Here are some pictures of a guitar I am working on. It is the prototype for my Classic-T style. As you can see it is a bolt on neck and I am using stainless steel inserts in the neck and machine bolts for the attachment. I was experimenting to see if two bolts would suffice to make a solid joint but it seems that it is allowing the neck to flex a little bit in the neck pocket so I am planning to add a couple more bolts to it. As always the neck goes under the neck pickup, and the heel is sculpted to allow maximum access to the upper frets. The neck carve is new, a medium U shape somewhere between my Fat and Thin neck carves. If I can find any free time I hope to finish this up in a week or two. It is going to have GFS Neovin pickups, chrome hardware and a Tru-oil finish for the entire guitar.
I have a lot of things going on in the shop lately. Have 6 bodies in various stages of being complete. Also a bunch of necks in work to go with those bodies. I have been pretty busy at my day job lately but I am slowly making progress on all of these. Here are some pictures of the ones I am working on.
Here are three Icarus’ that I have going. The blue one is flamed maple on mahogany, Ash in the center and Black Walnut on the right.
Here are three different single cutaways that I have been working. The one in the middle is the redesign of my Interceptor model. It is Flamed Koa on Black Walnut. The guitar on the left is my take on a classic T type of guitar in Ash, and the one on the right is my take on a classic LP style. It is flamed redwood and will probably go on mahogany but I have not quite decided yet.
That’s all for now, Enjoy!
It has been a while since I have updated the blog. Life has been pretty busy with the move and training that I have been doing. I finally have the new shop all set up and ready to work on the guitars. I am really excited about the new shop because it will be the first time I don’t have to move tools all around just to use one of them. I have a few projects that I am working on including a Flamed Koa on Black Walnut Interceptor which is one of my promised new re-designs. I will try and get some snap shots of it for all to see.