My custom RGT build in progress (56k don't even try)

adrock · 11-08-2010, 01:38 PM

so I talked to my luthier last week, and he's almost done with his part. hopefully I'll get it back this week sometime. and with that, I figured it's time to share my baby with y'all.

I started this project about 4 years ago. I was working for phattie drums, and had access to some amazing machinery. so, I started on my dream guitar. unfortunately, I had to move back to Florida shortly after, and since then I haven't really done much to it. basically because of lack of proper tools. well years later, I'm now living in Texas, and I made a decision. it's time to finally finish her. probably would've done some things different now. longer scale length mainly. but it's cool, I still love it with all my heart

I built this entirely myself up to the progress you see in these pics. I recruited a local luthier to glue the fretboard on, drill bridge studs, and route the control cavity. I did the pup and bridge cavities myself. the only thing I didn't do by hand was the fretboard. we had a five-axis cnc machine, so I obviously used that. anyways, enough babbling. onto the pictures and specs:

RGT style body and neck
PRS style headstock
white limba/cocobolo/wenge/cocobolo/white limba neck with volute
black limba wings
thin body (think blackmachine)
natural oil finish
maccasar ebony fretboard, side inlays only
ebony binding
25" scale length
tom style roller bridge with string through body
hipshot locking tuners
all black hardware
pups-suggestions?

anthonyferguson · 11-08-2010, 01:46 PM

Damn that thing is beautiful. Black limba is where it's at! Congrats on getting it finished, and the determination to get it done. 4 years is a long time.

JaeSwift · 11-08-2010, 02:05 PM

Amazing woods!

s_k_mullins · 11-08-2010, 02:06 PM

Looks awesome dude!

7 Strings of Hate · 11-08-2010, 02:11 PM

looks awesome dude. its quite stunning. i love the binding. I have a project that i'm doing with flamed black limba.
in the process of finding the wood, i learned that apperently black limba and white limba come from the same tree. and that limba is the same thing as korina(black and white).

scherzo1928 · 11-08-2010, 03:34 PM

holy balls, I think that's the best looking guitar Ive seen this year... and it's november already.
really great job!

adrock · 11-08-2010, 07:52 PM

wow, thanks for all the kind words!! in posting this, I realized I had no pictures of the back at all, haha. when she come back from the luthier I'll make sure to get some back shots.

7 strings of hate: yeah, it's pretty cool how the white/black limba works like that. and I had my lumber for a few months before I found out it was the same as korina. pretty awesome!

scherzo1928: haha, thank you so much! your post inspires me to maybe enter her in the guitar of the month when she's done.

possumkiller · 11-08-2010, 08:30 PM

Love it man! I like how the upper horn is pointy like the lower one.

scherzo1928 · 11-08-2010, 08:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by adrock

scherzo1928: haha, thank you so much! your post inspires me to maybe enter her in the guitar of the month when she's done.

while you cant nominate your own guitar, I'll do it myself even if my axe is done the same month

I just really, really like the way it looks... should sounds enourmous too.

TheWreck · 11-08-2010, 08:56 PM

This look awesome, with what other kind of wood, limba, could be compared sonority wise?

TemjinStrife · 11-08-2010, 09:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheWreck

This look awesome, with what other kind of wood, limba, could be compared sonority wise?

It's a lightweight wood in the mahogany family. Think mahogany but a little less in the lower mids.

Alberto7 · 11-09-2010, 12:21 PM

Wow, man. That wood looks gorgeous! Awesome grain you got there

and that looks like a seriously well-built instrument! Hope you get ti finish it soon

post more pics when you have them!

cerfew · 11-09-2010, 07:12 PM

Oh my god this looks absolutely amazing. Say, how did you drill that hole connecting the two pickup cavities? Also, how deep did you route the pickup cavities and control cavity? Its almost time for those steps on my own build.

