Prostheta Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 It shouldn't be too difficult. Are you pressing them in, or hammering them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pukko Posted November 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 (edited) It shouldn't be too difficult. Are you pressing them in, or hammering them? The frets are already there on the fretboard. I hammered them in. I'm just worried that it's going to be uneven, that's why I'm glad they're jumbos so I have a lot of fret material to work on when I'm leveling them. Edited November 11, 2006 by pukko Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Setch Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 Really, really nice work - I dig it very much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pukko Posted November 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 Really, really nice work - I dig it very much! Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddiewarlock Posted November 12, 2006 Report Share Posted November 12, 2006 (edited) Well I'm from Venezuela, so i sure as hell don't know the diff between pine and spruce! lol I've been in Sweden, Göteborg in late April, i loved it, I wanna move there cuz i heard they need lots of dentists in Sweden and also in Norway, i also liked Göteborg a lot, shame that i didn't go to Stockholm or Lapland. Touchstone tone woods is located near London, in England, they gave me fantastic prices when i went there, luthier discount, still, some stuff is expensive because they charge in pounds sterlings, BUT they sell double action truss rods for something like 4 pounds, which is roughly 6 euros, about 52 kronor each one, they also sell fretboards and most stuff you'd need, but the fretboards, even the slotted ones are not as high quality as stewmac's, you'd have you plane them to the desired thickness and radius them, this is not a problem for me, and considering i paid 15 euros ( 130 kronor) for each 1st quality ebony fretboard and about 6 euros ( 52 kronor)for the unslotted ebony blank. I think it's better to buy tools from stewmac, and some others from touchstone, also, you don't have to pay that much in shipping ( i think) and no import taxes Edited November 12, 2006 by eddiewarlock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pukko Posted November 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2006 Well I'm from Venezuela, so i sure as hell don't know the diff between pine and spruce! lol I've been in Sweden, Göteborg in late April, i loved it, I wanna move there cuz i heard they need lots of dentists in Sweden and also in Norway, i also liked Göteborg a lot, shame that i didn't go to Stockholm or Lapland. Touchstone tone woods is located near London, in England, they gave me fantastic prices when i went there, luthier discount, still, some stuff is expensive because they charge in pounds sterlings, BUT they sell double action truss rods for something like 4 pounds, which is roughly 6 euros, about 52 kronor each one, they also sell fretboards and most stuff you'd need, but the fretboards, even the slotted ones are not as high quality as stewmac's, you'd have you plane them to the desired thickness and radius them, this is not a problem for me, and considering i paid 15 euros ( 130 kronor) for each 1st quality ebony fretboard and about 6 euros ( 52 kronor)for the unslotted ebony blank. I think it's better to buy tools from stewmac, and some others from touchstone, also, you don't have to pay that much in shipping ( i think) and no import taxes Cool that you like Sweden! Göteborg is 450 kilometers away from where I live, so I'm not there too often... Been there a couple of times, it's a nice town. I'm definitely going to keep Touchstone in mind if I ever start another project, thanks for the tip! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddiewarlock Posted November 13, 2006 Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 Uppsala must be really cold and snowy at this moment right? hehe i'd love to see the snow someday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pukko Posted November 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 Uppsala must be really cold and snowy at this moment right? hehe i'd love to see the snow someday Not now, it's around 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees F, right?), but no snow. A couple of weeks ago is another story... There were blizzards all over the country, trains couldn't move so people had to spend the night on the train, traffic chaos cause noone had their winter tires on when the roads turned to ice, the electricity cut out for several thousands of people... And then the rain came and melted it all. At least here in Uppsala, I went home to my hometown this weekend, and they still had some snow left. I'd rather have it like this though. We have had an extremely warm fall, and then the snow came at once instead of having to endure two months of constant raining and darkness. It's better with some snow, it feels a little brighter outside even though the sun doesn't shine for more than a couple of hours a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddiewarlock Posted November 13, 2006 Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 wow! i may sound crazy, but i'd like to see that and the midnight sun when i lived in London i was amazed that the sun would