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2nd electric

Project by bilsborough posted 576 days ago 528 views 0 times favorited 13 comments Add to Favorites Watch

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.

-- What do you learn from being right?


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GaryK

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posted 576 days ago

Nice looking guitar! That bubinga is great.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

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rikkor

11335 posts in 768 days


posted 576 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

2481 posts in 662 days


posted 576 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.

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grovemadman

558 posts in 666 days


posted 576 days ago

Nice work, now your ready to go on tour!

-- --Chuck

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Chris

1469 posts in 885 days


posted 576 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.

-- Chris

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bilsborough

44 posts in 589 days


posted 576 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.

-- What do you learn from being right?

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Calgirl

188 posts in 789 days


posted 576 days ago

Absolutely beautiful, bilsborough

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pat

123 posts in 609 days


posted 576 days ago

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-- check out my amazing woodburning , Pat

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Chris

1469 posts in 885 days


posted 576 days ago

Thanks for the info and the look at your work…

-- Chris

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Texasgaloot

467 posts in 594 days


posted 576 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.

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

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bilsborough

44 posts in 589 days


posted 575 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.

-- What do you learn from being right?

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tat2grl

61 posts in 695 days


posted 573 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!

-- "Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God."

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Chardt

142 posts in 495 days


posted 487 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?

-- When my wife ask's what I have to show for my wood working hobby, I just show her the splinters.

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