Just finished my latest project

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This is a scratch-built electric guitar. I made it from glued-up strips of birch (furniture grade) plywood. The inlay and the fingerboard are purpleheart, extremely hard wood.

I made every possible mistake on it, so the next one should be perfect.


 
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Wow.. If that is the prototype the next one will be a sight to behold
 
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Very nice.
It takes special talent to make guitars. I really should dust mine off and play once in a while.
 
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Originally Posted by jcat

It looks good - how does it sound?
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Passable. It hasn't stabilized yet, so I don't know if the neck will be OK or not. I found one high fret (#13) that I will need to file down a little. I think fret #1 is a little too close to the nut, but #12 is good.

The pickups and tuners were from a cheap guitar I bought on e-bay that turned out to have a bad neck. I've payed more for one pickup than I paid for the whole guitar, so they sound as good as they can, I suppose.

As I said, I made a lot of novice mistakes. And it's easy to buy $500 worth of specialty tools to build a guitar that doesn't sound as good as a $100 Jay Turser or SX.
 
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Originally Posted by Tavia'smom

It is very pretty, are the cats curious about it?
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What do YOU think? Here are the uncropped photos...


 
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That's beautiful! I'm a big fan of purpleheart wood.

Hubby made a solid body bass for his brother and used purpleheart and oak strips for the neck. On one of the other guitars he made he used ebony for the fret board. Now that is one hard wood!
 
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Originally Posted by LaRussa

Who is the nosy kitty
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Flambe!

I should have shown the back of the guitar.





This is called a "neck-through" construction. That means that the body and neck of the guitar are actually one piece. This makes for a strong guitar with better tone.
 
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