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Shred from the North
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New 7 Build - zebrawood/padouk
I've been working on this new project the past two weekends and I just finished slotting the trussrod channel (no pics...sorry.) I spent most of today making templates for the pickups (mabye EMG 707/81-7 or 2 JB-7's) and the bridge (hipshot 7 trem). It's a pretty thick zebrawood 2 piece cap over mahogany/flamed maple/mahogany backing. The neck padouk. I've got a flamed maple fretboard to use on this and I've a neat inlay idea going on...hope I can pull it off.
It's going to be 25.5 as I've got smaller hands. ![]()
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dude. badass. thats lookin awesome
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I am a COCK!!!!!!!!!
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That's looks awesome
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Looks good so far! That's going to be a bright sounding guitar.
Why are you using flamed maple, then covering it with zebrawood? Is the neck flatsawn? Will padouk be stiff enough if used flatsawn? Can flamed maple be used for fingerboards? It's not recommended by Warmoth. |
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Swaheet!
Any plans for body contours? |
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ss.org Regular
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flame maple is used by jackson in the phil collen sig as a fingerboard.
man this is gonna be a great guitar, put in some warm pickups such as the EMG or bare knuckles and it will scream! |
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Djentleman
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Lookin good bud.
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ROTER CUSTOM GUITARS
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Very nice
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Decibel Guitars
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Mmm... zebrawood...
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Pantysniffing zombie
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That thing's giving me some serious (zebra)wood.... Shut up, I couldn't think of anything else perverted to say.
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Gearus Pimptasticus
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That going to be awesome
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![]() That will look sweet! |
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Looks good.
Anxious to see further progress. Keep us posted. |
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prototyping...
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Nice!
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I've only got a stripe of flamed maple on the back, it's mostly a mahogany backing so the guitar isn't so bright. Warmoth also uses flatsawn padouk and I use carbon fiber rods.
![]() Updates will be sparse - whenever I get to the shop (1.5 hours travel) but i'll make sure there are pics. Next weekend I'm hoping to have the fretboard glued up and the headstock properly shaped. I've been trying to design a headstock, but so far i'm kinda stuck. I whipped up a template with the steinberger scepter headstock as a 7, but I'm not sure it will work. Thanks again for the words guys! Quote:
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Looks nice. Can't wait to see it when it's finished.
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very nice work! glad to see you and some of the other 7-string builders on projectguitar.com over here as well.
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That padauk looks strange, I dig the color.
And the body has some nice woods on it.
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that looks really nice! Toronto eh.. that'd be a sweet 7 to try!
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hates womanizers.
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that's going to look great.
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keep us posted
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Shred from the North
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Okay! So the weather finally cooperated and let me actulaly GET to my wood shop this weekend. I was a day and a half late so my shop time got cut pretty severely.
Here's what I got done though. I wanted to get the neck tapered and get the fretboard attached. This is the template attached to the neck blank before routing. EDIT: Oops - There is a strip of ultra sticky two sided indoor carpet tape (super thin) between the template and the wood. ![]() And here's the neck nice and flush tapered. ![]() There wasn't a lot of material to be taking off, but check out the huge mess that padouk likes to make. ![]() My trusty vacuum cleaner "George" will fix that shit up. ![]() Here's a pic of my fret slotting blade. This thing probably chopped a solid 4 hours off my build time and the accuracy of the cuts is way beyond what I could originally do by hand. ![]() And here's the finished fretboard with some naptha to bring out the flame. ![]() Here's the fretboard all clamped up - next step will be to flush the board to the neckblank and route the neck pocket.
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Looking great Brian! Really looking forward to seeing it finished. How do you run the 'board across the sawblade? (setting distance, etc.)
BTW, do you have any complete build walkthroughs/tutorials? EDIT: Also, I have that same router.
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Nice!
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Great
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