Started at the beginning of lockdown and got carried away lol. For the first three builds I used already made necks. I've gone back to my first couple of builds and modified them too. thinned the neck, added a piece to the headstock and added carves on the 1st, made a new neck on the 2nd.
1st up is spalted beech top, some sort of mahongany back, bought maple neck with ebony board
2nd is all spalted beech body with maple and brazillian mahogany neck and ebony board. Hosco glow in the dark sode dots, abalone fret markers
3rd is an elm burl with oak back, bought maple neck that I refretted with evo gold
4th is walnut top with I think miranti back. 1st neck reusing a board I took of an old neck, mahogany and maple neck
5th is more walnut with beech back, beech and mahogany neck and rosewood board from guitar making
6th is spalted sycamore top with brazillian mahogany back, maple and mahogany neck with another board from guitar making. This was my first go at doing fret markers and I made a total boob, luckily got it tidied a fair bit thanks to some spare rosewood and plug cutters lol.
7th I thought I'd try something different for the GGBO thing but it's not great, neck sticks to far out and I have no doubt it'll be a proper diver on a strap. Spalted sycamore top, brazillian mahogany back, ash neck and again another rosewood board from guitar making
Evo gold frets, abalone fret markers and side dots. Markers sit perfect between the E and A strings with double at the 12th and 24th
Now 8 is spectacular, total gem of a guitar and where my build game really changed. Spalted sycamore top, African sapele back, ash neck with another guitar making rosewood board. This time I basically got everything spot on. The feel and fit and finish shows a real progress. Love this one and might be sticking a gotoh trem on it at some point just to take it to that perfect place lol
Evo gold frets, abalone fret markers and side dots same as no 7
With 9 I thought lets build a neck through and add a gotoh floyd to make it extra fun! Body and neck all black limba, ebony board.
I did in fact get confused and rout the floyd in the wrong place but like a trooper I fixed my stupidity and carried on, now it's a really nice guitar. All gotoh hardware, cts pots etc.
Number 10 is a comission from a friend, black limba body, AAA birdseye maple neck, ebony board with hosco glow in the dark fretmarkers and side dots. Gotoh trem and tuners, cts pots etc
And finally number 11, I had an original schaller floydrose from where they made the units for floydrose and the tuners so built a new guitar to acomodate them. Brazillian mahogany body, maple neck and ebony bopard.
Any other info you'd like just ask. I have a youtube channel too, NSJGuitars, started it for the GGBO and went from there. So anyone can see my mistakes, fixes etc and follow my journey.
Started a neck through all brazillian mahogany build again with gotoh floyd and tuners hee hee
Cheers
@robin Feel good wood for some, I have a local friend too that's had a pile of the brazillian mahogany and sapele around his workshop for years, long before all the cites stuff came along. For spalted stuff there's a guy with a big yard full of wood over by Perth. The maple is old floor boards, found a guy that has about 200 square metres so bought some of that. Came over after the 2nd world war. Great stuff.
Ebony boards are B grade from a guy called dog leg steve on FB, lively boards with a few worm holes or that, so easy to fix with superglue and saw dust.
Hi Neil,
I've just had a wee look at your YouTube videos. You've been very productive since you started during lockdown. You've got a definite knack for this guitar building malarkey.......and the videos are very entertaining too.
🙏🎸🎶🙂
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I read the opening line ... "started during lockdown and got carried away" .... saw the first guitar, and the second, scrolled down for the third, scrolled further for the fourth, and fifth, and had to keep on scrolling!
That's less "got carried away" and more "decided to start my own guitar-making business" !!
Those all look really good. I'll take a look at the YT channel later too.
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@tv101 haha I was really lucky with wood and a good friend with decent tools, routers, saws etc. He's been great.
But yeh, I just love it, most of it has been learning, perfecting techniques etc. Only done my first floyd and neck through this year and I'm still working on better fretwork.
