Guitar

very nice retro look. who made the pickups?

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Beautiful, the color you chose has real impact. How does it play and sound?

-- Terry Roswell, L.A. (Lower Alabama) "Life is what happens to you when you are making other plans."

The pickups are dearmond dynasonic, I bought them a few years ago on eBay and just found out they don’t work! so I’ll have to spend about $100 to get em fixed!I have a pair in an other guitar and they sound great.
This guitar plays good it just doesn’t make any noise yet!
The color is a primary blue powder dye that i mixed with denatured alcohol.

-- Matt Fink

I like it! nice color. I am having a bass biuld for me. I get it in January. Heres a Pic of it.

-- Greg, Southern Oregon, www.oregonburls.com

Fantastic guitars

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I don’t play guitar, but have a question. Somebody asked me to engrave a pick guard, so I went to the guitar store and saw they all had a plastic laminate plates as pick guards.

Your guitar just has the natural wood. Are the store ones made that way for cost, looks or ????

Steve.

Sweet blue gitar! How did you make the black chair stand out on its side from the wall?

“I don’t play guitar, but have a question. Somebody asked me to engrave a pick guard, so I went to the guitar store and saw they all had a plastic laminate plates as pick guards.
Your guitar just has the natural wood. Are the store ones made that way for cost, looks or ????
Steve.”

That part of the guitar gets a lot of abuse from playing so if there were no pick guard there would be lots of scratches or eventually bare wood. The one on my guitar is actually a template although I might leave it.

Thanks for all the comments everyone! and that will be a nice bass!pleas post pics when finished.

-- Matt Fink

“Sweet blue gitar! How did you make the black chair stand out on its side from the wall?”

Thats a trade secret!!!

-- Matt Fink

Not all guitars have pick guards. My Stratocaster and Telecaster both have pick guards (which double as the structural support for the pickups on the Strat). My Les Paul and Parker don’t have pick guards (the pickups are mounted in recesses routed in the guitar body)

Matt- Nice job! How does it play? I like the Bigsby!

Have you read Melvyn Hiscock’s book Build Your Own Electric Guitar?

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Not all guitars have pick guards. My Stratocaster and Telecaster both have pick guards (which double as the structural support for the pickups on the Strat). My Les Paul and Parker don’t have pick guards (the pickups are mounted in recesses routed in the guitar body)

Matt- Nice job! How does it play? I like the Bigsby!

Have you read Melvyn Hiscock’s book Build Your Own Electric Guitar?

That’s true some guitars don’t have pick guards, I think most Les Paul’s come with pick guards tho some people remove them, I’ve seen a lot of that with Gretsch guitars too.

The guitar plays great! Nice action no fret buzz.

No, I have not read that book. The only thing I needed info on when building this guitar was bridge placement and I went to the Stewmac.com for that. But the next one I build I will need more info on because I will build the neck also witch be a Mosrite copy, the Mosrite forum is where I’ll go for that.

-- Matt Fink

There you go

http://curtisnovak.com/pickups/repairs/Gretsch-DynaSonic/index.shtml

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Nice job. I’m sure you had fun building it.

Thanks

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Tell us about the finish. What dye did you use? Is it a nitro-cellulose lacquer finish?

-- Keith, Bolingbrook, Illinois. How did you do that? I just started with a bunch of wood and cut away anything that's not part of the finished piece...

I used an alcohol based blue dye and nitro-lacquer from guitar reranch ,it could use a few more coats of lacquer tho.
http://reranchstore.stores.yahoo.net/andyealbas.html

-- Matt Fink