......... 7 Custom

[hufschmid]

Took forever to load and is still loading so the HD version will be available shortly..

Enjoy

P.S: Alex gave me his permission to make this video

EDIT: next time I hear somebody telling mahogany sounds warm and muddy

[ralphy1976]

nice t-shirt man!!!!!

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[TomAwesome]

Another nice video!

[MF_Kitten]

Originally Posted by .........

EDIT: next time I hear somebody telling mahogany sounds warm and muddy

you always say that

i think we´ve all realized how sapele sounds now, with your videos

[Felsstein]

Man, that sound seriously kills!

At the moment I`m unable to get rid of the smile in my face..

Its exactly how I wanted to have it! Need to feel the neck and playability but I think it wont be anything less than perfect!

Really nice!

[hufschmid]

Originally Posted by Felsstein

Man, that sound seriously kills!

At the moment I`m unable to get rid of the smile in my face..

Its exactly how I wanted to have it! Need to feel the neck and playability but I think it wont be anything less than perfect!

Really nice!

I forgot to mention to everybody that Alex did send me an e-mail with the description of the sound he wanted from the pickups...

I then forwarded the mail to Kent and he then built the pickups according to that mail, sothe pickups are truly unique for Alex...

Glad you enjoy man, like I said, its your first 7 string so you will have to get used to the extra string and the scale but after a little bit it will become second nature really

Originally Posted by MF_Kitten

you always say that

i think we´ve all realized how sapele sounds now, with your videos

Its a tough mission you know, I bet you that somebody will write in an other thread that mahogany sounds warm and muddy

BTW sipo sounds very bright also.....

[Customisbetter]

The sustain and clarity of that guitar is mind boggling.

You do excellent work man.

[ViK-master]

Patrick, congratulation! Nice work and impressive awesome sustain.

Originally Posted by .........

Its a tough mission you know, I bet you that somebody will write in an other thread that mahogany sounds warm and muddy

Surprised to hear that that often from you. I've done about 25 guitars of mahogany, african and mostly honduran and I DO say mahogany sounds warm, very warm and deep and sweet and bright. It first depends on thickness. Your guitars are pretty thin and that's why they sound so bright and focused and flat in some cases but still great for those aims. Make it 45mm or more and you'll get that fat warm deep sound. "Muddy" is about bad mahogany on not very good guitars.

Don't take it personally. It's my opinion and it's just the oposite to yours in this particular case.

And congratulations once again!

[hufschmid]

Originally Posted by ViK-master

Patrick, congratulation! Nice work and impressive awesome sustain.



Surprised to hear that that often from you. I've done about 25 guitars of mahogany, african and mostly honduran and I DO say mahogany sounds warm, very warm and deep and sweet and bright. It first depends on thickness. Your guitars are pretty thin and that's why they sound so bright and focused and flat in some cases but still great for those aims. Make it 45mm or more and you'll get that fat warm deep sound. "Muddy" is about bad mahogany on not very good guitars.

Don't take it personally. It's my opinion and it's just the oposite to yours in this particular case.

And congratulations once again!

Thanks

Why should I take it personaly, every luthier has his own approaches to building and I'm exptremely suprised that you now say that mahogany sounds warm because you know its not true ....

I've build about 190 full mahogany guitars using sapeli and sipo (which you did not mention) thin and not thin bodies and have proven it to sound extremely bright over countless videos and dosen of customers who are playing them

So I think I know what I'm talking about since this is my wood of predilection, but again your not using the same mahogany then I am...

edit: My original point is to say that trying to sell ''mahogany'' (which does not mean anything) as ''warm sounding'' is wrong

[TMM]

Originally Posted by .........

This should give you a close up idea of the action of the guitar, I tried my best...

That looks awesome, very nice job Patrick!

I have to say, I'm a huge fan of having the action as close to the board as possible without excessive string buzz. I make up for some loss of sustain by boosting the signal a little, and make up for the extra noise from that with a noise gate It's down to a science.

