters birthday present so it's going to be a general purpose electric for a beginner/intermediate pre-teen player. Although it's interesting to note that her 6 year old brother discovered pick scrapes within about 2 minutes of actually plugging a 3/4 size electric into a practice amp so who knows what type of sounds she'll end up making with this in the long run


*apologies for the small iPhone pictures but I haven't had chance o get the decent shots off the DSLR yet, and we're documenting the process for her so she can make a project book or similar out of it, so I'm not actually going to be posting many/any pictures of it until she's revealed it. Also I had to shrink the pics quite small to fit on here anyway

[willow13]

holy hell that looks like a great body for a project ...... can you be my dad to???

[Polar Bear]

I've got a tele project that I'm in the process of working on. Not quite as exciting as an old sg, but there does seem to be some blood and it feces on it, so that's quite exciting.

[Bg]

I've got a tele project that I'm in the process of working on. Not quite as exciting as an old sg, but there does seem to be some blood and it feces on it, so that's quite exciting.

meh, its still a tele, no matter how much you bleed or shit on it

[Polar Bear]

Can't make it worse though, right? I'm planning on putting it back together with a combination of primary school paste and epoxy.

[Bg]

Can't make it worse though, right? I'm planning on putting it back together with a combination of primary school paste and epoxy.

you can't make it worse, but you need some italian cars in there to make it right.

[kdawg2a]

The body and some parts arrived today from Adrian, so my daughter and I can get started on finishing the body now and start the project in earnest

as promised here are a couple of photos of the pieces and a quick trial assembly:

1theparts.jpg

2thefitsml.jpg

This is actually my daughters birthday present so it's going to be a general purpose electric for a beginner/intermediate pre-teen player. Although it's interesting to note that her 6 year old brother discovered pick scrapes within about 2 minutes of actually plugging a 3/4 size electric into a practice amp so who knows what type of sounds she'll end up making with this in the long run


*apologies for the small iPhone pictures but I haven't had chance o get the decent shots off the DSLR yet, and we're documenting the process for her so she can make a project book or similar out of it, so I'm not actually going to be posting many/any pictures of it until she's revealed it. Also I had to shrink the pics quite small to fit on here anyway

Very cool John! That is going to be one nice looking piece of kit when finished and what a great hands on project for the kids!

[jeremyb]

+1 that looks amazing John!

[Hot_Grits]

The Tele special is on it's way to completion. I threw my cabronita's neck on it and strung it up not long ago. Sounds pretty great as is, though the intonation could do with some work.

Basic concept is a Les Paul Special I can drop. Inspired by playing a custom shop tele jr way back in the day. Most of the hardware came from Ishibashi on my first Tokyo trip. Gibson P90s, chosen because I liked them in my old LPjr and they were available on the day.

Final steps for this will be swapping in a korina/rosewood gibson scale neck from Adrian and putting on a black Cabronita style pick guard. I should probably try and give it a more robust finish at some point, but I do like raw korina.



It's going so well I'm tempted to build a humbucker version.

[handlefras]

Yeah that raw Korina looks great.

[Polar Bear]

Can't make it worse though, right? I'm planning on putting it back together with a combination of primary school paste and epoxy.

you can't make it worse, but you need some italian cars in there to make it right.

[jeremyb]

Looking good Martin, does needs that black la cab pickguard tho'!!