Completed Electric Guitar (pic heavy)

[scott spencer]

This is a hard tail electric guitar made for my oldest son....my 2nd guitar, and 2nd completed project of the year. The front is curly maple with green dye, the body is ash painted black. The finish is lacquer. Those interested in details of the build can find more info here.

[Joseph D'Orazio]

Lets just hope he aint one of those guitar smashers. That is a beautiful guitar. I am sure you both are proud.

[Sam Layton]

Scott,

That is a beautiful guitar. Your son will play it with pride. I can visualize the guys saying, "where did you get that guitar", and your son saying, "my dad built it for me"... I think you should be ready for more requests for guitars.

Great job, Sam

[Prashun Patel]

Wow! That's beautiful, Scott! Looks like something Batman or the Riddler would play on!!!!

- p

[Mike Langford]

Scott,

That is a beautiful guitar. Your son will play it with pride. I can visualize the guys saying, "where did you get that guitar", and your son saying, "my dad built it for me"... I think you should be ready for more requests for guitars.

Great job, Sam

I agree 100% with what Sam said!

Even most big name rock stars don't play a BEAUFIFULLY DESIGNED*CUSTOM BUILT*HANDMADE*ONE-OF-KIND guitar made especially for them! (can you say "Signature Series".... )

Fantastic job on the build Scott!....only one question: Where are you putting the (locking?) strap buttons?

[Dave Gaul]

Scott,

I didn't know you actually made things, I thought you were just a saw blade & table saw expert!

That has to be the coolest looking guitar I have ever seen!!!!

[Rob Cunningham]

Beautiful guitar Scott.

[Van Huskey]

Gorgeous guitar! I am sure your son will treasure it for a long time.

[John Thompson]

Love the dye look on the front Scott... you'll probably start receiving request from Metallica any time so check your mail-box daily..

[scott spencer]

For those curious about how this thing sounds, here are a couple of crude recordings of a "green horn" playing his green guitar.

The first file is recorded "clean", and the 2nd with the distortion gain set at 10. The sequence for both starts with the neck pickup, then mid/neck, mid, mid/bridge, and bridge. The poor resolution of the recording process masks quite a bit of character differences, but it'll give you an idea of how it sounds.

The clean sound

The dirty sound

[Chris Haas]

Looks like something the green goblin would ride on. very nice job.

[Brad Wood]

very nice. is this your first? I've had a solid body project bouncing around in my head for a while now. on a scale of 1 to 10 where you would put the difficulty????

curious about resources like reference books and supplies.

thanks

[Dave MacArthur]

Wow Scott, that is really nice! Great work. Looks like a green batmobile!

I really liked the "dirty" sound.

[scott spencer]

Thanks guys.

Chris - That's funny b/c I've been calling it the "Green Goblin".

Brad - This was my 2nd guitar. I'd put difficulty level in the about the 7 range...10 being most difficult. There aren't any single overly difficult tasks, but there are many little details to getting it right and setting it up well. I'd rate the reward level at close to 10 out of 10...well worth the effort. There are a lot of good resource sites...Projectguitar.com, MIMF.com, HarmonyCentral.com, and You Tube has a bunch of how to make a guitar videos. Loads of good suppliers online (Ebay too). Move that project from your head to your bench!

Mike - The strap hooks ended up at each end of the points on the "top side" when you play it.

[Brad Wood]

thanks Scott. I guess I could have actually read a few of the first words you typed in your OP

anyway, I'll check out some of those resources. What do you, or anyone else, think of the supplies Grizzley sells? Are they a good price and good quality?

I don't play guitar at all, though I wish I knew how. My wife doesn't quite get why I'm interested in building one, frankly I'm not sure I really know why either. Its just one of those things in my head that keeps coming back around (I know, get it to the bench ).

Dollars wise, about what did it run you to put this together? And, would you consider that average, low, or did you go high end on electronics?

thanks