MDF Mosrite

Joey · Post by **Joey** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 11:13 pm

I'd invite you over to jam Fran. But I'm scared you'd steal my coffee table and make a guitar outta it.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 11:16 pm

Ha, that would be lethal with the workshop you have.
Wife: Where's the front door gone?
Joey: erm, we made a Jazzmaster out of it.

Joey · Post by **Joey** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:16 am

lol, you can have my garage doors. I just fucked one up bad. The garage door came off the track when she was closing it. So I did what any guy would do in this situation. I started beating it with a hammer while standing on top of a bar stool... I lost my balance on top of the stool and the door slammed shut... busting the glass. I'm so dead!

Post by **Mike** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:43 am

hahaha Fucking awesome.

BobArsecake · Post by **BobArsecake** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:33 am

Wow Fran that's bloody brilliant! :D

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:27 am

Wait a minute:

I was thinking about this the other day: does anyone remember the coffee table that looked like it was made out of Mustangs and such??? I think it was sonic blue or something too. It was cool as fuck.

Also, that looks great fran. It's come up really well.

EDIT:

Whilst trying to find a pic, I found this:

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:58 am

I want to one day make a little end table out of a guitar body.

Just get one that isn't routed and smack some legs in it.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:32 pm

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Gavin · Post by **Gavin** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:43 pm

That's mental. I never knew Johnny Ramone had died. I thought you were joking or something, but it would have been a weird joke so I looked it up and he died in 2004.

Noirie. · Post by **Noirie.** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:49 pm

I like that neck pickup clean or distorted. Fucking brill work Fran!

Also if you start making these for a living, i want one like this

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Post by **Mike** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:11 pm

Dude that sounds fucking amazing. Fantastic video too.

Brilliant. I love that bright sound, beauty clean or dirty.

bassintom · Post by **bassintom** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:18 pm

Holy shit!

Do.want. This project turned out great on many levels.Good one Fran.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:18 pm

Thanks. I was a bit nervy making a video, bloody flatcap accent

Im shocked with the sounds too, equally good clean or distorted and no noise whatsoever from either pickup. I think Rez-o-matic's may be my new favorite single coil.

ultratwin · Post by **ultratwin** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:36 pm

Cleans to die for.

The full-bottom with a spanky bright top-end make that such a great package. Well done on a great looking punk machine.

DGNR8 · Post by **DGNR8** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 4:37 pm

Dude, you are a natural in front of the camera. The accent is great. Killer tones.

BoringPostcards · Post by **BoringPostcards** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:52 pm

Great Job. It looks awesome and then some. Sounds good too. +1 on the accent.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 12:04 am

nice one fran! sound great!

that I Don't Care riff was one of the first things I ever learned to play on guitar.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:10 am

mage wrote:nice one fran! sound great!

that I Don't Care riff was one of the first things I ever learned to play on guitar.

Me too!

Pens · Post by **Pens** » Mon Jan 30, 2012 3:13 pm

Fran,

I was curious how this guitar is doing since it's been completed? Does MDF still work out in terms of being a guitar body wood?

I'm considering making a body from either it or plywood as my first venture into doing bodies myself, and was curious how well yours held up.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Mon Jan 30, 2012 10:45 pm

Its still fine Pens.
From a construction point of view i've never gigged it but do not doubt it would hold up. My only concern would be the strap buttons into MDF, but i did glue them in as well as pilot drilling the holes. Because MDF is basically small compressed fibres screws can sometimes shear out.
Tonally MDF is as good as anything as Danelectro and Lindert have proven years before, especially for bright sounds. I've had Alder guitars and Basswood sound inferior to this project.

From a finishing point of view MDF is much better than Plywood. Ply would need grain filling and the paint on the edge usually sinks showing the layers, budget Ply 70s/80s guitars are a good example of this. I had a BC Rich Warlock made from Ply and although it did sound good the edges looked awful.

I think the old Dano idea of a Pine outline and centre block sandwiched between two pieces of MDF is the best idea, that way you have two acoustic chambers and a solid ground to fix hardware and strap buttons (like Cooterfingers Mosrite body). Lindert guitars are very similar, the chambers seem to give more tonal depth and acoustic volume.

Alternatively you could use Pine, im sure its cheap in the USA? Its a softwood but sounds great, i have a 50's CV Tele made from Pine.