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Posted by: sidewas lightning May 29 2009, 12:32 PM

I finished my guitar! Actually, I finished it a while ago, but was too lazy to write a paragraph about it and take good pictures. My goal was to make a guitar I could use for most everything (maybe a combination between a gibson and a ibanez, my two favorite brands.) So here it is!...








Note that I installed pickup rings later, so that looks better now.
Complete specs:
Body- swamp ash (strat shape)
neck- maple w/compound radius maple fretboard (strat shape) 22 frets
Bridge+nut- floyd rose licensed
pickups- epiphone something (neck) duncan pearly gates (bridge)
controls- lp style

so there it is! I hope to have a sound sample soon.

 

Posted by: Marcus Siepen May 29 2009, 12:39 PM

What about some pics?

Posted by: Jakub Luptovec May 29 2009, 12:39 PM

Pics, pics, pics, pics, pics, pics!

Posted by: sidewas lightning May 29 2009, 12:41 PM

yeah, I have pictures, their just not working! I think I've almost got it...

Posted by: sidewas lightning May 29 2009, 02:40 PM

okay, pictures are working now!

Posted by: sted May 29 2009, 02:49 PM

Nice! that is a lot of pots on there!! what do they all do?

Posted by: sidewas lightning May 29 2009, 02:53 PM

QUOTE (sted @ May 29 2009, 09:49 AM) *
Nice! that is a lot of pots on there!! what do they all do?


Oh, there's really only four, theyre the standard lp configuration (neck volume, neck tone, bridge volume, bridge tone.)

Posted by: AlexLion May 29 2009, 02:53 PM

Wow really cool! Do you will "write" something on headstock? I mean like a brand name?

Edit: could you take a picture of guitar back?

Posted by: Emir Hot May 29 2009, 03:01 PM

Looks great man. Congtrats. I hope it plays good as well

Posted by: kaznie_NL May 29 2009, 03:06 PM

Looks cool! It'd be sooooooo cool to produce my own guitar.....

Posted by: Fran May 29 2009, 03:13 PM

Wow, that's pretty cool, a self-built custom! Enjoy!

Posted by: David Wallimann May 29 2009, 03:34 PM

Wow!
That's a beautiful guitar man!
Congrats!

Posted by: sidewas lightning May 29 2009, 06:44 PM

QUOTE (AlexLion @ May 29 2009, 09:53 AM) *
Wow really cool! Do you will "write" something on headstock? I mean like a brand name?

Edit: could you take a picture of guitar back?


I might do a logo, but I don't know which one will fit! Gibson wouldn't work... Ibanez would be too sharp for a strat headstock... and it's definitely not like the my squier or the fenders I have played.
And about the back, I don't have pictues but it is in the same red finish as the front. The sides of the guitar are painted black.


QUOTE (Fran @ May 29 2009, 10:13 AM) *
Wow, that's pretty cool, a self-built custom! Enjoy!


That makes it sound really fancy!!!
(In a deep voice)
Coming May 2009... from master guitar luthier sideways lightning... comes a custom creation to BLOW ALL OTHER GUITARS AWAY!!! ( shred music starts playing) tongue.gif biggrin.gif

Posted by: Guitarman700 May 29 2009, 06:49 PM

Holy Pots Batman!
thats a nice guitar!

Posted by: ErikEklund May 29 2009, 07:13 PM

nice axe smile.gif

Posted by: Ramiro Delforte May 29 2009, 08:34 PM

Wow! That's something beautiful mate!
Congrats on that!
Post some audio samples when you can smile.gif

Posted by: JamesT May 29 2009, 08:59 PM

Nice!
You'll have to give us the lowdown on the specs ... pickups, hardware, electronics, wood type, finish, etc.
Let us know how it plays. If yours is like the one I finished lately, there will be some tweaking of the action & setup to do before you have it exactly the way you want it.

Posted by: bluetag May 29 2009, 09:01 PM

wow thats an accomplishment man congratz

Posted by: g-forcelover May 29 2009, 10:26 PM

thats nice man, but how come everyone that biulds a guitar it looks all nice but mine looks like crap? haha

Posted by: audiopaal May 29 2009, 11:10 PM

Nice work smile.gif

Congrats!

Posted by: sidewas lightning May 30 2009, 09:03 PM

QUOTE (g-forcelover @ May 29 2009, 05:26 PM) *
thats nice man, but how come everyone that biulds a guitar it looks all nice but mine looks like crap? haha


I think that its an accident that its not covered in charcoal. tongue.gif

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