My First Guitar

You forgot two strings! Hay ROCK and ROLL!!!

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what chord are you playing ?

Very nice work ! Sure it was fun to make .

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

Very nice. Time to learn Big Bottom

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

Dennis… it’s a bass.
Dan it’s not an actual chord that Im aware of… it just looked like one
And Giz… practice is coming up…

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Nice work Obi – did you buy the necks and finger boards? How difficult would you say the project was?

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

Looks good. My latest project is at the other end of the spectrum—a Concert size ukulele.

awesome… do we get a sound file to listen to?

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

Very nice Obi. Dennis beat me to the “two strings missing” joke. I played bass guitar as a teen.

-- Dave _-^-_ Baltimore, MD

that is one good looking Bass. How about a little “Night Train” or ” Big Noise from Wanetka”

-- Thos. Angle

Very nice. That bass goes to 11!

-- David, South Windsor, CT "I love the smell of sawdust in the morning"

Very nice Obi. Congratulation on finishing it.

Looks great.

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

Hey Obi, It’s good to see your face buddy! Someone said you looked like darkman, thats why you always covered up. I just thought you where on the FBI’s most wanted list. Great looking guitar, master. Love that Hickory. Keep cranking those babies out buddy. mike

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

Sweet!

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Nice job! What’s the scale length? I love a longneck – MUCH better response with my heavy-handed “beat-the-stew-out-of-it” style. Are you going to go 5-string or active pickups in any of the future models?

-- Robert from Raymond, MS. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not a practice, but a habit." - Aristotle

O.K. let’s see if I can address all of these questions at once
Gravedigger: Double octave 24 fret and I’m not sure what scale length that makes it.
Cajunpen: I make the necks and slot the fingerboards myself (I just didnt on this guitar because I didnt have the blade at the time and I was kind of in a hurry.) I’m making two other necks (One for the Bass that is going to replace this one as my personal Bass, and one styled after a Les Paul with a Brazilian Cherry fingerboard and head cap.
Jockmike: AMERICA’S MOST WANTED
Deb: As soon as I figure out how and where to load an audio clip, I will. I might be able to load it to my website

OVERALL DIFFICULTY: High 6 Lots of specialty tools. Fret slot cutting blade cuts a slot 23/1000’s of an inch.

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Gravedigger: It’s a 34” scale.

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Great info Obi.

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

Here's the link to the close-ups, and I need to take more pictures of it

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Great piece of work.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

nice ax obi did you know that some terrorists took 10 banjo players hostage last week in tampa ?
they swore to start turning one loose every hour till thier demands were met !

Good looking base!

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

did you know that some terrorists took 10 banjo players hostage last week in tampa ?
they swore to start turning one loose every hour till thier demands were met !

Wow! Let’s hope they don’t do the same with accordion players.

SOLD $800.00 final pictures have been posted here

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yahoooooo
celebration time!!!
((happy dance))

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

Rock on!

-- Illegitimis nil carborundum - Don't let the bastards grind you down http://woodworkingtipsfrompop.com

Congratulations Obi. I hope that wasn’t you only commission for November.

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

Actually Karson, it was. Wanna buy a Guitar?

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Thanks for the extra pictures, Obi. Nice bass!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Congrats Obi, another line of woodworking. Nice job.

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

great guitar. Is that your young apprentice holding it up for you? Just kidding, where’s the hat?

I’m going to do this, you’ve inspired me, now to just carve out the time, and get the money for the components.

-- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com

Very nice Obi.

The Hickory, & Mahogany look good together.

You were very brave taking on building your own neck. The measurements, & the fret height have to be pretty

accurate.

I was going to make my own neck on the Cain guitar , but I didn’t care to invest in the tools needed for the job,

since I wasn’t planning on going into production.

-- -** 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

Now for the time of confession. I didn’t shape the neck and I hadn’t received the fret cutting blade at the time so I used a neck from another guitar.

Since then I’ve ordered the fret slot cutting blade, made the jig and cut out 5 fingerboards.

Fingerboard 1
Fingerboard 2
Fingerboard 3

Mark: You can order the two most important tools from Stewart-MacDonald (on my website).
1) Fret template (you’ll need to determine which scale you want)
2) Fret Slot Cutting blade for your table saw (.023”, yes that’s 23/1000’s of an inch)

E-mail me and I’ll show you the jig I used to cut the fret slots

I’ll post pictures of the fret slot cutting jig I made or you might want to buy one from Stew-Mac.

The next guitar (also a Bass) I’ve already cut the fingerboard, made the neck (ready for truss rod dado slot) and it will be totally hand-made.

Or then again you can use they’re hand cut manual fret cutting set up here

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Oh, and the guy holding the guitar is the night janitor.

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the night janitor looks right at home with that guitar Mr. Obi :D

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

I bet the janitor is singing and strumming Christmas tunes as he cleans up this time of year….

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

And the buyer changed his mind, so i learned to play it and kept it for my self.

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Cool bass, Obi. A bass is next on my list. Then on to trying arch tops! I don’t know about those other suggestions, but I’ve been playing for years and ALWAYS revert back to the foundations: Cream. Nothing beats “Sunshine Of Your Love.”

-- There's no tool like an old tool...

nice one I always wanted to make a les paul type guitar as I have a big collection now owned by two of my sons as I no longer play.I had a les paul bass at one time bought it in Florida and went to another shop and fell in love with a jackson lead guitar and swopped it plus cash sorryiest thing I ever did I believe they are like hens teeth to find well done how hard are the frets to hammer in do the fit well ?I suppose it’s all about buying or as a Scotsman making jigs lol good luck Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

I bought a fret press from Stewart-MacDonald. You can check it out on my website

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very nice workmanship . I see that you have a good sense of humor and I’m wondering if your finger placement on the fret board was purely coincidental . LOL Happy Holidays : )

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .

I did it purposely… I saw Eric Clapton play a note that looked simular… but anyone that plays Bass knows that you don’t play chords on a bass, you play notes so it was pretty much all for show.

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LOL…well I don’t play guitar or bass , but I appreciate those that do , including both of my sons : )

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .