Your finished projects

zorgzorg2 · October 2019

A bass !

Chambered ash Jaguar-style bass, beech neck and maple fretboard. Finish with hardwax oil for a very smooth satin finish. Seymour-Duncan SPB-1 in the neck, NYC-4 humbucker in the bridge with selectable parallel/split/series mode.

lysander · October 2019

zorgzorg2 said:

A bass !

Chambered ash Jaguar-style bass, beech neck and maple fretboard. Finish with hardwax oil for a very smooth satin finish. Seymour-Duncan SPB-1 in the neck, NYC-4 humbucker in the bridge with selectable parallel/split/series mode.

That looks amazing !
Did you use aniline dye on the ash ?

zorgzorg2 · October 2019

I used the wudtone azur lagoon finishing kit, and I don't know what kind of dye they use in that (although I'd like to know)

freemeat · October 2019

harley benton Ms 60 modded into Wang-Stang

RyanNoisyHammer · December 2019

My most recent guitar 2x12 build.
Inverted Birch Ply.

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lysander · December 2019

That’s lovely ! Did you laminate the ply?

Georg_Figel · February 2020

amazing job getting the laminate around the edges

jkgchristmas · May 2020

Cant workout how to post my picture!

mrn1989 · June 2020

https://i.imgur.com/WBH9YTQ.jpg

RaySting · July 2020

zorgzorg2 said:

Finish with hardwax oil

Do you have details of the hardware oil please? I'm abut to finish a similar build

mrn1989 · July 2020

https://i.imgur.com/BwepUrb.jpg

gjonesy · September 2020

Guitarbuild body in poplar, @lamf68 painted it candy apple green (thanks for his patience getting it to his exacting standards), @Marshall for USACG neck & tuners, fletcher pickups - fletchertron, cant remember who I got the bridge from but it was on this forum
Sorry no build thread on this

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TTony · September 2020

So far this year, I seem to have built 5 and assembled/finished 1.

I didn't need 6 more guitars.

In no particular order, except last one first ...

This was the assembly/finish job. I bought one of @GSPBasses fine carcasses from someone else here, and had some fun with some stains and hiding the neck join

Read all about it on this thread.

TTony · September 2020

You get 2-for-1 on this build thread ...

And this is what I ended up with

(yes, yes, yes - I know - it's got a switch tip on it now!!)

And ...

TTony · September 2020

You think a 2-for-1 build thread was good?

The next 3 builds are shown on this thread, from beginning of the year. This was really a set of rescues of previously cast-aside part builds.

This one had lain unloved in a dusty corner for ages.

And, although I say so myself, it's not at all bad now it's all sorted!

This one involved making a lot of sawdust. Don't look at the build thread if you're squeamish.

And finally - last is very definitely *not* least in the case, as this one is quite possibly my favourite of this batch. If not my #1 favourite, it's certainly in the top6

xavierflynt · October 2020

Never buying straplocks again, this is a far better solution

vanlooy1 · October 2020

GSPBasses RB6T blacktop, first ever nitro job, looks okay from a distance but close up not so much!

Equipped with an OilCity wrapping wharf in the bridge and a Mojo staple P90 in the neck.

Winny_Pooh · October 2020

^^^damn!

greggreg66 · November 2020

Flying V. Finished it ages ago, forgot to post finished pics:

greggreg66 · November 2020

Explorer build, just finished : )

PeteC · November 2020

Lovely job - bet it sounds as good as it looks

LordOxygen · November 2020

I've finished building the AmpMaker WF-55 kit. I built the case myself from some aluminium, drilled, cut, brushed and sealed.
Pleased with out it came out visually and sonically. The sound quality of this amp is excellent, very clear and detailed. Takes pedals very well too. No issues driving my 212.

TomPerkin · December 2020

dsgb · January 2021

Here are some photographs of the Brian May Red Special replica which I completed building in June 2020. I appreciate that not every guitar player or enthusiast like Queen, Brian May's music and playing style and/or his home made guitar. I'm totally cool with that but this was something I wanted to do for many years and I'm finally moving on from a satisfying BM/Queen phase to learning and playing Pink Floyd/David Gilmour material.

