Baritone 7 string 27.5'' scale (first pics)

[hufschmid]

ok guys here are the first pics of my up comming metal machine! 27.5'' scale baritone 7 string, solid sapeli mahogany neck and body, solid ebony fingerboard, dead flat 0'' radius with luminescent side dots, homemade stain and oil finish....
I'm going for all black hardware, the pickups will be my custom OTT models, outragioussly powerfull, the idea of this guitar is to tune down like an 8 string but with the comfort of the 7 string neck width to F (sharp) B E A D G B

 

[voiceguitar]

THATS A BEAUT!!! looks like great attention to fine detail. What does the tinfoil (?) do in the electronics cavity? no radio signal interferance or somthing? cheers

 

[hufschmid]

THATS A BEAUT!!! looks like great attention to fine detail. What does the tinfoil (?) do in the electronics cavity? no radio signal interferance or somthing? cheers

thank you

well i discovered recently, believe it or not... took me 12 years..... that shielding paint is crap and can actually cause noise problems... so this aluminium tape works really great, I dont really need any shilding because my custom humbuckers are epoxy sealed but this is a very nice clean tough.

of course a ground connexion from a pot to the aluminium must be done also...
the pickup cavity shielding is pointless but looks cool haha the pickups will be set on mounting rings....

 

[Ruins]

damn that's hot!!!

 

[jymellis]

i use the same tape on all my guitars lol. you can buy it from the music store for big dollars or from lowes lol. if you get it from lowes it is for hvac ducting. that is one awesome guitar! is it for you, a customer, or for sale?

 

[hufschmid]

i use the same tape on all my guitars lol. you can buy it from the music store for big dollars or from lowes lol. if you get it from lowes it is for hvac ducting. that is one awesome guitar! is it for you, a customer, or for sale?

i get the tape from a local hardware store.... you just have to pick the tape when installed with some pointed device to make sure the shielding is even (cause ofthe tape glue)

this guitar is for sale man, at this point i can custom build the pickups to the specs of customer also....

 

[jymellis]

how much do you charge for a 7 like this? i live in america so it would have to be shipped. im not trying to buy this guitar rite now, but i may be in the market and a few estimates on costs will help my plea with the wifey.

 

[hufschmid]

how much do you charge for a 7 like this? i live in america so it would have to be shipped. im not trying to buy this guitar rite now, but i may be in the market and a few estimates on costs will help my plea with the wifey.

i'm in switzerland, i ship worldwide by UPS, here is a blog post with my prices...

Myspace.com Blogs - PRICES / ENDORSEMENT - HUFSCHMID CUSTOM BARITONE GUITARS MySpace Blog

 

[Thrashmanzac]

love your work mate

 

[-Nolly-]

That looks awesome !

At what point do you do the bridge routing?

 

[hufschmid]

love your work mate

thanks a lot

 

[S-O]

I wish I was in switzerland!

 

[jymellis]

awesome prices on awesome work! you have a new friends request from an odd masked man

 

[hufschmid]

I wish I was in switzerland!

I got some cool pictures here of my hometown where i build my guitars

 

[Thrashmanzac]

^ you have THE life mate...

 

[NixerX]

F-U-C-K! hows the neck profile? Fast and Flat?

 

[hufschmid]

F-U-C-K! hows the neck profile? Fast and Flat?

neck thickness at 1st fret is 2cm and tapers to 2.3 at the 12th fret..... i dont use templates, i carve them all by feel the best i can as a guitar players myself... sometimes i ask for a picture of the hands of the player to help me carve out the neck... i recently did this for one of the players of switchback and made a narrower 7 string neck for him which turned out great... (first guy on the pic)

I forgot to mention, I finally have an 8 string track available on myspace which was performed by Jona Nido (the Ocean - Switchback) with the bloodwood fingerboard 8 string i built for him, the music is running here
MySpace.com - HUFSCHMID CUSTOM BARITONE GUITARS - 32 - Male - Montreux, Waadt - www.myspace.com/hufschmidguitars

^ you have THE life mate...

well appart from the gorgeous landscape the life over here is fucking expensive as hell!!! reason why the prices of the guitars are a bit more expensive over here then in the US...

 

[-K4G-]

Love the look of stained mahogany. Great job dude

 

[hufschmid]

That looks awesome !

At what point do you do the bridge routing?

its going to be a non tremolo Hipshot.... so its easy to install, still have to drill the ground to bridge connexion here and the holes for the strings and i'm done...

i just finished polishing and leveling the frets yesterday...

 

[-Nolly-]

its going to be a non tremolo Hipshot.... so its easy to install, still have to drill the ground to bridge connexion here and the holes for the strings and i'm done...

i just finished polishing and leveling the frets yesterday...

Aha, interesting. I'm very interested in the building of guitars, I'm not sure I'm patient enough to do a good job of it myself, but perhaps someday I'll give it a shot.