Beautiful work Koldo, really nice result.
Beautiful work Koldo, really nice result.
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Hand crafting guitars, because Death Rays are expensive.
Love the burst - nice warm, earthy colours. Looks great!
I'm making an ES-3 (as I'm spraying mine with nitro I need the weather to warm up before I can continue) and my neck also fits very well. There were complaints about the neck fit on previous versions of the ES-3 kit and many had big gaps, but they seem to have fixed that problem.
Any small gaps should simply fill with glue when you fit it. If the glue line is obvious, stain won't stick to the glue, so you may have to get a very thin artist's paintbrush and run it along the join line with a bit of paint of a suitable colour.
Originally Posted by wokkaboy
It´s not late for headstock shaping... but i have no proper tools and i have to think seriously before doing something that can ruin the whole project... My brother made an LP kit from another website that seems to be from the same factory as the headstock is just the same... and once ended, it just looks a little bit big, not bad at all.... I don´t know what to do.
Thank you very much, i´m very happy with it.
Simon, i was planning exactly what you are saying. I´ll see how those little gaps look after glueing and try to hide them carefully.
My brother finished his guitar with nitro and had problems with weather and moisture... So be patient.
Thanks again
Well, being a 3 a side headstock you're just shaping the end therefore there isn't much material to remove. Handtools like rasps and files should be fine for shaping it.
It's a flat or 'paddle' shaped headstock to avoid any legal action from selling the kit. If it was pre-shaped like a Gibson headstock, then Gibson would either want a license fee - or more likely would just simply stop the kits being sold. But with a 'paddle' headstock, the builder is free to shape it as they wish - either like a Gibson or else their own design. The same is true of the Fender-based necks.
Well... Hello again everybody!
Finally i´ve made some headstock shaping... There´s no way back
I´ve been searching for a different kind of headstock, and i found an interesting alternative... bought some tools... well here it goes:
It´s a variation of the headstocks of the Duisenberg guitars... Here a pic:
I made a little bigger steps because this kit´s headstock is quite wider than Duesemberg´s.
Not sure if i´ve missed the shot, but it´s done. The good thing is that next time i´ll be easier and i won´t be so afraid.
I´m still waiting for the sealer and the tru oil... Hope they´ll be here soon.
Some other stuff arrived already
Cheers!
Looks great to me. Well done. It's amazing what you can do if you just go for it.
Those Alnico IIs should go well with it. You don't want anything too powerful in that sort of guitar.
Thanks Simon! I´m sure that next time (they´ll come more fore sure) i´m not going to be afraid about cutting a little bit of wood.
And yes, the tonerider set should work as long as they are low-medium output pickups. They seem to be similar to the Gibson 57 classic, PAF-s... at least on the different demos i heard. We´ll see.
Planning on 50´s wiring with coil tap option (love to have the option to play with single coils) and i will install a piezo disk as a contact mic with its own output jack. I put one in one of my acoustic guitars and i like it. Specially when i mix the sound coming from this disk with the one coming from an active shadow acoustic pickup.
You are going to see every step, and i will try to record a good demo of all the sounds in my home studio.
Thanks again.
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