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J.F. Custom wrote: Hi All, Mods - I originally posted this in the Gallery section, however thought I'd post it here too as I'm interested to see what other minds think on this subject. I just decided to check out Mr 'Jim' Olsens web page for some inspiration. First time I've seen his work and there...

cheers Ben

liked it so much ...making another one!

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cheers Jim

...originally i was going to do a red over the top of the black to get a red-tiger finish

...but ...

...i watched the Third Man towards the end of the build and i went all NOIR


...name's Michael btw not tht it matters tht much

Daintree wrote:

Very nice...I love a good quilt.
I bet the Neck is as smooth as it looks too!

Doug.

cheers Doug

the neck is super smooth and unlike most other types of rosewood ...the blackwood has no pores at all

guitarcam wrote: Looks good! Is there a reason why the neck humbucker is a zebra and not the bridge? no reason i am just using wht ever is in my spares box i actually had the look of nickel covers inside blackwood rings in mind but i would have to dismantle a guitar or so to get those parts heh

sebastiaan56 wrote:

That looks sweet! How many different tints did you end up using?

well...

...here is a softball opportunity (like an underarm long hop delivery) for me to hit a six and say all types of mysterious things ...

...but


...just the ONE

Lillian wrote:

Wow! I'd love to see that in person. Don't think that pictures do it justice.

cheers Lillian

...well...

in person ...you will surely see the lap marks all over the body from wiping on the poly with a little cloth pad

cheers Nick it is american quilted maple and naturally it is not dark at all ... here is a build pic of it prior to stain img~ i did stain and sanded a few times to accentuate even more radically the contrast neck wood is African Blackwood ...THE black dalbergia ! no truss rod .. no finish ...just p...

cheers fellas

this top exhibits a deep jewel effect of differing shades of hadish-black in the sunlight..

not sure how i did it heh

here is a pic of it hanging out in the sunlight while drying

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cheers

top is quilted maple with african ebony strip

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scale length 625 mm...weight 8lbs 6 ozs...no chambering/weight relief/etc

super classy guitar Jeremy!

espc the flamey gidgee and the way you pieced the top together....much artistry there

India is really just a stones through from us. I liken it to us buying Tassy Blackwood from a vendor in the USA. ...i can name one other country that is even closer and a literal stone's throw away ...with 'indian rosewood' :) but what you have done here Allen is wht i thought would have been more ...

thanks for tht Kim i did take precautions by wearing long sleeved pullovers when working the coco ...as well as to keep warm heh i also tried to minimise sanding ...espc in thicknessing ...by deploying the safety planer a lot (i really like tht lil gadget!) as for truoil or anything else...i dunno i...

thanks hesh! my 1st name is Michael if worse comes to worse ....and things prove irrevocably beyond salvage ...i make a new neck ....and bolt it on but i dunt expect it to be so ...well at least not for a few years ...heh and yes...the cocobolo was sanded to 1200 cos tht the highest grit bunnings go...

cheers Martin i was thinking about cf rods for a while but thought ...nah...heh in the name of simplicity and directness :D yeah...i ...too would be interested in the durability of the neck under constant string tension (max gauge 10's) over many years this and the other 2 necks i made this way is p...

several reasons for why i am doing no truss rod necks 1. weight (metal is much heavier than wood) and when using already heavy exotic woods it CAN be a problem the neck on this guitar actually weighs LESS than a maple neck i have which has a truss rod 2. redundant - i am choosing the strongest and m...

thanks nick! neck is straight and has not deviated from the straight under 9's at the moment ..will go to 10's when i break the strings heh already made 2 other necks (using kingwood and tulipwood) without truss rod and for a few months already they also show no deviation from the straight under 10'...

hi folks just finished a recent homebrew electric while the weather had a good spell over here in the west (it has been raining on and off over the last few months) i call it the "Zero-T" flat fretboard surface radius no external finish anywhere on guitar no truss rod in guitar neck noiseless pickup...

aah...better late than never

Happy BDay Bob!!

Here it is with a earlier iteration of the shape in a full size electric guitar for size comparison. The proportions on the full size are certainly more what our eyes are used to seeing. This bass is built as a compact instrument, but the neck still needs to be big enough for strings and fingers. h...

hmmn

i do like the tulip body shape but perhaps a bit larger in future cos proportionally a lil too small with the neck the size tht it is

interesting bass

hey all am now contemplating a semi-hollow (or even full hollow) tele type body(please dont hold this against me :D ) and am wondering about the thickness of top and back (and dimensions of guitar bracing if required) e.g. atm i am thinking about routing out a poplar body (around 48mm thick) i have ...

Craig Clancy wrote:What do you mean those braces aren't straight.
I've got a theory that says they are!
It's the rest of you that are wobbly, especially after all those vodkas (and you've got to watch them limes)

...it is not the spoon that bends...Neo

...it is yourself

No implications for guitarmaking could as yet be made . Perhaps the observed correlation is not even important for making resonant boards of real guitars . Only future experiments can help us understand the interplay between the cutting process and the acoustic properties of the resultant resonant ...