Getting closer to finishing

 Here I finished with the staining of the headstock and the body and neck. I just need to spray on the lacquer and I'm on my way to the final stages.

Finishing stages of custom guitar build

Here is the custom guitar build I have been working on for quite a while now. I have just now got around to working on the finishing so I can finally complete it. This stage is where I used some grain filler in rough form to fill all the pores in the mahogany neck and body.

Bass Guitar neck pocket re-route

Here is a bass guitar that I was given to route a new pocket for a 5 string bass neck. The body was originally made for a 4 string.

Here is the finished guitar that the customer painted and put together himself. I did the neck pocket re-route, Fret dress, setup, intonation and tuning. I think everything turned out really well.

Guitar Repair for a friend

A friend of mine found this in a dumpster and it needed a little work. Not that you could tell but all the electronics were rewired and an input jack and custom jack plate was made as well as the usual installation of strings and an intonation done. Sounded pretty good when all together and finished.

3rd Stage of guitar

Here is the third stage of a guitar I plan on finishing this year, hopefully within a couple months. Still in the rough form with some of the parts laid out to see the potential finished product.

2nd stage of new guitar design

Here is a picture of a fairly new guitar design that is stained with a light blue and topped with a sealer coat. Also the neck pictured is in a somewhat rough form. Again I used mahogany for the main part of the neck and rosewood for the fingerboard. The inlay is at the twelfth fret.

Altoids Headphone Guitar Amp

Here is the Altoids Headphone guitar amp that I finally put together. I still need to attach a switch for the clean to distortion option, but it will do until I get around to that. I used the same easy schematics for this from the general guitar gadgets website.

New Guitar design in the rough

Here is the rough design cutout and route of a new design I'm working on. A one piece top of flame maple. Honduran mahogany base. Lucky to have found it.

New Bridge repair 12 string

Here are some pictures of the new bridge I made using flame maple. Maple is more dense wood than mahogany and less porous. I think I learned my lesson about the mass amounts of tension 12 string guitars put on the parts of acoustic guitars. Using the maple bridge also helped to improve the sound quality, making it a little bit brighter and clear sounding.

Bridge Break

This is what happens when you make a bridge a little too small and use wood that is not quite strong enough for all the tension demanded from a 12 string guitar.

12 string acoustic guitar repair

Here is an acoustic guitar that didn't have part of the bridge tailpiece. I custom made a new one out of some mahogany due to the time and availability it would take to get a new tailpiece. These are before and after pictures.

DIY Headphone amp with volume knob

Recently I have been working on small electronics. Through the help of generalguitargadgets.com, pedalparts.com and Radio Shack I have put together a small guitar amp. I used an old Gibson pickup box and a generic circuit board. I already had most of the parts so I probably spent around $5 or so. I'm sure someone could build one for about $15-20 if they used a nice pedal box and other parts from the sites I referenced. I also modded the schematics by adding a volume control. I got the easy schematics from generalguitargadgets.com. This amp has clean and distortion. I will post other DIY projects in the near future.

2nd Electric Guitar

These are pictures of a guitar I built for my Friend Kirk last year.