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Gord K.
December 14th, 2011, 10:38 AM
I haven't been on the TDPRI for awhile but recently completed a project that I wanted to share with this great group. I wasn't sure if this should be in the build thread or the bass thread so moderators please move if necessary.
A teaching colleague and I were talking about guitars and basses several weeks ago and he made a comment about not caring for his "ugly red guitar". I suggested that if he didn't like the body, perhaps he should change it and he asked "Can you do that???"
It started out as a red Squier Affinity P Bass. I bought a two foot chunk of ash and a two foot chunk of mahogany and had a student in the carpentry program at the school where I teach glue up a body blank. I teach a course that uses CNC machines and made him a custom body very close to the original shape. Attached are the before and after pictures.
Two alterations I made were: 1) there is no pickguard so the volume and tone controls are inset into the body by one tenth of an inch, and 2) the input jack is mounted on the edge of the body using one of those football-shaped chrome jack plates.
We still need to do a proper setup on the guitar but the owner is very happy with the end result (and as the builder, I am too!).
Cheers,
Gord
A teaching colleague and I were talking about guitars and basses several weeks ago and he made a comment about not caring for his "ugly red guitar". I suggested that if he didn't like the body, perhaps he should change it and he asked "Can you do that???"
It started out as a red Squier Affinity P Bass. I bought a two foot chunk of ash and a two foot chunk of mahogany and had a student in the carpentry program at the school where I teach glue up a body blank. I teach a course that uses CNC machines and made him a custom body very close to the original shape. Attached are the before and after pictures.
Two alterations I made were: 1) there is no pickguard so the volume and tone controls are inset into the body by one tenth of an inch, and 2) the input jack is mounted on the edge of the body using one of those football-shaped chrome jack plates.
We still need to do a proper setup on the guitar but the owner is very happy with the end result (and as the builder, I am too!).
Cheers,
Gord