Guitars Built by Members of SS.org [pic heavy]

[MoonJelly]

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Seven-String Baritone I built over 20 years ago. You cant' tell from the photo but the fretboard is a rich purple color (purpleheart wood). The body is old-growth redwood (sequoia) sandwiched between two fascias of palmwood. Custom Benedetto pickup (wow that Benedetto is one awesome and squared-away individual), ebony tuning knobs. The accents (pickup ring and headstock inlay) are a very green colored wood from an 18th century shipwreck. Bridge was custom made by a machinist in Santa Barbara California, don't know if he ever got up to manufacturing them in larger quantities, great bridge kinda similar to Babicz bridges in engineering. Strings through body. Neck through body in the "joinery" construction I use where there's a big kerf down the back and the neck slides into it, so from the back it looks like your standard neck-throuigh approach but the body covers the neck in the front. I'll post some photos of the construction when I build some more guitars, if anyone is interested. Headstock is joined with long finger joints so the headstock angle can be quite steep with zero chance of breakage. Neck is plantation East Indian Rosewood, which is a real pleasure to work with. The construction favors epic sustain and lots of "woodiness" in the tone.

Started a new luthier enterprise recently, but this time with the most excellent and skilled (and fantastically attractive young lady) apprentice/business partner, not my bull-in-a-china shop stoner dickhead former brother in law like when I made this thing. Yeah he did steal my superb antique drawknife so I have to find another drawknife for shaping necks.

Where is that? Kinda looks like Utah/Tatooine.

 

[Bobro]

Where is that? Kinda looks like Utah/Tatooine.

It is somewhere in southern California- I think it is Painted Cave in the mountains near Santa Barbara. Those are native American petroglyphs on the wall.

 

[ElRay]

... Let's see if he grabs it from time to time and lets me show him some basic chords. ...

We did something similar with our youngest -- Tune it to an open chord. That way they can have more fun and not worry so much about "wrong" notes. We were surprised how quickly they recognized what in-tune sounded like and brought it to one of us to "Fix It" when it was out of tune.

 

[Lemonbaby]

We did something similar with our youngest -- Tune it to an open chord. That way they can have more fun and not worry so much about "wrong" notes. We were surprised how quickly they recognized what in-tune sounded like and brought it to one of us to "Fix It" when it was out of tune.

Simple and brilliant! Why didn't I think of an open tuning?

 

[Bobro]

Builder: troyguitar
Finished: 11-16-2009

http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/lu...9066-troys-new-build-inspiration-returns.html

Dude, I totally love the "alternate universe where Atlantis never sank" kind of vibe to that thing! Now if you'll fret it to some microtonal tuning, crystal-powered chariots of the gods UFOs will descend from the skies when you play it!

Only downside is that it fills me with intense desire to smoke a vegetarian cigarette and get stoned out of my gourd, but I'm doing not-smoking-pot solidarity with the lady I am pursuing at the moment so I can't smoke a joint. :-(

 

[ElRay]

... stoned out of my gourd ...

My first thought was that it was shaped like a gourd.

 

[DistinguishedPapyrus]

Finished today.

6 string, 22 fret, 25" scale length, HH configuration
Body - spanish cedar
top - walnut
neck 5 piece walnut and sapele
fretboard - roasted birdseye maple
headstock cap - matching walnut from body
cream binding
black side dots
pearl inlays
gold evo fret wire, jumbo size
2 way truss rod
bone nut
gotoh tuners
hipshot bridge
gold top pups (salvaged out of a Les Paul)
1 vol, 1 tone, 3 way selector
neck profile is shaped similar to a 70's SG

Build thread here: http://www.sevenstring.org/threads/build-for-a-friend-2.324902/

 

[Bobro]

Finished today.

6 string, 22 fret, 25" scale length, HH configuration
Body - spanish cedar
top - walnut
neck 5 piece walnut and sapele
fretboard - roasted birdseye maple
headstock cap - matching walnut from body
cream binding
black side dots
pearl inlays
gold evo fret wire, jumbo size
2 way truss rod
bone nut
gotoh tuners
hipshot bridge
gold top pups (salvaged out of a Les Paul)
1 vol, 1 tone, 3 way selector
neck profile is shaped similar to a 70's SG

Build thread here: http://www.sevenstring.org/threads/build-for-a-friend-2.324902/

Gorgeous!