At the link to my website below, there are 60 numbered articles covering every part of the project plus four additional articles describing the design process, covering tools and tips and listing the materials, parts & suppliers. These are richly illustrated with hundreds of detailed pictures and should be of general interest to Queen and Brian May enthusiasts including anybody who is considering embarking on a similar mission.

https://dsgb.net/projects/redspecial/

Doug

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dsgb · January 2021

Here are some pictures of my first ever guitar build project: a 3/4 scale Brian May Red Special. You can find full details at my website:

https://dsgb.net/projects/1975rs/

https://dsgb.net/2017/12/09/brianmay/

Image: https://dsgbnet.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/finished-1975-red-special-3.jpg

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19 inch scale, 75% size body inspired by the BMG Mini May
7.25″ radius ebony fretboard with 4 mm diameter mother-of-pearl marker dots following the original pattern
Optima Gold 2028M 0.011-0.050 strings tuned to open F to give 81 lbs total tension
Brown bakelite nut fashioned from a vintage radio case; black bakelite truss rod cover
Authentic Red Special body and headstock shape
Burns Mini Tri-Sonic Red Special pickup set (neck: 7.20 kΩ, middle: 7.20 kΩ reverse polarity magnet, bridge: 7.85 kΩ DC resistances)
Custom made original Brian May style roller bridge
One piece solid mahogany body (with control cavity only) and original size white plastic binding
Copper foil lined control chamber
Original Brian May style tremolo tailpiece with shortened tremolo arm and authentic spring rate
One piece mahogany neck mounted with four polished M6 stainless steel hex bolts and stainless steel threaded inserts.
Jim Dunlop 6105 fretwire
Switchcraft jack socket
Custom made 75% scaled pickguard set, 3 mm gloss black acrylic
5 mm wide, 1.75 mm thick black perspex pickup surrounds
Hand made KZ Super style aluminium switch mount plate
6 Switchcraft 46200LRX series white pickup switches for on/off and in/out of phase switching
Schaller locking tuning heads with Gotoh style white pearloid tuning buttons
Custom made 3/4 scale aluminium skirted control knobs with knurled grips
Matched 250 kΩ Bourns volume and tone pots and 30.9 nF tone cut capacitor
Stained with a mix of Rustins red and brown mahogany penetrating wood dyes to emulate the original as closely as possible
Weight 2.58 kg (5 lb 11 oz) compared to 2.29 kg (5 lb 01 oz) for the modified BMG Mini May

LastMantra · January 2021

Jinkies, some cracking stuff on here.

Yorkie · April 2021

Hi,
As I have mentioned in other threads, I got myself a knackered Epiphone so I could fix it, adapt it a bit and use it for daily practice without worrying about my kids scratching it etc. It's a plywood body with Epiphone pickups (sound good to me). The tuners were completely loose, the jack did not even engage with the contacts inside the guitar, one of the pickups had a disconnected cable, there was a missing knob... poor thing.

So I had a look on eBay (before finding this forum, regrettably) and bought the components, then with a bit of patience and help from my daughter I fitted everything. My only complaint is that the jack plate is flat and thus does not fit the curved body perfectly (suggestions are welcome). But aside from that, it plays great and sounds even better. Heck, it even makes ME sound good!

Here are a few pictures of the before and after:

Cheesyfeet · April 2021

This is my first home build from scratch. Pretty happy how it's turned out as it's mostly a learning exercise for home building after a 6 day Crimson course last October.

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Plenty of things I've learnt along the way and would probably do slightly differently next time!

Yorkie · April 2021

Cheesyfeet said:

This is my first home build from scratch. Pretty happy how it's turned out as it's mostly a learning exercise for home building after a 6 day Crimson course last October.

Plenty of things I've learnt along the way and would probably do slightly differently next time!

Damn, that looks so fine. Where did you source the neck? Why did you choose that particular headstock? Did you make the truss rod cover yourself? What wood is it made of?

Awesome work.

Jon

Cheesyfeet · April 2021

The neck is mahogany, but that's a Bocote veneer on the headstock. It wasn't originally planned, but I may have got a bit carried away reducing the headstock thickness, so needed to bulk it back up a bit. It was a headstock veneer from Rothko & Frost and, being bocote was a bit of a PITA to work with (oily and a bit fragile!)

Headstock shape was a result of me siting down with a pencil and playing around until I came up with something I liked.

Everything made by myself except the hardware - truss rod cover is some spalted beech I had laying around.

Guess I'll need to think about making the next one now

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