Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 2:06 pm
well done
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Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 2:14 pm
thanks ice
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 2:35 pm
Excellent work. Both look really cool but I still like the blue one the best.
Great builds.
Great builds.
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 3:07 pm
Thanks! I ended up adding the chrome pickup rings to give it more of the vintage look.cooterfinger wrote:Excellent work. Both look really cool but I still like the blue one the best.
Great builds.
Posted: 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.
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.
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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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.
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 3:25 pm
Great work!
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 4:44 pm
wow dude, great job. these look awesome.
Posted: 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.
raised ring vs new flat ring.
flat vs raised on the guitar.
done
my blank starting material.