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First pic is the ebony neck gets a soul mate...still needs lots of shaping but you get the idea



body is sapele with a veneer (only there because I did some weight relief .... this is by far the heaviest bit of sapele I have ever worked with), will be trans black. Will have a floyd (with a MASSIVE brass block).......given the sapele tone characteristics and the brass this should be one HUGE/FAT sounding beast

second is a Korina SS with maple veneer (thanks to thomas (marshmellow) for the body)...will have Gold floyd with a JB (with and A8 magnet)...I have never seen a 3 piece headstock but this has one, need to work on the staining to get it a bit more uniform.....very much looking forward to finishing this one



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good start to the year I think ... (wife doesn't agree)

Looking good there Dave! Got a Dean look going on there. Did you make those necks?

Lostininverness wrote:Looking good there Dave! Got a Dean look going on there. Did you make those necks?

Hey Grant

no the ebony is a warmoth neck and the sharkie is from the late 80's

I haven't made a neck for a while. Lost a bit of confidence as most of the ones I make seem a bit "off".... my goal this year is to make a few as I have loads of wood and fret wire (oh and truss rods), just need to start one to get the ball rolling

Lostininverness wrote:Got a Dean look going on there

nah mate its totally a chris holmes jackson thing....bit of a fanboi

willow13 wrote:

Lostininverness wrote:Got a Dean look going on there

nah mate its totally a chris holmes jackson thing....bit of a fanboi

"I'm a full blown alcoholic"
Apparently that was just water but I reckon he was pretty full blown

willow13 wrote:

Lostininverness wrote:Got a Dean look going on there

nah mate its totally a chris holmes jackson thing....bit of a fanboi

So does that mean you are going to remove most of the lower bout over the electronics cavity and set it on fire - again?

I know what you mean about making necks, still working on getting the back profile carving method sorted. If you ever want to part with some of your maple stockpile....

Cool builds, what others have you built?
I'm just getting into building guitars, got a kit underway and an old dunger than i striped down, reshaped, refretted and am in the process of replacing everything

Optical wrote:Cool builds, what others have you built?
I'm just getting into building guitars, got a kit underway and an old dunger than i striped down, reshaped, refretted and am in the process of replacing everything

I have built over 20. Pictures are on here some where

you are a brave man doing a refret right from the get go....I am still yet to do one (always worried about wrecking a good neck). Fretting from new is way less scary

I have a fretless tellie neck you can practice on, box o beers/12 pack/6 nice ones/2 X epic lupalingus .

willow13 wrote:

Optical wrote:Cool builds, what others have you built?
I'm just getting into building guitars, got a kit underway and an old dunger than i striped down, reshaped, refretted and am in the process of replacing everything

I have built over 20. Pictures are on here some where

you are a brave man doing a refret right from the get go....I am still yet to do one (always worried about wrecking a good neck). Fretting from new is way less scary

Nice! I'll have a dig
I got a battered prs clone (korina duke) from cash converters for $60 and a set of ebay frets for $20, so good way to learn

get your neck nice and straight before leveling the frets and you'll be fine.

Optical wrote: I got a battered prs clone (korina duke) from cash converters for $60 and a set of ebay frets for $20, so good way to learn

you aren't in papakura are you? saw one in there for cheap a while back

Lostininverness wrote:get your neck nice and straight before leveling the frets and you'll be fine.

Yeah I wouldn't fret over it.


(sorry, but it had to be done...)

Nice.

mrmofo wrote:I have a fretless tellie neck you can practice on, box o beers/12 pack/6 nice ones/2 X epic lupalingus .

thanks for the offer mate but I have a couple of old necks already and a pre slotted fretboard that needs to be used .... in fact if I ever got my shit together I could easily build 5 more guitars for basically nothing....although I am always short of pick ups