Ever make your own guitar?

[jack briggs]

Yes I am in that area. Not quiet Raleigh... but close enough.

So - more like the noisy part of Raleigh??
sorry - couldn't resist!


cheers,

[David Schwab]

An SBG Yamaha is NOT the same thing as an SG Gibson!!! Two very different guitars. I love them both. Gibson SG's always feel a little imbalanced for me but the tone is amazing!!! And I cut my teeth on a Yamaha SBG1300TS.What a guitar! A mentor of mine saw it and said "That's a players guitar." I just acquired another that I need to get repaired. But I'm really glad to have it since they're quite rare.

Oh I know, but it's a similar shape, with the thick body. That was Santana's idea. He wanted it heavier.

I knew a guy with an SG-2000, and it was a very nice guitar. That was before they had to chance the name and add the "B." He played one because Bill Nelson of Be Bop Deluxe fame played one.

[David Schwab]

I like the non-bound, beveled-edges an SG body shape provides. It just (INHO) needs the whole neck-pickups-bridge moved back toward the rear of the guitar about 1.5 inches or so, again, just my opinion.

I like the bevels too, but I really like binding on guitars.

What you DON'T want is one of these.



Yeah, let's make a butt ugly guitar out of plywood...

[Steve Conner]

Bleaaahhhhh... I have just thrown up on my keyboard... I'm interested to know how it was made though. Did someone dye the layers of wood before laminating them together?

It might be OK if they had used alternating layers of very dark and very light, instead of rainbow colours.

[copperheadroads]

No guitars lately ,But I'm in the process of building this 112 pine cab

[ken]

What you DON'T want is one of these.

Uhhh... David, that looks like one of those giant candy lollipops you get at the state fair, the ones made of 110% sugar.
I hope you didn't do that one on purpose.

Ewwww...

ken

[Chuck H]

This sort of hijacks the thread (as it's a guitar thread) but is the use of knotty pine because this will be a natural finish? 'Cause it looks that way. I've done knotty pine cabs with a lye treatment and amber shellac base coat to give that honey colored, black knots bar paneling look. Like people have been smoking around it for thirty years, the oil finish has yellowed and all the tannins have blackened in the hard grain. The project came out really nice.

[RedHouse]

No guitars lately ,But I'm in the process of building this 112 pine cab

What a coincidence, so am I.

[RedHouse]

I like the bevels too, but I really like binding on guitars.

What you DON'T want is one of these.



Yeah, let's make a butt ugly guitar out of plywood...

Aaaaahhh! run for your lives!!!!! Yeah that's one of Gibsons "finest" (cough,cough).

HEY! look over there ...there's Henry ...git the rope Billy-Bob!

The clear bobbins are "kinda" cool though,wouldn't wanna buy one just to yank the pickups though. (HAhahahahahah)

[ken]

Aaaaahhh! run for your lives!!!!! Yeah that's one of Gibsons "finest" (cough,cough).

HEY! look over there ...there's Henry ...git the rope Billy-Bob!

The clear bobbins are "kinda" cool though,wouldn't wanna buy one just to yank the pickups though. (HAhahahahahah)

I'm sorry, I was too busy throwing up after looking at that photo to notice the pickups. Who made those pickups with clear bobbins anyway?

ken

[copperheadroads]

This sort of hijacks the thread (as it's a guitar thread) but is the use of knotty pine because this will be a natural finish? 'Cause it looks that way. I've done knotty pine cabs with a lye treatment and amber shellac base coat to give that honey colored, black knots bar paneling look. Like people have been smoking around it for thirty years, the oil finish has yellowed and all the tannins have blackened in the hard grain. The project came out really nice.

I was thinking of doing that ,& If I don't decide to spray some dewaxed shellac tinted with aniline dye (blue or red ) over It ,I will remain natural

[Chuck H]

The only caution I would offer is to reiterate that pine is soft. And dings on a natural finish don't show near as badly as dings on a tinted finish. Also, even using dewaxed shellac as a color coat the pine will accept the color somewhat like a stain and show a little blotchy. Also, the grain will raise a bit with the first coat on bare wood and require sanding to get a smooth final coats. And you really don't want to sand your color coat. Better to use a coat of clear dewaxed shellac as a sanding sealer followed by sanding and sprayed color coat/s for tint and then a coat or two of clear urethane as a finish. Urethane sticks fine to DEWAXED shellac. In fact the cabs I made have urethane over Zinsser Bulls Eye amber shellac which is not dewaxed well at all and I have no adhesion problems.

As a finisher (well... a painter) by trade and someone who has finished pine cabs this is JM2C.

[David Schwab]

Bleaaahhhhh... I have just thrown up on my keyboard... I'm interested to know how it was made though. Did someone dye the layers of wood before laminating them together?

It might be OK if they had used alternating layers of very dark and very light, instead of rainbow colours.

Yes, layers of died wood.



The neck also:




Dark and light?



How about?

[David King]

Ow,. i just stabbed my eyeballs with a pen. Make it stop!

[ken]

Alright... NOW do you see what happens if you smoke your crayons - instead of just eating them like everyone else?

ken