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The home made knobs will be a great touch. I'm wondering what they look like next to the other material. Are the colours not closer?
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Nice find - and nice work of course!
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To be honest, this is the first time in years my head has been in the right space for it
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I tend to build up my bursts in multiple light layers as i'm just not that great at doing a burst in one shot. Turns out the multiple light tints i use to work around my poorer technique gives a nice traditional look.
The main issue here was the darkest layer was a bit too splattery, and its not fully hidden by the other tints... but it looks greats is, so i'm not feeling the need to re-do. Wonder if i can claim its vintage accurate splatter
In other news, I have ordered 3 European Spruce archtop tops based on the success of this build.
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From a purely acoustic point of view, it will be louder and sound fuller. The spruce will move more air as it has a better stiffness to weight ratio.
Obviously that needs to be balanced with other decisions such as the bracing and F-hole dimensions as neither will help the acoustic tone on this build... not that it sounds bad unplugged, but those f-holes are far too narrow to get any real projection from it. Sounds great to the player, but wont fill the room
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Sustain is pretty great on this already, i think i would actually lose some with a spruce top and smaller neck block. Feedback resistance should also be better with the sycamore top
tbh, part of my thoughts are how to define this thing I have built. Its not strictly electric or acoustic and not like most of the other hybrids out there. most of the guitars which are similar are using hollowed out solid bodies, more like 335 style centre block and laminates, or are proper archtop acoustics... mine doesn't quite fit in either category, but could easily be pushed in one of those directions
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The pickguard material is great did you post a link to the stuff you used as image a few of us would like to add that in as a pickguard.
Again nice work
Thanks, I like to think that's the way I build. I am happy with the way its gone and know it will be a great guitar. Just aware it will make it a harder sell to the average guitarist as it doesn't fit neatly in a known category.
I was trying to describe it to a guy I am doing some repairs for the other day and he just didn't get it. I don't think we got him past seeing it as a thinline Les Paul with missing pickup
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