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I don't remember if I posted about the body that I started almost a year and a half ago, but the baritone neck that I know I posted about recently is going on it. I started on it last March and as of December of '24, this is what it looks like: Mahogany body, quilt maple veneer, white...

Bari scale, tiltback maple w/ rosewood board. White pearloid Eye of Ra.

Sitting in a restaurant and the "Glory Days" video came on (I know..."video." How quaint). As a child of the '80s, I'd seen this video countless times when the M in MTV stood for "music." I owned "Born in the USA" on cassette. I never paid attention to his playing until now. His right-hand...

Hint: sing it out loud

This one is the "other" V-K that was originally available as a Showcase item then it appeared on the first round of the Black Friday sale for even lower price....so I had to get it. Since I was hemming and hawing about whether to go with transparent red or solid white in the V-K 2 thread, that...

Over the last few years as I've grown to pay closer attention to guitar building techniques, one thing that's stood out to me is the choice to cover the spring cavity or leave it open. I prefer a cover because from my first guitar onward, "that's what you do." I'm curious therefore what you...

Had to do it. I grabbed the Showcase V-K, though I still don't quite know why it was a Screamin' Deal as compared to the other V-K body in the Showcase. The specs seemed identical between the two. Even though one said it was super-light, the weight that was posted for both bodies was identical...

No, not some wannabe Smashing Pumpkins whine-fest. ;) The Black Gold gets posted for sale, I decide to look further into the Shaper Origin CNC router instead of a full CNC set-up given the constraints of my workshop space.....and then our lawn mower dies. So now I gotta buy a new lawn mower...

Thinning the herd, and after building two 6-string down-tuned guitars, I don't need a 7-string for that low B. Replaced the stock generic pickups that came with the kit with a set of red DiMarzio Titans for bridge & neck plus a single-coil DiMarzio Blaze in the middle...

Guessing there's a hole somewhere in the software that's letting these bots in. Are there more admins besides Aaron here or Aaron, are you flying solo? Can any of us help out at least temporarily to try to stem the tide?

My second commission ever was a friend asking for a guitar for her son. It was a kit build, but I was still getting my feet wet in this whole "guitar building" world at the time. By that time, I'd already built a few of my own, which was why I was asked. It was a frustrating project because I...

I finished up one project to a "good enough for now" point. Another one is almost there, just need to replace the nut then do the setup. So now what? Fall/winter is coming, so painting/finishing season is going to be wrapped up before I know it. I have one guitar body that I was planning to...

Paddle headstock to be shaped later.  White pearloid supernova inlays, 6230 (vintage small) nickel frets.  I've never played anything with frets this tiny before, so we'll see what happens.  Probably gonna need some lighter strings than I'm used to.

It resembles a Soloist, but isn't a Soloist, which is why I post this in the Misc. section. African mahogany body based on modified Strat template Body was cut and routed from the mahogany blank I made a sled/jig out of MDF to help cut the forearm and belly contours. Ran that through the band...

WM's swamp ash Iceman, maple paddle headstock neck (custom cut) w/ ebony fretboard, split block inlays.  Commissioned by my friend who's a huge MOPAR guy, and the design was inspired by his Plum Crazy Dodge Challenger.

One: Arcade reverse, ebony on maple with bloody basin jasper dots, white side dots, nickel 6150.  Standard thin, standard 1 11/16" nut, 10-16 radius Two: Arrow (to be custom-shaped later), ebony on maple with white skull & crossbones at 12th fret only. Everything else the same as the...

Posting this in Off-Topic since there are zero WM-related parts.  This was the guitar that started as my first blank, a slab of basswood, using my late father-in-law's router that my mother-in-law gifted to me.  This was also the project that told me that I really need a band saw if I'm going to...

We're getting our kitchen remodeled right now, and the cabinets were just installed.  We were checking out everything and when I opened one of the drawers, I noticed that the cabinet maker used some flame maple pieces.  Instantly thought that should've been a guitar neck.  I then picked out...

Started on the Iceman build this past weekend.  It was originally supposed to start at the beginning of this month when we headed up to our country house for the kids' spring break, but literally hours before we were supposed to leave, my wife got the call from the doctor's office saying her...

Placeholder for tomorrow's unboxing.