DIY Guitar Messing About (6 Viewers)

[magicbastarder]

yer man ben crowe of crimson guitars has closed down his business which bought and restored old tools, and sold them on.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

yer man ben crowe of crimson guitars has closed down his business which bought and restored old tools, and sold them on.

did realise he had a job beyond crimson guitars?

 

[magicbastarder]

i think it was too much to manage that on top of crimson. he's had a busy few months; marriage broke up and he was diagnosed with ADHD

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Router sledz + planzz ftw

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Video or it didn’t happen. Badly played blues/garagey shite on the recently finished guitar. I’m liking this one the more I play it I have to say.

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[dudley]

very cool

 

[ann post]

Clothes horse to give a proper dry signal for testing.

It's a lovely guitar.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Clothes horse to give a proper dry signal for testing.

It's a lovely guitar.

The bed also provides isolation from environmental em noise.

Thanks, yeah I think this one is a keeper

 

[JohnnyRaz]

A fret slotting jig made from two pieces of lighting rail and the top of a 1900s gramaphone. Never throw anything away

 

[JohnnyRaz]

It’s not a proper glue up unless you’re using at least 3 clamps

 

[JohnnyRaz]

So far so far

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Neck coming along…

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Neck done now

 

[JohnnyRaz]

The last bit of routing on a build is always something to celebrate.

 

[magicbastarder]

i'd be tempted to burn that! in a good way.

interesting to note that gear4music have a filter on their pickups page for number of strings, but there's no 4 string option, and thomann don't have a filter at all; i guess the only pickups they sell for 4 string are for basses.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

i'd be tempted to burn that! in a good way.

interesting to note that gear4music have a filter on their pickups page for number of strings, but there's no 4 string option, and thomann don't have a filter at all; i guess the only pickups they sell for 4 string are for basses.

Yeah - you can get 4 string/4 pole pickups of uncertain quality, mainly sold as Ukelele or cigar box pickups. You’d have to look at ebay/ali etc -I’ve seen some that look decent enough, but not from the very small number of sellers I’d trust.

You could take precession bass pickup and use it as 2 separate pickups, I’ve seen that done but not tried it myself.

This guitar has ‘normal’ string spacing, so while it looks a little off a normal pickup works perfectly. For anything with a wider spread or more strings I use a blade strat or firebird type which hasn’t polepieces (or at least has a blade and pole pieces)

 

[magicbastarder]

Re my burning comment.

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[magicbastarder]

Where did you get the four string bridge?

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Where did you get the four string bridge?

That was a ali job - it’s not great quality to be honest (non of the sellers I’d normally go to had anything like it), the plate is fine but I’ll probably swap out the saddles with some others I have in my box of bits.

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[JohnnyRaz]

Re my burning comment.

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Interesting - it’s so full of resin it would probably explode though! My ‘client’ wants a kinda walnut finish, tinted button shellac