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March 13th, 2012, 05:01 PM
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jimdkc's 2012 Former Build Thread
I hereby announce my intention to participate in this glorious event!
I have a couple ideas rattling around in my noggin! One for the source of my body wood... And another for a pretty unique technical feature I intend to include.... Good luck everybody! Jim Last edited by TDPRI; May 15th, 2012 at 04:28 PM. |
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March 13th, 2012, 05:20 PM
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Good to see ya' in this year, good luck
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March 14th, 2012, 10:33 AM
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Best of luck! Can't wait to see what's causing the rattling in your noggin...
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March 16th, 2012, 02:12 PM
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Should be getting my body wood tomorrow. In honor of Tuuur (hey... where is he anyway???) I'll be using my mom's old cherry-wood tea cart. My mom (who passed away about 3 years ago) gave the tea cart to my wife. We didn't really have anyplace to use it, so it's been disassembled and stored in my step-father's garage. I asked my wife if I could make a guitar out of it. Mom loved music, so I think it will be a fitting tribute.
I've ordered some Rosewood for a fretboard, and I'm scoping out Maple for the neck. More to come... |
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March 16th, 2012, 04:27 PM
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That sounds like a great tribute. Looking forward to this...
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March 18th, 2012, 03:53 PM
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Here's Mom's old teacart. It originally had a transparent reddish-tinted finish. When I was in high school (early 1970's) Mom had painted it with avocado green enamel to go in our kitchen. It did many years service as her microwave oven stand.
It used to have casters, and it has 2 drop-leaf side pieces so it could be used as a round table. The handle (stuck on with double-sided tape for these pics) was hinged and would drop down out of the way when used as a table. As I mentioned earlier, Mom had given it to my wife and they had stripped the finish in preparation for a re-finish job that never occurred. The top and 2 shelves are roughly 3/4" thick, so I can laminate those and they'll be plenty thick for a body. The top and shelves are all made of strips ranging from 2" to 3-1/2" wide. The top is roughly 30" x 18" and the shelves are roughly 26" x 16" -- plenty of space to cut out a tele body shape. I'm planning on probably staining it red and applying a Tru-Oil finish. I will be using black hardware. Probably no pickguard, rear route with no front control panel. Black Tele-style tone and volume knobs and a Gibson-style pickup toggle switch. Black hardtail bridge. Black locking tuners.    
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March 19th, 2012, 10:45 AM
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March 20th, 2012, 01:12 PM
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It's hard to decide what pickups to use...
Maybe a nice twangy Tele set? Or maybe a hot wound humbucker set for rocking out? Or how about some nice P90's for classic rock? So hard to decide! |
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March 20th, 2012, 01:20 PM
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I like your concept a lot. Maybe you should have a pickguard that could be used as a coaster for a cup of tea? |
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March 22nd, 2012, 01:51 PM
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March 22nd, 2012, 01:53 PM
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 ooooohhhhhhh
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