You gotta love an F hole!!! Walnut Bound Wenge Fretboard. Gold Vintage Frets. Really tacking shape now.
You gotta love an F hole!!! Walnut Bound Wenge Fretboard. Gold Vintage Frets. Really tacking shape now.
Catching up on some details. The Wenge Fretboard. Going to use small, gold, vintage frets. Slotted and ready to glue onto the neck. The Neck with Truss rod in situ. Ready for glueing.
So, this is how we do pinstriping. The end result you can see in the featured pic. Basically, after routing the American Walnut Body, we glue on the strips of the contrasting maple. After Trimming, we then glue on the […]
Rough cut out Neck and American Walnut Wings Done. Check the Pin striping in the Neck block!! We got 2 necks out of each laminated block. So there will be 4 Projects here ultimately.
Did someone say “we need more clamps”. Neck slabs Glued with black and white veneer between to create pinstripes. So, the slabs are slab sawn and after glueing and camping will be cut to create two quarter sawn laminated necks. […]
Being a huge Rickenbacker fan, it was only a matter of time. Thanks to Dave (Bad Guitars) for taking this on and sharing all the pics and details. So, the plan is the this will be a “One-of-a-KInd” Custom Rickenbacker […]
That Headstock….Hmm. Machine heads on. Kluson Locking Tuners Work a treat and fit the Ric Headstock Perfectly. They work beautifully, silky smooth and look perfect.
It’s been awhile, but we now have the Pickups TV Jone T Armond Set mounted. A wiring harness from eBay mounted on the Gold Pickguards and Cooker knobs. The only problem is Rickenbackers are not hooked up like Gibson. So back to […]
Well, I have to say, “a stratocaster is a heck of a lot easier than a rickenbacker!!” All wired up with Emerson Custom Prewire Kit for Stratocaster and Sliders SRV ’59 pickup set. This is an early Emerson Custom Prewire with the […]
So here is a really really hard worked Fender Stratocaster from 1979 for a rebuild project. Actually, its just a Body with loads of checking and dings. A neck. A Pickguard and a Neckplate. Overall, it is in really bad […]