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DaveAronow · February 20, 2010

I love HCEG like the next guy, but the whole reason I ever even stumbled on this place was surfing build and mod sites. I saw some great work posted here and have never left.

There are TONS of great luthiers here, as well as talented DIY'ers, modders, tinkerers, etc. I Know the Site has a DIY forum, but It would be cool and convienient to consolidate all of our(people from other forums welcome too) building and modding efforts and results right here in one thread for easy access any time we want.

If you have something to share, something you built, assembled, modified, repaired or any tips or tricks you have offered in any threads in the past, go ahead and post a pic of the finished product, give a little one or two sentence description of what to expect in the thread, and then post the link to your thread right here.

Also feel free to post links to OTHER peoples threads you have seen here that you admire if ,for some reason, you dont see them ending up here. Please let us know about these threads too.

Try to keep the descriptions short and to the point and reference the actual threads for alot of the details or else this thread could get pretty clogged with chatter and I would hope we could keep it pretty streamlined for ease of use.

Thanks to all the awesome people that have contributed and shared their experience and knowlege dealing with all things guitar building/modding/repair, and thanks in advance for your contributions to this thread.

Really, ANYTHING that has to do with guitars is fair game.

Amp builders, pedal modders, guitar stand makers, pic makers, anything you got, photography/photoshop tips, please feel free to share it here.

Thanks. I cant wait to see the pages filling up with all of Y'alls great achievements.

Elias Graves · February 20, 2010

Awesome idea. I only have one, but here it is.

A variation on the "polishing a turd" theme. A rebuild/refinish of an Epi SG Special II cheapie with nice paintwork.

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=2282594

EG

DaveAronow · February 20, 2010

Awesome idea. I only have one, but here it is.

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=2282594

EG

Awesome.

Could you put a little description before the link so people can decide if they want to open it, and maybe a finished pic too?

Thanks very much for contributing.

jelloman · February 20, 2010

sticky?

Elias Graves · February 20, 2010

Awesome.

Could you put a little description before the link so people can decide if they want to open it, and maybe a finished pic too?

Thanks very much for contributing.

Good idea.

EG

mfergel · February 20, 2010

Here's mine. I have a few updates to add and should be getting my tax refund next weekend so I can order some parts to finish it one of them off.

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=2480555

Bob411 · February 20, 2010

Here is my first build. Built last summer, before I knew about this place. Very crude, a good thread for someone without half the right tools to build a guitar properly, to read. We call it The John Deere From Hell.

http://bahrr.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=projects&action=display&thread=9980&page=1

Bowen · February 20, 2010

Here are some that I've done over the past couple of years:

Mahogany strat build

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=2248398

Les Paul Jr. build

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=2426832

Pointy flying V build (partial)

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?p=38271606

Make a new strat body

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?p=38779161

Wind your own pickups.

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=1282389

Refret with a strat neck with SS fretwire

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?p=38742290

Scallop and refret a strat neck

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=1823084

twofoolsaminute · February 20, 2010

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=2414731

Thread just shows finished product. I did not document the process very well. I did take some pictures but I can't find them.

Johny · February 20, 2010

Refurbishing of a 70's japanese guitar.

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?threadid=1432797

GuitarNoobie · February 20, 2010

cool thread idea Dave here's what i have...

Les Paul Build #2, 1 piece mahogany body, 5A Flamed Maple Cap, Ebony fingerboard... (in progress)

Les Paul Build #2

First Les Paul (practice build with cedar and aspen from Home Depot). used Stewmac tinited Nitro's for the finish work... will be complete 2/27/10...

Les Paul Build #1

Dean VX Water Drop (moonburst) Refinish. Very cool WET LOOK !!!

Water Drop V

Grizzly Samba Firelfy Kit Guitar. Beautiful Purple Quilted top using Re-Ranch water base dyes...

Grizzly Purple Quilt Kit Guitar

Kramer Frankenstrat from a cheap FREEBIE guitar I was given. Hours and hours of taping and painting. plus some aging of parts...

Kramer Frankenstrat

Verne Andru · February 20, 2010

Here's a few of mine:

Supercharging a V8

V33 Mods

The Danedetto Build Project #1

The Danedetto Build Project #2

Q-Tuners are good for NOTHING!

giantbaba · February 20, 2010

Refurbishing of a 70's japanese guitar.

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?threadid=1432797

This is incredible. Fantastic work.

hellion_213 · February 21, 2010

GuitarNoobie: Water Drop V is Stunning!

Here's mine, 1st build, a little rough around the edges:

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"thunderstorm" in my sig.

paulskirocks · February 21, 2010

Good idea... Here is my redwood/Warmoth build thread... http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=2555738

Ferdinandstrat · February 21, 2010

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=2327647

My custom guitar build log.

meandi · February 21, 2010

I'm a fairly versatile guy in the shop.

Here's a neck re-set that I did on a friends old '60 era 12 string gibby.

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2213015

Built a strat style neck for a jackson bass wood body.

My floyd guitar.

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2248481

Goldie hardtail.

My sons main gig ax.

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1502343

Toshiro · February 21, 2010

Xiphos mods

Strat build final

EJD · February 21, 2010

Here's my build. It's in progress right now, but when it's completed I'll update this post, and replace the Kisekae with an actual pic

It's a Surf Green Strat. It will have a master tone and master volume, home-made Lace-style covers, and "blank" knobs

Stratocaster build

lachupakabra361 · February 21, 2010

P-bass re-finish/Mod:

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=2413068

P-bass re-finish/Mod:

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=2462482

Strat for my friend:

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=2556854

meandi · February 21, 2010

cool thread idea Dave

here's what i have...

Les Paul Build #2, 1 piece mahogany body, 5A Flamed Maple Cap, Ebony fingerboard... (in progress)

Les Paul Build #2

First Les Paul (practice build with cedar and aspen from Home Depot). used Stewmac tinited Nitro's for the finish work... will be complete 2/27/10...

Les Paul Build #1

Dean VX Water Drop (moonburst) Refinish. Very cool WET LOOK !!!

Water Drop V

Grizzly Samba Firelfy Kit Guitar. Beautiful Purple Quilted top using Re-Ranch water base dyes...

Grizzly Purple Quilt Kit Guitar

Kramer Frankenstrat from a cheap FREEBIE guitar I was given. Hours and hours of taping and painting. plus some aging of parts...

Kramer Frankenstrat

You're doing some very nice work.

DaveAronow · February 21, 2010

These look awesome, everyone!11 Great work.

GuitarNoobie · February 21, 2010

You're doing some very nice work.

thanks meandi...

that means a lot coming from someone as talented as you

And I'll say it again, great idea for a thread Dave. While my current project is curing I got a lot of READING to do

MahaloVision · February 22, 2010

Build threads are a pain to do. The only build thread I've done is this one:

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=2087229

My project pages have been down for a while, so I don't have a lot of pics. Here's a few.

atrox · February 22, 2010

This is taken from the link in my sig. There have been a few more, but thanks to the lack of a decent search engine, I can't add them

From-Scratch Tele body build

From Scratch Maple neck build

A few different from-scratch things in here, but mainly a purple heart Tele

Another from-scratch "Les Paul'ish" Strat

From Scratch Mahogany/Flame Maple Strat Build

Making a pickguard from scratch

Removing deep scratches

HGEC Giveaway Tele build thread

From Scratch Lap Steel build

Strat Rebuild Part 1

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