What about building your own guitars?

Eargasm · Post by **Eargasm** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 12:01 pm

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miguel · Post by **miguel** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 12:14 pm

Eargasm wrote:how many of you build your own guitars?

I did a Warmoth Soloist about 16 years ago, had it professionally finished, but stripped it down and refinished it a while back. It was my main guitar for a long time.

#2 was a black Warmoth 5-string Jazz Bass - Warmoth painted it for me, but I did all the wiring and assembly.

#3 I finished last year - a Warmoth PRS clone, but this time I did all the finish work, inlay, fretwork, wiring and setup. It plays and sounds great.

#4 is a pile of tonewood laying in my closet - might get started later this year.

Mike

chad · Post by **chad** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 12:22 pm

I have built two D-28 martin clones although their not electric guitars (Next on my list soon) they were kind of rewarding in its own.I play quite a bit of Bluegrass when I'm not jammin on my strat & building amp's.It all seems adicting to me.But fun as hell! When I get my 2'nd Trainwreck Express clone done I have to try building a Tele. Chad

Eargasm · Post by **Eargasm** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 12:27 pm

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Winder · Post by **Winder** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 4:07 pm

Built a Carvin Bolt-T a couple of years back. Lots of fun and a wonderful instrument.

Necrovore · Post by **Necrovore** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 12:05 am

I am still about 1/3 the way through building my own neck through. I lunched the first neck I made while planing the neck face to accept the fretboard and had to start over. Right now I just have it glued up and waiting until I clean out my garage again so I have some work room.

el34on11 · Post by **el34on11** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 8:32 am

I thought I would really enjoy building my own guitar so i started gathering all kinds of tone wood and plans to get myself going but never really got past that point...........Now I have a good supply of raw tonewood to build a couple of guitars but still don't have the nerve to start cutting into it just yet........LOL...I have completed three amps and I'm working on a fourth right now.........Your post has brought the urge to build my own guitar again......This is what I purchased to get my feet wet into the build your own guitar http://cgi.ebay.ca/EDEN-Single-Cut-Guit ... dZViewItem

It was a great price around a hundred dollars to my door ....still waiting should be here on tues or wed...

I'll get my feet wet on this one before I start carving into all that flamed maple I have thats just waiting to be turned into a guitar...

Derrick

fillmore nyc · Post by **fillmore nyc** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:18 pm

Hey, Eargasm. (cool name) I build tons of guitars (well, maybe not TONS, but at least 600 pounds of 'em). One of my last builds was a flame maple top, (scoured from an old barn in Pennsylvania), curly cherry back creation that roughly resembled a Kubicki Factor bass body, obviously re-sized for guitar. It had a mahogany neck with a brazilian fingerboard, no fingerboard inlays, 2 WCR Fillmore (of course) humbuckers, and an aluminum wraparound tailpiece. It really sounded amazing. I refer to this guitar in the past tense because I gave it to a close friend of mine , who is a monster killa player, but unfortunatly found out he is terminally ill. I still never sell them anyway. I dont build them because I have to, only cause I want to, and I would not want my work critiqued by someone waving a fistfull of bills at me, reducing my hearts passion to money. Im currently working on a re-vamp of a Gibson Firebird, which is one of my absolute favorite designs, but is ergonomically "challenged". It should be an interesting project. Ciao for now.

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What about building your own guitars?

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