Quest for sound
I build instruments as a hobby. Here are some of the things I've built over the years as well as what I'm working ATM.
Albert
I found this white plywood, Japanese V body in a shop in glendale AZ along with a Teisco neck and body. I traded the Teisco parts to Subway guitars in Berkley CA for the neck, tuners and the neck pickup which is no longer there... This was before I started doing my own thing and was put together by Pete at Guitarorama in Oakland in 97 tuned BEADGB.
I have since modded it with a Gretsch neck pickup and I re-wired it to that of a normal V control layout.
I have since modded it with a Gretsch neck pickup and I re-wired it to that of a normal V control layout.
The P-bird
Mahogany Body, cherry and padauk neck, rosewood fretboard, Seymour duncan pickup.
P-Bird 8 String
Myrtle body, padauk top and neck, ebony fretboard, Dimarzio model one neck and ibanez P pickup, tuned BEAD and the bass strings are flats and the octaves are rounds.
The Queen Bee
Mahogany and oak body, padauk neck with ebony fretboard, Seymour duncan pickups. The idea was to make a tele with a 3/4 size body.
The Butter Bass
Alder body with koa pickguard, maple neck, rosewood fretboard, Dimarzio model one pickup.
Baritone
Mahohany and maple back, koa top, maple neck, rosewood fretboard, godin pickups.
Green V
Alder body, maple neck, gibson pickup.
Frick'n pan
Pine body, ash top and back, brass pickguard, maple neck, koa fingerboard, godin pickup.
Warptone bass
Ash body, maple neck, rosewood fretboard, Ibanez pickup.
EUB 1
Padauk body and neck maple fingerboard, rosewood taolpiece.
Wee-Eub
1/4 sized EUB.
Padauk and maple made in about a day... I needed a travelbass
Padauk and maple made in about a day... I needed a travelbass
Thang mark 2
Jackon Stealth guitar body, Hohner bass neck with replaced ebony fingerboard, Jackson and godin pickups.
Hondo-doh-Bro
Lawsuit hondo with a broken trussrod and in need of a neck set turn into a slide guitar. One day I plan on grafting a Uke neck to it...
The Ergo-gear
This a frankenstein of a Ibanez Ergodyne
and a Soundgear bass with Bartolini pickups.
and a Soundgear bass with Bartolini pickups.
ESP-ender
89 fender MIJ body, 84 ESP neck, Dimarzio ultra jazz pickups.
The Thang
It started it's life as this a Ibanez Roadstar 2 guitar
Then someone sold the body to Trading Musician... then I bought it.... filled in the trem hole and put a tele neck on it and some type of paf pickup... then I cut the horns, finished filling the trem rout with epoxy... chiseled the neck pocket for a bass neck.. The bass neck stated as a hohner neck that had a split fretboard that I found in a shop and i replaced the finger board [don't do this it is not fun] and was put on the first bass I built which was shaped like a rick 325 then removed do to it being tweaky... then I used it with a board for a body added piccolo bass strings and made a buzz bridge... finally we go back to where I chiseled the neck pocket for that neck, added two more tuners and strung it up in all kinds of ways... at this point it had a Jackson humbucker and a shitty EBO type of pickups... I then got sick again of the shitty neck and added the neck in the picture which is a cheap e-bay thingy... and then added the Teisco pickup. ATM it is in a box and is waiting for me to put a one-piece hondo P neck on it...
Then someone sold the body to Trading Musician... then I bought it.... filled in the trem hole and put a tele neck on it and some type of paf pickup... then I cut the horns, finished filling the trem rout with epoxy... chiseled the neck pocket for a bass neck.. The bass neck stated as a hohner neck that had a split fretboard that I found in a shop and i replaced the finger board [don't do this it is not fun] and was put on the first bass I built which was shaped like a rick 325 then removed do to it being tweaky... then I used it with a board for a body added piccolo bass strings and made a buzz bridge... finally we go back to where I chiseled the neck pocket for that neck, added two more tuners and strung it up in all kinds of ways... at this point it had a Jackson humbucker and a shitty EBO type of pickups... I then got sick again of the shitty neck and added the neck in the picture which is a cheap e-bay thingy... and then added the Teisco pickup. ATM it is in a box and is waiting for me to put a one-piece hondo P neck on it...
Ugly Blue Punk bass
made from spare parts in about 45 min...
Soprano Flamenco Guitar
My very first acoustic build, also I designed it myself, the funniest thing is that this came out of researching building a ABG
Clips when strings and top settle.
Scale is about 13"
Spruce top and back
Cedar fan bracing on top
Spruce modified ladder bracing on back, this was my idea.
Cedar fan bracing on top
Maple sides
Black limba neck, back strip and tail graft
Pau Ferro fretboard
Maple headplate
Spruce linings [I don't like the idea of kerfing].
Water buffalo horn nut
Rosewood bridge
Clips when strings and top settle.
Scale is about 13"
Spruce top and back
Cedar fan bracing on top
Spruce modified ladder bracing on back, this was my idea.
Cedar fan bracing on top
Maple sides
Black limba neck, back strip and tail graft
Pau Ferro fretboard
Maple headplate
Spruce linings [I don't like the idea of kerfing].
Water buffalo horn nut
Rosewood bridge
