Official Bowes Guitars Thread - Works In Progress - Page 5

Customisbetter · 12-22-2009, 12:24 PM

looking excellent!

EDIT

Brian, did you use the flat or round Micro plane?

Strike07 · 12-23-2009, 12:11 PM

....in amazin

phaeded0ut · 12-23-2009, 12:17 PM

Yummy! Really looking very pretty... Can't wait to see more pictures of this beastie in progress.

Erik Hauri · 12-23-2009, 03:54 PM

Yo Brian

Looking most excellent!

Fretboard looks pretty high off the deck - are you going with a TOM on this one?

7 Strings of Hate · 12-23-2009, 04:03 PM

hey brian, looking good man!

OT: that list didnt open for me, think you could copy and paste it in an email?

canuck brian · 12-23-2009, 07:17 PM

and more stuff...

nice tight joint...

Again, thanks for checking it out guys!

As a bonus, here's Doukie. He's the cheap bridge prototype w/ grover tuners and duncans.

canuck brian · 12-23-2009, 07:22 PM

Erik! Great to see you here! I don't really post much on PG much these days.

I'll probably show up with 8 guitars so I can try to win the damn guitar of the month again....

haven't actualy gotten to radiusing the fretboard on the 8 yet, but the bottom of the fretboard is actually only 2mm above the body. :P

Customisbetter - i used their flat snap in rasp and their round shaping file. The flat rasp make cutting the carve top on the maple like doing it to pine. I'll *never* go back to using another file to do the main shaping. My dragon rasps are superior for shaping in the super tight curves.

aaaaaaaand I did more work.

Prydogga · 12-23-2009, 07:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by canuck brian

and more stuff...

As a bonus, here's Doukie. He's the cheap bridge prototype w/ grover tuners and duncans.

Where?

Man that looks so nice, I'm checking this thread a couple times a day now

Andrew_B · 12-24-2009, 05:41 AM

looks great man, nice work

the stain idea is neat, ill have to remember that one lol

tuttermuts · 12-24-2009, 07:59 AM

JINKIES!
That fretboard is just off the radar!

Daemon · 12-24-2009, 12:20 PM

This made me hungry of guitars !

phaeded0ut · 12-29-2009, 10:01 AM

Biran, I'm going to ask a rather dumb question; it looks like you're brushing on the green ink/varnish, is this correct? Is it an issue of air not giving you a proper/even amount over the surface?

Shawn · 12-29-2009, 11:41 AM

Very nice work.

canuck brian · 12-29-2009, 10:15 PM

the polycrylic gives a decent build after a couple of coats (sanded back) and it's been pretty rock hard on scar the dummy body after a few weeks around the shop.

the dye goes on with a cloth or airbrush - i just threw the green dye on there recently to see what it was going to look like. It looked pretty brutal because the top still had a lot of adhesive from the two sided tape still on it. It'll look pretty wicked when the carve is sanded and dyed again.

I'm also trimming down the height that the neck sits at. I've recently found that the end of the fretboard is a little narrow. It'll accomodate the strings, but I'll probably redo the templates for all my necks for more accuracy and updates in my dimensions.

Daemon · 01-04-2010, 12:08 PM

This is the sickest neck, I've ever seen !!
I need the same for a 6s building I'll made xP

canuck brian · 01-12-2010, 05:57 PM

(this is a personal build, not a customers.)

Hey guys, I've actually got 4 6 strings and none of them are fixed bridge, so i figured I'd make myself a 6 string in the 26 inch scale vein of my 7.

26 inch / 25 fret neck w cocobolo fretboard, 12 up half scalloped
inline 6 reversed headstock
2 nordstrands
all hipshot hardware
limba core w/ 1 piece figured shedua top (RGA carve)
9 piece neck w/ figured shedua headstock splice
1 3 way, 1 vol

Here's where I'm at. I'm currently working on about 10 guitars at the same time now (mostly just building for the hell of it now) and i'm going to get them all to the same point as my rosewood/maple 8 build. Should be a nifty ngd when I finish all of them on the same day.

The fretboard is the 2nd from the right.

And I have these "top 10" tops from PRS. Bought them off a skid of figured tops that PRS couldn't sell.

Fred · 01-12-2010, 06:03 PM

You always have seriously good taste in woods, dude! Looking forward to seeing this develop.

canuck brian · 01-12-2010, 06:08 PM

Yo (yep. another personal build.)

I was shopping at Exotic Woods at their 20,000 sq foot warehouse full of figured/exotic awesomeness and found this stuff; figured mexican katalox. I'd never seen it before and they hadn't in 8 years.

Unfortunately there was a problem at the mill where i get my blocks resawn and they brought it down a little too thin for a carved top. So i'm going to make a crazy thin flat top with this. I think i can get down to 1 1/4 without a problem. I just got a threaded output jack so one of my biggest concerns was already alleviated.

25 fret, 26 inch scale 7 string
figured katalox fretboard
11 piece neck
figured bookmatched katalox top on figured walnut on limba core (yep!)
katalox headstock splice
nordstrands
hipshot hardware
figured birdseye fretboard

and i've also got this in the works for my brothers bass. Making it for his birthday so i've got until July to get it out the door.

