#guitar building

[the-takosader]

I found the password to my account again!

Nah I'm just joking, I've been logged in all along. Anyway, welcome back to Takosader's ramblings. This is part 2 of the Cherry XII project detailing.

Last month, I outlined the madness that I'm doing with this kit, including:

The inspiration

The logic

The methods

...and other such inane phrases incomprehensible to people who don't trawl Wikipedia and TVTropes pages for fun.

So. Let's review - where am I up to with the build? What's happened in the 6 weeks and a day since I last posted?

When I wrote the post last month, I was as far as making a router template for expanding the neck pocket. I'd already made a centre line (what mathblr may call a datum line), and was getting ready to sort out that router template. By the end of the 9th Feb, I suddenly had a new set of 3 cuts on my right index finger. Ouch.

So yeah, that was not fun. 3 weeks off to let my finger heal up, and I was back up at the beginning of March to continue where I left off. In those 3 weeks, my aunt (who is so very kindly helping me build this and is teaching me how to do woodwork at the same time) had routed out the neck pocket of the semi-hollow Telecaster body I acquired for this madness to accommodate a neck heel of 59mm, expanded from the standard 56mm that it was routed for originally.

We worked our arses off on March 1st, and that's an understatement. In the 6 hours we worked on it, not only did we modify the body to support the bridge pickup, which requires modifying the rear pickup cavity, but we also designed a new scratchplate for it and we attached the neck too.

Most of last week was spent just making the scratchplate, ensuring that it actually fit on the guitar. By the end of it, well...

I'd say these photos prove more than anything that we came up with a pretty damn good design. Yeah, for my fellow guitar nerds out there, this is in fact a Telecaster Thinline body modded to fit '69 pickup styling. Why '69 specifically? Because according to Fender, the '70s thinlines were H-H, not S-S. Also '69 was the first year they even came out.

Of course, to be fair, the entire thing, aside from the scratchplate, is purely pre-built stock. I think I mentioned last time that this is a kit-build right? Please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm too lazy to check right now.

Next week's going to be fun, though. Might actually get to first assembly stage of putting the bridge and the string ferrules in, and then, who knows, maybe I'll get to start finishing the damn thing. Either way, it's been 3 months well spent, I'll tell you that. And that's not even accounting for making the brand new nut that's going to be required for this!

Maybe I can set up the pickups on the 6 string (which I'll make from the original kit's body) in such a way that combining them has the same effect as on a J-Bass, or the Red Special. Hell, maybe I could do that on the Sunset Fade. Options, options, options.

#takosader's ramblings part 4!!! #fender telecaster #telecaster thinline #guitar #guitar building #fender jazz bass #i'm not joking by the way #this has actually taken 3 months so far #i've gone through college exams while building this thing #and they went quicker than the period between trips up to my aunt's place to work on this thing #maybe i should dye the headstock red instead of spraying it in surf green #could work better than the madness of priming then waiting 20 mins then repeating that about 5 or 6 times

[kcowgill]

The first guitar I’m building, in the early stages of finishing. Much more elbow grease has gone into it since this photo (2 weeks ago) and I’m still not done - but getting there! And yes there’s an obvious transition point from the dark to the fade. I’ve ... made some mistakes, and this is just one step along the way to fixing a number of them.

The pups were all sacked out on the couch very sweetly, so I had to get a picture.

I was heading upstairs at night in the dark on hardwood floor in my socks. And slipped. And hit my head. This was the next day I think; I had just applied some liquid bandage and my black-eye was just getting started.

The next pic is from a few days ago - my wife was having someone over so she asked me to fluff up the pillows on the front couch - the ones that are always flattened by the dogs getting a good view out the window for people and things to bark at. Not a minute after fluffing the pillows and wouldn’t you know it? Smooshed again.

And then on Martin Luther Kind Junior day, my dad & step-mom visited and brought me ANOTHER guitar kit - so suddenly I had two guitars being built from kits. This second one needs a bit more work - lots of drilling for pilot holes, and I’ve been trying to get that beautiful grain to pop.

