Guitar Players: Show us yours!

[GuitarlCarl]

Very cool. I believe I could carve a neck but I've never tried or did much research on it. There's a guitar building class at our local college I've been debating on visiting. I know I've rebuilt enough of them... Usually with a chunky neck and crude dimensions. I'm guessing they're afraid of removing too much wood.

 

[Palepainter]

Very cool. I believe I could carve a neck but I've never tried or did much research on it. There's a guitar building class at our local college I've been debating on visiting. I know I've rebuilt enough of them... Usually with a chunky neck and crude dimensions. I'm guessing they're afraid of removing too much wood.

Certain dimensions are finite, but a lot of it is feel. Reverse engineering or having an example of the final goal are helpful, but not needed to produce a solid and ergonomic instrument. Anyone who has played for some time, makes a great student.

 

[GuitarlCarl]

 

[Slow-Rider]

you guys are on a hole other level than me. I got dust magnets. IE cheep old guitars my brother gave me to mess with. he's the real player in the family. he has almost as many as I have bikes.


but once twice a year I mess with them.

 

[Slow-Rider]

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HA HA that's a good one.

 

[Gateway Coasters]

My pair of Fender Precision basses.

 

[GuitarlCarl]

Rebuilding a rat for a friend in a swap for a loaded Peavey 4x12 cabinet.

Victim of Circumstances, their band in the 80's. This guitar belonged to the lead singer who's been deceased for a while. My friend, the lead guitarist finally tracked down Billy's guitar. I'm guessing it was in storage somewhere for a long time. Yes it's wrapping paper glued on to a rattle can paint job. It was originally ivory and I may yet scrape it down to a flat bone finish. We'll see, it's a WIP.

 

[GuitarlCarl]

Well this Cortez (the Killer) is really a WORK in progress. The brass nut slots are too low and E & A rattle in them. The frets don't look too bad but they're uneven, so a level and crown is in order and the fretboard itself is separating from the neck at the top and vibrates acoustically, will try a bit of CA before I remove the whole thing and reattach it. Plus the total rewire. The rubbed off repaint is going to stay, I've got it feeling velveteen with multiple passes of polish and a green scruffy pad.

AND I was just gifted this Charvette by Charvel. It was also missing the bridge pup but the wiring is intact. I've got a basic Strat bridge and a set of locking lefty tuners coming in black. Will probably swap the knobs out as well to match. It's a base model from the late 80's and the paint is almost flawless with no nicks or dents, but we'll see how well it sets up before I get too crazy with it.

 

[Palepainter]

i finished up a personal bass project. Reverse, PBass And two other customer guitars. the paint work was a blast to do on these two horror themed instruments.

 

[Palepainter]

A few from the past couple weeks. Been busy.

 

[Palepainter]

And ready to asssemble. The heaviest chunk of swamp ash I have had.

 

[Palepainter]

A few recent paint jobs on customer guitars.

 

[Palepainter]

A bass I finished up last week based off the Gibson Moderne.

 

[Oldbiscuit]

Closest thing I’ve got , my “heavy metal” band !

 

[Oldbiscuit]

And a close up of the “key boardist”

 

[Tallbikeman]

Though I play guitar I have yet to build one. The mando on the left has a pawlonia (Empress wood) top and is very loud and spanky. I made it for a woman and she wanted the neck even narrower than the usual Gibson neck. So I kept whittling off wood and showing her and she kept wanting less. The neck is hard rock maple and has held up very well. It is my first mandolin and was made in 1998. Right mando is from 2007 and has a carved pine top and maple neck and back. Good sounding mando. It is my 3rd or 4th mandolin. The guitar is a Korean made Epiphone Jazz box I bought new in the early 1990's and is a great sounding guitar. I'm attempting to learn how to play Brazilian Choro music on it right now. The two cello's are instruments I made for my own nefarious uses playing music in early music groups and of course at Bluegrass jams. The newest one is the furthest to the right and also the best sounding. I use bass guitar tuners on my cellos and have very stable stay in tune instruments that are also easy to tune. Palepainter I love your paint work. I'm so paint challenged that I use mostly rub on finishes, less risk of some sort of major blemish.

 

[GuitarlCarl]

Very Cool @Tallbikeman Have you built an Octave Mandolin? I'd like to have one of those because I can only attempt to play a Mandolin my fingers are too big (or I'm just not nimble enough to really play a Mandolin) but I have noodled around with a Dean Mandocello (another very similar instrument) (I know folks use both terms interchangeably) I think either of those would be cool to own.

 

[Son of Kradus]

Though I play guitar I have yet to build one. The mando on the left has a pawlonia (Empress wood) top and is very loud and spanky. I made it for a woman and she wanted the neck even narrower than the usual Gibson neck. So I kept whittling off wood and showing her and she kept wanting less. The neck is hard rock maple and has held up very well. It is my first mandolin and was made in 1998. Right mando is from 2007 and has a carved pine top and maple neck and back. Good sounding mando. It is my 3rd or 4th mandolin. The guitar is a Korean made Epiphone Jazz box I bought new in the early 1990's and is a great sounding guitar. I'm attempting to learn how to play Brazilian Choro music on it right now. The two cello's are instruments I made for my own nefarious uses playing music in early music groups and of course at Bluegrass jams. The newest one is the furthest to the right and also the best sounding. I use bass guitar tuners on my cellos and have very stable stay in tune instruments that are also easy to tune. Palepainter I love your paint work. I'm so paint challenged that I use mostly rub on finishes, less risk of some sort of major blemish.
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Very nice, not a lot of people know this but to build your very own musical instrument comes with the most satisfying feeling of acheivement, to sit and play it and hear it.....ahhhhh! love your work!

 

[Son of Kradus]

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Holy smoke bro, best guitar paint jobs I seen in a long spell!! awesome!~

 

[Son of Kradus]

Thanks for the heads up. I had never seen one. Found a video of Canon D being played.on one.

Wow tears to my eyes! we have the original (Cannon in D Major) on file! had it for years,! never age's thats music!