AK DRAGON · 11-09-2010, 10:24 PM

Speaking of wood...
That's going to be sexsee when done

adrock · 11-10-2010, 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alberto7

Wow, man. That wood looks gorgeous! Awesome grain you got there

and that looks like a seriously well-built instrument! Hope you get ti finish it soon

post more pics when you have them!

haha, thanks!! i will definitely post more when i get it back from the luthier. hopefully soon!! i'm so anxious to finish it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by cerfew

Oh my god this looks absolutely amazing. Say, how did you drill that hole connecting the two pickup cavities? Also, how deep did you route the pickup cavities and control cavity? Its almost time for those steps on my own build.

i really wish i could remember where i learned this trick so i could give credit. probably the project guitar forum. but you just route a small channel in the side of your neck-through before you glue the wings on

and on the pickup and control cavities i'm not sure, as i don't have the guitar in front of me. i'll be glad to take measurements once i get it back though.

rectifryer · 11-12-2010, 06:30 PM

Thats a beautiful guitar. I am pretty much going to borrow this idea for my own guitar if thats alright with you!

adrock · 11-15-2010, 01:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rectifryer

Thats a beautiful guitar. I am pretty much going to borrow this idea for my own guitar if thats alright with you!

haha, thank you very much. and do it!!

adrock · 11-15-2010, 01:42 PM

so some bad news, sort of. my luthier hasn't had a chance to get to my guitar. he said he's backlogged a bit. and i leave for florida tomorrow for a little vacation. so this isn't gonna have any updates for two weeks. but, i'll get it back in two weeks and the work will resume!!!

until then, some shitty cellphone pics of the back and current condition to hold you over...

scherzo1928 · 11-15-2010, 03:36 PM

might have just creamed myself.

gunshow86de · 11-15-2010, 04:05 PM

Cool looking wood combination, but that neck profile doesn't look very comfortable.

adrock · 11-16-2010, 11:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scherzo1928

might have just creamed myself.

well I definitely just got wet over that pic of your headstock you just posted

Quote:

Originally Posted by gunshow86de

Cool looking wood combination, but that neck profile doesn't look very comfortable.

hahahaha, definitely a lot of work to be done on that. I'm thinking a shape similar to the profile of the stephen carpenter sig.

PyramidSmasher · 11-17-2010, 10:52 AM

Sick enough that if you were a luthier I'd buy one of your guitars right away. My reccomendation is SD Crunch Lab in the bridge, dunno about the neck.

scherzo1928 · 11-17-2010, 11:06 AM

depending on the sound you are going for... but I think an air norton could sound great in the neck.

adrock · 11-19-2010, 04:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PyramidSmasher

Sick enough that if you were a luthier I'd buy one of your guitars right away. My reccomendation is SD Crunch Lab in the bridge, dunno about the neck.

thank you very much. i'm actually thinking about getting back into building, maybe sometime next year when i can get some space to do work. and i will check those pups out

Quote:

Originally Posted by scherzo1928

depending on the sound you are going for... but I think an air norton could sound great in the neck.

i've looked into that one a lot for the neck, always good to hear it recommended.

Khaine88 · 11-20-2010, 04:40 AM

Hmm Depending on what you want I think a BKP Rebel Yell Neck and a BKP Cold Sweat Bridge would be wicked

, looks amazing though dude awesome wood choice :>

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11-08-2010, 01:38 PM	#1
adrock long ball larry! Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: austin, tx Posts: 1,007 Thanked: 22 Feedback Score: 4 reviews	My custom RGT build in progress (56k don't even try) so I talked to my luthier last week, and he's almost done with his part. hopefully I'll get it back this week sometime. and with that, I figured it's time to share my baby with y'all. I started this project about 4 years ago. I was working for phattie drums, and had access to some amazing machinery. so, I started on my dream guitar. unfortunately, I had to move back to Florida shortly after, and since then I haven't really done much to it. basically because of lack of proper tools. well years later, I'm now living in Texas, and I made a decision. it's time to finally finish her. probably would've done some things different now. longer scale length mainly. but it's cool, I still love it with all my heart I built this entirely myself up to the progress you see in these pics. I recruited a local luthier to glue the fretboard on, drill bridge studs, and route the control cavity. I did the pup and bridge cavities myself. the only thing I didn't do by hand was the fretboard. we had a five-axis cnc machine, so I obviously used that. anyways, enough babbling. onto the pictures and specs: RGT style body and neck PRS style headstock white limba/cocobolo/wenge/cocobolo/white limba neck with volute black limba wings thin body (think blackmachine) natural oil finish maccasar ebony fretboard, side inlays only ebony binding 25" scale length tom style roller bridge with string through body hipshot locking tuners all black hardware pups-suggestions? s4tch likes this.