#guitar building #puppyblr #broken face #broken pillows #flame maple

[axelleschmidt]

Finally chose on a design, now gotta start planning construction methods.

~ Ａｘｅ

#guitar #guitar design #axesblueprints #design ideas #guitar building

[pvtpicaro]

Project is coming along fairly decent

#guitar #guitar building #guitar build #jaguar

[decadentphantomperfection-blog]

I got strings on it, and just on time for my birthday!

#luthier #guitar #guitar building

[jhaleguitars]

Another #ShatterStar #guitar in the works. Order yours today.

jhaleguitars.com

#jhaleguitars #guitar #orderyourstoday #guitars #you want one #custom #guitar building

[barryguitar]

Flipped the side over and glued the soundboard bracing

#guitar building

[snowdenguitars2112]

Solid Body 3 String Offset Electric Guitar #SB-48

Walnut Solid Wood Body Maple P90 pickup Maple Neck and fretboard Grover Vintage Deluxe Tuners Gig Bag is included with the purchase of a Solid Body More pictures of this Solid Body can be found by going to my website: www.snowdenguitars.com

#snowdenguitars #mikesnowden #cigarboxguitars #3stringguitar #youtube #cigarboxguitar #woodworking #guitarbuilder #guitar building

[melodromacy]

mag: brother im about to shit AND piss myself

to preface: we can't mill our own parts and can't create parts from blanks.

i am trying to find a certain neck to build a guitar kit. the problems happen to be the following:

1.) a 24 fret neck 2.) on a gibson les paul 3.) with a solid mahogany neck 4.) and an ebony fingerboard 5.) with a nylon nut 6.) and the head must be blank because it needs to be a specific gibson logo + the crown logo from the late 1950s - mid 1960s 7.) oh yeah, and the fingerboard fret inlays in mother of pearl also need to be the square ones.

brother. im dyin.

#guitar building #gibson les paul #gibson epiphone #epiphone les paul #im tagging all of you people #luthier #diy guitar #les paul #im dying

[the-takosader]

Anyway, on the list of Things In The Making...

What, you thought one electric would be good enough for me?

Yep, I'm doing another one. This one won't be fretless, because of two reasons:

The Fretless (hereafter referred to as Sunset Fade) was an experiment to see what I could actually do with a kit.

A 12 string fretless, though cool, would be even more hell to play than the Sunset Fade already is.

Yep! It's a 12 string! As some guitarists might say, I've caught the 12 string bug. But, y'see, I think I've had it for a good long while now.

The first time I actually encountered a 12 string in a song was, if I can correctly recall, Wish You Were Here. I don't actually properly remember my reaction to it, but I know what my reaction is to it now: play along to the rhythm on my acoustic 6.

The more recent and powerful one, however, is much, much later than that. I never really did a Beatles Back-Catalogue dive until when I made a full Studio Discography playlist on Spotify, and encountered a little gem called If I Needed Someone.

For those completely unaware of the history of this song, it was written in the latter half of 1965 by one George Harrison. I don't think I need to explain the ins and outs of what the song's about, but the long and short of it is that he's telling the women of the world that, although he's gonna be married, he might need someone if the thing goes sour.

But again, this is rambling. My reaction wasn't to the lyrics, but the guitar. The jangle and chime specifically. Two toaster single coils in a bevelled-top Rickenbacker 360/12, ringing out like Rhymney. Oh, and it's got a capo on the 7th. Chime a-plenty on this one.

So yeah, this one's a doozy of a build. A 12 string electric with 2 single coils... which just now occurred to me that it sounds a lot like a Fender Telecaster XII. Oh yeah, Fender made a Tele XII. It was a limited edition thing from 1995-99, but it still counts.

So my build is going to be a Tele XII, mainly because I didn't fancy a Strat again, but it's going to be special for 2 reasons (that's the second time it's been two reasons specifically):

It's going to be a semi-hollow 12 string, because you can never have too much jangle on a 12 string like this.

