here she is the olive guitar!

I made this for my son as said in the solid guitar post.

plugged it all in and she sound lovely,I've not tuned it, just by ear.

I'll let him do that.

I'm quite pleased with the results.

to get the pickup installed I just cut a grove into the neck from where the pick up to the bridge.

if you want more info on how I did it I'll post before pictures etc.

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on November 27, 2014 at 12:57am

as discuss in here...http://www.cigarboxnation.com/forum/topics/solid-guitar-pictures

and here I did the pick up etc...

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Permalink Reply by Scott aka Farmer Ted on November 27, 2014 at 1:04am

That turned out brilliant, John. The skeleton hands rock...as much as Elmar's flatpup does too.

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on November 27, 2014 at 3:10am

Sweet!! That looks great!

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on November 27, 2014 at 9:50am

lookin mighty fine .

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Permalink Reply by John Sawyer on November 30, 2014 at 12:07am

Beautiful! Been thinking about doing a similar build....

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on November 30, 2014 at 2:49am

just realize that some of the frets aren't in right.

so I'm going have to take them all out.

I had a feeling that s/steel is a bad idea.

so I'm going to buy some new nickle frets probably from chickenbone johnny!

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on November 30, 2014 at 4:10am

When you say the frets aren't in right, do you mean they are in the wrong place?

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on November 30, 2014 at 4:41am

they're in the right place but not seat properly and looks as they are twisted a little bit.

straight then about a 1/4" from the end a slight twist.

not sure how I'm going to rectify that with them being s/steel.

had a chance to check the sound and notice some didn't sound quite right on the 1st string(bottom looking down)and I notice that some are not right as stated above.

this all learning process here for me.

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on November 30, 2014 at 7:08am

Did you make sure that the slot is deep enough and that the tang on the fret wire is not bottoming out?

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on December 1, 2014 at 12:01am

good point Dan.

I'll check it later.

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on December 1, 2014 at 1:44am

You only need to be a couple of thousands of an inch too shallow and it will cause problems. Better a little too deep than too shallow.

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Permalink Reply by Bluesheart on November 30, 2014 at 3:51am

That is really beautiful!

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