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music Post your guitar porn here!

Here's one I've been working on for a while. I've kinda slacked on it. I really need to finish it. Maybe posting a pic here once a week would give me the motivation to git-er-dun.

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And here's one I built for one of my best buds in the world. I'll have to find a pick with all the hardware on. It's a 24 fret Tele, with a neck through. The body is basswood, and the neck is maple with wenge stringers. We used Torrez Buzzcut scatterwound pickups, and it absolutely screams.

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Found a pic of the tele with the hardware in:


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Thanks! That was really a special piece of maple. And the book matched part is on the red guitar at the top. It just doesn't show up too well in that pic.

And in answer to your question, they are completely from scratch. It's a lot of fun. I think the hardest, most meticulous part is slotting the fretboards. Maple, ebony, and rosewood are hard woods. It takes a little elbow grease. But even that is enjoyable.
 
never heard of top wrapping. kewl. :) I have an entry-level Peavey I just started learning on. Can't wait to get at least one guitar like the American made Gibson w/ a tailpiece on it.
 
Naga Chomper said:
Thanks! That was really a special piece of maple. And the book matched part is on the red guitar at the top. It just doesn't show up too well in that pic.

And in answer to your question, they are completely from scratch. It's a lot of fun. I think the hardest, most meticulous part is slotting the fretboards. Maple, ebony, and rosewood are hard woods. It takes a little elbow grease. But even that is enjoyable.
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i sold exotic lumber for 5 years in nashville,tn. that piece of maple is not "special" its diseased and it affects the whole tree so you wont ever find it unless the tree was diseased.it affects both soft and hard maple,we call it birdseye. very very "special" i could talk wood all day,lol.

Dot Com said:
never heard of top wrapping. kewl. :) I have an entry-level Peavey I just started learning on. Can't wait to get at least one guitar like the American made Gibson w/ a tailpiece on it.
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keep picking and grinning
 
sicman said:
i sold exotic lumber for 5 years in nashville,tn. that piece of maple is not "special" its diseased and it affects the whole tree so you wont ever find it unless the tree was diseased.it affects both soft and hard maple,we call it birdseye. very very "special" i could talk wood all day,lol.
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Hmm I knew spalting was a disease, but don't know that about birdseye. I thought it was related to the quilting pattern, except with tiny knots that just never mature enough to actually form branches.

LOL Shows you what I know!

Speaking of quilt, I have a piece I got about 20 years ago of INCREDIBLE quality. I just haven't decided how I want to do the guitars yet. Here's a pic:

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It was a quick once over with the sander, so you can still see some planer chips, and I just wet it really quick to take the pic. When it's drum sanded, it will be insane. There's a ton of movement in it. It has a couple very shallow check cracks, but it's a full 8/4 thick. I should be able to get three nice tops out of it, and I'll have a nice cutoff that should be big enough to laminate on the headstocks. I'll have to book match them, because it's about an inch shy of being wide enough for a standard 12 wide guitar body. It's been sitting so long it's SUPER stable. And it survived a move from Hawaii, and 80% humidity, to Reno with our 8 to 10% humidity. I kept it in double layered plastic bags for the first year and a half it was here.

Should make for an incredible few guitars though. Amazing thing is how much a piece like that goes for now. It's stupid expensive.

Looking forward to it:D
 
Wow! Just discovered this thread. I need to go through all 8 pages, but I thought I'd throw my little collection up here. If anyone has heard of Warmoth, 14 of these are custom Warmoths I built myself. I did have them do the finishes, but I had to drill many of the holes and assemble the guitars. All the pickups, electronics, etc. are all custom to my specs. This is the "rock" in DocNrock. ;)

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Just went through this thread. Some really nice axes! And to TB, all of my builds have RS electronics. And all but two of the "off the shelf" guitars have been rewired with RS electronics.

In case anyone was wondering about the "3/4 stack," it's a Peavey JSX 2x12 combo and 4x12 cabinet. I've never been huge on signature models. When I bought the combo, I was actually trying out Marshalls to replace my old 25 watt DSL 1x12. For grins, I tried out the JSX. I could get every tone out of this that I could get out of the Marshall, from blues to metal. But the clean channel is what totally blew me away. Not that hollow clean that Marshalls have, but Fender twin clean. Crisp, articulate, and full. Bought the 2x12 combo. Later, I wanted that deep punch that you can only get with a 4x12 cab. Tried out a few Marshalls with a JSX head. Then tried the JSX cab. Massive deep punch and full tone.

Here are some closeups of a couple of my favorites. Warmoth "VIP," which obviously is their take on the PRS. Black Korina body with a Camphor Burl arch top, Zebrawood neck, and black ebony fingerboard. Stainless steel 6100 frets. Bridge pickup is an original 1980's DiMarzio MegaDrive and I put a Sustainiac in the neck slot. Original Floyd with a brass sustain block. Bungle in the jungle, anyone? ;)

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I love this Warmoth Strat. Swamp Ash body, flame maple neck and fingerboard. Bridge pickup is a DiMarzio Tone Zone and the neck is a 36th Anniversary PAF.

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This is my take on a Rhoads V. The guys at Warmoth went nuts on this thing after I custom ordered the body and neck. Swamp Ash body, Padouk neck, and Canary fingerboard. Seymour Duncan Invader.

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Finally, since TB posted up his blues axe, here is mine. Black Korina body, Wenge neck and Ebony fingerboard, Rio Grande pickups (Vintage Tallboy neck, Dirty Harry Jr., mid, and Muy Grande bridge), and Wilkinson trem. The only way to describe the tone out of this thing is howling!

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REALLY nice guitars Doc! I'm really diggin on the Rhoads and the VIP! Very nice guitars! Not sure about the Bungle in the Jungle, but that's all right by me ;)
I'm not much of a signature type myself but wondered what the JSX sounded like. I assumed if Satch put his name on it, it had to be right!
I have my eye on a Mesa Boogie Mark V for a while. I've played through a couple of them and they are tone machines. Mesas add is about right in the fact that it comes with a kitchen sink, ice maker and beer cooler :P
 
Wow - that bird's eye maple neck is really nice.

I had a '72 strat that was beat to hell...to I took it to Moonstone Guitars up in Humboldt Co - dude's "famous" for making the "double eagle" guitar (a double neck with eagles heads head stocks) Steve Helgeson I think his name was...anyway, he took my '72 Strat hardware and built a sweet AAA flame maple body for it.

I ended up shipping it to Holland while I lived there and got something like 10X what I paid to have him make it froma music shop there - at the time I thought it was too much $ to resist.

Now I wish I'd resisted. lol

Ah well - the follies of youth. That was in 1992 - I am older & wiser now. I hope. heh

Some amazing guitars in this thread. That collection of Warmoths from DocNRock is insane.
 
Dot Com said:
If my guitar is set-up right & makes me happy does it matter that its an entry-level guitar? Add to that, the fact that I'm in an economic doldrums of sorts. :oops:
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Not at all, man. I've got three that are "entry level." Over time, I've changed out the pickups, electronics, and hardware. They were good players before, and even better now. What matters is that YOU are happy with it.
 
Dot Com said:
If my guitar is set-up right & makes me happy does it matter that its an entry-level guitar? Add to that, the fact that I'm in an economic doldrums of sorts. :oops:
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no way bro. remember lots of us are old dirty bastards and music has been a life long hobby so just like anything else with time and intrest you get nicer things. you keep playing and enjoying!
 
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