Pictures of your projects

crossbow

crossbow

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I'm sure all of you have guitar projects that you have started. Can you post your projects so we can get , suggestions, recommendations and ideas from one another?

Me - I like taking beginner guitars and improving them by making them sound better.

An example would be
This Hondo strat.....$50 off craigslist
Changed the Springs at the back
changed the nut, pickguard, pickups, knobs and strap holders

Now this is how it looks like (2nd from the right in the last picture)
Instead of SSS configuration - it became an HSH configuration
JB mini on the bridge, classic stack in the mid and lil 59 in the neck...
Its tone is fantastic...didn't split the coils. Maybe the tuners later on..

Can you post your projects and what your plans are?
 
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Here are some pics of a Warmoth project that's a few months old now. It's composed of: a swamp ash body; all goncalo alves neck; SD Full Shred neck p.u. and Screamin Demon bridge p.u. It sounds and plays fantastic. I can't take credit for construction: I paid the guys at Truetone Music in Santa Monica to assemble it, and do the intonation and setup. They did a perfect job. I'm very happy with the guitar. Pics:

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Just do a search for threads I started in this subforum. You'll see about 50 projects of mine. :D
 
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Got to get this one done soon.
NOS mid 90's Washburn USA MG. Plans for paint are for a Candy red body with ghost flames. hardware and pickups are a GOTO floyd and GOTO locking tuners, Alnico II neck and Custom Custom or JB2 bridge.
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MUTT Strat. It's a parts box ?? body and trem,Mint Green Pick guard with a SSL1 neck SSL2 middle and ?? bridge, a Moses graphite neck with SS Jumbos tuners are a set of Grovers. Simply put this thing is much much more than just the sum of it's parts and is one amazing playing and sounding guitar. Sustain is jaw dropping the whole thing just resonates like crazy and the neck really feels GREAT + it has absolutely the most even response over the entire fretboard of any guitar I have ever owned/played. You think it is an absolute beater when you look at it and is just a parts box POS till you pick it up and play it. Man what a player and it's flat a tone MACHINE! She may get a LIL 59 in the bridge at some point as I just am not much of a 3 single coil guy.
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Hell...there have been quite a few that have come and gone...Warmoth SRV Tribute...RG565/550 Swirl....ClawRetta...below are the few that I have kept...

1988 B.C. Rich Gunslinger/Assassin "Graffiti" with DiMarzio SDS1/Tone Zone F
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1989 Kramer Telecaster Custom with Gibson "The Original" HB-R/HB-L
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1987 Kramer E.E. SC-3 with Seymour Duncan Hot Rail/APS1/Dimebucker
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and the one I'm currently working one...

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mrpinter said:
Here are some pics of a Warmoth project that's a few months old now. It's composed of: a swamp ash body; all goncalo alves neck; SD Full Shred neck p.u. and Screamin Demon bridge p.u. It sounds and plays fantastic. I can't take credit for construction: I paid the guys at Truetone Music in Santa Monica to assemble it, and do the intonation and setup. They did a perfect job. I'm very happy with the guitar. Pics:
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Beautiful! The paint is original? True Music must have excellent luthiers and techs. The combination of the full shred and screamin demon must be altogether cool!
 
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Ascension said:
MUTT Strat. It's a parts box ?? body and trem,Mint Green Pick guard with a SSL1 neck SSL2 middle and ?? bridge, a Moses graphite neck with SS Jumbos tuners are a set of Grovers. Simply put this thing is much much more than just the sum of it's parts and is one amazing playing and sounding guitar. Sustain is jaw dropping the whole thing just resonates like crazy and the neck really feels GREAT + it has absolutely the most even response over the entire fretboard of any guitar I have ever owned/played. You think it is an absolute beater when you look at it and is just a parts box POS till you pick it up and play it. Man what a player and it's flat a tone MACHINE! She may get a LIL 59 in the bridge at some point as I just am not much of a 3 single coil guy.
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Very nice. I'd take that any day. Just as long as it plays and sounds well.
 
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muttznmongrelz said:
Hell...there have been quite a few that have come and gone...Warmoth SRV Tribute...RG565/550 Swirl....ClawRetta...below are the few that I have kept...

