my guitars

[hooglebug]

new here and already asked a question in the electronics bit so thought id put up some pics on here of some of the guitars i've made.

this one was made for a friend. its a 'sakura' model. this was my first attempt at inlay



heres the guitar. it has 2 bare knuckle p92's with a tuned filter for acoustic like sounds:



this next one is a 'desiree model'. it has a wenge neck, bare knuckle mississippi queen and nailbomb:





and this is the one im doing now which i was asking the question about. only one pic for this so heres the design (the one on the right).



its a jnr version of this:



and heres what i have so far of it. its a neck through using black limba. routed for the pickups today, but they're just resting on this pic

[newey]

Beautiful work, HB!

I can see we'll all be directing our woodworking/ luthier questions your way from here on . . .

[hooglebug]

hehe go for it.

i've inlayed the logo and glued the scarfed headstock on today. shall have more pics when its unclamped

[hooglebug]

some new pics. this one will be slow going as im buying parts as i can afford them

[andy]

This is belated, I know, but that looks like some FINE handiwork there.

[sumgai]

hoogle,

Did I just see a couple of mortis and tenon slots?





sumgai

[hooglebug]

lol no its for the pickup wires. easier to do it like that than drilling them when its all glued together

[hooglebug]

got the burst done yesterday. was going to do the clear today only my spray gun is leaking out of every orifice so im going to have to get a new one.

i went a bit black happy on the neck, but ah well. also, theres not the huge difference in brightness of the neck and back as there looks to be in the pic either

[D2o]

hoog,

Very nice!

I've taken the "th_" out from the image address (it causes little thumbnails, instead of the larger size picture your good work deserves).

DD

[mayfan]

hooglebug,

Very impressive. Are those a set of Trisonics I see resting on the body? I just finished dropping a set of those into my Squire.

[hooglebug]

yeah, they're 12 year old kent armstrong made ones. i had them made for my first guitar - an attempt at a red special when i didnt know anything about guitars. didnt even play when i first started making it. ah well. never gets played now so im putting the pups to good use as i really like them

[mayfan]

Mine are Kent Armstrong too. I stalked them on the web for 2 yrs...then finally pulled the trigger (got a set of 3 for $165)...then I waited 2 more years. They're finally in their temporary home - my Indonesian Squire with standard strat wiring. In another 2-4 yrs, I'll move them to their final home, which is an early 80s Guild S60-D (1 piece mahogony - set neck, 24 frets, really nice) that I'm refinishing (I'm waiting for all the finish to just fall off by itself). I'm planning on wiring it like the Red Special, or something close.

What type of wiring are you thinking of?

[hooglebug]

its gonna have JohnH's strat dual sound wiring. only with tri-sonics. obviously

[hooglebug]

finally got around to finishing this one. have been doing a red glittery thing for someone. anyway! this one sounds really nice and smooth and johns circuit design is great - lots of sounds while not being all complicated.