Shape: Custom
Body wood: 1 piece Tasmanian Blackwood (heavily chambered)
Neck wood: 5 piece, Tasmanian blackwood with Rock maple pinstripes.
Construction: Set neck
Fingerboard: Ziricote
Inlays: Custom aluminium design
Scale: 25.5″
Radius: 12″
Frets: 22 Medium SS
Hardware: Schaller tuners, Gotoh Tune-o-Matic
Pickups: TV Jones [...]
Everything is pretty self explanatory in the photos. To get the desired depth from the waterbased stain it started as a very dark blue then sanded back with 400 grit, dark blue again, sand back, lighter blue, sandback then a very pale blue for the final stain. After that the neck was glued in using [...]
Finally taking shape – Once again the one with white binding will have a gloss black top/headstock and the black binding will have a white top/headstock. Both will have natural finished backs/necks. Either satin nitro or Tru-oil tbc.
Far too long since i’ve updated any progress with this one. All coming a long nicely-
The sharp, pointed & bound sound hole request was something of a daunting one going into this build. I’d never bound a sound hole before and unlike a regular “F” hole a router/template wouldn’t really help me make the [...]
Okay this one is about to get properly started, some lovely wood involved, some new designs and some slightly eclectic concepts going into this one but I’m pretty sure its going to be something pretty damn cool in the end.
Shape: Custom SC
Body wood: 1 piece Tasmanian Blackwood (with some bonus sapwood) Heavily chambered
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Here’s a start on my first neck through builds. There are inverted neck through wood selections on either. One will have a white top/headstock and one with a black top/headstock. Both natural backs. Brothers from a different mother.
24 3/4″ scale
22 frets – stainless steel 6100 extra jumbo
1 – 11/16″ nut [...]
Shape: DCmk2
Body wood: Chambered QLD maple body, Carved Tasmanian Oak top
Neck wood: 9 Piece laminate neck of QLD maple & Tasmanian Oak with Rosewood veneer pinstripes.
Construction: Set neck
Fingerboard: Ziricote
Inlays: Hand cut MOP
Scale: 25″
Radius: Compound 9.5″ to 12″
Frets: 22 Medium [...]
If you good hearted Melbourne folk if you could keep an eye out for #24 it was last seen at a Beat Disease show at the Gasometer hotel in Collingwood on the 12th of November. If you’ve seen it around please give me a call on 0402952612. It may very well have been taken by [...]
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This build is a wedding anniversary gift, i think i mentioned that before, Mari is Michael’s lovely wife (i’ve never met her but it’s a safe assumption that she is lovely for giving this build the okay!). Michael wanted her name inlayed at the 12th fret, we played around with some font/layout ideas and eventually [...]
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Finally making a start this past week is whats sure to be a lovely build-
To start with i’ll just mention the wood thats being worked with.
Chambered QLD maple back, Figured Tassie oak top (same billet as #36′s top)
Laminate neck of QLD maple and Tassie oak (from the same piece as the [...]
