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I built a guitar

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As the title says I built a guitar. Two days of work at 8 hours a day (just got out of school lots of free time), so 16 so far, and will finish up wiring and decide on how to fret the beast tomorrows.

I title it "the beast", it weighs at least 25 pounds the neck it real wide and real thick. But its a good thing cause i got big hands.

I stole the pick ups out of Yamaha eg-112c the bottom one stayed a humbucking and the top two are being molded together to become another humbucking. The bridge was stolen from it too but was highly modified.

I don't think i'll paint it, any time soon at least, but might give it a dark stain maybe.

I'll record how it sounds when i finish the electrics in side and gets frets on. (dang it is hard to play without frets)

picks coming real soon. edit: here

any ways there was a 17 year old who inspired me on this site, 18 by now maybe. i'll find the name later. (by the way im 15)
 
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yah the neck is a bit crooked, that was one hellish cut, It started out as a 4 foot long 5 inch thick and 5 inch wide block of maple. The body it self is maple, 4 1/2" sheets glued together.

Tomorrow we'll here it's first electronic words, my baby is growing up...

I'll be making my own pickups soonish, within the next month.

I might work on the neck, but i really don't want to shave too much more off cause well i don't have a truss rod in there...

I might give up the neck and get a pre-built one, just have to see have fretting it without fret wire goes. The only reason I'm fretting it is because I cant get any sound out of the high E string.
 
Rokem said:
sure? It's a 1-3/4" thick, 2-1/2" wide piece of hard maple. Have any ideas on how to one in there?
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Yes, I'm sure. It's like having a 75kg weight one one end of the neck.

You put one in you need to cut off the equivalent of the fretboard, route out a channel and install the truss rod. Then glue the fretboard back on.
 
Joe Driskill puts carbon fiber in his necks under the fretboard for added rigidity. So, actually, that's not a bad idea.

Yeah, dude, you're definitely going to need a trussrod. Have you read any books on guitar building? What was your process of joining the neck to the body? How's the action going to be?
 
i would like to have one shaped like a flower petal on the bottom and a stem going up on the top...girly i know.
 
I'm very impressed with the results, looks like you spent a good amount of time and effort. Sounds pretty good too.

Great job, glad to see hard work paying off for someone.😎
 
^^ glad you liked the sound. I was worried for a while. My pickups were placed to low and was getting a muddy and all around... well F***ed up sound.
 
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