A Build Already Completed.......Photos Before Completion

[JeffBlue]

 

[JeffBlue]

My Warmoth build, Swamp Ash Chambered body, Edenhaus Maple neck, Seymour Duncan pickups, Custom copper pickguard

 

[bagman67]

Hi, Jeff - nice work.  I like your "my way or the highway" approach, on this and on your custom body shape builds in other threads.  Do you fabricate your metal pickguards yourself?

 

[JeffBlue]

Yeah and it is not so easy. But the results are rewarding. Thanks. Sometimes other people give me a lot of flack on another forum about what I did to my Aria Pro II, and my 2012 Gibson Les Paul Supreme modifications. I do what I want and what makes me happy unless if it is someone else's guitar.

 

[tylereot]

Looks great!  Where do you get the copper plate?  I'd love to do something like that on my next one.

 

[JeffBlue]

I really do not remember. I believe I bought the copper from a metals retail store in Anaheim California. I bought the sheet metal years ago and just decided to do something with it. I have prototype guitars that I have created that have brass tops on them.

 

[Cederick]

Not bad :icon_biggrin:

What did you use for cutting the plate?

 

[JeffBlue]

Not bad :icon_biggrin:

What did you use for cutting the plate?

Believe it or not, I used a skil saw over a trash barrel. Drilled holes where the pickups are so that I could cut those with the saw. I did a whole lot of filing. Lots of work.