Brooks
September 3, 2016, 7:59pm
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Making a new guitar, progress to be recorded up in here. Been wanting a pure neck pickup machine
Is a take on the late '50s Fender Musicmaster
with a bunch of tweaks and personal firsts I’m curious about:
A sort of bastard ‘short scale’ baritone, 19 frets only
Solid sitka spruce bod, good weight to stiffness ratio
Rock maple neck, 3-part laminate; sunk bolt-on, contoured as severley as it can be
Zexcoil noisless at the neck
Dual action truss
Roller nut and bridge, Sperzel lock tuners
Whole thing in dirty white, including the neck and board
Scheme:
Yeeup
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I’ve got a '60s Fender Musicmaster. It’s what I learned to play on.
Brooks
September 4, 2016, 5:52pm
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Aight lesgeddit fam
This a two piece slab of sitka spruce
This is a slab of spruce with a template slapped on it
Weighs about 8lb, will be rather less after all the chopping and sanding which begins
Now
Those edges need to be flat before any radiusing
We can do better than that really but not today
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Is all the hardware black like the picture? Anyway keep going, I wanna see/hear short scale baritone.
Brooks
September 9, 2016, 6:16pm
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It will be
All my other axes have gold, thought I’d try another look
Brooks
September 11, 2016, 6:25pm
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“Speed” hah
Mild progress - radius routing done, first bits of contouring work:
Body cleared for time being, next is neck
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are you just eyeballing and sanding the contour or do you have some stencil and weird saw deal
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Brooks
September 12, 2016, 6:40pm
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The radiusing was done with a powered half-inch router bit but the contouring (just adapting the Strat’s ones) is freehand. Won’t conclude that section 'til the neck’s done and on and I have a clearer idea of where it’s going to most irritatingly knock into mine own corpse
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eska
September 13, 2016, 7:50pm
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omg this is so cool. I’m interested
Brooks
October 3, 2016, 9:19pm
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So yeah, a plank of rock/hard/sugar maple
Sliced twice, centre flipped and reglued for extra stiffness
So stiff right now
Hastily pasted template, only the outline is actually crucial
Should’ve rejointed the board prior but fuck it
Post-bandsaw
And now I better sand the thing but oh shit son
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Get yer fukken AR-15s boys
Brooks
October 16, 2016, 11:08pm
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Gettin jiggy widdit
A strong rod
(Rod shimmed in, no shot)
Fretboard glued and clamped
Better actually buy some fretwire now
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Brooks
February 12, 2017, 10:30pm
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My pace is ace
Fretboard radiusing
Holes in the head
Chopping out a pocket for the heel
Adequate bolting for time being
Proxxon > Dremel, believe in Germany
Clamp the lot, tidy the ends a bit
All together now
Action’s crazy high, will see to that
Pickup shit next
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Victor
February 12, 2017, 11:40pm
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Cool man, that’s a nice looking fingerboard. You still going to paint it?
I like the student offsets more and more as time goes on.
Brooks
February 13, 2017, 12:59am
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Aye it’s all going dirty porcelain, never been one for the whole beauty of grain thing
jodeaux
February 14, 2017, 10:53pm
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Looks a bit like a Jagstang, I dig it! Good job!
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Brooks
March 25, 2017, 12:26pm
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Bit of tweaking happened but deciding on pickup placement is being difficult
Bass side forward = low string is girthier, high string treblier
Treble side forward = more balanced
Cannot fucking decide which I actually like more and is stalling the entire project and I’ve been here for like two weeks now guh
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singing solos or meaty drop-tune power chords
the eternal struggle
