Just thought I'd share my builds that I have done. Rough as they are they play great and sound incredible. Got impatient on the finishing process on both of them because I wanted to play them, but I'm getting better. Need the type of disciplne that indeedido had for his franky:0
Sweet, dude! Bottoms Up!
I know the people around here will really dig hearing about your builds.
Fair Warning, just fucking ignore si-gar. He'll tell you how to build your guitars better or what he would of done but has never posted any of his shit, ever.
Originally Posted by vandeleur
E- Jesus . Playing both sides because he didnt understand the argument in the first place
Nice work!Are those Stew-Mac necks?
No. One is a Mighty mite neck that has jumbo frets that were leveled, crowned and dressed. also had the nut shaped for 9 guage strings.
The other is a Musikraft neck with a LSR Roller nut that is a 80's style charvel San Dimas with close 12th fret dot spacing. That thing cost me an arm and a leg but man it's a sweet neck. After I finished it it's slick and fast! Too bad my carpal tunnel keeps me slow!
Thanks for comments!
Last edited by marksjohnc; 05-31-2009 at 11:26 PM.
This is a custom build I did for a Pastor friend of mine..yeah a pastor!
I made up my own logo and NYG did my own custom neck plate for me. All copyrighted and all. Hopefully ther will be more in the future. Getting too old and beat up for carpentry and construction anymore. Just a hobby now but maybe someday.....
His kids called it wormy! Funny!
I learned alot about setting up guitars from Dan Erlewine from Stew Mac and I tell ya if you do it right, you can drop a vintage 6 screw trem and do all kinds of freaky stuff and it'll stay in tune! May need a quick string bend but it'll come right back.
I just got an email back from guitarheads. From the conversation from the franky post and indeedido's info he gave me about his neck plate. He said he doen't do them. He just emailed me and said: Then they have me confused with someone else. Looking at the picture you sent me, that doesn’t even look engraved (it looks lasered), and I do not even own a laser engraver… Also, all of our custom engraved designs come from hand-drawn artwork…
So someone is confusedNow I am for sure!
Ahhhhhhh Fugetaboutit
Hey what do you have hidden back there in that photo? What kind of guitars?Nice work!
Are they older charvels?
No. One is a Mighty mite neck that has jumbo frets that were leveled, crowned and dressed. also had the nut shaped for 9 guage strings.Nice work!
The other is a Musikraft neck with a LSR Roller nut that is a 80's style charvel San Dimas with close 12th fret dot spacing. That thing cost me an arm and a leg but man it's a sweet neck. After I finished it it's slick and fast! Too bad my carpal tunnel keeps me slow!
Thanks for comments!
Two old early/mid 80's Charvel necks, yeah - one on an early 80's Dimarzio/Charvel replacement body, one that was on a custom body in that pic, now going on a Musikraft Charvel body..the rest are primarily Warmoth parts...I specifically ordered all 3 of the Warmoth necks to very near my Charvel neck's specs, but added compound-radius boards.
Of course, GAyR will now accuse you of "titillating the mod's ego", but well...see Kwame's post as to why you should ignore him.
Musikraft makes great stuff btw...I loooooove the body I got from them!
Last edited by jhale667; 06-01-2009 at 02:11 AM.
Now why would I criticize a parts guitar, in a parts guitar thread if its on topic?
Nice job! The hardest part is waiting. I'm like you and want to put them together and play them right away. It was hard waiting for the pant to dry for each step and for the clear coat to cure. It pays off in the end
Nuno called, wants his guitar back..
(sorry cuntdn't help it)
You called and just want a guitar.
Too clean...
Probably play like garbage...
...Because you're a douche like that?
Too clean? WTF? ....splain!
Trolls take heed...LOG OUT & FUCK OFF!!!
Yes, please elaborate for us Elvis...you're basing this opinion on a couple of photos?
What, like "if you polish them, they must suck"?
Hahaaa, too clean probably play like garbage...
Hmmm, let me see here...... A guitar built by the owner , fine tuned to each and every degree of said owner's desire's and spec's.... Yeah ,probably garbage Jay.
Time to head on down to the Guitar Center and grab yerself a log off the rack
and knock off that custom "jive" you've been wasting your time and money on...
Not to get in the middle of that one, but nearly all my guitar had some kind of buckle rash, Levis rivet rub, sweat-smears/cumstains/bloodstains/urine/beer/spaghetti etc and all Jay's stuff look like they're straight from the paint shop.
Even the guitars I do play -and very little of- they got play smudge on 'em and these are replacements from what I lost in 2003. That's five almost six years of playing, and none look as clean as yours.
You freaks know me...
They are very nice looking guitars. That doesn't make them sound all that great...
One observation is that the RBW one has a nice looking neck. The others look like foreign junk with the truss rod holes painted...
Well sure your one and only guitar (Charvette-bolt on) probably would get messed up and gooey cuntsidering the busking you do at the "Y" men's club..
Jealous? Sounds like you're having difficulty keeping the "vette" clean living under the overpass ,eh?!and all Jay's stuff look like they're straight from the paint shop.
Sounds like someone's got a touch of Hale envy...Even the guitars I do play -and very little of- they got play smudge on 'em and these are replacements from what I lost in 2003. That's five almost six years of playing, and none look as clean as yours.
