pukko Posted November 9, 2006 Report Share Posted November 9, 2006 Here´s my second build. This is in progress, so I´ll show what I´ve done so far... This guitar wasn´t suppose to happen at all, but when I visited my grandparents summer house I found some nicely figured birch in my grandpas woodworking shed. It wasn´t big enough for a whole neck, so I split it in two and laminated it with a strip of oak that I found as well. Later I found a 2"x4" spruce plank that looked pretty free from knots, and it was really old and dry. I figured I could make a body out of that, so I made a two piece blank. I traded a strat pickguard for a piece of rosewood for the fretboard, and then I had all the wood needed for a guitar. Almost all of it from my grandpa, that´s pretty cool. Here are the blanks for the project: Someone told me that birch can be a little unstable, so I decided to reinforce the neck with some graphite rods: http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m283/pukko2/DSC01691.jpg Headstock roughly shaped, the wood on the front is being removed so the chipping doesnt matter: http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m283/pukko2/DSC01691.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pukko Posted November 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 The body has been shaped. As you can see it´s some kind of Mosrite meets SG body with a slimmed down Firebird headstock, or something... The body design was made by tracing my PRS and reversing it, changing the horns a lot and so forth. Fretboard glued on, routing for binding done: http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m283/pukko2/DSC01702.jpg Here´s what the inlay will look like, the neck is now bound: http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m283/pukko2/DSC01769.jpg The body has been carved and the inlay is done: http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m283/pukko2/DSC01780.jpg The neck has been carved: Here´s some of the hardware: http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m283/pukko2/DSC01891.jpg The body has been routed and bound, and the neck has been stained. Front: http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m283/pukko2/DSC01922.jpg Back: http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m283/pukko2/DSC01925.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pukko Posted November 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 (edited) Headstock painted... And the neck has been clearcoated with cellulose laquer, side dots added as well: http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m283/pukko2/DSC02058.jpg And that´s how far I've come, I'm painting the body right now. Edited November 10, 2006 by pukko Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 Wow. Amazing, simply amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pukko Posted November 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 Wow. Amazing, simply amazing. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGman Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 Wow. Amazing, simply amazing. Thanks! Man, thats impressive! Also, is it just me or is there alot of beech and birch in sweden? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie C Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 Wow. Amazing, simply amazing. I'll second that for sure. Well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanthus Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 Oh wow, that is HIGH quality! I love the colors, paint, everything! How did you do that lettering, a decal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redwhiteandthemaple Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 Simplicity at its best. I just love the flow and the touch! And how it still retains the beauty of wood. I'm jealous you can still work outside in November, as soon as it turns about Oct., my garage turns into... well, a garage... well before it was a 'woodshop'.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fryovanni Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 You hit a home run dude!. I love how you got the wood. I dig the wood combination. That body, headstock, and overall design seriously is great. Very tasteful. If I saw that guitar in a store I would want to give it a test run Great for you! I hope you are very proud of it, as you should be. Peace,Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddiewarlock Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 awesome, that guitar makes me want to move to sweden even more!! simply amazing!! and that pine looks almost like ash, very clean job, BTW do you get your supplies from touchstone tone woods? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desopolis Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 wow I really like the birch neck.. cant wait to see the body! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pukko Posted November 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 Wow. Amazing, simply amazing. Thanks! Man, thats impressive! Also, is it just me or is there alot of beech and birch in sweden? Thanks! Yep, a lot of birch at least. Beech is more common in the south of Sweden I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pukko Posted November 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 Wow. Amazing, simply amazing. I'll second that for sure. Well done. Thanks! Xanthus Posted Today, 03:46 AM Oh wow, that is HIGH quality! I love the colors, paint, everything! How did you do that lettering, a decal? Thank you very much! The lettering and the dots on the headstock is spraypainted using a lasercut (I think) masking film made by a very good guitar builder who is active on the same Swedish guitar forum as I am. It's like a piece of tape that is laser cut, and it has protective tape on both sides. You just peel off the protective on the sticky side, stick it to the headstock and remove the other protective tape. Very simple and effective. I was thinking about making a decal with a printer and decal paper, but that's hard when the headstock is black. It doesn't work with an ordinary printer, and I didn't have access to one of those special printers that I can't remember what they're called... redwhiteandthemaple Posted Today, 05:19 AM Simplicity at its best. I just love the flow and the touch! And how it still retains the beauty of wood. I'm jealous you can still work outside in November, as soon as it turns about Oct., my garage turns into... well, a garage... well before it was a 'woodshop'.. Thanks! The body will be painted i solid dark red, though. There were some imperfections in the wood on the top side that I had to fill with epoxy, and I don't think it would look good to stain it then. I'm using spray cans, so a burst is also out of my league, that could have worked otherwise. The outside pics are actually from mid october, but it shouldn't be possible to work outside then either. It's been an extremely warm September/October in Sweden, lucky me since the workshop i'm using is 100 kilometers away... fryovanni Posted Today, 05:36 AM You hit a home run dude!. I love how you got the wood. I dig the wood combination. That body, headstock, and overall design seriously is great. Very tasteful. If I saw that guitar in a store I would want to give it a test run Great for you! I hope you are very proud of it, as you should be. Peace,Rich Thanks a lot! That's a good thing designwise that someone wants to try it by just seeing it, cool! I just hope it will be playable too, first time making a neck... It's going to be interesting to hear how it sounds considering the unusual wood