It's going to be strung Rickenbacker-style.

What's Rickenbacker-style stringing? That requires an explanation of 12 strings in general.

The above is a tuning guide for a normal 12 string guitar. Yes, it actually is 12 strings. Anyway, note how it's the higher octave string first, then the standard string after, leading to a kind of sawtooth as you strum down.

Rickenbacker 12 strings reverse that order, placing the normal string first, then the octave string, and repeating that process until the upper four strings, which don't change due to being unison pairs.

In effect, this is going to result in a Ric 12 string for a fraction of the cost. For reference, Ric 360/12s? A nice, clean £3,400. Meanwhile this project has only costed a total of £167, though it remains to see if it'll cost anymore in the future or not.

I'll try to remember to update you all on this mad shit, but if I don't, I've proably gotten too invested in the thing.

#fretless guitar #fender telecaster #telecaster thinline #rickenbacker 360/12 #the beatles #rubber soul #12 string #guitar building #the fabled third of the takosader ramblings #am i likely to forget? yes. do i care? no. should i care? ...probably. #another thing that remains to be seen is if i can use the body that came with the kit to make a 24 fret tele #but that's definitely a “down the line” thing. walk before you run et cetera et cetera.

[ranthaven]

The exposed entrails of a 1973 Rickenbacker 4001. [insert evil laugh here]

#bass guitar #rickenbacker #pickup #guitar building #soldering

[axelleschmidt]

Sneak peak into the design process of a guitar build

⁽ʸᵒᵘ ᵍᵉᵗ ᵃ ᶜᵒᵒᵏᶦᵉ ᶦᶠ ʸᵒᵘ’ʳᵉ ᵃᵇˡᵉ ᵗᵒ ᶜᵒʳʳᵉᶜᵗˡʸ ᵍᵘᵉˢˢ ʷʰᵃᵗ ᵇʳᵃⁿᵈ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵐᵒᵈᵉˡ ᵗʰᵉ ᵇᵒᵈʸ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ᵍᵘᶦᵗᵃʳ ᶦˢ ᵇᵃˢᵉᵈ ᵒⁿ⁾

~Ａｘｅ

#guitar design #guitar #design ideas #guitar building #guitar plans #axesblueprints

[lazy-flup]

Idk where or why he is carrying his chonky husband. Maybe he wanted to recreate something they did in Eden?

I just love them so much I wanna draw them being cute.

Bonus sillies:

#adam hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel adam #Lucifer #lucifer morningstar #lucifer magne #adam x lucifer #adams apple #adamsapple #guitarduck #guitar duck #flup art #For the record he isn't shaming him #I also think that luci is strong enough to lift a building nevermind adam #I just thought this would be funny #hazbin hotel lucifer

[theexorcistiii]

Cant believe I never posted my guitar! I covered it in cutouts from my moms big old anatomy book :)

#one of the cooler & sexier projects I’ve ever done imo #the guitar itself is a hand me down from my stepdad it was like a build ur own guitar situation #the little eyes on the back r from magazines n the heart on the rib cage is some red plastic paper I had but everything else is from an #anatomy book my mom had from when she went to massage school :) all mod podged on (my stepdad sanded it first for me) #my art #ask to tag?? it’s a lot I guess but like idk how I’d tag it so lmk #OH & the eyes on the knobs r doll eyes from eBay

[decadentphantomperfection-blog]

Is anyone here very wealthy and in need of a beautiful guitar? My latest design would be a Pthalo green Archtop with intricate Roman style detailing out of brass. The pickguard would be an etched Roman relief of the mythical hero Sigfrid doing battle.

I can absolutely build this thing, I just need someone to buy it (and also pay in advance) ((I'm a poor struggling artist))

#luthier #guitar building #guitar #artist #scetch

[purkinjes---sunday-delight]

When you wanted to build your dream Mosrite clone, but you got Bart Simpson instead.

#this is all i think of now #how do i unsee this?? #guitar building