rise at 4:30 am and would set at 10:30 pm, here in Spain it's not that drastic. In Venezuela it's just constact 12 hours or more of intense sunlight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted November 13, 2006 Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 It just means the nights are longer which is a perfect excuse to extend beer-drinking hours in Finland :-D Shame it doesn't make working hours shorter though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pukko Posted November 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 wow! i may sound crazy, but i'd like to see that and the midnight sun when i lived in London i was amazed that the sun would rise at 4:30 am and would set at 10:30 pm, here in Spain it's not that drastic. In Venezuela it's just constact 12 hours or more of intense sunlight. He he, wanna trade? I'll live in Spain until April, you live here. Bring your shovel... I've never seen the midnight sun either, never been that far up north in the summer. It's not dark for more than 2-3 hours in the summer where I live though, and even then it's not completely black. Prostheta Posted Today, 07:19 PM It just means the nights are longer which is a perfect excuse to extend beer-drinking hours in Finland :-D Shame it doesn't make working hours shorter though. Yeah, and in the summer you can drink longer because it's not getting dark and nobody gets tired... Good drinking excuses all year long! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pukko Posted November 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 The body is being painted right now, I've only done the back so far. I thought it would be easier to handle if I did it in two steps. Since there's binding around the top edge there's two separate areas to paint anyway. It's really hard to take pictures of red things for some reason, in reality I think it's a little darker. Compared to my computer screen anyway... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted November 13, 2006 Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 Just reading your newspaper there. "made for a queen"? "village"? "3 for 2"! It says "fart" as well. Hehe. I didn't expect red. This is certainly going to have to be entered into the guitar of the month content Pukko. Very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pukko Posted November 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 Just reading your newspaper there. "made for a queen"? "village"? "3 for 2"! It says "fart" as well. Hehe. I didn't expect red. This is certainly going to have to be entered into the guitar of the month content Pukko. Very nice! He he, you've been introduced to our local newspaper Upsala Nya Tidning! Finally a good use for it! So you know Swedish then? For all you non-swedish speaking people, fart means speed in Swedish. High speed=hög fart, and since you don't have the dots over the o that would be hog fart, then... Lovely language, right? Exhaust fumes from a Harley perhaps? Thanks, you think it's good enough for guitar of the month?! Let's see if it ever gets finished first... I'm not exactly the speed champion when it comes to building guitars, I sneak down to the basement when the rest of the family is asleep so there isn't too much free time to work on this. And I'm really curious, what colour did you expect it to be? It's interesting for me to know since I've pictured it red pretty much from the beginning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al heeley Posted November 13, 2006 Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 Coming together really well, Hog Fart. Lovely neck. The body is reallly nice too, not sure if I would be brave enough to give it an opaque colour coat, but she's your baby and I'm enjoying seeing her come together Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGman Posted November 13, 2006 Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 Very nice pukko, i love the red! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pukko Posted November 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 (edited) Coming together really well, Hog Fart. Lovely neck. The body is reallly nice too, not sure if I would be brave enough to give it an opaque colour coat, but she's your baby and I'm enjoying seeing her come together Thanks! One of the reasons that I'm giving it an opaque colour is that there were some imperfections in the wood, small cavities with dried whatever it's called in English (Resin? Sap? That sticky stuff that smells nice and turns into amber after a million years...) I filled those holes with epoxy, and since I don't have access to a spray gun I would have had to stain the wood and clearcoat it to get a translucent finish. I'm doing this with spray cans... I didn't know if that would look too good around the epoxy, so I decided to go opaque. Another reason, and I reasoned like this with my first build as well, is that when people start building a guitar of their own, they want the most beautiful wood possible, flame tops etc. I wanted to be a little different, and all of my "real" guitars had translucent finishes, so I went with the opaque for the top on the first one. Couldn't resist leaving the back wood visible on that one though... With this one the wood kind of came to me by accident, so I didn't have any options really. The neck wood is so flamed it should be