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Permalink Reply by Chris Ellbogen on December 29, 2010 at 5:08am

Pictures?

Permalink Reply by econnofoot on December 29, 2010 at 6:09am

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Permalink Reply by econnofoot on December 29, 2010 at 6:10am

not real hip on doing pics here yet but gives an idea of the start.

Permalink Reply by econnofoot on December 29, 2010 at 6:45am

my original idea for setting frets was to use stainless steel welding wire which failed, ended up using wood, it was after all a first build and I didn't really want to buy anything aside from tuners and strings.

Permalink Reply by econnofoot on December 29, 2010 at 6:58am

After managing to break the headstock at one point then re gluing and adding to it got a usable shape, nothing too pretty of yet but allowed me to get these machine heads from stew mac in...sry bout pic quality my camera is a turd.

 

underside, think they are grover, not bad for the money kinda iffy screws though really need to have small phillips head to install them.

 

unfortunately over glue when I set the neck made it impossible to get a pic of that, which was an experience, I finally set a dowl in the body in a block then drilled into the heel of the neck to make the connection...body is now glued.  played it over the holiday with a floating bridge and just an improvised wooden nut.  worked ok...I ended up improvising a tail piece rather than trying to string thru a bridge as I really didn't have an idea what my string height needed to be.

 

As the glue dries..... ;) I'll have a beer.

 

Cheers o/'

Permalink Reply by Ukecansam on December 30, 2010 at 1:34am

Good Job,  Its time to have a Heineken!!!  I hope to start my first build when I save up money for a band saw.  I hope you had fun.

Permalink Reply by econnofoot on January 4, 2011 at 1:37pm

I had a blast...if I had better shop situation and weather I'd be going crazy building more, but also bought myself a new acoustic guitar after christmas and much warmer playing it indoors but a new project is in the works now.

Ukecansam said:

Good Job,  Its time to have a Heineken!!!  I hope to start my first build when I save up money for a band saw.  I hope you had fun.