11-08-2010, 01:46 PM	#2
anthonyferguson Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Norf Yorkshire, int pub Posts: 899 Thanked: 21 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Damn that thing is beautiful. Black limba is where it's at! Congrats on getting it finished, and the determination to get it done. 4 years is a long time. it are go good with pizza

11-08-2010, 02:06 PM	#4
s_k_mullins drug free & god free Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: MS, USA Posts: 5,480 Thanked: 25 Feedback Score: 1 reviews	Looks awesome dude! PRS Mark Tremonti 10-top Music Man BFR JPX w/ roasted neck Carvin DC727 G&L ASAT Classic Gibson "Thunderhorse" Explorer ESP Eclipse II Ibanez Premium RG920QM PRS SE Mike Mushok baritone EVH 5150 III --> Mesa Rectifier 212

11-08-2010, 08:30 PM	#8
possumkiller SS.org Regular Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: no Posts: 1,992 Thanked: 39 Feedback Score: 4 reviews	Love it man! I like how the upper horn is pointy like the lower one. sol niger 333: "I'm guessing a dildo was used. A truth dildo."

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11-08-2010, 02:05 PM	#3
JaeSwift Of Blood and Sawdust Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Badhoevedorp, the Netherlands Posts: 1,816 Thanked: 27 Feedback Score: 8 reviews	Amazing woods!

11-08-2010, 02:11 PM	#5
7 Strings of Hate Banned Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: St.Louis USA Posts: 6,768 Thanked: 90 Feedback Score: 23 reviews	looks awesome dude. its quite stunning. i love the binding. I have a project that i'm doing with flamed black limba. in the process of finding the wood, i learned that apperently black limba and white limba come from the same tree. and that limba is the same thing as korina(black and white).

11-08-2010, 03:34 PM	#6
scherzo1928 has wood for you Join Date: May 2010 Location: Mexico City Posts: 4,692 Thanked: 33 $scherzo1928 is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $scherzo1928 is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $scherzo1928 is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $scherzo1928 is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $scherzo1928 is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $scherzo1928 is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $scherzo1928 is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ Feedback Score: 0 reviews	holy balls, I think that's the best looking guitar Ive seen this year... and it's november already. really great job!

11-08-2010, 07:52 PM	#7
adrock long ball larry! Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: austin, tx Posts: 1,007 Thanked: 22 Feedback Score: 4 reviews	wow, thanks for all the kind words!! in posting this, I realized I had no pictures of the back at all, haha. when she come back from the luthier I'll make sure to get some back shots. 7 strings of hate: yeah, it's pretty cool how the white/black limba works like that. and I had my lumber for a few months before I found out it was the same as korina. pretty awesome! scherzo1928: haha, thank you so much! your post inspires me to maybe enter her in the guitar of the month when she's done.

11-08-2010, 08:56 PM	#10
TheWreck Grind Your Mind! Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Sherbrooke,Qc,CN Posts: 554 Thanked: 12 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	This look awesome, with what other kind of wood, limba, could be compared sonority wise?

11-09-2010, 12:21 PM	#12
Alberto7 At Fort Kickass Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Montréal, QC Posts: 2,060 Thanked: 16 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Wow, man. That wood looks gorgeous! Awesome grain you got there and that looks like a seriously well-built instrument! Hope you get ti finish it soon post more pics when you have them! Sum, ergo cogito; cogito, ergo dubito; dubito, ergo cogito; cogito, ergo sum.

