Above, and below are some photos of my latest guitar... The body's made with a center core of Cherry Wood, then a Walnut Veneer layer, capped front and back with Flame/Curly Maple. All the colors are natural... The neck is solid Maple with a bone nut. The bridge is a Schaller wrap-around, and the tuners are Locking Grovers. The pick-guard and cover plates are brass. The electronics are fashioned after Jerry Garcia's guitars, using an Effects Loop and a unity gain buffer; it also has an on-board modified Tube Screamer Clone. There is a true bypass switch for the Tube Screamer, one for the Unity Gain Buffer and Tube Sreamer combined, and one for the Effects Loop. Everything is shielded with 40 gauge copper sheeting. The pickups are homegrown, are using Alnico magnets and have been wound to approximately 6K ohms each (the neck being the coolest, and the bridge the hottest)
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Here are some photos of my first attempt at building guitars and of the pickups I make. At present I've only built P90s and Vintage Fender style Single Coils. I'll be starting construction on a new guitar soon, based on J. Garcia's Wolf guitar, using the "Hippie Sandwich" design... I'll post pics of the progress.
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The guitar body is made of Soft Maple, top and bottom, with Redwood in between and my own P90s. The neck is just a Canadian made Strat replacement neck, but it works great!
All the photos are thumbnails... click on them for a larger view.
