Sound sweet SM, looking forward to FrankenLabbing one!
Sound sweet SM, looking forward to FrankenLabbing one!
Finally!! o.k.....how much is it?
I like the slightly cryptic shirt dad.
cheers, Mark.
It's alive, and no Igor required!!!
Thanks man, looking forward to setting it up and adding some finishing touches. Had a full evening of stuff on yesterday so not much happened after the demo.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkMark
Cheers Frankie, I'm keen to move onto the next iteration for sure. Hopefully I'll get around to doing the groundwork for that in the next few weeks, will keep you posted.Quote:
Originally Posted by FrankenWashie
Hah yeah, you can tell the guitarist you meet day to day by the eye rolls :PQuote:
Originally Posted by king casey
It's been a long haul for sure, but I started this Diary on the 12/3/2019 and gave myself a year, so I'm calling in on schedule and relatively on budget.
How much is a very interesting question. I've no idea, if I priced in the hours spent it'd be ridiculous. Assuming I get to the stage of building multiples during a run I'd like to be able to sell them for between $1000 - $1500 depending mostly on hardware.
I'd be very interested to hear peoples opinions on value for this and proposed future builds.
I would not be opposed to selling this to fund the next run, we'll see.
I feel like he's been with me in spirit for some time.....Quote:
Originally Posted by wazkelly
Well done mate, true testiment to your perseverance, sounds pretty good too for a first run. May there be many more
Cheers Brendan. I don't think I've quite come to terms with it being together yet, looking forward to getting it sorted out and some nice strings on it.
Real nice job mate. I hope to get back and finish up my scratch build in a few weeks time but this is next level with the whole design process as well.
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Cheers Woltz, I noticed you'd gone a bit quiet. Following along with your build certainly help push me to keep going with this.
Yeh I've been focusing on trying to make a career change happen which has consumed all my spare time. But I hope to get back into my builds around the end of March. Particularly the Thinline which just requires painting, polishing and assembly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sonic Mountain
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Well it's pretty much done. I'm sure I'll tinker with it a bit as it settles down.
Pic dump for you.
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Very noice!
So, will there another or are you currently in “never again” territory?
Congratulations on getting her finished. Looks great!
Oh yeah there will definitely be more. There will be a short hiatus, but plans for the next evolution are well underway.
Love the glamour shots SM .. you have certainly inspired us, that's for sure. And we are all proud of you for sharing all of your trials and tribulations mate .
I haven’t been here for a while and come back to this - superb work sir
Thanks Guys, great to see you back Stan, love your recent builds, particularly the weirdo explorer one.
Thanks mate, nice to hear from you. Was thinking of another explorer the same in burnt orange and black....Quote:
Originally Posted by Sonic Mountain
I really like the lines of this one, like a St Vincent only nicer...
Cheers!
I took it to band practice yesterday thinking I’d try it out for a song or two. Ended up using it the entire time!
So a bit of a review:
I designed it to have a pretty chunky neck, so its wider and thicker than ‘normal’. It felt a bit odd to start with, but it really works well for me. I will reduce the thickness of the neck carve a little with the next one.
Upper fret access is awesome.
It’s pretty heavy, but I’d normally play the shoegazer or my Hagstrom both of which are similar weight, so it didn’t bother me. I’ve just gotten used to that now, some of my other guitars almost feel too light.
At this point in my band’s development I mostly play clean, with a little bit of distortion for some parts for some cut through. It sounded great and there was lots I could do switching to single coils or between pickups to vary the sound.
No noticeable issues with fret buzz or anything. I think I’m going to put some 11s on it. The action is so low that it’s very easy to get a clear note with a light touch. I’m interested to see how it feels with chunkier strings.
So overall, I’m stoked. I want to try and do a better sound demo soon. The only problem with that is the operator error :D
Hi Sonic. Just catching up with your recent posts. Love the sounds . It looks smaller when I see it played. The proportions are still spot on to my eye, but I think I'd like to see the body stretched a little. Just my two cents worth. You should be incredibly proud mate.
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Yep spot on. It's hard to illustrate in photo's. I think the bout area just needs to be enlarged slightly to balance it a bit.
Another go at a sound demo- hope you guys like hearing Blackbird being butchered :P
So hard to play once the camera is rolling...
https://youtu.be/X2W3-EBLBz8
Sounds nice & sweet, particularly middle on both humbuckers.
Yep definitely the best through that little amp. I've been having a lot of fun mucking around with the combos, more than enough for me sound wise.
Congrats on the completion Sonic.
Sound quality is much better than demo 1. What'd you do differently? Direct recording?
Are those Tonerider pickups? I remember you commenting on them being inexpensive, but don't recall a brand mentioned. (and I'm too lazy to scroll through 35 pages!)
Yeah, I changed the mic from Omni to directional and moved it in front of the amp. It was previously hanging from the roof as a room mic for when I have people skype into D&D.
