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mezy

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I replaced my old draughty mahogany front door with a nice new UPVC one.
I hate to waste wood so i made this out of the old door
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Sweet! What did you use for the fret board inlay?
 
Beautiful craftsmanship!
 
Your car should be very afraid as you might remove it’s Fender and make a guitar ;)
 
Gliderman8 said:
Your car should be very afraid as you might remove it’s Fender and make a guitar ;)
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I see what you did there. If you use a Fender to make a guitar is it already a Fender or do you make a Fender from a fender or.... so confused

Great guitar! (how does it sound - My father had a friend who insisted that the wood was incidental to the sound so he made a guitar out of arborite. It had a sharp sound but better than your would think.
 
JPSmit said:
I see what you did there. If you use a Fender to make a guitar is it already a Fender or do you make a Fender from a fender or.... so confused

Great guitar! (how does it sound - My father had a friend who insisted that the wood was incidental to the sound so he made a guitar out of arborite. It had a sharp sound but better than your would think.
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Hi JP, the wood is very important to a guitars sound. The harder the more sustain it will have, semi hollow body gives it a mellow jazzy sound. I will try and find a short video.
 
The front and back panels are shaped. Did you carve that by hand? is it steam formed? Was this based on a plan did you design it? That inlay work is fantastic.

Gilderman8 wanted a Fender so here is the Fender 5E3 Princeton amp clone I built with my oldest son - No cars were hurt. It started out life as a shelf, a bit of scrap aluminum, a few tubes and misc. Nice early 1950s sound. Would probably match very nicely with Mezy's guitar.
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Point to point wiring... no cheating with a printed circuit board!
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70herald said:
The front and back panels are shaped. Did you carve that by hand? is it steam formed? Was this based on a plan did you design it? That inlay work is fantastic.

Gilderman8 wanted a Fender so here is the Fender 5E3 Princeton amp clone I built with my oldest son - No cars were hurt. It started out life as a shelf, a bit of scrap aluminum, a few tubes and misc. Nice early 1950s sound. Would probably match very nicely with Mezy's guitar.
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Point to point wiring... no cheating with a printed circuit board!
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I love hand made stuff, so much more detail and care goes into them, The amp is a work of art in itself,

The guitar body was all hand carved, base on the outline of a gibson ES335, probably the sexyist guitar ever made. But i gave the body more of a violin shape front and back. A little more bowel like.

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mezy said:
Hi JP, the wood is very important to a guitars sound. The harder the more sustain it will have, semi hollow body gives it a mellow jazzy sound. I will try and find a short video.
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I do know that. Not too many musical bones in this body but my brother is a musician. He has a lovely 60s? Gibson as well as one of these.

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Coming back though to yours, it is absolutely amazing (as is the amp)

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mezy said:
I love hand made stuff, so much more detail and care goes into them, The amp is a work of art in itself,

The guitar body was all hand carved, base on the outline of a gibson ES335, probably the sexyist guitar ever made. But i gave the body more of a violin shape front and back. A little more bowel like.

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amazing! But I hope the typo is a typo (bowel like?) :ROFLMAO:
 
JPSmit said:
amazing! But I hope the typo is a typo (bowel like?) :ROFLMAO:
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Suffer from fat fingers, added to the fact I can't type that well, hit the go button before I've checked it, then get shouted on the radio to go and fix something.
Us engineers have answers for everything 😉
 
Absolutely beautiful guitar and amp (yes I know from 2 different postings but they just seem to be crying for a really long 1/4 inch cord to connect them together). The important question is...will they go to 11????
 
YakkoWarner said:
The important question is...will they go to 11????
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Of course it will go to 11. I actually made (a few sets ) decals for it and labeled the volume up to 11 but didn't like the way the numbers looked on the faceplate so I polished the numbers off. Proper silk transfer was a bit out of my skill set. Only 2 knobs - volume and tone. Anyone who can finger a few chords on a 6 string can deal with 2 unlabeled knobs.
 
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