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Blazer
May 19th, 2012, 12:03 PM
Well over the years I made plenty of SG-style guitars with my inspiration showing no signs of stopping me building more. I have made two new bodies using the Mahogany I had left from my previous builds which included one which wasn't wide enough to make an SG from so I added a strip of walnut in the middle.
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/les%20paul%20bouw/100_1747.jpg
As some of you who followed my building threads can recall, I tried unsuccessfully to build a 12 string SG with which I got the neck-body angle wrong making it impossible to put a bridge in the right place.
I have since salvaged the neck of that project and reshaped the headstock so I can make it into a normal six string neck. The neck itself is made from several left over pieces of maple with a birds eye maple fingerboard with a Gibson scale length and 24 frets.
So this is what I had in mind.
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/les%20paul%20bouw/SGIdea1.jpg
And here's what I have so far.
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/les%20paul%20bouw/100_1775.jpg
The idea comes from guitars like the Hamer Prototype, the Musicman Y2D Steve Morse model and the Ibanez Power series.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/4376759449_42722e1fa6.jpg
http://www.hamerfanclub.com/images/cherrybig.jpg
As it stands I'm planning to marry that single coil pickup with an old Ibanez Super 70 humbucker in a pickguard and a swimming pool rout (that way I can always change the pickup configuration if I want to), the big toggle switch is for changing pickups and the little one will either be a phase switch or a coil tap, I haven't made up my mind yet.
The tuners the neck currently has are Steinberger gearless which I love for the look but I'm not sure that I'll end up using those, since they're quite finicky.
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/les%20paul%20bouw/100_1747.jpg
As some of you who followed my building threads can recall, I tried unsuccessfully to build a 12 string SG with which I got the neck-body angle wrong making it impossible to put a bridge in the right place.
I have since salvaged the neck of that project and reshaped the headstock so I can make it into a normal six string neck. The neck itself is made from several left over pieces of maple with a birds eye maple fingerboard with a Gibson scale length and 24 frets.
So this is what I had in mind.
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/les%20paul%20bouw/SGIdea1.jpg
And here's what I have so far.
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/les%20paul%20bouw/100_1775.jpg
The idea comes from guitars like the Hamer Prototype, the Musicman Y2D Steve Morse model and the Ibanez Power series.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/4376759449_42722e1fa6.jpg
http://www.hamerfanclub.com/images/cherrybig.jpg
As it stands I'm planning to marry that single coil pickup with an old Ibanez Super 70 humbucker in a pickguard and a swimming pool rout (that way I can always change the pickup configuration if I want to), the big toggle switch is for changing pickups and the little one will either be a phase switch or a coil tap, I haven't made up my mind yet.
The tuners the neck currently has are Steinberger gearless which I love for the look but I'm not sure that I'll end up using those, since they're quite finicky.