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 This is the first guitar I made back in 2000. It has a book-matched maple top with a cherry stripe down the middle. The back is solid poplar. The semi-hollow body of the guitar is hand-made and the neck was recycled from another guitar. The cavity covers on the back were also hand made. Electronics consist of two humbuckers, each with volume and tone controls, also a 3-way switch to choose one or both pickups. |
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 This is the second guitar that I made back in 2001. The body is solid Black Cherry with a bing cherry red stain and the neck is recycled. The rear cavity cover is also hand made. The electronics include a single humbucker centrally located between the neck and the bridge. |
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 This is the third guitar that I made back in the spring of 2002. This guitar also has a semi-hollow body and a recycled neck. The front is laminated maple strips with two strips of western red cedar. In order to cover the seam between the front and back, I routed a channel and glued in a diamond inlay, shown below. The cavity covers on the back were also hand made. Electonics include a single coil pick-ups in the neck position and a humbucker in the bridge position, both are EMG Selects. The pickup rings are hand-made from N. American black walnut. This guitar also has tone and volume controls for each pickup, along with a 3-way switch. |
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 This is the fourth guitar that I habe built, I guess I need to start giving them names. This picture was taken on April 4,2004. The body is made of three laminated layers and a laminated stripe down the middle. The front and back are 3/8" bookmatched Curly Maple and the "middle" is a solid piece of 3/4" Bloodwood. At all of the contour spots, I have sanded the wood to give the front and back more detail. The stripe is the same material. I used a gloss Deft coat which I sprayed on with an air gun and compressor. I have probably 10 or so coats on the body and have used Micro-mesh sandpaper to get the finish ultra-shiny. The "paper" starts at 1500 grit and ends at 12,000. I purchased a nice Washburn 24 3/4" scale neck to go on this guitar. I have added bright red dye to the Deft, and if I do say so myself, it turned out great. The hardtail, flame bridge is from Custom Shop Parts in Florida. I hand-made the control cavity plate, the jack plate, and the truss rod cover from some 5-layer black and white plastic I had purchased before but never used. Also I turned the knobs out of some of the left over bloodwood I had from the body.
Electronics include 2 OBL humbuckers, not my first choice, but what I could afford, they still sound great though. There is a master volume and a tone contol for each pickup. The bridge tone pot is a 1 meg to really open it up, the neck is a standard pot. Since the pickups are the same value, I thought they needed to be differentiated some how. There is a 3-way switch to go between the pickups and a mini-toggle on each for series-parallel or cut one coil. |
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Peavey Milestone Refinish
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 This is a Peavey Milestone that I got a couple of years ago. This picture shows the shape that it was in. The previous owner sanded the original finish off (and did a poor job, there were swirl marks on it) and put on a thin clearcoat. The chrome parts are pitted and it was missing a pickup. This past spring I removed all of the old finish on the body, sanded everything properly, and reshaped the body a bit. I have also added a nice deep red clearcoat with a bit of a sunburst. I left the neck alone because it is in pretty decent shape. Once I get a new pickup and replace or fix the parts, this guitar will be as good as new. |
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Curly Maple Humbucker Pickup Rings
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If you are interested in purchasing a guitar or any parts, let me give you the run-done. You can choose the body style you like from the ones I have on hand or you can design your own. Copying someone else's body style is something I do not want to do, I like to see originality, that said, modifying or enhancing an existing style is fine. Materials for the guitar, or bass, are completely up to you, I will get my hands on whatever you are willing to pay for. All electronics and hardware are up to you also. We will get together or email back and forth to find out what you want. I do not make the necks, but have several sources of quality used or new necks. The price is determined by how much the materials cost plus my builders fee which is different for each guitar depending on how much work it is going to be. For example, a chambered or semi-hollow will be more than a solid body.
I can also make different parts to customize your guitar. I can make knobs, covers, plates, or pickup rings for single or humbuckers. |
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