Hi, sorry for my English (i live in Russia).
I want to show you what I do in my spare time (my real profession - home builder).![wallbash :wallbash: :wallbash:](http://www.sevenstring.org/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wallbash.gif)
I have 3 years of doing repairs guitars and recently started making guitars.
Well let's begin?
I decided to make a guitar for metal. Basis for design took blackmachine.
Drawing made from photo.
Specification:
Body - korina with bookmatched curly maple top, thickness 36 mm, finish - top blackburst, bottom natural. Top with white ABS binding.
Neck - laminated wenge/maple/wenge/maple/wenge, headstock laminate veneer walnut, fingerboard purpleheart. Fretwire - sintoms 3 mm. Neck with white ABS binding.
Furniture - locking tuners sperzel, bridge hipshot hardtail, dunlop straplock.
Pickup - EMG 89 + 81TW
Cut the MDF templates.
Outlines on the body.
Glued neck blank.
Glued headstok.
Headstok almost ready.
Glued veneer on headstok, and binding.
Routing trussrod slot and glued fingerboard.
Truing the fingerboard radius.
Binding neck.
Carving neck.
Preparing body for gluing.
And glued.
I want to show you what I do in my spare time (my real profession - home builder).
![wallbash :wallbash: :wallbash:](http://www.sevenstring.org/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wallbash.gif)
I have 3 years of doing repairs guitars and recently started making guitars.
Well let's begin?
I decided to make a guitar for metal. Basis for design took blackmachine.
Drawing made from photo.
![2pocsvd.jpg](http://i55.tinypic.com/2pocsvd.jpg)
Specification:
Body - korina with bookmatched curly maple top, thickness 36 mm, finish - top blackburst, bottom natural. Top with white ABS binding.
Neck - laminated wenge/maple/wenge/maple/wenge, headstock laminate veneer walnut, fingerboard purpleheart. Fretwire - sintoms 3 mm. Neck with white ABS binding.
Furniture - locking tuners sperzel, bridge hipshot hardtail, dunlop straplock.
Pickup - EMG 89 + 81TW
Cut the MDF templates.
![1zvv7yt.jpg](http://i52.tinypic.com/1zvv7yt.jpg)
Outlines on the body.
![1iledg.jpg](http://i53.tinypic.com/1iledg.jpg)
Glued neck blank.
![25fhqn4.jpg](http://i53.tinypic.com/25fhqn4.jpg)
Glued headstok.
![11bnqmg.jpg](http://i52.tinypic.com/11bnqmg.jpg)
![2lcwia0.jpg](http://i54.tinypic.com/2lcwia0.jpg)
Headstok almost ready.
![nb6dmw.jpg](http://i54.tinypic.com/nb6dmw.jpg)
Glued veneer on headstok, and binding.
![2a5wt3c.jpg](http://i51.tinypic.com/2a5wt3c.jpg)
![2ev85l2.jpg](http://i53.tinypic.com/2ev85l2.jpg)
Routing trussrod slot and glued fingerboard.
![20h56bd.jpg](http://i56.tinypic.com/20h56bd.jpg)
Truing the fingerboard radius.
![118ga3k.jpg](http://i51.tinypic.com/118ga3k.jpg)
Binding neck.
![2rwkbd5.jpg](http://i53.tinypic.com/2rwkbd5.jpg)
Carving neck.
![211qfrk.jpg](http://i51.tinypic.com/211qfrk.jpg)
![2qanvi0.jpg](http://i54.tinypic.com/2qanvi0.jpg)
Preparing body for gluing.
![286xzf9.jpg](http://i56.tinypic.com/286xzf9.jpg)
![14j6ibb.jpg](http://i56.tinypic.com/14j6ibb.jpg)
And glued.
![2ex67p0.jpg](http://i56.tinypic.com/2ex67p0.jpg)