Pictures (Guitars)

[noobamp]

Awesome work guys....so much delicious guitar stuff on this thread.....I wanna share

I built this out of walnut and some pine for the back plate....Hand carved hollow body....The back looks like it came off a loading palette so Ill save myself the embarrassment 



And i did some inlaying for the headstock....

[deadastronaut]

sweet..^

i'm in the process of making an 85% scale SG -esque lefty body...with just  a hammer/chisel/and rasp file..

it started life as a church pew....ive got the body shaped, pocket cut, bolted the neck on to test with both E's...lines up nice, and intonation is bang on.

but don't be embarrassed...mine will be mass embarrassing for sure...

if i ever show it of course... ..but as long as it works i'll be using it for holidays/camping etc..

[noobamp]

hammer chisel rasp file is really all you need...and a ton of elbow grease+sandpaper for days....there's something really awesome about building something from the ground up like that.  I really hope you post it! i'm sure it will be awesome!

and i'm sure god isn't happy about you taking the church pew!....lol.....that is awesome re purposing of materials!

[deadastronaut]

yeah bit of recycling, ive had the lump of wood for ages.., i'm sure god won't give a monkeys...he's way too busy having a laugh..

[therealfindo]

sweet..^

i'm in the process of making an 85% scale SG -esque lefty body...with just  a hammer/chisel/and rasp file..

it started life as a church pew....ive got the body shaped, pocket cut, bolted the neck on to test with both E's...lines up nice, and intonation is bang on.

but don't be embarrassed...mine will be mass embarrassing for sure...

if i ever show it of course... ..but as long as it works i'll be using it for holidays/camping etc..

I kind of love the idea of a guitar made out of a church pew... I would totaly play that at my church! 

[Perrow]

sweet..^

i'm in the process of making an 85% scale SG -esque lefty body...with just  a hammer/chisel/and rasp file..

it started life as a church pew....ive got the body shaped, pocket cut, bolted the neck on to test with both E's...lines up nice, and intonation is bang on.

but don't be embarrassed...mine will be mass embarrassing for sure...

if i ever show it of course... ..but as long as it works i'll be using it for holidays/camping etc..

Pictures or it didn't happen

Would love to see it, my hands are itching to build a guitar, but I don't have a place to do it. Just found out there's a place not too far away that sells lumber that would fit a guitar project. If you're not into pine casters finding timber in Sweden will be a problem

ps. That hollow body looks awesome.

[deadastronaut]

the 'BODGE' guitar project...

you don't need a 'place', i have a vise outside my front door,and a living room table....thats my entire workshop..

heres what i started with..i printed out an 85% size SG, then sculpted it to more how i would like it..


heres my ''workshop'' ...and mrs astro's 'garden'


and after cutting, rasping..


since these pics were taken, i'm waiting on a lefty locking nut +  humbucker, ..the neck is bolted on for now, and lines up nice, intonation bang on, 
the scratch plate will be made of polished copper clad pcb board , as maplins only charged me for one A4 board instead of two..ha ha...revenge is sweet..

TOOLS: chisel/hammer/rasp file/straight edge ruler/pen/arms like popeyes sister in law.

...to be continued.......

[bluebunny]

That looks real purdy, Rob.

the 'BODGE' guitar project...

Hmmm...  'BODGE' - interesting tuning.  Makes a change from EADGBE or DADGAD.   

[bluebunny]

maplins only charged me for one A4 board instead of two..ha ha...

I went into Maplins the other week and bought one of their cheapo piezo drivers - £9.99.  Handed over my crisp tenner to the geeky teen at the till.  His adolescent geek brain then went into unexplained meltdown, he hesitated giving me back my penny change, and muttered something about being a twat for not giving me the correct change from a twenty...

And then proceeded to fetch an extra tenner from the till.      Probably the one I'd given him a few seconds earlier.

Me: "Thank you.  Bye!"   

[deadastronaut]

Ha ha, those craplin employees are brilliant...we need more like him. 

[bluebunny]

Yeah, excellent "investment opportunity".      You'll have to hike all the way to Maidenhead to experience this particular specimen.

[kurtlives]

Got this 'new' 1943 Gibson LG-2 (center) the other day so I took a pic of all my Gibson acoustics ( ) together.

Happy Holidays! 

[pickdropper]

Got this 'new' 1943 Gibson LG-2 (center) the other day so I took a pic of all my Gibson acoustics ( ) together.

Happy Holidays! 

Hey, I picked up an LG-2 earlier this year as well.  Mine needs some work, though.  I still haven't decided who I am going to trust with it.

[kurtlives]

Ahh I do remember you posting about it (was it a LG-1 or LG-2?). Yours is a 50's iirc, yeah? I posted about the guitar at BYOC if you're interested...

[smurfedelic smurfberry]

The little one is my latest purchaes, a Hoefner. It was $150 and is a bit crap, but convenient when you're playing and fiddling with a circuit at the same time.

[Kipper4]

Edit
oops posted in the wrong section sorry guys

[smurfedelic smurfberry]

excuse the blur. repainted pick guard + that piece of plastic at the top of the neck on the mini hoefner:

[Ben N]

At first glance I thought ^^ was a lap steel.

[Govmnt_Lacky]

I guess Daddy has been VERY good this year!!!


1996 American Strat. Practically MINT!!! Sounds FANTASTIC!!!

[deadastronaut]

Nice, another lefty