Number 4 has been a learning experience in many ways and as usual my excitement at seeing and hearing the finished guitar has got in the way of the inner perfectionist I am trying to encourage. I think he was somewhere else for this one.
Here it is on the rotisserie spray jig curing in the Auckland winter sunshine
The finished article
A closer up
Headstock back - complete with borer habitat!
I see all the things I got wrong, but it feels and sounds pretty good. Perhaps the most humurous mistake was deciding I really wanted a zero fret then forgetting to extend the neck by the same amount. End result was that I couldnt get the intonation right until I refitted it a bit farther forwards. Or possibly the over the top fretboard radius - the telecaster that thinks its a violin.
This was meant to be a recycled guitar - the body is heart rimu from the end of a bed I made about 30 years ago, the neck is a bit of recycled matai I found in a timber yard - complete with borer holes - (if he's still in there, then at least he's deaf now!!). The fretboard is a piece of greenheart decking timber I had stuck under the house. I read somewhere that greenheart is pretty hard so I thought I'd give it a try. The running gear is all new of course but it really annoys me that I cannot get gold plated left handed bits, hence the bridge pick up is the wrong way round.
I still need to sort out the buzzing - lots of helpful advice on the tdpri forum - but its got that TWANG and I can't put it down long enough to get that done.
Thanks for looking!
