Well done Jeff your guitar looks magnificent - well done I am totally jealous and envious - I love it!!
Cheers,
Alan
Well done Jeff your guitar looks magnificent - well done I am totally jealous and envious - I love it!!
Cheers,
Alan
Just a question, does anyone have a recommendation on where to get cheap hardshell case that would fit the Grs-1sf?
Jeff
good question Jeff, might be worth sending Adam an email to see if he can order some cases for these size semi hollow axes.
These GR-1SF kits have been very popular so sure there will be a few forumites who would like a case.
I'll be building an ES3 next few months so would be interested in a suitable case.
Let us know if you find one elsewhere
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Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
Jeff, this is my standard every acoustic or semi acoustic case that I got free with another purchase. Including 335 shape and dobro style geetars.
Fits like a finger up yer....
Yep just looking at some on Amazon but might check the local store, not being able to put this baby down anywhere with confidence is already a problem..
I was finally able to do a little more work on my guitar build today. First I painted the little butt end of the neck and also the truss rod cover. It didn't turn out exactly as I planned, a little too much pure white when I was going for a match on the binding... Anyone know if there is a recommended color to match the factory binding?
Undaunted I continued on, taking the set up strings off and addressing the frets and neck. Looking to check the fret levels and they all look mostly good relevant to each other, with two frets just slightly raised. I scraped at it a little but wasn't able to do much more than polish it up. Wanted to get it back together so I put it in my head and moved into getting the strings back on, couldn't find any strings! Then I remembered the set that came with the kit (thank you Pitbullguitars!) and on they went. Action and intonation next. I lowered the action at the bridge,tuned up and checked the intonation.got most of the strings right on except the D string, that one was flat with the saddle adjusted all the way forward. Remembering all the length questions between the nut and the 12th and the 12th and the bridge came back to me but it turned out to be fixable by raising the action at the bridge back up a little. Re-tune check adjust the saddles a couple of times and I got it intoned and the action still low, strings about 4/10ths of a centimeter off the frets. It works but not a lot of adjustability, the strings seem thin so I will check back with a thicker pair sometime in the future and see how those go. The best part of today's work was coming up with a model name, she is hereby dubbed part of the "AlohaMatic" family!
Aloha, Jeff
I might still do some thing more on the headstock as it looks a little bit bare to me. And I might look for a better color match on the truss rod cover, but she's mostly done! Guess I will be looking into sound samples soon
Aloha, Jeff
Wow nice job Jeff, I quite like your trussrod cover (for what it's worth).
Thanks Barge (and everyone else!) for all the compliments and encouragement. Love the site and the vibe, makes me wish I was in Australia! Just looked thru the fret leveling thread, I will be tackling that job on the next string change.
Aloha
Ps I dug an old acoustic guitar out from the closet and it works for a temporary case, although the nob for the bigsby hits when the case is closed, so I'm still looking for a better fit.
Hey great job. just had mine delivered. But my issue is how the hell do you get the wiring into the body?
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