avengers63 Posted April 14, 2009 Report Share Posted April 14, 2009 The Project Guitar.com "Corvus Build-Off" contest is a showcase for all the members, so show us your interpretation of the Gibson Corvus in this thread! This contest is open to any and all members that enter and will most likely never be repeated. For a run-down of the rules, please see this thread: Corvus Build Off. The winner will receive nothing but bragging rights. As the Corvus is a body shape that is vehemently hated by some, the winner is quite likely to have scorn and ridicule heaped upon them. If you are a regular forum contributor you will also be subject to the possibility of long term ridicule and loss of street-cred. So show us your version of the Corvus in this thread! You've got till the 30th of June, 2009 then this thread gets locked and the voting starts! Any Post that is not an entry should be deleted. I'm not a mod, though, so I can't actually delete anything. Please post a maximum of your 4 best pictures per Corvus entered. Please supply a link to your build thread. Link to comment
avengers63 Posted April 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2009 (edited) Build Thread THE YELLOW AND BLACK ATTACK Direct recreation of the original Corvus shape, or at least as near as I could get without having an original to copy. MODS: headless redesign shelf in cutaway for tuners rear routed control cavity radiusing of the leg curve slight belly cut BODY: 1 1/2" thick 2-piece poplar poplar control cavity cover all-access neck joint with 3-degree neck angle 1/2" shelf along bottom cutaway for rear-mounted tuners gunslinger style angled pickup route NECK: maple neck rosewood fretboard 25.5" scale 22 frets re-shaped headless design tab-mounted string ferrules HARDWARE & ELECTRONICS: chrome hardware TOM bridge 1 volume lug-nut knob side-mounted football jack plate Steinberger gearless tuners standard strap buttons Kramer Quad-Rail humbucker puckup FINISH: 2 coats of sanding sealer 3 coats of rattle can gray primer, sanded with 220 after each coat 4 coats of black or harvest gold rattle can paint, sanded with 220 after each coat 12 coats of rattle can polyurethane, wetsanded & leveled with 400 after every 3 coats 2 coats of matte top coat back close up back left back right down the neck up from the bottom front close front left front right tuners from the back headstock from the back Edited April 16, 2009 by avengers63 Link to comment
Narcissism Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 (edited) BLACK AND WHITE Chris's Corvus of Doom (Build Thread) Corvus I style with modification MODS: 25.5" Scale Pointy Rear Routed Strings Through Body Ibanez RG neck Scalloped Frets 12-24 Oh, and there's 24 frets BODY: 1 5/8" thick 7 Layer Cherry Ply Clear Duct Tape Control Cavity Cover All Access Neck Joint Pickup Rout done using a hand drill and a chisel NECK: Ibanez Wizard II Neck Rosewood Fretboard 25.5" Scale 24 Frets White Binding on Fretboard MOP Iceberg Inlays Jumbo Frets (heavy wear on upper frets) Partial Scallop HARDWARE & ELECTRONICS: Gold Schaller Tune-o-matic Bridge Black Metal Dome Volume Knob Black Plastic Pickup Ring (short stack) Side Mounted Jack... unmounted Ibanez Tuners Chrome Fender Strap Buttons EMG-85 Pickup FINISH: 2 Coats of White Primer 1 Coat of Black Laquer 3 Coats of Minwax Rattle Can Polyurethane, naturally leveled Some reaction between Poly and Laquer No Filling No Sanding Black w/ freehand White Pinstripes Edited May 9, 2009 by Narcissism Link to comment
Dirge for november Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 (edited) She's here! Background Meet "Miss Flora Bannerworth", an elegant lady who was bitten by sir Francis Varney (the Vampyre). To find more information on what I'm talking about, these are characters from the book "Varney the Vampyre" dating 1847, and predating even dracula by quite some time. I'm not sure anymore how much time. Officially this is the first "fantasy" novel on vampires ever written. The book is pretty tough going at times, but after I finished it I must say it was pretty enjoyable. This is the first guitar I did myself fully without help, including fretting, inlay, neck shaping etc. It was a great learning experience for me, and hope to make more and better guitars in the future! (and in a much smarter way ) Specs woods Black Korina body. Maple Neck LMII ebony fretboard Flamed maple vineer inlays Electronics 2 Tonerider H-90 soapbars 1 Vol. 1 Pickup switch knob (not the prs kind, but one that doesn't have three positions, but (I'm not sure if it's the right word) a smooth transition between pickups, with a noticable mid position.) 1 Tone Sunk jack Neck joint Set neck, with ergonomic acces. Basically I can play 24 with my hand in the same sort of position you normally have at lower positions. Normally this would bring down the balance, and the guitar wouldn't exactly qualify, but because of the rear tuners... Misc. Flamed maple vineer inlay, stained red. This symbolises the bitemarks and blood drips in the "neck" of Flora. The 3rd and 5th are bitemarks, 7 is recognisable for me because of the drippers. The dripper leaves the neck in a gravity correct angle while playing at the 9th. Pictures The back: http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt110/d...ov/_DSC3652.jpg Front/side: http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt110/d...ov/_DSC3629.jpg The guitar: http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt110/d...ov/_DSC3698.jpg The guitar: http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt110/d...ov/_DSC3708.jpg (Small edit) It was one huge vampire in my case, at least he had a big mouth Edited June 29, 2009 by Dirge for november Link to comment
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