11-09-2010, 07:12 PM	#13
cerfew ss.org Regular Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Red Bluff, CA Posts: 231 Thanked: 5 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Oh my god this looks absolutely amazing. Say, how did you drill that hole connecting the two pickup cavities? Also, how deep did you route the pickup cavities and control cavity? Its almost time for those steps on my own build.

11-09-2010, 10:24 PM	#14
AK DRAGON Guitar Popcicle Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Anchorage, AK Posts: 1,770 Thanked: 17 Feedback Score: 2 reviews	Speaking of wood... That's going to be sexsee when done

11-12-2010, 06:30 PM	#16
rectifryer Alabama Pig Roast Join Date: May 2008 Location: Central FL Posts: 754 Thanked: 5 Feedback Score: 1 reviews	Thats a beautiful guitar. I am pretty much going to borrow this idea for my own guitar if thats alright with you! Also, there is nthing more I want to do right now then to just reach through this computer screen and slap you in the face. With a fish. A rainbow trout specifically. And even morespecifically, a dead and rotting one. So this way, every time you think of posting the link to this video on any other forum you may just happen to frequent, you will remember the smell of rotting rainbow trout sliding across your greasy face, and quite possibly, refrain from ever posting it again,

11-15-2010, 01:42 PM	#18
adrock long ball larry! Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: austin, tx Posts: 1,007 Thanked: 22 Feedback Score: 4 reviews	so some bad news, sort of. my luthier hasn't had a chance to get to my guitar. he said he's backlogged a bit. and i leave for florida tomorrow for a little vacation. so this isn't gonna have any updates for two weeks. but, i'll get it back in two weeks and the work will resume!!! until then, some shitty cellphone pics of the back and current condition to hold you over...

11-15-2010, 03:36 PM	#19
scherzo1928 has wood for you Join Date: May 2010 Location: Mexico City Posts: 4,692 Thanked: 33 $scherzo1928 is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $scherzo1928 is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $scherzo1928 is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $scherzo1928 is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $scherzo1928 is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $scherzo1928 is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $scherzo1928 is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ Feedback Score: 0 reviews	might have just creamed myself.

11-15-2010, 04:05 PM	#20
gunshow86de Sh-sh-SHAAA! Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 5,271 Thanked: 92 Feedback Score: 25 reviews	Cool looking wood combination, but that neck profile doesn't look very comfortable. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ஜ۩۞۩ஜ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ஜ۩۞۩ஜ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

11-17-2010, 10:52 AM	#22
PyramidSmasher Dog Sized Bird Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Cleveland, OH Posts: 1,099 Thanked: 43 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Sick enough that if you were a luthier I'd buy one of your guitars right away. My reccomendation is SD Crunch Lab in the bridge, dunno about the neck. Shredinja

11-17-2010, 11:06 AM	#23
scherzo1928 has wood for you Join Date: May 2010 Location: Mexico City Posts: 4,692 Thanked: 33 $scherzo1928 is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $scherzo1928 is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $scherzo1928 is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $scherzo1928 is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $scherzo1928 is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $scherzo1928 is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ $scherzo1928 is rather kvlt and tr00. \m/$ Feedback Score: 0 reviews	depending on the sound you are going for... but I think an air norton could sound great in the neck.

11-20-2010, 04:40 AM	#25
Khaine88 SS.org's Welsh Guy>< Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Porth, Rhondda Cynon Taff, South Wales, UK Posts: 195 Thanked: 5 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Hmm Depending on what you want I think a BKP Rebel Yell Neck and a BKP Cold Sweat Bridge would be wicked , looks amazing though dude awesome wood choice :> www.myspace.com/childofbodom88 Guitars: Caparison Horus HGS Oiled Walnut BKP Sinner Neck, BKP Aftermath Bridge[BRL Custom]Gibson Gothic 2 Explorer With EMG 81+85 18volt Coming Soon Daemoness Cimmerian 7 "The Magnum Opus" Amps: ENGL Invader 100 Zilla Fatboy 2x12 (V30 Loaded) Green on Black Pedals: Boss TU-3 Keeley 4 knob compressor Maxon OD-808 MXR Smartgate Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Nano Boss RC-2

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