The Unofficial Build Challenge Recovery Room

[Muzikp]

Originally Posted by emoney

I gotta finish my 335 with no deadline in sight.

Hmmm!!! I need to start a 335 with no deadline in sight. E I think you should try an inlaid headstock, I bet you would be really good at it .

[Scatter Lee]

I have enough gator hide for a harley fork tool bag, a couple more guitar straps, maybe a 1911 holster or two, few cell phone cases, bic lighter covers and maybe some key chain type things, gotta use it all. working in the air conditioning, it's already 90 degrees and high humidity, dang grass needs mowed too

[Guitar novice]

Congrads to all. Simply amazing guitars.

Finished my upload with about 1/2hr to spare. Totally exhausted.

Next job is to clean all the overspray of my wife's shoes before she notices.

Cheers

[Barncaster]

Originally Posted by Guitar novice

Congrads to all. Simply amazing guitars.

Finished my upload with about 1/2hr to spare. Totally exhausted.

Next job is to clean all the overspray of my wife's shoes before she notices.

Cheers

Is that what you call it?..........

[Guitar novice]

Originally Posted by Barncaster

Is that what you call it?..........

Well I was excited when I finished.

[aikiguy]

Do we ever get a chance to comment on the closed threads again?

I would love to comment on some of my fellow builders, and would love to hear their comments!

Guy
:-)

[Wheelie]

Amongst other things, I'm trying to plan a guitar for next year that's harder to polish the finish on and has more sustain than this years.
Also trying to learn how to play a Tele with my teeth and have it sound like a banjo. That was a neat trick Phil.

Steve

[RogerC]

I already went to woodcraft and purchased some Indian Laurel for fretboard material for a build that I started before the challenge. I'm going to try and implement some ideas that I stole during the competition this year

I've got a chambered alder body with walnut for the top cap. I'll do a mahogany set neck with indian laurel fretboard. Going with a 25" scale and P90s. May try to implement a multi piece neck (mahogany, maple, and walnut) with the same kind of fret markers that nosmo used.

[pulaifaz]

finish what I already started: Spanish Cedar DC Les Paul with P90s

[OpenG Capo4]

Got one commission build I've been slowly working on. 2pc Mahogany with a Walnut center stripe. It'll have a Maple neck. SD '59 Humbucker at the bridge, I'll probably wind the Tele neck pickup myself. Body is about done just needs fine sanding, grain fill, and finish.



Probably gonna do a plain Maple neck with a birdseye fretboard. I got some really nice birdseye in the other day.

Itching to start a new build with some of my new toys I've gotten since the last build:

2" spiral upcut pattern bit
Assorted "bowl and tray carving" bits
1/4" box core (for curved bottom truss rod channels)
2-14hp Bosch router with thru-table height adjustment
New router table for said router
Timberwolf bandsaw blade

Hoping all that and possibly a new place with actual shop space will help the next build go really smoothly.

[Mike Simpson]

My apologies to everyone for not keeping up with their build threads... there were so many at first. What were the starting numbers, something like 103 or 105? Looks like 55 or so completed. It was all I could do to keep up my own without becoming distracted from my own challenge build.

During this build challenge I had an inventory at work and I had a gig most weekends. I know that everyone else had life going on at the same time too.
I plan to take a week or two to catch my breath and clean up the garage... and maybe sleep a little more.... It seems like the farther along I get on a build the messier my garage gets. I need to get back on the Scroll Bass project and start working on a guitar for a friends son, he wants a mahogany body with a maple top and a mahogany neck with a rosewood fretboard. I have future plans for something like an alder sonic blue strat with a cocobolo neck and an alder sherwood greenTele with a birdseye maple neck. Hey... I can dream ahead...

[Mojotron]

I believe my wife and kids set up an intervention for me tonight - I must have slept through it.

I have some ideas that I'm going to start working on, I really want to get veneering down too - I'll take some time off from building for now to get everything cleaned up and finish some things I have put off. I need to sell some guitars too, I need a budget for some builds in the future, that always takes time to get them ready to sell.

For those that finished or did not finish - it was a great challenge guys!!

[kwerk]

Originally Posted by guitarbuilder

I'm looking forward to making stuff.... out of real wooden boards.

Yours were real, they were just very very tiny boards.

Originally Posted by whodatpat

I am not doing anything this weekend because I am out of town. But next weekend I hope to finish the guitar I started after the last challenge.

I want to finish the guitar I'm giving my brother for (last) Christmas.

Originally Posted by Muzikp

Wow Gitlvr, that's awesome you are rockin right on thru. The challenge for sure burnt me out a bit, in fact I was so tired of focusing on my guitar I couldn't even get excited to play it for the video. I think when I snap out of it I'll be like "Hey where did this cool red guitar come from" .

I hear ya. I wasn't exactly brimming with excitement by the time video time came around.

Originally Posted by Guitar novice

Well I was excited when I finished.

Yikes!

Originally Posted by aikiguy

Do we ever get a chance to comment on the closed threads again?

I would love to comment on some of my fellow builders, and would love to hear their comments!

Guy
:-)

Sadly, no. That was kind of why I set up this thread.

[DeepSouth]

As someone who wasn't in the challenge - can I just say how brilliant it was to see everyone's builds and how inspiring it was from where I was sitting. It was just excellent to see the process from so many angles and also to see the ups and downs.

Congratulations to everyone that entered whether they finished or not and thanks to TDPRI for putting on such a great competition.

[kwerk]

Hey, it's not every day you get a song written about ya!

That's bloody funny, Glenn, well done!!



EDIT: thanks Deepsouth, I missed the "-"!

[kwerk]

hmmm. dunno why that won't show up.. here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q9w86Ena4I

[DeepSouth]

Originally Posted by kwerk

hmmm. dunno why that won't show up.. here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q9w86Ena4I

here you go kwerk - fyi you just need to put the last bit ie. -Q9w86Ena4I into the youtube tags.

Cool song btw..

[guitarbuilder]

I just looked at the thread of " finalists", some of those guitars should be in a gallery someplace with paying customers to look at them....

[mmoncur]

Originally Posted by guitarbuilder

I'm looking forward to making stuff.... out of real wooden boards.

I can sympathize with that... even though mine was only made of 64 tiny boards instead of hundreds. :)

[Allthesound]

Yawn (big stretch) Man i collapsed on the couch early last night and slept there all night only to wake up to the sound of Hank Hill being humped by a dolphin on TV. So whats the first thing i do? Get up go to my computer and login to TDPRI and find this thread.

Spooky almost like all those people that were draw to Devils tower in Close Encounters of the third kind.

As much fun as this challenge was i never imagined how exhausting it would be.

Thanks again everyone for making it such a great experience and congrats to all those i didn't get a chance to before your threads closed.

I gotta get me some coffee!