inter-mark cipher inspired build

iCEByTes · Post by **iCEByTes** » Tue May 07, 2013 2:06 pm

well done

cur · Post by **cur** » Tue May 07, 2013 2:14 pm

thanks ice

cooter · Post by **cooter** » Tue May 07, 2013 2:35 pm

Excellent work. Both look really cool but I still like the blue one the best.
Great builds.

cur · Post by **cur** » Tue May 07, 2013 3:07 pm

cooterfinger wrote:Excellent work. Both look really cool but I still like the blue one the best.
Great builds.

Thanks! I ended up adding the chrome pickup rings to give it more of the vintage look.

cur · Post by **cur** » Tue May 07, 2013 5:06 pm

So I fell in love with this body shape from a single picture on an EBAY listing.

That is all I had for the guitar. So I blew up the picture and made a body template as close as I could to the proper shape. Then I started laying it out and things did not really fit the same was as the original picture. I though it was weird that the placement of the bridge and other parts would be so different, but I plodded on making them to please my aesthetics.

I had that EBAY picture for several years without seeing another one like it until a couple months ago when my builds were pretty much done. Theses are the pictures of the same type of guitar.

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I also found this pic a russian guitar styled after the intermak guitar.

Anyway, I am very happy with how these turned out and I don't think I ever would have given the body shape a second look if I had seen the original all put together. Looks like a ukulele body on a guitar neck.

Brandon W · Post by **Brandon W** » Wed May 08, 2013 3:25 pm

Great work!

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Wed May 08, 2013 4:44 pm

wow dude, great job. these look awesome.

cur · Post by **cur** » Sat May 11, 2013 9:08 pm

Since I decided to use the original pickup rings on the blue guitar, I screwed them on and put the guitar together. I had a miscalculation in that this raised the pups about 4 mm and the strings touched the pole pieces when you fretted up the neck. The pole pieces are very proud and could not be screwed in more (as I thought the would). I could not find longer screws to lower the pups deeper in the body. They were not the regular thread pattern for 4M screws. Since I already committed to the rings by screwing them in to the guard, and I do not have any more blanks lying around, I fabricated low rider rings out of aluminum and then polished them to a chromed like shine.

raised ring vs new flat ring.

flat vs raised on the guitar.

done

my blank starting material.