Recent content by koshersteel

if this guy can make a living selling guitars at that price then I say more power to him. doesn't mean you have to buy one though.

oh yeah, and never work on an instrument you can't afford to buy in case anything unfortunate should happen while it is in your possession.

Q: how do you make one million dollars building guitars? A: start with two million dollars. that being said, follow your bliss...

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I've seen this guys work around before. Doesn't he build guitars with a 26" scale length?

and sandpaper :) this could be done but it will be quite a project. you'll want a body without the control cavity pre-routed (or maybe see if Warmoth will route it less deep, about 1" or so is probably good). Routing your own control cavity and drilling the control holes is easy if you have the...

looking good...

if the description says set neck than it's probably a set neck. The joinery is just covered by the opaque paint.

I'm in. This should be a lot of fun.  

Scale length is the distance from the nut to the bridge. The 12th fret has to be in the center of this measurement so it can produce an octave. I'm not familiar with the neck you want to use but assuming the neck pocket was routed correctly it could work. Your probably going to want to find a...

here you go, the top is 1 piece Padauk and the back is 1 piece figured Khaya. The body is semi-hollow. It's drilled for a Hipshot hardtail and will probably get a duncan Jazz/JB set when I put it together. I've never posted my original stuff before since this is a Warmoth board but this time it...

this is one of the things that led me to to building from scratch. Here are some pics of the solution I've come up with (influenced heavily by my PRS CE-24). It would be awesome if Warmoth offered necks like this but they'd probably have to re-tool half of the factory first. you'll also notice...

just remember, the line is only an approximation. The "real" note is somewhere else on the board...

I don't have my fretless any more, I sold so much gear last year that now I have a spare room in my house. I attached a photo of the same model I used to have though mine was blue. Not to discourage any one but fretless guitar is the hardest instrument I've ever played. Harder than Sitar...

  I played fretless guitar for a few years. You definitely want the hardest fingerbaord material you can get. I was never satisfied with a wood fingerbaord and eventually got a Viger Surfretter with a Brass fingerboard. I hear good things about glass and have been thinking about building a...