[leandroab]

Nice XXXXXXXXXXL sized T-Shirt!

[ViK-master]

I've never used sipo but have some sapele exrpireance and it's obvious to me why you choose that thickness.

EDIT: next time I hear somebody telling mahogany sounds warm and muddy

That was probably that "next" time and I'm firm on my opinion. A slight edition like "sapele and sipo" instead of mahogany might make me be fully agreed with the author.

[hufschmid]

Originally Posted by ViK-master

I've never used sipo but have some sapele exrpireance and it's obvious to me why you choose that thickness.



That was probably that "next" time and I'm firm on my opinion. A slight edition like "sapele and sipo" instead of mahogany might make me be fully agreed with the author.

I edited my post... But I always use either sipo or sapeli

I got a friend who sells them locally, I get to choose them, its really cool

[MF_Kitten]

the point here is that "mahogany" doesn´t mean anything. it´s like saying a guitar has a "maple top", without specyfing if it´s soft maple, rock maple, quilted maple, flamed maple, or spalted maple. "mahogany" is way too wide a term to mean anything when we´re talking about custom builds. in production guitars, "mahogany" usually fits the "warm/muddy" description, because they use those more common honduras/african breeds of mahogany.

[ViK-master]

Sapele does look incredible too and you use great style of finish for it. Especially with bloodwood fretboards it looks killer!

[hufschmid]

Originally Posted by MF_Kitten

that´s weird that they look different in the pics then

probably the light though, you kinda need to see the reflection in the pickup to see the polishing rings.

edit: oooh, now i see! i haven´t really checked out the close-up pics of the 7/8 string pickups until now, and just remember the 6 string one i have

found a better pic

[MF_Kitten]

yeah, i see what i misread earlier

i misread it as ALL the pickups being shiny and stuff, and NONE of them being microblasted, but it was, of course, the opposite

[hufschmid]

6 strings

I even have an other design which I never use which has a bevel on the edges but its a bevel which cuts into the pickup, not a normal bevel... hard to explain.. like a feather thin binding route all around the pickup top if that makes sens?

[BrainArt]

Originally Posted by leandroab

Nice XXXXXXXXXXL sized T-Shirt!

Only the most metal of people can pull them off.

Notice also that it's a Lonestar Transcend shirt.

[Al NiCotin]

Originally Posted by ViK-master

I DO say mahogany sounds warm, very warm and deep and sweet and bright. It first depends on thickness. Your guitars are pretty thin and that's why they sound so bright and focused and flat in some cases but still great for those aims. Make it 45mm or more and you'll get that fat warm deep sound. "Muddy" is about bad mahogany on not very good guitars.

I so agree with this opinion, mahogany have a warm sound for those who are involved in acoustic guitars. its not so much important for a solid body IMO... and .......... pickups have apparently CERAMIC magnets wich "help" a lot for the final brightness

[hufschmid]

^You still dont specify which mahogany specie your talking about...

Also Morten cleared it out on the previous page, so I will quote what he said....

the point here is that "mahogany" doesn´t mean anything. it´s like saying a guitar has a "maple top", without specyfing if it´s soft maple, rock maple, quilted maple, flamed maple, or spalted maple. "mahogany" is way too wide a term to mean anything when we´re talking about custom builds. in production guitars, "mahogany" usually fits the "warm/muddy" description, because they use those more common honduras/african breeds of mahogany.

[snuif09]

transgression sounds awesome on that guitar =0

great work your pretty much the one that gave me the idea to build my own guitar =)

[dooredge]

Awesome guitar, Patrick!

[hufschmid]

Thanks guys

[MF_Kitten]

i finally got around to watching the video

awesome stuff! i love how it sounds like you said "this is your captain speaking"
guitar sounds great, and it just dawned on me how thin the body is. awesome! i love thin bodies

i love that face in the beginning, when you show the guitar to the camera!