criminal to paint it over. I definitely want to build some guitar with really nice wood, but it's kind of hard to find really flamed maple in Sweden, and it gets expensive to buy from the US, for example. I've been drooling heavily over some lumber on eBay... Very nice pukko, i love the red! Thanks! Edited November 13, 2006 by pukko Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 Just reading your newspaper there. "made for a queen"? "village"? "3 for 2"! It says "fart" as well. Hehe. I didn't expect red. This is certainly going to have to be entered into the guitar of the month content Pukko. Very nice! He he, you've been introduced to our local newspaper Upsala Nya Tidning! Finally a good use for it! So you know Swedish then? For all you non-swedish speaking people, fart means speed in Swedish. High speed=hög fart, and since you don't have the dots over the o that would be hog fart, then... Lovely language, right? Exhaust fumes from a Harley perhaps? Thanks, you think it's good enough for guitar of the month?! Let's see if it ever gets finished first... I'm not exactly the speed champion when it comes to building guitars, I sneak down to the basement when the rest of the family is asleep so there isn't too much free time to work on this. And I'm really curious, what colour did you expect it to be? It's interesting for me to know since I've pictured it red pretty much from the beginning. It was actually guesswork and some corrections by my wife. I don't speak Swedish and know only a little more Finnish L:-D I thought it might be black or white to be honest! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pukko Posted November 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 It was actually guesswork and some corrections by my wife. I don't speak Swedish and know only a little more Finnish L:-D I thought it might be black or white to be honest! My first thought was that it should be red, but then I started to think about other colours, of course. Black was one of them, silver was another. There's a little fifties spaceship feel to silver when it's not a hitech looking guitar, i like that. I never really thought about it being white since I put white binding on it. Maybe with a two-layer binding, white outside and a black stripe on the inside... That would be nice. Here's a mockup I made in the early stages of this project. I made some bursts as well, but since I'm using spray cans, that was never really an option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 Black with white binding looks nice, but the rear of the neck suits the red a lot more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biliousfrog Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 they all look nice, black suits the headstock but looks a bit too nu-metal for my liking. I love surf green & daphne blue but I think that it would need a matching headstock to look perfect. The yellow could look nice...so could cream & the silver would be brilliant....but....I actually think that you've gone for the right one with deep red. The bursts seem a bit too obvious. I'm pleased that you've gone for a solid colour, it suits the style of the guitar more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pukko Posted November 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 Black with white binding looks nice, but the rear of the neck suits the red a lot more. Yes, black would be cool too, maybe even with multiple binding a la LP Custom. I think you're right about the neck colour as well, I wouldn't have stained it nearly as much if the body was to be black, maybe not at all even, just natural birch. A little monochrome feel to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pukko Posted November 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 they all look nice, black suits the headstock but looks a bit too nu-metal for my liking. I love surf green & daphne blue but I think that it would need a matching headstock to look perfect. The yellow could look nice...so could cream & the silver would be brilliant....but....I actually think that you've gone for the right one with deep red. The bursts seem a bit too obvious. I'm pleased that you've gone for a solid colour, it suits the style of the guitar more. I agree on everything you say except maybe the nu-metal thing. The yellow was meant to be a gold top look, maybe with a red or brown stain to the back. The green and blue does need a matching headstock, you're right again. The reason I did it red with black headstock is a picture of Elvis playing a Hagstrom Viking that had that colour combination (maybe seethrough red though). I'm no big Elvis fan, but the guitar looked great! And it's Swedish. This is the model: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 I'm looking forward to seeing how your build turns out, and how it fares in the GOTM contest if you enter (why not?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pukko Posted November 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 I'm looking forward to seeing how your build turns out, and how it fares in the GOTM contest if you enter (why not?). Thanks, me too! We'll see about that contest... Someone told me to enter with my first build, so I did that. I want to see how that turns out first... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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