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This guitar I did a super thin body, as skinny as I could get and still fit the electronics and have a carved back. The body is alder with a quilted bubinga veneer. The neck is walnut with a bois de rose fingerboard. After having it done for a year I decided to change the way the neck fit and how the strings attach. I put it back together with out refinishing it because I thought i might have to make more adjustments but It worked great and I’ve never broken it back down to fix the finish, should do that the bubinga has some gorgeous figure.
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13 comments so far
GaryK
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posted 134 days ago
Nice looking guitar! That bubinga is great.
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rikkor
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posted 134 days ago
How does it sound? I’ve never done an electric, I’ll have to try it some time.
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teenagewoodworker
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posted 134 days ago
wow that is nice. I have to show these to my cousin pat (Anthrax is his LJ name) he loves guitars. that quilted bubinga is amazing to. great job.
grovemadman
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posted 134 days ago
Nice work, now your ready to go on tour!
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Chris
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posted 134 days ago
Beautiful instrument…
My older son is consider making his own guitar. How would you suggest he start the effort? He has never attempted this kind of work before.
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bilsborough
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posted 134 days ago
To get started just search online for info, there are tons of books about guitar building, also depending on skill level you can get kits. www.stewmac.com and www.lmii.com are good suppliers. It can be pretty expensive to just jump into with out some planning.
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Calgirl
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posted 134 days ago
Absolutely beautiful, bilsborough
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Anthrax
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posted 134 days ago
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Chris
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posted 133 days ago
Thanks for the info and the look at your work…
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Texasgaloot
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posted 133 days ago
Man, that Bubinga gives it some kind of visual interest! Did you inlay the fingerboard yourself? What kind of pickups did you settle on? Great axe.
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bilsborough
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posted 133 days ago
I did do the pearl inlay myself, the picture is very forgiving, I cant brag about how that turned out, Pickups are seymore duncans, a hotrails in the neck position and a qp jag at the bridge.
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tat2grl
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posted 131 days ago
Stunning! Laurie was just asking me if bubinga wood can be used to make a guitar. I showed her your picture to answer the question. You’re right, making guitars can be expensive, so I’m taking baby steps in the planning stage so every coin is not wasted. Thanks for sharing!
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Chardt
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posted 45 days ago
Thats really cool. On the next one, if you’re going to make a distance between the bridge saddles and the tail piece, work out the harmonics distance and put a piezo pickup on the tail to get some cool ‘drone string’ harmonics.
is there really only 2 screws holding the neck on? Doesn’t it shift when you’re playing?
Or is it a Set neck, where it’s glued to the body?
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