Playa Hate...
Thanks. And again, it's this technique called "polishing", and occasionally cleaning and conditioning the fretboards. Give it a try...
Seems that way...Sounds like someone's got a touch of Hale envy...
Last edited by jhale667; 06-02-2009 at 01:59 AM.
Polishing does work wonders. I highly recommend it myself
...And amazingly, with regular usage, it'll keep even a beat-to-shit Krylon finish looking shiny, for over 20 years... :eek:
Though I have re-colored the Garbage Pail kid sticker on her by hand a couple of times over the years...:0
.. I like quiche.
Last edited by jhale667; 06-02-2009 at 04:38 PM.
Of course you do.
Just noticed how close the volume pot is to the pickup on the white one.
Much too close for me.
Figures
Yeah the neck I have is sweeeet!
Here are the specs:
2000-1-2 San Dimas Charvel Neck
Handed: Right Handed
Neck and Finger Board Combination Style: Skunk Stripe Style All One Piece
Neck Wood: Rock Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Same as Neck Wood (Skunk Stripe Style)
Standard 21 Fret w/o Finger Board Extention
Finger Board Radius: 12
Fret Size and Type: Medium 6105 (.095 Wide X .047 Tall)
Tuner Hole Size: Standard 10 mm Gotoh / Sperzel / Shaller
Nut Width: 1-11/16
Heel Type and Size: Standard Strat Heel 2-3/16
Truss Rod Option: Vintage Single Acting Adjust at Heel
Neck Profile: Thin D .750 X .810
Standard Semi Rolled Finger Board Edges
Narrow 12th Dots Spacing Post 1964 and Charvel
LSR nut shelf on the neck.
Man the thing now finished is incredible to play
Yeah it's not the one that's staying. I have another one that is going on it with the pickup hole slanted a little and the volume knob in the right place. Just have to cut the guard carefully since I messed up the last one by rushing the cut.Just noticed how close the volume pot is to the pickup on the white one.
Much too close for me.
The only motivation one could have in reproducing the EVH logo, is to sell it.
That logo places a commodity pricing above the average ebayer who screws together a neck and body with four bolts.
I don't much care to see that kind of guitar building, anywhere. And the builder here has done it not just once, but twice.
Imagine the uncomfortable discussion involving this wall art, when having guests over "oh wow did you pay 12 grand for those?"
No, I built em myself.
"Well since you built them, why didn't you build a reproduction of the original? That makes these reproductions, of a reproduction."
(uncomfortable silence)
That's why I don't build copies. If you copy the original, you do it down to the tee - then there's people who will look at it and go "why make a knockoff of a star guitar? The embarrassment of being seen in public playing the thing.." and if you base the look on the modern repro, its inaccurate.
That Musicraft neck looks fantastic. That other one like Elvis said, with the black plastic truss-rod liner in view, is a clear giveaway of Asian origins.
Great wall art, but you didn't have logo with fake authentication on the headstock like that and I hope you don't do this for a living.
[QUOTE=ELVIS;1354083]You freaks know me...
They are very nice looking guitars. That doesn't make them sound all that great...
The red one has a Seymour Duncan SH 11 Custom Custom in it with a 2 meg volume pot that brings out everything that pup was intended to give. Learned some stuff from a 60 year old guitar tech. He showed me how to do my setup on it and when he was done the sound was ah....."Girl Gone Bad"
The Black and White's pickup is killer for the vintage vibe..an Attackbucker from Guitarattack.com
Go check out the mp3 and here for yourself if that's what your into. If not that's kewl!
2 meg.. why?
Maybe you just can't build! I did it for my OWN enjoyment not anyone elses. Just wanted to see if I could do it. I NEVER said I was a pro builder. Your entitled to your opinions but if you attack me I'll bite back
And I'm not trying to fool anyone. Yeah the one neck is nicer, but also cost$225.00 a price I can't shell out for every neck I buy. So waht the other is a Mighty Mite neck? The thing is still a player if you know how to finish it with true oil and adjust it right.
Maybe you just can't build! I did it for my OWN enjoyment not anyone elses. Just wanted to see if I could do it. I NEVER said I was a pro builder. Your entitled to your opinions but if you attack me I'll bite back
And I'm not trying to fool anyone. Yeah the one neck is nicer, but also cost$225.00 a price I can't shell out for every neck I buy. So waht the other is a Mighty Mite neck? The thing is still a player if you know how to finish it with true oil and adjust it right.
I don't play them in public anyway...that would be like "Look at me, I'm Eddie"
Like I said I built them FOR MYself, not to sell to anyone on ebay or anywhere else and try to screw someone over.
Why a 2 meg potentiometer?
Post pics of your guitars or STFU, Clay
I put several logos on my Frankie. Charvel, EVH, EVH's signature. You know why? I fucking felt like it. It's mine and I can do whatever the hell I want to with it. If I have the skill to do it so be it. If I want to remove it I can put some 320 grit to it. My goal was to make what Charvel should have, an accurate Frankie with the empty pickup route and dummy pickup. Mine is what they should have made. If I want to relic it and make it look like a pile of shit someday I can. Any hack can take some Krylon and make a pile of shit like Ed did. Takes a little more skill to do what I did.
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