Building 2 Guitars..

[FrostStorm]

Hello all! I thought this might interesting to at least some of you, so here we go!

I'm making 2 different kind of guitars, flamed top les paul and solid color superstrat, something like Ibanezes or whatever. Specs are as follows..

Les Paul:
Body&Neck - Mahogany, glued on neck.
Fretboard - Walnut, no inlays
Top - Some nice figured maple
Color - Not sure yet.. I'm open for suggestions.
electronics - 2 hums, 1 volume, 1 push/pull tonepot for splitting/phase shifting and 3-way switch.
Hardware - T.O.M+Stop Bar, wilkinson tuners.. All goldplated.
I'm gonna make it a lil' bit modernized version, with better fret access etc.

Superstrat:
Body&Neck - Mahogany, neck through
Fretboard - Maple, no inlays.
Color - Something very bright and 80's, like neon yellow, green etc..
Electronics: not sure yet.. thinking about 1 hum 2 singles, 5-way switch, 1 volume and push/pull tonepot for splitting the bridge pup.
Hardware - T.O.M+String through, wilkinson tuners.. Maybe black? Got to think about that one.
Gonna make it sleek and fast looking and playing shredmachine.

Anyway, enough with the talk, here's some pics, more to come!

Les Paul:
http://i583.photobucket.com/albums/s.../vaahtera1.jpg
http://i583.photobucket.com/albums/s.../vaahtera2.jpg
Note that this top isn't ready, not even close.. I haven't even sanded it down, it's straight from the planing.

Superstrat:
http://i583.photobucket.com/albums/s...8032009016.jpg
http://i583.photobucket.com/albums/s...ke/kitara1.jpg
http://i583.photobucket.com/albums/s...ke/kitara2.jpg


Any opinions are welcome, suggestions about the colors of stain&paint, questions etc.. Bring em on!

G'day and rock on!

[taracatac]

Very cool. I really interested to see how the Paul turns out!

[bammbamm]

My opinion is that they look great so far!

[Jasu1978]

Muistahan laittaa kuvia, kun ovat valmiit?.

[FrostStorm]

Tottahan toki. Laittelen tässä rakennuksenkin aikana kuvia tulemaan tännekkin. Perjantaina pääsen taas työstämään kumpaakin eteenpäin. Ei malttais oottaa

and for the non-finnish talking:

I'll put on some pics in couple of days, as I get to build these again on friday. Can't wait. I'm truly excited about these guitars.

[FrostStorm]

Hello, fellow Jemsiters!
It's friday and I (finally...) got time to build these babies on. Unfortunately I had only 2 hours, which included coffee-break and lunchbreak, so not too much progress..

I cut some holes to that nice top, fearing the worst case scenario (f*cking it up somehow, ruining my nice mapletop), but it turned out ok.
Note that these are just rough cut holes, and I'm going to sand it out etc, so no reason to freak out for that look...
Then I started to build the neck from mahogany. Already cut the neckjoint to the blank and did some lil' tweakings to it.

Anyway, enough with my talking, here we go again with some pics!






Someday near that walnut fretboard is going to get some neat (hopefully flamed) birch bindings.. and I'm making pickup bezels of birch too, so stay tuned for more pics

-Jari

[morikh]

where is the knobs

[FrostStorm]

Knobs.. Not needed yet :P