Let me know what you have, and how much you want for them. eBay seems to have quite a few but I haven’t won any parts yet.

I have a modest home recording setup, but I have tried to design cool double bay tilt racks, cubby storage, and rolling padded boxes for patch cords that double as stools.

Until now I’ve been using an old wine crate that I padded, upholstered and added an elastic band to hold microphones… after seeing the Antique Spice box in an issue of Fine Woodworking, I thought that would be really cool to use as a Microphone cabinet….so I sketched out some plans…

I went with Handcut dovetails, and spalted birch drawer fronts…and brass ‘label’ drawer pulls so I can easily pick which drawer contains the ribbon mic, or the lg. diaphram condensors..etc.

For the feet I free cut them on the band saw and used my chisels to hand carve some music notes.. I still have to cut and attach the spalted banding around the front and make a frame for the drawers..and I’ve decided to use a nice molding around the top….but here’s what I have so far.

We went to the exotic wood store down in south seattle and found some gorgeous black walnut and spalted birch.

So I spent some time today cleaning up the sides and getting it ready.

I popped the grain with a bit of mineral spirits.

I am going to make a dovetailed box with the spalting as a moulding around the inside bottom, and a cushion of deep green velvet lining.

I’ll post more pics as I progress. I cleaned up the boards with hand planes, and spoke shaves.

In addition to the Bass, which I posted in the projects section, here is where I currently stand with the various guitars.

1. Telecaster body: I really wanted a vintage 59’ Tele. Blonde with a black pickguard and a filthy maple neck. But I didn’t want to spend $2000. I drew out the body freehand, which is why it’s not the exact Tele size/shape. I also decided that I wanted to dump 4 full humbuckers into it. A tad extreme I know. ...Oh, then I decided I would have micro- toggles for each pickup that would tap them to Single coils for versatility.

After I routed out the body for the pickups, I realized that I would need some kind of pickguard to hold them. But I didn’t want to detract from the gorgeous wood, so I tried to make a pickguard out of clear plexi glass.

I shattered a couple of pieces on the bandsaw before I realized that you really need to be careful cutting it. So I took it sloooooow and careful. and got it all worked out.

Here’s where I’m at with this one…

2. SG-ish Neck through body. (Arch top): This is my first attempt at a Neck-thru body electric. I purchased the Neck from Stew-mac. I have an SG template that I copied from DamnHippies wifes guitar when I replaced the pickups for her.

However, mine is a little more organic, and definitely thicker/heavier than a standard SG. Plus I made it as an Arch top. I have glued the wings to the neck, but I noticed that it’s not a perfect join. So I think I’m going to add some abalone inlay along the glue line to hide the defect. It still needs to be shaped more, especially at the cutaways. I am going to use an EMG active pickup in the bridge and a String through body design. I found a cool chrome FLAME bridge that I’ll use.

I haven’t decided on a headstock shape yet, but I’m trying to come up with a cool logo/ headstock design.

Here’s where I’m at with this one….

3. Travel Guitar (First attempt at inlays..you’ll laugh!): So I had a small piece left, and after measuring it, I decided I could eek out a small body for a travel guitar. So I cut it and shaped it as best I could, considering the size of the piece I had to work with. A friend sketched out a lightning bolt and a really cool flame design on a piece of Curly maple that I eventually will use as inlays on various projects. So with a dremel, and chisels I set about trying to inlay a lightning bolt.

A couple of things to note…(Which I have since learned was a big mistake!)
1. I used the bandsaw to cut the inlay off a 1” thick stock of curly maple. The inlay is over 1/4 thick. Too thick!

2. Cutting the inlay with a dremel. Not nearly precise enough. I have a couple of gaps now between the side and the inlay. Looks pretty bad.

3. Oh yeah, I tried to do an inlay without thinking it through. ...the old addage measure twice, cut once? Yeah, ...my personal favorite is ‘Eh, how hard could it be!’. When people see it, I just say ‘It’s SUPPOSED to look like that’.

Here is where this priceless work of art stands… I’ll be putting a single humbucker, single volume knob in it with a Tune-o-matic style bridge.