 

[slayer6699]

Finished today.

6 string, 22 fret, 25" scale length, HH configuration
Body - spanish cedar
top - walnut
neck 5 piece walnut and sapele
fretboard - roasted birdseye maple
headstock cap - matching walnut from body
cream binding
black side dots
pearl inlays
gold evo fret wire, jumbo size
2 way truss rod
bone nut
gotoh tuners
hipshot bridge
gold top pups (salvaged out of a Les Paul)
1 vol, 1 tone, 3 way selector
neck profile is shaped similar to a 70's SG

Build thread here: http://www.sevenstring.org/threads/build-for-a-friend-2.324902/

Amazing build dude!!!

 

[J_Mac]

Finished today.

6 string, 22 fret, 25" scale length, HH configuration
Body - spanish cedar
top - walnut
neck 5 piece walnut and sapele
fretboard - roasted birdseye maple
headstock cap - matching walnut from body
cream binding
black side dots
pearl inlays
gold evo fret wire, jumbo size
2 way truss rod
bone nut
gotoh tuners
hipshot bridge
gold top pups (salvaged out of a Les Paul)
1 vol, 1 tone, 3 way selector
neck profile is shaped similar to a 70's SG

Build thread here: http://www.sevenstring.org/threads/build-for-a-friend-2.324902/

Holy f**k.

 

[Bobro]

Where is that? Kinda looks like Utah/Tatooine.

Finally got a close-up of the headstock. The greenish dot inlay is from an 18-century shipwreck washed up on Goleta Beach in California; the cannons went to a museum but my dad scored a small wooden beam. It's very green-colored tropical hardwood, maybe verawood (definitely not lignum vitae), and smelled very strongly of the ocean when I cut it up. You can see the headstock joint, which is long finger joints. This lets the headstock angle be as steep as you'd like, even like a lute, and is indestructible. The neck and headstock is East Indian plantation rosewood, which was a real pleasure to work, a dream wood with a very musical tap tone like a marimba bar.

One of the pleasures I get from making this is that I took it into a music store, and your classic 1980's music store worker twat with a mullet said the neck would not last because you have to copy Gibson or Fender if you want a neck to last. You older guys already know the guy- gives young musicians shit like why bother starting a band because Steely Dan is already the Mozart of our times. Then a few weeks ago the owner wrote to tell me that the neck has never required a single adjustment in almost 30 years and the action is as sweet as the first day he had it. And of course, unlike a Gibson, there is zero chance of the headstock ever breaking off.

 

[crackout]

Here's my latest: http://sevenstring.org/threads/nh-ome-b-uilt-gd-bl4ckmachine-b2-with-walnut-goodness.332835/

 

[Bobro]

Here's my latest: http://sevenstring.org/threads/nh-ome-b-uilt-gd-bl4ckmachine-b2-with-walnut-goodness.332835/

Beautiful!

 

[Purelojik]

HEY ALL!
So I haven't been back here in over a year and I thought I'd post up some stuff I've been building over the past year or two. Just got into my first choice fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Geriatric Medicine after completing residency and man has time flown by.

I've moved from Vegas to Reno and set up shop at a maker space here called Bridgewire. Pretty cool little place. I've been wanting to post more stuff here but it became so easy to just post on IG (akm_guitarworks) and the blog I've had since I started building (Akm.xyz). Anyways Enough rambling let's get to the good stuff.
So Here we go!

Koa Mini Guitar Prototype
Specs:
Scale Length - 15in
Wild Figured Koa Top
African Mahogany Body
Indian Rosewood Fretboard and Headcap
Roasted Birdseye Maple Neck
BWB binding
Jescar frets, Hipshot hardware with string saver saddles, Bourne’s pots
DiMarzio Vintage MiniBuckers
Daddario strings
Finished with Odie’s Oil and Waxes

One Piece Claro Walnut MultiScale 26-25
Body: Claro Crotch Figure Walnut on One Piece African Mahogany