(if you guys think i'm spamming i'll stop!

)

mlp187 · 01-12-2010, 06:12 PM

That is BEAUTIFUL wood.

PS Your post is totally not spamming. I'm excited to see how this turns out, and thanks for another build thread! I love these things.

Customisbetter · 01-12-2010, 06:15 PM

I approve of this build.

Customisbetter · 01-12-2010, 06:17 PM

I NEED to find stuff like this. Looks like it should be pretty awesome.

JesseTheMachine · 01-12-2010, 06:18 PM

That's sick! Every time I look there's a new Bowes custom guitar on the way. The NGD draweth closer hehe!

Empryrean · 01-12-2010, 06:24 PM

budda · 01-12-2010, 06:41 PM

ZOMG fretboard wood is amazing!

hypermagic · 01-12-2010, 06:53 PM

Very awesome timber there good sir.

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12-23-2009, 12:17 PM	#103
phaeded0ut droooooneeeeeeeee! Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Virginia Posts: 1,511 Thanked: 28 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Yummy! Really looking very pretty... Can't wait to see more pictures of this beastie in progress. "All the World's a stage, ... and the rest is Vaudeville..." -Allan Moore

12-23-2009, 03:54 PM	#104
Erik Hauri Lumber -> Guitars Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Gaithersburg MD Posts: 115 Thanked: 34 / 1 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Yo Brian Looking most excellent! Fretboard looks pretty high off the deck - are you going with a TOM on this one? What I hear, fear motivates - Paige Hamilton

12-23-2009, 07:17 PM	#106
canuck brian Bowes Guitars Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Toronto Posts: 2,612 Thanked: 42 Feedback Score: 7 reviews	and more stuff... nice tight joint... Again, thanks for checking it out guys! As a bonus, here's Doukie. He's the cheap bridge prototype w/ grover tuners and duncans. www.bowesguitars.com Bowes Guitars - Builds In Progress

12-23-2009, 07:22 PM	#107
canuck brian Bowes Guitars Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Toronto Posts: 2,612 Thanked: 42 Feedback Score: 7 reviews	Erik! Great to see you here! I don't really post much on PG much these days. I'll probably show up with 8 guitars so I can try to win the damn guitar of the month again.... haven't actualy gotten to radiusing the fretboard on the 8 yet, but the bottom of the fretboard is actually only 2mm above the body. :P Customisbetter - i used their flat snap in rasp and their round shaping file. The flat rasp make cutting the carve top on the maple like doing it to pine. I'll never go back to using another file to do the main shaping. My dragon rasps are superior for shaping in the super tight curves. aaaaaaaand I did more work. www.bowesguitars.com Bowes Guitars - Builds In Progress

12-22-2009, 12:24 PM	#101
Customisbetter WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Lansing, MI Posts: 8,451 Thanked: 75 Feedback Score: 8 reviews	looking excellent! EDIT Brian, did you use the flat or round Micro plane?

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12-23-2009, 12:11 PM	#102
Strike07 ss.org Regular Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: CA Posts: 102 Thanked: 0 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	....in amazin

12-23-2009, 04:03 PM	#105
7 Strings of Hate Banned Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: St.Louis USA Posts: 6,769 Thanked: 90 Feedback Score: 23 reviews	hey brian, looking good man! OT: that list didnt open for me, think you could copy and paste it in an email?

12-24-2009, 05:41 AM	#109
Andrew_B Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: sydney Posts: 1,501 Thanked: 3 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	looks great man, nice work the stain idea is neat, ill have to remember that one lol

12-24-2009, 07:59 AM	#110
tuttermuts ss.org Regular Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Belgium Posts: 97 Thanked: 3 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	JINKIES! That fretboard is just off the radar! The more I hang around here, the more I start viewing 7's as standard and 6's as the oddballs Say hi to my 7: http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/ext...ns-so-far.html

12-24-2009, 12:20 PM	#111
Daemon The Nocturnal Chaos Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Clermont-Ferrand, France Posts: 421 Thanked: 27 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	This made me hungry of guitars ! ----------------------------------------------------------------- THE NOCTURNAL CHAOS : www.thenocturnalchaos.com/ Facebook

12-29-2009, 10:01 AM	#112
phaeded0ut droooooneeeeeeeee! Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Virginia Posts: 1,511 Thanked: 28 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Biran, I'm going to ask a rather dumb question; it looks like you're brushing on the green ink/varnish, is this correct? Is it an issue of air not giving you a proper/even amount over the surface? "All the World's a stage, ... and the rest is Vaudeville..." -Allan Moore

12-29-2009, 11:41 AM	#113
Shawn Ibanez 7s Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Southern Maine Posts: 24,506 Thanked: 146 Feedback Score: 15 reviews	Very nice work. My Guitar Videos