1988 B.C. Rich Gunslinger/Assassin "Graffiti" with DiMarzio SDS1/Tone Zone F

1989 Kramer Telecaster Custom with Gibson "The Original" HB-R/HB-L


1987 Kramer E.E. SC-3 with Seymour Duncan Hot Rail/APS1/Dimebucker
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and the one I'm currently working one...
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How does the gibson "The original" sound? You use just a volume knob?

The one youre working on...it has a Floyd?
 
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2" thick block of Honduran mahogany. I have a guitar built from the same plank of wood as this block, and it is awesome-sounding timber. I've been carrying this block around for 15 years and always knew one day it would have to become a body for something i'd really want to play for the rest of my life.

The neck is Warmoth, ebony board and gold frets. Fine woodwork is not one of my greater skills (in fact i am cr*p at it). I'm going to make a thread about the build process once it's complete. That should be good for a laugh if nothing else (marvel at how i have no woodworking skills but great inventiveness at covering up my mistakes, hahaha).
 
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crusty philtrum said:
2" thick block of Honduran mahogany. I have a guitar built from the same plank of wood as this block, and it is awesome-sounding timber. I've been carrying this block around for 15 years and always knew one day it would have to become a body for something i'd really want to play for the rest of my life.

The neck is Warmoth, ebony board and gold frets. Fine woodwork is not one of my greater skills (in fact i am cr*p at it). I'm going to make a thread about the build process once it's complete. That should be good for a laugh if nothing else (marvel at how i have no woodworking skills but great inventiveness at covering up my mistakes, hahaha).
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You're such a tease, man. I seriously can't wait to see this finished product.
 
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crusty philtrum said:
2" thick block of Honduran mahogany. I have a guitar built from the same plank of wood as this block, and it is awesome-sounding timber. I've been carrying this block around for 15 years and always knew one day it would have to become a body for something i'd really want to play for the rest of my life.

The neck is Warmoth, ebony board and gold frets. Fine woodwork is not one of my greater skills (in fact i am cr*p at it). I'm going to make a thread about the build process once it's complete. That should be good for a laugh if nothing else (marvel at how i have no woodworking skills but great inventiveness at covering up my mistakes, hahaha).
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UPdate us with the blow by blow, mate!
Once its done maybe a bottle of Tooheys or XXXX to celebrate!
 
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I've got about 4 other projects I need to finish before this one, but I was thinking of my personal variation on the new Pawn Shop '51.

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Swamp ash body with trans butterscotch nitro finish.
Hipshot thru bridge with brass tonebar.
For pickups I was thinking PGb and a StraBro90 neck each split/tapped.
Wiring would be a 5-way superswitch and master volume/master tone push-pulls.
No idea if all that is even necessary, but why not, eh?
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One PP would possibly switch between settings for the 5-way or maybe series/parallel and the other would be a complete bypass from pups to output jack.

Lefty maple Tele neck with 22-fret rosewood fb, 1 5/8" bone nut and topped with staggered/locking tuners.

The pickguard would obviously be a custom job but based off the '51.

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Mojo monster: very nice!!!! The butterscotch nitro finish makes others look at it twice without the sound.
 
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bluesbend said:
Here's three that I built last summer....




and here's two SX's that I modded a couple of years ago.
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I see you're a Tele guy. How do the SX's sound? One has a humbucker for a neck pickup and the other has what looks like a lipstick pickup (not sure)?
 
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Here's another one project... A Jay Turser 220 or 200 neck through (first and second picture). Bought it for about a $150 and then had a friend of mine add 500T and 496R - change the caps, as well as pots to 500K (third picture). I changed the knobs to speed knobs (4th and 5th picture). Its the lightest Les Paul I've ever handled but for something as light...the sound is different . Acquired both the knobs and pickups here on our forum.
 
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Sketched a design on Cardboard:
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Got a slab of mahogany and rough-cut that to the approximate shape:
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Routed the mahogany to the exact shape:
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Rounded over the edges:
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Routed the cavities:
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Got a neck made:
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So I am pretty doggone close to the end of this little project --- mostly drilling holes, painting and affixing hardware now.

You can see the whole build and follow it's future progress @

-Hunter
 
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