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Peter Antal

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« on: April 26, 2007, 09:59:45 PM »
The parts have finally arrived! :D Cheers to Roger at THG Knobs. :)  






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« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2007, 10:01:34 PM »
That guitar is FIT
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« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2007, 10:03:27 PM »
*DROOLS*
Sweet sweet sweeeeeeeeet

...but why have yu strung it up with no pickups in there?
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« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2007, 10:03:48 PM »
That looks really nice, i love how almost everything is wood, are you gonna try to get some wooden pickup bobbins? i know they're available, although not in the BKP range.

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« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2007, 10:40:11 PM »
classy!

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« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2007, 10:58:22 PM »
Now that looks very nice indeed!
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« Reply #6 on: April 27, 2007, 12:02:43 AM »
Beautiful!!!
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« Reply #7 on: April 27, 2007, 06:45:23 PM »
I make my own wooden knobs quiet often - but that little switch knob has me beat. . . top notch stuff

What the body wood, i like the almost bookmatched grain.

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« Reply #8 on: April 27, 2007, 07:13:48 PM »
Niccceeee. What wood you using there?
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« Reply #9 on: April 27, 2007, 07:35:43 PM »
Your guitars get more facelifts than Burt Reynolds, Peter!  :)

Out of interest, what made you decide on a switch to replace one of the knobs?  And are the Planet Waves tuners a new addition?
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« Reply #10 on: April 27, 2007, 09:07:28 PM »
Sweet - I've got a large block of quartersawn Zebrano stashed for making a few fretboards and maybe some sunk stripes on future guitars. The cool thing about it is it's sort of got a dual personality - on flatsawn pieces, it can have a mostly uniform colour and attractive wavy grain patterns, and on quartersawn pieces like the truss rod and pickup covers it's cream and brown striped (hence the name Zebrano). Gotta love the control knob and switch tip  8)

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« Reply #11 on: April 27, 2007, 10:16:00 PM »
wow, looks gorgeous!

where did you get them???
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« Reply #12 on: April 27, 2007, 10:29:29 PM »
Quote from: Bainzy
Sweet - I've got a large block of quartersawn Zebrano stashed for making a few fretboards and maybe some sunk stripes on future guitars. The cool thing about it is it's sort of got a dual personality - on flatsawn pieces, it can have a mostly uniform colour and attractive wavy grain patterns, and on quartersawn pieces like the truss rod and pickup covers it's cream and brown striped (hence the name Zebrano). Gotta love the control knob and switch tip  8)


Yeah, i love the stuff.  I have made quite a few guitar necks out of it, definately one of my favorites for that (except for when i am carving it - its pretty dense stuff).

It takes an oil & wax finish beautifully - and thats just how i like my necks

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« Reply #13 on: April 27, 2007, 11:42:06 PM »
Thanks for the comments! :)

Quote from: indysmith
...but why have yu strung it up with no pickups in there?

The Mule set that used to be in it is in my Strat now, I haven't decided about the new pickups yet.

Quote from: Tarzan
are you gonna try to get some wooden pickup bobbins? i know they're available, although not in the BKP range.

You mean Swineshead? The AMP humbucker looks like a great pickup.

Quote from: WezV
What the body wood, i like the almost bookmatched grain.

It's some kind of mahogany. The blank was old and had a nice tap tone. The darker and brighter grain patterns vary when seen from different angles and almost disappear when you look at the guitar from the neck side.

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Niccceeee. What wood you using there?

The body and the neck are mahogany, I think Honduran but I'm not sure. Here's a pic.



It's heavy and dense and has an almost glassy tap tone. These were very, very old blocks.

The top wood might be another kind of mahogany. The fretboard is African Blackwood.

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Out of interest, what made you decide on a switch to replace one of the knobs?  And are the Planet Waves tuners a new addition?

The front knob was a 500K/500K blend pot I used for pickup switching. With a 500K volume pot (the rear knob) it was like having a ~166K volume pot, which sounded smooth and jazzy with the Mules but I wanted more dynamics and attack after some time. I didn't know much about electronics when I chose the parts for the guitar. :P

The Planet Waves tuners have always been there. :)

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where did you get them???

I ordered the zebrawood parts from THG Knobs. :)

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« Reply #14 on: April 28, 2007, 12:04:04 AM »
I dunno if it's the lighting in the photos or me being senile but the wood on the rear view looks even better than the front.

Once more I have to say to you, thats an excellent looking guitar, if it plays half as well as it looks, it's a good un

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