Guitars #1: Monk Custom Guitars

Have you made instruments? How did you learn? I play guitar and have several. My first electric was a long gone Ibanez. I want to learn to build them too.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

this will be my first… bottom line:

Sticks is sticks.

What i’ve been told From the bridge at the neck to the twelfth fret has to be exact and from the twelfth fret to the bridge on the body has to be exact. Pick one of yours, measure it, and start working.

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Good luck with the venture. The guitar biz is a tough market.

-- There are three types of people in the world, those who can count and those who can't!

ya the scale length is absolutly key for intonation of the instrument, you’ll learn all that just pick up a couple books obi, I cant wait to see some pictures of finished guitars…my true first love is my music, album out hopefully buy the end of the eyar, pre order your copies today…I beleive Fender uses a 25 1/2” scale length, nut to bridge, nut to bridge is the most important measurement, once you learn it you’ll be set, but it all depends ont he neck what you do with the body..maybe you can build be a guitar obi, I’d lvoe to play a MONK…

couple handy links on the subject for ya obi
http://www.mimf.com/
http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/tutorial2.htm

-- Cheers

One of my first projects if a beautiful cherry/purpleheart dulcimer…sounds horrible, but looks great.

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So, when you finish with Les Paul and Fender, the next stop is Alembic

Their shop is a lot of fun to wander through.

-- Dan Lyke, Petaluma California, http://www.flutterby.net/User:DanLyke

Grizzleys catalog has a whole guitar making section that sells parts and inlays etc.

Drew

-- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah

For all you new, or old members, why don’t you check this out. Telecaster

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Shawn, I can do that

Dan, Went there yesterday and since I’ve been at a friends house for the past few days while he’s a Didny-Land and I’m sprayin lacquer, I e-mailed the Alembic website to myself to make sure I don’t lose it. The guy that I was talking to yesterday that helped fan this flame showed it to me. And they’re in the Bay-Area and you have to make an appointment JUST to see their showroom.

Drew, I’ve seen Grizzly’s Guitars and there’s a link I have somewhere that showes how to make your own guitar, but they have the bodies and the necks already cut out. I want to do my own.
This all started about a year ago, when I decided I wanted to Build a Bass using my Yamaha as a pattern, only changing the top of the body (the horn?) it protrudes too much for me, and Iw ant it took lok like the bottom piece (reminds me of something Paul McCartney would have played 40 years ago cross-bred with a Rickenbacher)

And Dick? When I first saw yours back “In The Begiinning”, i thought.. “Surely, I can do that (and don’t call me surely), and when I heard your son play it, I was truly amazed).

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THanks Obi.
I guess I better let everyone hear the Sleepwalk Solo on the Cain Guitar.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Very cool Obi. I wish you well on your new line. I hope business keeps growing like it has for you so far.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

Obi: God bless you in all you touch.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Thank you both… Bill and Karson.

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Unfortunately only the table is sold. My spoon never stops stirring, which means that I’m always thinking of things to make and sell. If it’s made of wood, I believe in my heart that I can make it. If it’s made of metal I think I can make it out of wood.

You have one? I wanna make one out of wood. Do youy want one? I know I can make one.

Whatever it is… cradles, cribs, chairs, tables, beds, coffee tables, rockers, round things, square things, octagon things, tall things short things… swirrly, curly, burly things…

I’m the Wood guy yes I am, but I do not make green eggs and ham

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Will you build them on a boat? Will you build them with a goat?

-- JP, Shelbyville, KY

I can build them in a coat, I can even make them float

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To make sure you all see the most recent entry, here is the original body

For those of you that are interested, I’ll post jigs and templates as I go along.

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Dr. Seuss and woodworking..what a combination…

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

They go together like peas and carrots, Bill.

-- JP, Shelbyville, KY

And I was waiting for Debbie’s input in this…

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Oh, she’d say, like, cool, eh?

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

heheh just shaking my head… just shaking me head….

eh.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

or perhaps I was thinking of Doug and Bob, eh?

take off.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

I was thinking of Doug and Bob, aye?

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now just throw in some Jim Carrey and we are all set !!

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Guitar Progress

First I cut out the template
Then I cut out a second one
Then I routered out the spaces for the electronics
The I routered out the back

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it looks like a guitar! A beautiful, beautiful guitar.
How exciting to watch the progress!

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

O.K. The Website has been updated to show the progress of Monk Custom Guitars

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Today besides making the template for the replacement parts for the broken guitar, I started on the “Through Body Neck” for the next one.

I’ll post pictures as they progress

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Wow, this is just amazing to watch. Beautiful work. Can hardly wait to see some more…

-- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt.