My Half-Warmoth Billy-Bo

[RiffWildly]

Half-Warmoth because they don't make a Billy-Bo style body. I wish they did, because this third-party body has some neck pocket issues I will need to address. But, at least it will look pretty! Here she is with many coats of amber shellac and three coats of clear nitro lacquer.

 

[bagman67]

Looks like fun. Are you dropping P90's in there, or are those Filtertron-clone pickup cavities?


Welcome aboard!


Bagman

 

[RiffWildly]

Yep, two P-90s, Bigsby B7, locking tuners ... should be fun.

 

[bagman67]

Nice. 


IF you don't have a set of pups already selected, permit me to recommend:


I have a set of Roadhouse True Blue P90's I cannot say enough nice things about.  Truly the most responsive pups I have ever owned.  Check'em out.  The winder is Ken Calvet, who goes by TroubledTreble on this here forum - a really nice man.  I don't see the p90's on his website, but he's usually eager to help a player find the sound he's after, and winds 'em custom per order.


http://www.roadhousepickups.com/



And if you already have pickups, well, I don't mind a chance to talk up Ken's wares anyway for anyone else who'll listen.


Peace


Bagman

 

[line6man]

Doesn't Doug have something similar, with a Purpleheart top?

 

[Cagey]

Yup. You can see it here.

 

[RiffWildly]

Nice! I hope mine will look that good.

Thanks for the pickup recommendations, but I've already got a set of Fralins standing by.

 

[bagman67]

Great stuff.  Lindy does great work.  Looking forward to seeing this all come together.

 

[DangerousR6]

Cool project, I loved building mine. But Unlike your dilemma, I had no issues with mine. I had a guitar maker make mine to my specific spec's. Since the Billy is an odd scale, I redid the dimensions in CAD for 25.5 scale, and it came out perfect.


I do like the looks of yours, the wood and black binding look awesome.. :headbang1:

 

[fdesalvo]

Way, way cool.  Love the 50's Art Deco/Space Age look.