W/NW On Guitar

Here's my work-in-progress. it's my other hobby although work has stopped on her until i can get my hand on a 1/2 inch router. my 1/4 inch doesn't take a bit big enough for me to accurately cut out the neck socket.

it's going to be a 'Les Paul' style arch top solid electric with 2 Seymour Duncan Humbuckers. that's AA grade flamed maple on top, i can't wait to shape it and get it to a point where i can make the grain patterns 'pop'

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NathanJD said:
Here's my work-in-progress. it's my other hobby although work has stopped on her until i can get my hand on a 1/2 inch router. my 1/4 inch doesn't take a bit big enough for me to accurately cut out the neck socket.

it's going to be a 'Les Paul' style arch top solid electric with 2 Seymour Duncan Humbuckers. that's AA grade flamed maple on top, i can't wait to shape it and get it to a point where i can make the grain patterns 'pop'
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Nice ! ...ever thought of making a neck thru design solid body ?
 
Oblivion Fire

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My Son plays the bass:
 

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NathanJD said:
Here's my work-in-progress. it's my other hobby although work has stopped on her until i can get my hand on a 1/2 inch router. my 1/4 inch doesn't take a bit big enough for me to accurately cut out the neck socket.

it's going to be a 'Les Paul' style arch top solid electric with 2 Seymour Duncan Humbuckers. that's AA grade flamed maple on top, i can't wait to shape it and get it to a point where i can make the grain patterns 'pop'
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I finished my DIY guitar about five years ago.

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guitar pix

guitar pix

xatraa33 posted that great pic of Roy Buchanan, during The Strat Period (not too many pictures of him, then)... I was moved to post one that I took a long, long time ago...

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Roy did use a hardtail strat in early 80s then he used a Les Paul goldtop for a while before he got to use that Guild tele copy.
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The last time I saw him, he was using an '80s Tele Custom... sunburst, w/the big Fender humbucker...

Years later, I was in John Sprung's store, in MD, and he happened to have all of Buch's guitars there... Judy B. was having them cleaned/inspected, before trying to sell them. I got to play a bit, on "Nancy", and he offered to sell me the sunburst... I declined.

How sad... Buch changed my life, as an Artist, and as a Human Being. I miss his Being There, dearly.


Greg.
 

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xayraa33 said:
Nice ! ...ever thought of making a neck thru design solid body ?
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I've never done a neck thru' but I've always wanted to! this guitar is an on going 'dream guitar' project that I'm happy to spend the rest of my life building. it's a design i dreamed up when i was 15. i made one for my GCSE Design Technology lessons in school and it was dog awful! back then i had no references for building a guitar except one photocopied page from a book and the measurements of my Les Paul copy. this time i have read numerous books and spent a long time on the internet reading up about it. oh and gained qualifications in cabinet making and furniture polishing... that helped hehe.

This was the prototype, a flat topped semi-hollow that has been scavinged for parts!
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it started out looking like this:

1 inch Bookmatched maple top cap, (ok, i cheated on the fingerboard and bought one ready radiused and sawed for frets) Ebony fingerboard, Bookmatched maple machine head cover
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One solid Walnut neck block
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Bookmatched Walnut body back.
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Greg M. said:
The last time I saw him, he was using an '80s Tele Custom... sunburst, w/the big Fender humbucker...

Years later, I was in John Sprung's store, in MD, and he happened to have all of Buch's guitars there... Judy B. was having them cleaned/inspected, before trying to sell them. I got to play a bit, on "Nancy", and he offered to sell me the sunburst... I declined.

How sad... Buch changed my life, as an Artist, and as a Human Being. I miss his Being There, dearly.


Greg.
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such a sad loss of a fine talent at an early age.
there have been rumours that his death was not a suicide.
 
NathanJD said:
I've never done a neck thru' but I've always wanted to! this guitar is an on going 'dream guitar' project that I'm happy to spend the rest of my life building. it's a design i dreamed up when i was 15. i made one for my GCSE Design Technology lessons in school and it was dog awful! back then i had no references for building a guitar except one photocopied page from a book and the measurements of my Les Paul copy. this time i have read numerous books and spent a long time on the internet reading up about it. oh and gained qualifications in cabinet making and furniture polishing... that helped hehe.

This was the prototype, a flat topped semi-hollow that has been scavinged for parts!
P9170041.jpg


it started out looking like this:

1 inch Bookmatched maple top cap, (ok, i cheated on the fingerboard and bought one ready radiused and sawed for frets) Ebony fingerboard, Bookmatched maple machine head cover
image004-3.jpg


One solid Walnut neck block
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Bookmatched Walnut body back.
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That is some fine work NathanJD, I was impressed with the sound and playability and even tone-ness of the neck thru design when I owned the Yamaha SG 2000 in the late 70s
too bad it was stolen from me
my ideal solid body guitar would be an all mahogany neck thru with two p-90 pick ups alla a Gibson LP special.
 
Mark Flanagan' s Gibson ES-335. Hampton Court, Jun 2007

Mark Flanagan' s Gibson ES-335. Hampton Court, Jun 2007

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xayraa33 said:
That is some fine work NathanJD, I was impressed with the sound and playability and even tone-ness of the neck thru design when I owned the Yamaha SG 2000 in the late 70s
too bad it was stolen from me
my ideal solid body guitar would be an all mahogany neck thru with two p-90 pick ups alla a Gibson LP special.
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You might want to send the police over to Carlos Sontana's residence! :D

I have always loved Gibsons, i was never much of a Fender fan but my dream guitar is a PRS McCarthy special. and you thought buying the M9 would require the sale of reasonably vital organs :eek:
 
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R-D1 tinfoil pinhole --- cable release manipulated by my toes.
 
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