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8th February 2010, 11:40 PM #1Novice
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A couple of new builds...
Have recently finished a couple of builds so thought Id show them off - see attached photos, description below.
First is a LP built for my brother for Xmas. Standard LP with split coil humbuckers. Vic Ash body, Tas Oak face and neck laminates and demolition (very) hardwood finger board and headstock facing. Fairly aggressively hollowed out so reasonably light. Plays well, except the action is a little high - used a Schaller wrap around bridge for the first time and found they are a bit higher than a standard Nashville. He is very happy with it.
Next a double cutaway LP - simply reversed the LP pattern on the top side. Otherwise standard LP build with same materials as above. Got a little carried away with the 'bling', but gives it a little personality and cant be mistaken for something Gibson would make. Has SD P-Rails with series/parallel/P90/single coil selection with push pull vol/tone. This is a standard Seymour Duncan wiring, but gives the guitar a big range of sounds. Guitar plays really well, and is nice and light - will definitely be building another along these lines. Got the bridge located a little better than the black one.
Finally 2 9/10th scale flying Vs, for my daughter and a kid over the road. Really simple bolt on necks, scarfed head stock, 2 single coil (ish) PUs, hard tail tele bridge and blend pot selector. Really fun to play (even for the kids), old couldabeens can make the JPage bends with ease, with the lower string tension. Kids love them too.
Also building a tele shaped LP that is almost finished. Will have 2 humbuckers and a rails single coil between, with strat style 5 way selector. Its almost ready to wire.
Have to build gazebo thingy in the back yard next, so guitars will be on the back burner for the next few months, but hope to start an acoustic sometime this year. Also thinking about a sailing dinghy...
Id have to say there are very few things more satisfying than completing a guitar, I dont know why more people dont do it.
Cheers
Lenny
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9th February 2010, 12:24 AM #2Dreamer
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Hey Lenny nice looking builds there.
Your carve style on the black LP looks really good. It tucks in real nice at the tummy.
The flipped LP twin cutaway looks quite cool to. The bling is not too carried away (lets just say i've seen blingier!) Only thing i can see with it is weather it balances well? does it dip to the headstock?
them little flying V's look pretty groovy too. Bit of a retro danelectro or italia styling there.
Nice work Lenny
Cheers Keegs.
Edit. I like your headstock design to. is that your shape? nice and neat.
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9th February 2010, 09:23 AM #3
Nice work there Lenny....I like the double cutaway.
Whatever note you blow youre never more than a semitone away from the correct one....(Miles Davis)
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9th February 2010, 10:33 AM #4Senior Member
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Very nice builds Lenny ! Thanks for posting them.
I'm working my way up to a Les Paul build, I'm interested to see the chambers you routed in the bodies if you have any photos ?
Cheers
Dave
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9th February 2010, 10:43 AM #5Novice
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tbkmagic - The 'tuck' is largely due to the size of the sander (150mm), and the tightest round I could get with the french curve scraper. Its certainly not the way Gibson do it. And the bling guitar is nicely balanced, I moved the back strap lock around toward the jack and this seems to work. The headstock was in reaction to disliking my first effort at an Epiphone like headstock, and afterwards discovered its almost the same as Melvyn Hiscocks, so maybe there was some sub conscious thing going on there - it was supposed to have been influenced by the Ibanez reverse flare design.
And yes the flying vs are deliberately retro, everything old becomes new again some time. The kids think they are cool, but the pale blue will probably become a darker royal blue in the fullness of time...
Kiwigeo - Im starting to like it more too, must admit I thought Id gone too far when it was first finished.
I guess we must be from the same side of the Tasman, judging from your forum name. Have you built any guitars with NZ timber?.
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9th February 2010, 12:15 PM #6
Those are nice looking axes Lenny, you have done well! I have a V build to do for my 11yo, any tips?
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9th February 2010, 01:00 PM #7Apprentice
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one can never get too carried away with 'bling' imo
lovely guitars all roundLooking for
1. fiddleback mulga - 1" thick, 3"wide, 26" long
PM if you have for sale!
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9th February 2010, 01:01 PM #8Novice
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I got the scale length by measuring my daughter holding a normal guitar comfortably, and that worked out at 560mm. If you go a lot shorter than this you might have string tension problems. The pickguards are made from acrylic sheeting that I got as off cuts from a sign making company. I made the mistake of routing the bevel on edges over the entire depth of the pickguard - after cutting just about every finger on it, I would not recommend doing this, I would leave 1/2 mm or so unbevelled.
Get some decent PUs because the guitar will be worth it - I used EMG selects, which arent the worst, but will upgrade both to something better in the near future.
Get rid of as much wood from the body as is practicable.
Blend pots are a great selector switch, but the extra resistance will impact the sound.
The mini Gotoh tuners I used are no longer available from Stewmacs, but minis are better for the size of the guitar.
You will need to use a traditional truss rod (ie one that can be cut to any size) due to the scale length.
I would guess there was about 8 hours labour all up doing the 2 of them - bolt on necks with scarfed headstocks are much easier to build. Finishing wasnt too long either. But if you stuff up the wiring you have about 20 minutes just to get the things apart... I know this.
Cheers
Lenny
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