NGsD - Ginger or Mary Ann?

[BriGuy1968]

Not one, but TWO guitar builds (well... assemblies) finished this weekend! But I must warn you... I got the most out of my tax refund buck by getting most of the stuff from GuitarFetish. So please, no hatin' for going the budget route!

Saturday was "Ginger Day." Ginger is a Telecaster copy. It's an XGP alder body finished in Gunmetal Grey Metallic and a bound 22-fret maple GuitarFetish neck with abalone inlays and a "Swirled Comic Book" celluloid overlay on the headstock. The pickups are GFS Lil' Puncher XLs and it also has their XTrem "Bigsby-Style" tremolo with the Tele Roller Bridge. Classy and elegant with her gold hardware, Ginger is everything you'd expect the hot movie star to be!

Sunday was "Mary Ann Day." Mary Ann is, well, I don't really know what she is... but she's pretty badass! I got the body from GuitarFetish's Factory Buyout Clearance section unfinished for $24 and had to do a bunch of sanding and finishing in order to get her looking good. Not really sure what the wood is... it looks like maple, but seems softer than that to me. No idea what you'd call the body style either. She's kind of PRSish, but not quite. I put a bolt-on LP neck on her (maple with rosewood board) and a roller bridge. The pickups are GFS Dream 90s (humbucker-sized P-90s) and they sound GREAT! Oh yeah, the body was in pretty rough shape when I got it and the wood was routed too thin for comfort where the controls lay, so I cut a piece of vinyl flooring as a control panel in order to reinforce it. Mary Ann's a bit of a mutt, but she's a hottie nonetheless!

So what do you think... Ginger or Mary Ann?

 

[Demanic]

Re: NGsD - Ginger or Mary Ann?

Interesting. Both are good looking guitars. May you have many playing hours with them.

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[ehdwuld]

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Looks great
Say you got that neck with all those inlays from GFS ?

Did they just fab up one or was it on their site stock?

 

[BriGuy1968]

Re: NGsD - Ginger or Mary Ann?

Looks great
Say you got that neck with all those inlays from GFS ?

Did they just fab up one or was it on their site stock?

Site stock:

http://www.guitarfetish.com/Bound-T...ts-Swirled-Comic-Book-Headstock-_p_23224.html


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[beaubrummels]

NGsD - Ginger or Mary Ann?

Ginger for me. Both are nice though.

 

[GoldenVulture]

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Sorry, that piece of vinyl is awful.:raincloud Get some proper pick guard material or something.
Apart from that those guitars look cool.

 

[BriGuy1968]

Re: NGsD - Ginger or Mary Ann?

Sorry, that piece of vinyl is awful.:raincloud Get some proper pick guard material or something.
Apart from that those guitars look cool.

I thought about that, but pickguard material wouldn't mold to the contours of the top! :dunno:


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[RorySquier]

Re: NGsD - Ginger or Mary Ann?

Like others have said they are both real nice guitars but I think I like Ginger very much.



;>)/

 

[GoldenVulture]

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I thought about that, but pickguard material wouldn't mold to the contours of the top! :dunno:


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Did you try some ? 1 ply , 2 ply ...? A bit of heat would help bend/mould it. Eg A hair dryer.

Oh yeah, the body was in pretty rough shape when I got it and the wood was routed too thin for comfort where the controls lay

Or maybe use a bit of bog to thicken up and strengthen the body underneath there.
This was a recommendation by Crusty. I don't know if you have this brand there but there should be a similar product around.

I used it to fill some bridge post holes

 

[Swampy]

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Nice!

My builds tend to resemble Mrs. Howell.

 

[GoldenVulture]

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Nice!

My builds tend to resemble Mrs. Howell.

I just can't quite grasp this......:laugh2:.... wot ?

 

[Swampy]

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I just can't quite grasp this......:laugh2:.... wot ?

Old and weathered.

 

[Darg1911]

Re: NGsD - Ginger or Mary Ann?

Think I would have shaped and dropped a thin piece of wood on the inside of the cavity to shore things up. But what do I know, I don't build guitars. Cheap guitars and mutt guitars are cool anyway.

 

[Dave Locher]

Re: NGsD - Ginger or Mary Ann?

How do you like the Xtrem? From the design it doesn't look like it would do much? Or is it more Bigsby-like that I realize?

 

[rgand]

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Well that sounds like a fun weekend. They look good. How well does that Xtrem work?

Could you fit a piece of pickguard material to the carved top if you gently heated it with a heat gun on low or a hair dryer?

 

[BriGuy1968]

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How do you like the Xtrem? From the design it doesn't look like it would do much? Or is it more Bigsby-like that I realize?

Well that sounds like a fun weekend. They look good. How well does that Xtrem work?

The XTrem is kinda cool, but it doesn't really do much. Good for guys like me who only want a little wobble on the occasional chord. If you're looking for serious dive-bombs and stuff... well, let's just say it ain't a Floyd!

Tuning stability seems a little weak, despite the locking tuners and roller bridge. Also, I had a helluva time getting the string height and intonation set. First it took me longer than usual to find the happy setting where the truss rod and bridge height could peacefully coexist, and then the intonation was more difficult than normal too. The distance between the nut and the bridge is almost dead-on to 25.5", but I still had to push the bridge back as far as it would go and THEN have a couple of the saddles pushed all the way back as well. It plays good and is intonated now, but for a while I was afraid I wasn't going to get there!


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[BriGuy1968]

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Think I would have shaped and dropped a thin piece of wood on the inside of the cavity to shore things up. But what do I know, I don't build guitars. Cheap guitars and mutt guitars are cool anyway.

I was going to do something like that but I have to admit that I kinda dug the ugly mutt concept of the vinyl over top for this guitar. Sorta like the crazy crap that EVH had all over Frankenstein... the kind of thing that makes someone look at it and say, "What the Hell?!"


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[kramersteen]

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So cool

 

[ehdwuld]

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Did you have any of the troubles mating the neck and bodies that has been widely reported?
I have to say those are excellent looking instruments

Did the fret ends need work?
High low frets?

 

[rgand]

Re: NGsD - Ginger or Mary Ann?

The XTrem is kinda cool, but it doesn't really do much. Good for guys like me who only want a little wobble on the occasional chord. If you're looking for serious dive-bombs and stuff... well, let's just say it ain't a Floyd!

Tuning stability seems a little weak, despite the locking tuners and roller bridge. Also, I had a helluva time getting the string height and intonation set. First it took me longer than usual to find the happy setting where the truss rod and bridge height could peacefully coexist, and then the intonation was more difficult than normal too. The distance between the nut and the bridge is almost dead-on to 25.5", but I still had to push the bridge back as far as it would go and THEN have a couple of the saddles pushed all the way back as well. It plays good and is intonated now, but for a while I was afraid I wasn't going to get there!


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Thanks, I was curious. I've seen them advertised and wondered.