12-29-2009, 10:15 PM	#114
canuck brian Bowes Guitars Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Toronto Posts: 2,612 Thanked: 42 Feedback Score: 7 reviews	the polycrylic gives a decent build after a couple of coats (sanded back) and it's been pretty rock hard on scar the dummy body after a few weeks around the shop. the dye goes on with a cloth or airbrush - i just threw the green dye on there recently to see what it was going to look like. It looked pretty brutal because the top still had a lot of adhesive from the two sided tape still on it. It'll look pretty wicked when the carve is sanded and dyed again. I'm also trimming down the height that the neck sits at. I've recently found that the end of the fretboard is a little narrow. It'll accomodate the strings, but I'll probably redo the templates for all my necks for more accuracy and updates in my dimensions. www.bowesguitars.com Bowes Guitars - Builds In Progress

01-04-2010, 12:08 PM	#115
Daemon The Nocturnal Chaos Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Clermont-Ferrand, France Posts: 421 Thanked: 27 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	This is the sickest neck, I've ever seen !! I need the same for a 6s building I'll made xP ----------------------------------------------------------------- THE NOCTURNAL CHAOS : www.thenocturnalchaos.com/ Facebook

01-12-2010, 05:57 PM	#116
canuck brian Bowes Guitars Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Toronto Posts: 2,612 Thanked: 42 Feedback Score: 7 reviews	New Bowes 6 build - Figured shedua / cocobolo (this is a personal build, not a customers.) Hey guys, I've actually got 4 6 strings and none of them are fixed bridge, so i figured I'd make myself a 6 string in the 26 inch scale vein of my 7. 26 inch / 25 fret neck w cocobolo fretboard, 12 up half scalloped inline 6 reversed headstock 2 nordstrands all hipshot hardware limba core w/ 1 piece figured shedua top (RGA carve) 9 piece neck w/ figured shedua headstock splice 1 3 way, 1 vol Here's where I'm at. I'm currently working on about 10 guitars at the same time now (mostly just building for the hell of it now) and i'm going to get them all to the same point as my rosewood/maple 8 build. Should be a nifty ngd when I finish all of them on the same day. The fretboard is the 2nd from the right. And I have these "top 10" tops from PRS. Bought them off a skid of figured tops that PRS couldn't sell. www.bowesguitars.com Bowes Guitars - Builds In Progress

01-12-2010, 06:03 PM	#117
Fred SS.org Regular Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: London or Bristol, UK. Posts: 2,078 Thanked: 62 $Fred is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $Fred is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $Fred is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $Fred is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $Fred is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $Fred is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $Fred is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ Feedback Score: 6 reviews	You always have seriously good taste in woods, dude! Looking forward to seeing this develop.

01-12-2010, 06:08 PM	#118
canuck brian Bowes Guitars Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Toronto Posts: 2,612 Thanked: 42 Feedback Score: 7 reviews	Bowes 7 - figured Katalox (Personal Build) Yo (yep. another personal build.) I was shopping at Exotic Woods at their 20,000 sq foot warehouse full of figured/exotic awesomeness and found this stuff; figured mexican katalox. I'd never seen it before and they hadn't in 8 years. Unfortunately there was a problem at the mill where i get my blocks resawn and they brought it down a little too thin for a carved top. So i'm going to make a crazy thin flat top with this. I think i can get down to 1 1/4 without a problem. I just got a threaded output jack so one of my biggest concerns was already alleviated. 25 fret, 26 inch scale 7 string figured katalox fretboard 11 piece neck figured bookmatched katalox top on figured walnut on limba core (yep!) katalox headstock splice nordstrands hipshot hardware figured birdseye fretboard and i've also got this in the works for my brothers bass. Making it for his birthday so i've got until July to get it out the door. (if you guys think i'm spamming i'll stop! ) www.bowesguitars.com Bowes Guitars - Builds In Progress

01-12-2010, 06:12 PM	#119
mlp187 Burrito Master Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Carlsbad, Kalifornia Posts: 703 Thanked: 9 Feedback Score: 2 reviews	That is BEAUTIFUL wood. PS Your post is totally not spamming. I'm excited to see how this turns out, and thanks for another build thread! I love these things.

01-12-2010, 06:15 PM	#120
Customisbetter WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Lansing, MI Posts: 8,451 Thanked: 75 Feedback Score: 8 reviews	I approve of this build.

01-12-2010, 06:17 PM	#121
Customisbetter WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Lansing, MI Posts: 8,451 Thanked: 75 Feedback Score: 8 reviews	I NEED to find stuff like this. Looks like it should be pretty awesome.

01-12-2010, 06:18 PM	#122
JesseTheMachine ss.org Regular Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Toronto Posts: 332 Thanked: 0 Feedback Score: 1 reviews	That's sick! Every time I look there's a new Bowes custom guitar on the way. The NGD draweth closer hehe!

01-12-2010, 06:24 PM	#123
Empryrean Haahh!? Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Merced, CA Posts: 4,062 Thanked: 54 Feedback Score: 10 reviews

01-12-2010, 06:41 PM	#124
budda Guiterrorizer Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: London ONT Posts: 18,906 Thanked: 174 Feedback Score: 1 reviews	ZOMG fretboard wood is amazing! _______________________ J S Moore pickups: www.tonefordays.com Rock on!

01-12-2010, 06:53 PM	#125
hypermagic Fusion Neophyte Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Ohio Posts: 899 Thanked: 10 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Very awesome timber there good sir.

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