nice one tony!! I dont normally talk prices publicly - not sure why i felt the need to then.
I am not ashamed of the wrecks at all, i learned how to build guitars by building guitars - i tend to do stuff i havnt done before on personal builds, some get finished, some dont. Sometimes i wing it along the way, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt... all in the name of experimentation!! all that means i have the skills i need when someone asks for crazy shite!!
so i will show a couple!!!
this one looks good from the front:
gives me nightmares from the back
I tried to redesign an all access neck join - it didnt work, after trying to save it and shape it into something different i ended up with what you see above. It plays and sounds great but i wouldnt let it go looking like that so it makes a nice guitar for me to test out new wiring ideas or pickups
This one was a proper nightmare, one of my early ones. my second bass in fact. Very happy with the design, some pickuo indecision had left the routes oversized but that was all going to be scratchplated so no bother. It has messy cavities like a lot of my early guitars. and all was going well untill it came to finishing:
looks good but went horrible so had to be stripped, so we tried clear:
Blue:
then we decided to burn it with a blow torch and dye it green.. can you tell we were getting fed up!!
after that it got abandoned untill i wanted to try gold leafing - which is harder than it looks ;)
and then i brought some dirt cheap headless hardware to try so guess what became the doner
What did i learn from all that??
*I have a bass design i like and want to revive at some point.
* check the air line for contamination when spraying. that was one for nath- took us four finishes to realise what was going wrong but at least it was all on this practice build
* dont buy cheap headless hardware
*I can actually gold leaf quite well now even though i havnt got around to using that skill on a guitar