combination, I really have no idea what to expect. eddiewarlock Posted Today, 06:59 AM awesome, that guitar makes me want to move to sweden even more!! simply amazing!! and that pine looks almost like ash, very clean job, BTW do you get your supplies from touchstone tone woods? Thanks! Don't move to Sweden now though, it's getting really cold and dark now... Yes, it looks like ash, but without the open grain, not a lot of grain filling to do. Is it called pine? I'm not sure what it's called, it's the same wood as acoustic guitar tops are made of, the tree you have as a Christmas tree... The swedish variety is usually no good for acoustics though, not closegrained enough as you can see. No, for this guitar I found most of the wood around the summer house, I got the rosewood from a carpenter/guitar builder I got to know through a Swedish forum. The wood for my first build was bought from a local wood shop. Where is Touchstone located? I thought about buying wood from the US, but the shipping to Sweden gets really expensive. Desopolis Posted Today, 07:40 AM wow I really like the birch neck.. cant wait to see the body! Thanks! I'm painting the body right now, I'll post pictures when I'm done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGman Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 (edited) Thanks! I'm painting the body right now, I'll post pictures when I'm done. Yep, what you have is pine! Very nice build, especially for a second build! Oh, and i love your design! Edited November 10, 2006 by Maiden69 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pukko Posted November 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 Yep, what you have is pine! Very nice build, especially for a second build! Oh, and i love your design! Thanks! I've looked at some pine/spruce pictures, and it seems that sometimes the word pine is used (at least in the US) for the tree that I call spruce... This is a Swedish spruce which I'm using: And this is a Swedish pine: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJD Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 That is one sweet guitar! that is really your first neck?!?!!? very well done! the whole thing is looking retro-tastic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pukko Posted November 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 That is one sweet guitar! that is really your first neck?!?!!? very well done! the whole thing is looking retro-tastic Thanks! Yes, it's the first neck I've built. On my first build I used a paddlehead neck and shaped the headstock myself, but I know now that's nothing compared to building one from scratch. We'll see if it works as well as it looks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFC Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 Thank you very much! The lettering and the dots on the headstock is spraypainted using a lasercut (I think) masking film made by a very good guitar builder who is active on the same Swedish guitar forum as I am. It's like a piece of tape that is laser cut, and it has protective tape on both sides. You just peel off the protective on the sticky side, stick it to the headstock and remove the other protective tape. Very simple and effective. And also a PG member Actually its cut with a vinyl cutter/plotter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pukko Posted November 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 Thank you very much! The lettering and the dots on the headstock is spraypainted using a lasercut (I think) masking film made by a very good guitar builder who is active on the same Swedish guitar forum as I am. It's like a piece of tape that is laser cut, and it has protective tape on both sides. You just peel off the protective on the sticky side, stick it to the headstock and remove the other protective tape. Very simple and effective. And also a PG member Actually its cut with a vinyl cutter/plotter. Yep, that´s right! I didn't know your username here though until I found the Guitar of the month archive... Big thanks to JFC, he helped out with masking stuff on the first build as well. In swedish (sorry everybody else): Jag mailade dig förut om du ville ha nåt pröjs för loggorna, men det kanske fastnade i mailkrånglet du hade. Om du inte vill ha cash så har jag har några svarta GFS-micksargar liggande om du vill ha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slabbefusk Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 Ah! Another swede! Välkommen till forumet! Skitsnygg gitarr! (Welcome to the board, nice guitar etc.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 Very very nice clean build there Pukko. It also reminds me of an ESP/LTD guitar which I wished I had bought when my wife could get crazy near-trade prices. The model is the JP-600 and can be found here -> http://www.espguitars.com/guitars_jardel.html Yours definitely has that monochrome Mosrite vibe about it for sure. Very stylish! Hey Slabbefusk - I didn't realise you were Swedish :-D I'm itching to do a similar scorching technique as you did to your RG a few moons back. To comment on the "is there a lot of birch in Sweden..." well, last time I was in Finland (visiting family) you couldn't MOVE for the trees :-D It's like, a land of trees interspersed with water and occasional concentrations of Finns who gather purely to drink beer. Karhu-A! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biliousfrog Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 That neck is amazing...the figure, the shape, the logo, the binding...it all works so well together. You should feel very proud, first neck & it's quite simply great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 Very nice build!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pukko Posted November 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 Ah! Another swede! Välkommen till forumet! Skitsnygg gitarr! (Welcome to the board, nice guitar etc.) Thanks! Bugar och bockar! Prostheta Posted Today, 05:11 PM Very very nice clean build there Pukko. It also reminds me of an ESP/LTD guitar which I wished I had bought when my wife could get crazy near-trade prices. The model is the JP-600 and can be found here -> http://www.espguitars.com/guitars_jardel.html Yours definitely has that monochrome Mosrite vibe about it for sure. Very stylish! Hey Slabbefusk - I didn't realise you were Swedish :-D I'm itching to do a similar scorching technique as you did to your RG a few moons back. To comment on the "is there a lot of birch in Sweden..." well, last time I was in Finland (visiting family) you couldn't MOVE for the trees :-D It's like, a land of trees interspersed with water and occasional concentrations of Finns who gather purely to drink beer. Karhu-A! Thanks! That ESP was cool! You're right, if that was reversed it would look like mine (or the other way around, really...) At least the Finns use the birch, they have to have a lot of it. I mean, they have to fire up the saunas with something, whipping themselves with birch twigs, drinking Karhu, Koff... He he, me like! WezV Posted Today, 05:50 PM Very nice build!! Thanks! biliousfrog Posted Today, 05:35 PM That neck is amazing...the figure, the shape, the logo, the binding...it all works so well together. You should feel very proud, first neck & it's quite simply great! Thanks! I'm kind of nervous about it though, what if it plays like crap? At least it has jumbo frets, so I have some material to work with when it's time for the fretjob. Starts out jumbo, ends up like a Fretless Wonder... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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