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Fretboard dots:


Burnish:



I highly reccomend pressing frets in. Much more accurate results in my experience:






Some neck smoothing:




And then I did a lot... a lot of sanding. You'll see the finished product at the end. Here's some pickup rings:




And lots of fitting and minor discrepencies and we have this!!!




And as far as the weight... it's a little heavy, but surprisingly doable. Still don't have a scale but my dad's got one, I'll bring it over there and get an official weight. This thing feels solid. Still have lots of minor things to do, nut slots, setup, wiring, cavity cover, final touches. I'm also looking to invest in a custom branding iron. But for the most part, there it is! I must admit, I love looking at it. Can't wait to string er up and start jamming.

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http://www.tinyhouseandland.com

Very cool idea! One piece of wood for the whole guitar. Looks great!

I like it!

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Old growth, shmold growth!

Pretty darn cool.

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http://www.CostaGuitars.com
PMoMC

Very sharp and nicely executed!

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Some misc pics of my hand crafted steels

Nice!!!
I remember when you had this idea,
now it's almost finished.
I like the shape of the headstock and body,
and the concept.
Are those jumbo frets on there?

Very cool guitar and very beautiful piece of wood. Good job! Congrats!

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Mike

The only thing nescessary for evil to thrive is for good men to do nothing.

looks great, but I was just wondering if you radiused the fingerboard.

25 frets? Your MAD! We love you!
I LOVE the tight grain on the body right where it hits the fretboard - truly sick.
We wanna hear it!

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"Talking about music is like dancing over architecture".
See the most insane first guitar build: http://www.virgilguitar.com
http://www.youtube.com/VirgilGuitar

I've never heard of this being done before, absolutely awesome!! I would be scared to even try because on little mistake and the whole guitar is done, not just the "which ever" piece you messed up. Absolutely incredible idea, and the guitar looks beautiful!

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John Thiessen
http://www.iszacguitars.com

Awesome job!

Thanks for the compliments.


Frets are jumbo ish. LMI's evo gold FW55090.


Fretboard is non-radiused. I like em that way. If a customer really wanted it radiused, I wouldn't mind doing it.


I was a little worried about that last fret chipping off the end of the fretboard cause I cut it pretty close, but it held up just fine. Now if I hammered it in... then it probably would've broken, and I'd be in tears. But cocobolo is strong.

I guess I just figured, Why do we only put 22 frets on our guitars?

And you'll hear it soon, still doing setup. Haven't wired yet either, but I'm pumped!

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http://www.tinyhouseandland.com

To have a pickup placed around the thoerical 24th fret

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Francis Richer, Montréal
Les Guitares F&M Guitars

That's not the argument for better harmonics is it? It will give it a bassier tone, but harmonics, not really. Just switch to the bridge pickup and see the difference.

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http://www.tinyhouseandland.com

I didn't assume that. In fact, placing your pickup directly under the 24th fret (so, under a nodal point) is a bad idea, and you will lose a lot of harmonic as you said. The fact is just, the lower the pickup is (toward the bridge), the crispier it will be. If you want a warmier sounding pickup, you have to put it higher toward the neck.

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Francis Richer, Montréal
Les Guitares F&M Guitars

Very nice!

a little heavy, but surprisingly doable.

Hey, that's what my wife says about me!

Well said.

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http://www.tinyhouseandland.com

Hillarious.

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http://www.tinyhouseandland.com

Very unique, and the end result looks spectacular!

Absolutely incredible job! Great color, too.
That is the hard way to build a solidbody, and you pulled it off with aplomb!

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"Act your age, not your shoe size" - Prince

Hey Mark,

What did you end up with for the rear cover?

Steve

Still workin on it. Got the wires hangin out the back. I figured that's the last thing I need to do other than touch ups.

Got it all wired up and partially set up and it sounds great! I'm not a great guitarist so you won't see any videos of me shredding but I will have a demo clip once it's all to my satisfaction.

I really like the wiring setup I came up with: 1 Vol, 2 Tone, Concentric pot spin-a-splits (top-neck, bottom-bridge) 3-way switch. You can dial in a pretty good in-between tone with the spin-a-splits, keeps it loud like a humbucker, but bright like a single coil.

I'm gonna re-make the nut because, and I didn't really think about it til today, but even though the string spacing is theoretically the same between each string, the mass of the bass strings makes the strings closer to each other on the bass side than on the treble side. I remember reading years ago about Jens Ritter doing progressive string spacing on his basses. So I'm gonna make a new nut in this manner. Add up the total width of string gauges and subtract that number from the width between the ends of the high and low E strings.

It's also fun to make bone nuts from dog bones. Cheap too.

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http://www.tinyhouseandland.com

Poor doggies! Why don't you use cow bones instead?

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Old growth, shmold growth!

Dog bones Now that is just wrong!

Hey, it's no worse than the puppies teeth I installed on the Dueling Dragons, right?

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"Talking about music is like dancing over architecture".
See the most insane first guitar build: http://www.virgilguitar.com
http://www.youtube.com/VirgilGuitar