W/NW On Guitar

[NathanJD]

Here's my work-in-progress. it's my other hobby although work has stopped on her until i can get my hand on a 1/2 inch router. my 1/4 inch doesn't take a bit big enough for me to accurately cut out the neck socket.

it's going to be a 'Les Paul' style arch top solid electric with 2 Seymour Duncan Humbuckers. that's AA grade flamed maple on top, i can't wait to shape it and get it to a point where i can make the grain patterns 'pop'

 

[xayraa33]

Here's my work-in-progress. it's my other hobby although work has stopped on her until i can get my hand on a 1/2 inch router. my 1/4 inch doesn't take a bit big enough for me to accurately cut out the neck socket.

it's going to be a 'Les Paul' style arch top solid electric with 2 Seymour Duncan Humbuckers. that's AA grade flamed maple on top, i can't wait to shape it and get it to a point where i can make the grain patterns 'pop'

Nice ! ...ever thought of making a neck thru design solid body ?

 

[ChrisN]

dSLR shot (Pentax)

 

[adrianzg]

 

[Nokton48]

Oblivion Fire

Oblivion Fire

My Son plays the bass:

 

[charjohncarter]

Here's my work-in-progress. it's my other hobby although work has stopped on her until i can get my hand on a 1/2 inch router. my 1/4 inch doesn't take a bit big enough for me to accurately cut out the neck socket.

it's going to be a 'Les Paul' style arch top solid electric with 2 Seymour Duncan Humbuckers. that's AA grade flamed maple on top, i can't wait to shape it and get it to a point where i can make the grain patterns 'pop'

I finished my DIY guitar about five years ago.

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

Quite nice! How DIY is it...are you mostly using Warmoth parts, or are you actually cutting and shaping the wood yourselves? Either way, I'm impressed.

 

[Greg M.]

guitar pix

guitar pix

xatraa33 posted that great pic of Roy Buchanan, during The Strat Period (not too many pictures of him, then)... I was moved to post one that I took a long, long time ago...

Greg.

 

[Todd.Hanz]

Todd

 

[Greg M.]

Roy did use a hardtail strat in early 80s then he used a Les Paul goldtop for a while before he got to use that Guild tele copy.

The last time I saw him, he was using an '80s Tele Custom... sunburst, w/the big Fender humbucker...

Years later, I was in John Sprung's store, in MD, and he happened to have all of Buch's guitars there... Judy B. was having them cleaned/inspected, before trying to sell them. I got to play a bit, on "Nancy", and he offered to sell me the sunburst... I declined.

How sad... Buch changed my life, as an Artist, and as a Human Being. I miss his Being There, dearly.


Greg.

 

[NathanJD]

Nice ! ...ever thought of making a neck thru design solid body ?

I've never done a neck thru' but I've always wanted to! this guitar is an on going 'dream guitar' project that I'm happy to spend the rest of my life building. it's a design i dreamed up when i was 15. i made one for my GCSE Design Technology lessons in school and it was dog awful! back then i had no references for building a guitar except one photocopied page from a book and the measurements of my Les Paul copy. this time i have read numerous books and spent a long time on the internet reading up about it. oh and gained qualifications in cabinet making and furniture polishing... that helped hehe.

This was the prototype, a flat topped semi-hollow that has been scavinged for parts!

it started out looking like this:

1 inch Bookmatched maple top cap, (ok, i cheated on the fingerboard and bought one ready radiused and sawed for frets) Ebony fingerboard, Bookmatched maple machine head cover

One solid Walnut neck block

Bookmatched Walnut body back.

 

[xayraa33]

The last time I saw him, he was using an '80s Tele Custom... sunburst, w/the big Fender humbucker...

Years later, I was in John Sprung's store, in MD, and he happened to have all of Buch's guitars there... Judy B. was having them cleaned/inspected, before trying to sell them. I got to play a bit, on "Nancy", and he offered to sell me the sunburst... I declined.

How sad... Buch changed my life, as an Artist, and as a Human Being. I miss his Being There, dearly.


Greg.

such a sad loss of a fine talent at an early age.
there have been rumours that his death was not a suicide.

 

[xayraa33]

I've never done a neck thru' but I've always wanted to! this guitar is an on going 'dream guitar' project that I'm happy to spend the rest of my life building. it's a design i dreamed up when i was 15. i made one for my GCSE Design Technology lessons in school and it was dog awful! back then i had no references for building a guitar except one photocopied page from a book and the measurements of my Les Paul copy. this time i have read numerous books and spent a long time on the internet reading up about it. oh and gained qualifications in cabinet making and furniture polishing... that helped hehe.

This was the prototype, a flat topped semi-hollow that has been scavinged for parts!

it started out looking like this:

1 inch Bookmatched maple top cap, (ok, i cheated on the fingerboard and bought one ready radiused and sawed for frets) Ebony fingerboard, Bookmatched maple machine head cover

One solid Walnut neck block

Bookmatched Walnut body back.

That is some fine work NathanJD, I was impressed with the sound and playability and even tone-ness of the neck thru design when I owned the Yamaha SG 2000 in the late 70s
too bad it was stolen from me
my ideal solid body guitar would be an all mahogany neck thru with two p-90 pick ups alla a Gibson LP special.

 

[lawrence]

Mark Flanagan' s Gibson ES-335. Hampton Court, Jun 2007

Mark Flanagan' s Gibson ES-335. Hampton Court, Jun 2007

 

[NathanJD]

That is some fine work NathanJD, I was impressed with the sound and playability and even tone-ness of the neck thru design when I owned the Yamaha SG 2000 in the late 70s
too bad it was stolen from me
my ideal solid body guitar would be an all mahogany neck thru with two p-90 pick ups alla a Gibson LP special.

You might want to send the police over to Carlos Sontana's residence!

I have always loved Gibsons, i was never much of a Fender fan but my dream guitar is a PRS McCarthy special. and you thought buying the M9 would require the sale of reasonably vital organs

 

[flip]

R-D1 tinfoil pinhole --- cable release manipulated by my toes.

 

[MinorTones]

My Friends

My Friends



My Friends

 

[crawdiddy]

R-D1 tinfoil pinhole --- cable release manipulated by my toes.

Great photo!

 

[Vince Lupo]

Paul Reed Smith....

 

[Keith]