Members Mav64 Posted March 2, 2011 Members Share Posted March 2, 2011 I'm confused. I thought punks were supposed to BREAK stuff, not MAKE stuff! But damn nice work. I'm jealous of all you handy sorts. I can't build {censored} and certainly could NEVER imagine myself building a guitar. I'm feeling less then manly now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members notjonahbutnoah Posted March 2, 2011 Author Members Share Posted March 2, 2011 I'm confused. I thought punks were supposed to BREAK stuff, not MAKE stuff! But damn nice work. I'm jealous of all you handy sorts. I can't build {censored} and certainly could NEVER imagine myself building a guitar. I'm feeling less then manly now... Hey, I'm painting and screwing things together. Only slightly more advanced than a pinewood derby car. All the hardest work is done. I couldn't carve a body, or fret a neck. The stuff I'm doing is not that hard at all. Soldering is annoying, but doable. I'm jealous of the ones who start a thread with some pics of a wood block and finish with some fancy, bound, set-neck, exotic beauty. That's where the talent is. {censored}'s tough, you gotta have lots of time and tools for that. Mine is a very elementary project. Don't fret, you're probably more capable than you think. I would enjoy smashing a guitar, but it would feel so wrong. It'd have to be a fake Gibson or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BlackCat Posted March 2, 2011 Members Share Posted March 2, 2011 Nice neck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members notjonahbutnoah Posted March 3, 2011 Author Members Share Posted March 3, 2011 Nice neck! I know, it's such a great neck. Worth the price of admission alone. I put the tuners on it just now, I didn't know, but they're the sweet, old school Kluson type tuners. They've got a got some weight and a good bit of resistance to them, they feel very high quality. I'm getting more and more psyched every day. It's gonna be sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AzCat Posted March 3, 2011 Members Share Posted March 3, 2011 I know, it's such a great neck. Worth the price of admission alone. Heh, that's true. A bit more than true actualy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members notjonahbutnoah Posted March 10, 2011 Author Members Share Posted March 10, 2011 It's a string and a string tree away from complete. Wired it up last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Engl Kramer Posted March 10, 2011 Members Share Posted March 10, 2011 That is {censored}ing cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members FoonkySteve Posted March 10, 2011 Members Share Posted March 10, 2011 Looking great! Im impressed with your quick progress too! Gettin the {censored} done! That's a great body too, the grain is poyfikt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members notjonahbutnoah Posted March 10, 2011 Author Members Share Posted March 10, 2011 Looking great! Im impressed with your quick progress too! Gettin the {censored} done!That's a great body too, the grain is poyfikt! Yeah, I bought that soldering iron Tuesday. I couldn't give up that fast. It's about 50,000 times easier doing it form scratch. I even had to run a fresh ground wire, but as you can see from the construction of the bridge, that's easy-peasy. I also adore the body grain. VERY thin finish so I can still feel it. Delicious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members -TJ- Posted March 10, 2011 Members Share Posted March 10, 2011 very cool, love the neck and the finish on the body Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Belva Posted March 10, 2011 Members Share Posted March 10, 2011 Almost enough to make me wanna fap! Very purdy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members notjonahbutnoah Posted March 10, 2011 Author Members Share Posted March 10, 2011 Almost enough to make me wanna fap! Very purdy. Yeah, it's definitely borderline fapworthy, imo. Of course with a name like yours, how could you not like it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ExiledCrow Posted March 10, 2011 Members Share Posted March 10, 2011 Dude .... just stunning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted March 10, 2011 Moderators Share Posted March 10, 2011 Weeeeeeeeee, great lookin build, that neck reminds me very much of the HCEG Thinline build for Justin (aka Warriorpoet) I finished the neck with my own blend of oils and wax from a local apiarist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members photon9 Posted March 10, 2011 Members Share Posted March 10, 2011 That's very nice! Good work and parts selection! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members notjonahbutnoah Posted March 10, 2011 Author Members Share Posted March 10, 2011 That's very nice! Good work and parts selection! Heh, thanks. I only chose the pickups and neck pickup ring. The rest was the remains of a project from member AzCat. They all fit together very nicely though! Oh, and I chose the color... or lack thereof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AzCat Posted March 11, 2011 Members Share Posted March 11, 2011 It's a string and a string tree away from complete. Wired it up last night. Nice! So how does it play after sitting in a box upstairs here all that time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members notjonahbutnoah Posted March 19, 2011 Author Members Share Posted March 19, 2011 Welp, it's done. Thing is, I seem to have lost my camera. I've searched high and low for it, but just can't find it. I took some phone pics (Motorola Droid) in the sunlight this morning, they're not terrible, but they could be so much better. Also, you may need to tilt the ole' monitor back to see the grain pattern, cuz it's real purty-like. If I find my camera, I'll probably just do an NGD thread, but until then, tese are the best pics I have. Also, it plays and sounds fantastic. Good weight, great neck profile, I love it. Nice! So how does it play after sitting in a box upstairs here all that time? Wow, somehow I didn't notice this post. It actually plays really well. WHen I first got everything screwed on, the only sets of strings I had were a light top/heavy bottom hybrid set (9-46), it didn't like those so well. The frets were a little buzzy here and there. So, I took the neck off, loosened the truss that last little bit, and then strung it back up with 11's. NOW it plays, and sounds, really awesome. However, I may still change the pickups. See, the holes in the little tabs on the Epi humbuckers are a littler bigger than SD sized ones, and the screws really didn't wanna fit through the holes in the bridge plate or neck ring. I don't really have access to a drill or anything, so I was able to jam them through the bridge, but not the neck ring. So, I just used another pickup ring and my Phat Cat instead of the matching Epi 'bucker in the neck. The screws in the bridge are in there so tightly that I cannot raise the pickup any further, which might be a problem since I'd like to get the output up where my LP is so I can gig with it or use it as a back up. I've got a Custom Custom in my Epiphone LP though, and might do a little swappy. Might also steal the SD Jazz that's in that guitar, which will allow me to use the neck pickup ring that you sent and have the pickups match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Weiner_Bomb Posted March 19, 2011 Members Share Posted March 19, 2011 Turned out great. I like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members notjonahbutnoah Posted March 19, 2011 Author Members Share Posted March 19, 2011 Turned out great. I like it Why thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ajcoholic Posted March 19, 2011 Members Share Posted March 19, 2011 Boosh. Look at that thing! Yes thats pretty. Like the curly skunk stripe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrbrown49 Posted March 19, 2011 Members Share Posted March 19, 2011 Nice work! She looks great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members unworthy Posted March 19, 2011 Members Share Posted March 19, 2011 Looks great! I LOVE that neck! Good job, D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members notjonahbutnoah Posted March 20, 2011 Author Members Share Posted March 20, 2011 Looks great! I LOVE that neck!Good job,D Thanks you guys, just spent a couple hours playing it. It's really a great player. AzCat hooked me up like a champ with this one. I think deep down, I like my Les Paul more, but this this is so lovely. Even with the scale difference, it just feels so right. The neck profile in tandem with the use of 11s makes it absolutely killer to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chqtarzan Posted March 20, 2011 Members Share Posted March 20, 2011 need clips good job, congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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