Guitarists... my tale of woe with the happy ending.....

[baimun]

As many of you know, I've been working on a new guitar for several weeks.

Normally I put guitars together one piece at a time... then end up being VERY expensive and time consuming. I tried to make things "easier" and "less expensive" by ordering most of the custom parts in a KIT and finishing it off myself.

Six weeks go by and the custom kit arrives.... they got the wood and options right.. but it's the wrong kit. Sooo... I send it back and they go to work on another. I start to wonder...

"Six weeks for the kit... six more weeks for ANOTHER kit... and then I have to finish it???"

I called them up and told them to apply the credit to a fully finished guitar...



This is a representative Photoshop of what I ordered. Mahogany body, figured walnut top, gold hardware, birdseye maple fingerboard and neck...

This way in six weeks I'll be opening a FULLY FINISHED guitar instead of a kit.

I'll take the wood I have, get with burke and make a body for a DIFFERENT guitar. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[DARTH POOH]

If it sounds and plays as sweet as it looks, you got a gem! That's a beautiful guitar! [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Peter Peeker]

looks sharp!

[baimun]

It's just photoshop at this point.... but I've seen some killer looking Clairo come from that factory....

I'm praying it looks as good as this bass....



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[shypappy]

Hahaha!!! Baimun, and his ever changing guitar plans!! [img]cool.gif[/img]


You totally have to get with Burke, and do a Spawn guitar! That would rule!

[baimun]

You know... that's not a bad idea....

Maybe just an inlay on the body of the McF logo made from different wood. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Biohazard]

If that thing plays half as good as it looks, then it'll look twice as good as it plays!

[Skull-n-Bones]

With that wood combo I suspect you should have sustain that lasts for ...oh...about an hour!

[*PORTHOS*]

the finish of the body looks like the Necronomicon , you should think about adding eyes, nostrils and a mouth to it
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<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ August 26, 2004 01:50 PM: Message edited by: *PORTHOS* ]</font>

[baimun]

I'm expecting it to be fairly heavy... not as heavy as Les Pauls I've had because it will be thinner, but heavier than your run-of-the-mill strat....

... but that's a necessary evil for deep tone and sustaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiinnnnn....

[nigel]

You 'ear that? aaaaahhhh... You coul' go get a bite and come back, it'd still be... aaahhhh...

Well.. it's not plugged in... but if it were, you 'ear it.

[/nigel]

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