This pickups are from Wish actually. I ordered them because they were so cheap I figured there was nothing to lose. I just looked and they are even cheaper than what I paid now:
https://www.wish.com/search/guitar%2...ch&position=62
$17 for 2 humbucker pickups is a frikken bargain, especially as they really seem nicely made. I suspect the factory is churning out 'genuine' pickups for name brand companies and this is their sideline by-passing the middle man.
Nahhhh, that would never happen... :rolleyes:Quote:
I suspect the factory is churning out 'genuine' pickups for name brand companies and this is their sideline by-passing the middle man.
OK so obviously a lot of things have been thrown into flux in recent times and for me guitar building has really been affected.
At this stage it's not sensible for me to launch immediately into another Deluxster build. There are things I need to spend money on for it that are not a priority right now. It's also a difficult time to generate income off guitars, which has been helping out a lot with this adventure till now.
So I've decided to have a play around with one of the evolutions of this design. It's the same neck, with a reworked heel shape and a rounded offset style body. Really this is the shape for the Shoegazer MK2, but with Sonicaster bridge/pickup and control plate. I have almost everything else I need to make this except for some fret wire and a truss rod, which I've just ordered. I'm going to further canabilse the Sonicaster build for other bits.
I have another Queensland maple neck blank and a tassie oak finger board. The body is a different story. I'm planning to just cobble together something out of the various bits of timber I have here. I have a nice chunk of tassie Oak that will be perfect for the main centre block, and I'll improvise the rest. Rough idea of the direction... things may change.....
https://i.imgur.com/T27P9NI.jpg
This is the No-budget-corona-virus-caster-project - but I'll just keep adding to this thread as its still part of my learning and trying things towards coming up with a repeatable build.
So first step while I'm waiting for bits will be to try and modify my steel neck template to work with the new design.....
Oooohhh! I so needed this to keep my mind active. Any chance it might end up sea foam green? Go on, ya know it'll look sexy in green. And it won't matter what woods underneath a nice solid colour like that.
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Hah, to be honest, my instinct is to paint a lot of things Sea Foam Green, just thought I'd try something different. It's likely it'll end up with an aluminium pickguard, so I need to think about something to compliment that. A ways off finishing anyway.
Little more progress. I've hurt my right shoulder so actual workshop activities are a bit difficult. Printed out a full sized image of the basic plans. I'll use this to start making up or modifying existing templates.
Also dug out the chunk I'll use for the main central block of the body. Just need to rummage around and find something suitable for the 'wings'
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I hope your shoulder feels better soon mate. Very frustrating when inspiration strikes and you can’t act on it.
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Let’s all constantly talk about Seafoam Green, just to get under Frankie’s collar........ ;) (love ya man)Quote:
Originally Posted by Adamc
Uh oh. Have I accidentally poked the bear? Does Frankie hate Sea foam green? Would he compromise with surf green? How can you not like a green guitar? My mind is racing.... lol
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Ha hah. Yeah Frankie is the resident SFG hater, but it's all in good fun.
Cheers re shoulder, it's just old age, I did it gardening, then just as it was getting better I decided it'd be a good idea to show my 13 year old I can still put him on his butt when push comes to shove. He went down, but I suffered the lasting injuries lol.
Body template, nowhere near as good as laser cutting, but it'll do I think. Extra bit poking out the top of the neck pocket is to help me see if I can do a nicer transition from body to neck and may not remain after shaping.. will see how it goes.
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I think you might need to reboot dude.
Possibly the first full arse-written post on the forum.
Pocket post?
Jeez you guys are heartless, he's plainly drowning!
Little bit more progress and a slight change of plans. I dug out this bit of laminated Oak which I have used for a lot of different purposes over the last couple of years. Evidence of a number of previous builds, like being used to hold brass in place for carving on the Steampunker. I'm going to laminate a bit of 12mm craftwood to it like a cap and use it for a body blank. Not very high brow materials, but it should work fine for this.. and its free. The flying V build is kind of similar using craft wood and pine and it's absolutely fine over a year since its completion.
Hopefully I get some decent progress on it over Easter, my motivation has been pretty low and generally speaking the old mental health isn't great at the moment. I'm a bit of a shut in at the best of times, but I've gotten used to being able to go to gigs, D&D and band practice every week and all of those activities are canned atm. Well we are trying D&D over skype, but it's not really the same. Coupled with the two school aged kids being stuck at home and my ICU nurse wife peaking out over the whole situation... it's not been a good creative environment. And through it all my normal day job is still going, so I'm not even getting a respite from that grind.. sigh.
Anyway.. some pics. At least this place offers some respite.
The damage is kinda cool, but everything exposed will be filled and painted.
https://i.imgur.com/u7XNKs3.jpg
Need more clamps.. but it looks like I've gotten away with this OK.
https://i.imgur.com/yPiF6eB.jpg
Marked up for routing. Not really worrying about making templates first, just going to do this the long way. If I ever get some kind of normalcy back I will have another run at setting up for doing repeatable multiple builds. I'm actually liking the look of this shape, maybe I'll focus on doing a bunch of these... we will see.
https://i.imgur.com/umEQZRa.jpg