The 2013 Guitar Buildery Challenge - Phase 1!
Right. No-one else has done it so I'm doing it; here be the thread for the design phase of the 2013 guitar buildery challenge. Post here your ideas and plans. Request ye the parts ye be missing.
Also please to be stating your intention to do the £100 challenge or the unlimited challenge.
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I'm doing both. Simultaneously and at the same time, together.
Has anyone got a really cheap crappy 5 way switch, a few cans of nitrocellulose black and a left handed tortie scratchplate?
I will begin. My thanks to Fretmeister for his advice on this one. I am planning to make a bass.
4 strings
800mm scale
300mm radius Richlite fretboard with HUGE frets
Injected epoxy inlays
Maple/Walnut/Maple/Walnut/Maple neck
Alder or Poplar body, offset shape - the top will be from some lovely bits of maple I recently acquired with lots of mineral stains and woodworm holes and a bit of flame. Possibly trans green.
Two Stingray style pickups (probably Nordstrand)
5-way Superswitch
Glockenclang 2-band preamp
Hipshot Ultralite tuners
Probably a Hipshot A or D style bridge
Clangy.
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I may well have a suitable switch - I'll have a rummage.Originally Posted by frankus
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If sporky hasn't got one I should. Ill check when I get home
awesome, be sure and blog the rummage
I'll be making:
an MIJ 68 RI Strat from a neck and body provided by Sorbz62. I intend to fit klusons, Jess Loureiro 69s, a Rothwell HLK, A decent trem, refin it in black nitro.
a MIC Squier Affinity fitted with gold hardware (from the Sorbz62 Strat), a neck humbucker and a weird yellow Kent Armstrong pickup that's done the rounds of this fair forum, controls will be master tone, master volume and a varitone.
hurrah the first bidding war
cheers chaps.
I'm gonna be doing a la cab, in natural with some graphics i designed on the back. Any old tuners would be muchos appreciated, cheapo button ones? A tele bridge would also go a long way
let the challenge commence!
I'll be doing the £100 challenge. Looking forward to it, as I haven't built anything in a while.
I don't have a tele yet, so my plan is to do something related to that. The problem is that I really want a Gretsch. So my rough outline so far is:
Telecaster body shape
Rosewood Neck
Neck Humbucker
Possible a tele bridge pickup
Archtop Bridge
Tailpiece
Tele controls
Or I might just do a standard tele.
I have no components apart from a squier strat wiring loom and pickups that's done the rounds which can be considered up for swapsies or whatever. The most important thing is to get a body sorted. Does anyone know the prospects of gluing up a blank from bits of pine from wickes? Sizes etc., or any other suggestions along that front? Also, would the archtop bridge be too high on a flat-top tele body?
A couple of years of hanging in the long grass, enjoying the build threads hugely, have done for me.
I'm in for the unlimited category - i.e. may not get finished in 2013
But I have started, ordering one of Warmoth's chambered, sculpted, not for real-men, Tele bodies.
tele_hollow_top3.jpg
Other parts in mind for the 'caster include a "superwide" neck, and a CC neck pick up.
There I go telling you my age
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