Dingo Custom Luthiers experience featuring PBG @ Stringfest Tasmania, 2015

[dingobass]

Challenge given, produce a Tassie Blackwood Guitar kit in less than a week and get it to Tasmania for Stringfest 2015....
Challenge accepted!

So here's the story. Our Guitar kit Guru Adam recieves an email from Rob in Tassie asking to purchase a Blackwood kit to display.
(Rob has recently purchased a sawmill and will be specialising in Tasmanian tone woods)

Adam immediatly handballs this to me and after an hour long convo with Rob it is going to happen... No pressure

The upshot of this is that from time to time PBG will be offering Guitar kits manufactured by hand by yours truly.
These kits will be made to my usual pedantic, anally retentive and OCD standards.....
So the lucky punters who score these kits will be getting a Luthiers quality Guitar which would normaly retail @ 2k for considerably less!

So here we go, lunch time day one of the build.
Timber selected, machined and blank glued...
Time for a sit down and lunch...

[stan]

now this will be interesting...

I actually have an idea for a blackwood and Huon pine guitar (family is from Tassie, explains a lot, huh?), have my templates and things about done, was looking at blanks on the site yesterday.

Looking forward to see what direction this one takes...

[gavinturner]

Awesome DB. I am very interested to see what you come up with. What body shape are you going with?

cheers,
Gav.

[wokkaboy]

awesome challenge DB, so the scratch tele has to be put aside. As Gav asked keen to know the body shape, presume it will be ST or TL shaped.
What about hardware will you supply better hardware or stock PBG ?
better not ask too many questions so you can start on the neck while the body glue dries !

[kells80aus]

Absolutely facsinating. what will it look like.

Been toying with th idea of a Tassy Blackwood build, but not anything Solid.

My Tassie connections go back to 1810. I got two, no three Convicts from Tassie, Oh wait one of them belongs to the missus.
My Kelly's landed there in 1850, great great grandfather. Believe him to be Neds long lost Great Uncle.

PK

[dingobass]

Thats pretty cool, PK.
On my maternal side, our family goes back to the first fleet.. Only difference is they were free settlers, which probably made them to be bigger crims than the Convicts

As for the build, it will be a Tele as this is what Rob asked for.
Hardware will be Gotoh and Tone rider pups...

[stan]

Sounds like a sweet axe DB.
Now all you have to do is keep it out of Adam's hands until Stringfest!

[wokkaboy]

nice one DB, so I could almost enter my blackheart sassafras (from Tazzy) scratch tele and that has Gotoh and tonerider hardware. Even has some tazzy blackwood in the neck. Haven't finished the wiring and setup yet.
Have you looked into how long postage will take DB ? It starts a week tomorrow on the 20th ! No time to waste !

[kells80aus]

@DB, my maternal side was first fleet, complete with steel hand and ankle braclets. they also went to Norfolk Island on the Sirius
the girl that went to Tasy in 1810, was part of that family. she was born in Pitt Town in 1800
She married in Tassy, her husband was a Convit. She died in the gold fields of Bendigo and is burried in the diggings
PK

[dingobass]

Alrighty, back in the Man Cave at 1:30...
Spent the best part of an hour fossiking through my stash of Tassie Blackwood until I found "the" peice I wanted...

Machined it down to 40mm, routed the truss rod slot, marked out neck with headstock break angle, attacked it with the bandosaurus.

3:20, I have had enough... Time for a Grolsch or three