Neck:Roasted Flamed Maple on Ovangkol and Pau Ferro

Hardware: Hipshot

Pickup: Dimarzio Vintage Mini-humbucker

Finish: Odies Oil, Wood Butter and Wax

My Personal Buckeye Burl 24.8in Scale Guitar
Body : Black Limba
Top : Buckeye Burl
Neck : Pau Ferro
FB : African Blackwood
Ivoroid Binding, Jescar Frets, Hipshot Hardware
Daddario Strings
Mcnelly Pickups “Saint Nick” Set w/Custom Treble Bleed mod
Seymour Duncan Lil’ Screamin Demon w/coil tap (independent circuit – can be blended in) - Replaced with McNelly Dual Blade Pickup
Finish : Odies Oil and Wax Products

Black Limba Mini Guitar 18in Scale Length
Specs:
Scale Length: 18in
Body : Black Limba
Neck : Quartersawn Pau Ferro | Richlite FB |Koa inlay
5 Layer Pickguard
Pickups: GFS Alnico V Gold Foil - Surprisingly good for the price
Hardware: Hipshot
Frets: Jescar Jumbo
Strings: Daddario 12-60 Tuned E standard
Finish: Odie’s Dark Oil | Butter | Wax
Buckeye Burl Knob by Clay Carrillo of Archipelago Glass


All pictures taken by myself on a Fuji XT10 | 56mm f1.2 | 35mm f2

 

[Zoobiedood]

Wow, there is some beautiful art, right there.

 

[MaxOfMetal]

HEY ALL!
So I haven't been back here in over a year and I thought I'd post up some stuff I've been building over the past year or two. Just got into my first choice fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Geriatric Medicine after completing residency and man has time flown by.

I've moved from Vegas to Reno and set up shop at a maker space here called Bridgewire. Pretty cool little place. I've been wanting to post more stuff here but it became so easy to just post on IG (akm_guitarworks) and the blog I've had since I started building (Akm.xyz). Anyways Enough rambling let's get to the good stuff.
So Here we go!

Koa Mini Guitar Prototype
Specs:
Scale Length - 15in
Wild Figured Koa Top
African Mahogany Body
Indian Rosewood Fretboard and Headcap
Roasted Birdseye Maple Neck
BWB binding
Jescar frets, Hipshot hardware with string saver saddles, Bourne’s pots
DiMarzio Vintage MiniBuckers
Daddario strings
Finished with Odie’s Oil and Waxes

One Piece Claro Walnut MultiScale 26-25
Body: Claro Crotch Figure Walnut on One Piece African Mahogany

Neck:Roasted Flamed Maple on Ovangkol and Pau Ferro

Hardware: Hipshot

Pickup: Dimarzio Vintage Mini-humbucker

Finish: Odies Oil, Wood Butter and Wax

My Personal Buckeye Burl 24.8in Scale Guitar
Body : Black Limba
Top : Buckeye Burl
Neck : Pau Ferro
FB : African Blackwood
Ivoroid Binding, Jescar Frets, Hipshot Hardware
Daddario Strings
Mcnelly Pickups “Saint Nick” Set w/Custom Treble Bleed mod
Seymour Duncan Lil’ Screamin Demon w/coil tap (independent circuit – can be blended in) - Replaced with McNelly Dual Blade Pickup
Finish : Odies Oil and Wax Products

Black Limba Mini Guitar 18in Scale Length
Specs:
Scale Length: 18in
Body : Black Limba
Neck : Quartersawn Pau Ferro | Richlite FB |Koa inlay
5 Layer Pickguard
Pickups: GFS Alnico V Gold Foil - Surprisingly good for the price
Hardware: Hipshot
Frets: Jescar Jumbo
Strings: Daddario 12-60 Tuned E standard
Finish: Odie’s Dark Oil | Butter | Wax
Buckeye Burl Knob by Clay Carrillo of Archipelago Glass


All pictures taken by myself on a Fuji XT10 | 56mm f1.2 | 35mm f2

Fucking loving these designs, dude.

 

[Purelojik]

Fucking loving these designs, dude.

Thanks man! It’s good to be back!

 

[Lemonbaby]

Wow man! Nice short-scales and where did you get that beautiful chunk of Claro?

 

[MaxOfMetal]

Thanks man! It’s good to be back!

Took a look at your site/Instagram, that Redwood topped single cut is hot.

 

[Purelojik]

Wow man! Nice short-scales and where did you get that beautiful chunk of Claro?

Believe it or not I actually won it online in one of those Facebook giveaways. It was a single board along with a bookmarched pair that I’m saving for later. I literally made that shape to fit that single board haha