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WezV - Offset DC Jnr build

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I've been playing with the DC Junior shape in inkscape and have come up with this offset version with slightly tweaked horns.

Just cut out some templates for it on the laser


I think that has enough promise to take to a full build


I fancy doing something simple with the build, but might use this to play with some more zemaitis style stuff before I do a full Z style build.  An engraved metal plate, tweaked inlay shapes etc.
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  • SeshSesh Frets: 1726
    That looks really good. What about the headstock? Slightly offset too? 
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  • WezVWezV Frets: 15793
    I'm not sure yet... I may even go 6 in line
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  • WezVWezV Frets: 15793
    Or I  often do a non symetrical 3 aside shape that would mirror the offset on the body... not used it for a few years, but might be time to bring it back
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  • SteveFSteveF Frets: 505
    That looks really cool Wez.  
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  • TheMarlinTheMarlin Frets: 7236
    Love your builds!
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  • PhilKingPhilKing Frets: 1391
    edited August 2023
    That looks really interesting.  What are you using for the neck and fingerboard?
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  • WezVWezV Frets: 15793
    I haven't decided on woods yet.  Not sure where to go natural mahogany or korina, or go for something painted 
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  • WezVWezV Frets: 15793
    edited August 2023
    Found a bit of wood I thought I had lost, it was right at the bottom of a pile.


    Its a nice clear bit of idigbo.  Should be lightweight, resonant, and have that nice korina colour when finished, rather than the olive colour some idigbo can have.

    I'm going to cut a 20mm strip off before slicing up for a body, I'm hoping I can get a couple of neck lams from it for a 3 piece neck with contrasting mahogany center stripe.  

    It's marked out for a 25mm strip, so I have a bit of  room for error.  I've taken it from the edge that is closest to quartered
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  • PeteCPeteC Frets: 399
    Great !    I’ve used Idigbo on quite a few builds now and found most of it to be superb for its resonance and weight 

    also its readily available in rough sawn 2” thick planks from various timber merchants at a good price

    i don’t know why it doesnt get more use - 
    Paired with maple caps it makes excellent giitars IMO  

    looking forward to another of your builds @WezV.   They are always really interesting and I always learn loads from
    them. 


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  • WezVWezV Frets: 15793
    edited August 2023
    Thank you


    Wood is now prepped.  I've gone for a 5 piece neck with idigbo, sapele and maple.   I have left the lams without a heel at the moment.  I think I'm going to add an idigbo heel and head plate front and back so the lams are only visible in the neck shaft.






    I also rearranged the body on the rest of the idigbo.  The above pic shows horns together.  I flipped it so the tail end was together to give bookmatched grain on the end of the body





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  • WezVWezV Frets: 15793
    edited August 2023
    Quick play with my old headstock design.   I might tweak this to exactly match the other end of the body.

    I've also extended the neck join on this drawing.

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  • axisusaxisus Frets: 27656
    Looking cool!
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  • SeshSesh Frets: 1726
    I don't know why, but I assumed the headstock would be offset the other way. Looks good as it is though. 
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  • SteveFSteveF Frets: 505
    Sesh said:
    I don't know why, but I assumed the headstock would be offset the other way. Looks good as it is though. 
    Me too, but then when I actually tried to picture it, I couldn't make it work in my head. 
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  • WezVWezV Frets: 15793
    I do have a pointier reverse version of that, but its a bit too metal for this I think.

    I may offset it a bit differently though.
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  • impmannimpmann Frets: 12286
    I don't know why but this project reminded me of the old Hamer Phantom guitars (Andy Summers was an advocate). VERY cool...


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  • WezVWezV Frets: 15793
    That is probably a bit more radical than I am aiming for.

    I want to keep a vintage feel to this.
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  • CountryDaveCountryDave Frets: 752
    Looks great. Has a PRS Vela vibe.
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  • WezVWezV Frets: 15793
    Yeah, I noticed that yesterday.   I was thinking about some contours or German carve and it started to look very similar.

    This one will be left slab bodied and jnr style though.
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  • WezVWezV Frets: 15793
    Shape comparison with the vela


    compared to the Jnr i started with


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  • stickyfiddlestickyfiddle Frets: 24852
    Could go something Firebird-flavoured for the headstock?
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  • WezVWezV Frets: 15793
    That could work scaled down for a 6 a side headstock, but I think I'm sticking with 3 a side, and it would be hard to add firebird influence to that without taking it into Ivison territory
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  • WezVWezV Frets: 15793
    had a play with a slimmer but curvier headstock. I quite like the reverse version of this

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  • SporkySporky Frets: 23802
    I like how that plays with the back curve of the body. That's very nice. 
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  • WezVWezV Frets: 15793
    i think i'm there.  Tweaked the curve from nut to bass tuners and changed the board for 22 frets slotted to the rule of 18 for  vintage fret spacing



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  • stickyfiddlestickyfiddle Frets: 24852
    Yeah that's the badger - looks excellent :) 
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  • PeteCPeteC Frets: 399
    Yep - thats the one.  Much better match to the body    Sense of forward motion in the overall shape.  
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  • SteveFSteveF Frets: 505
    Very much like 
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  • elstoofelstoof Frets: 1583
    Fan the frets!
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  • WezVWezV Frets: 15793
    I've done quite a few fan frets in the past, this will not be one of them
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