My (Very Ambitious) First Build, Complete Picstory! Instant Gratification FTW!

[insaneshawnlane]

wow........... I'm not a big fan of the shape (strat/super-strat is all I like) but the wood.........

Seriously, fantastic work.

 

[Beardyman]

Sweet baby lord jesus. Incredible, and super clean work. Lovee the wood choice, but i'm cringing thinking about slinging that axe. 14 lbs?!

 

[scherzo1928]

Holy balls man, you just won the "best first axe ever" award.

 

[drezdin]

Wow. I'm on my second build and it is crap. This is just awesome

 

[abadonae]

Dude its gotta be said...this is the most impressive build i've personally ever seen on here, for someone who hasn't said they're an official luthier, claims its there first ever build, that is outstanding.

I've always like the explorer shape but worried how it would look as an 8, however that thing is stunning, the kelly style headstock is just perfect for it as well.

The spalted maple and all the little things you've done/added to it just work and come together to make a thing of absolute beauty. Outstanding work man, i honestly hope to see more from you one day

 

[Fred]

Ya I dig that little "ghost" figure I have embedded in there. I'll upload a closeup of him

It weighs 14 pounds without the case. Not light. Hopefully once I take the neck down a tad it will be a bit lighter.

Haha, I hadn't clocked that figure first time round - looks like Psyduck.

Also, 14lb isn't all that bad - the 30" 8-string I had for a year or so was 20lb before the guy I sold it to tried to even out the neck dive by adding a lump of lead to the control cavity, bringing it up to 23lb... That thing was beastly.

 

[Captain Shoggoth]

Not true. I have a pic of Mårten Hagstrom's LACS Destroyer/Futura 8, and I can assure you, it does indeed exist.

Can I see?

 

[Spence]

Explorer + 8 String = WIN

Its a gorgeous guitar

 

[JerkyChid]

HOLY SHIT THAT'S AWESOME!!!

 

[leandroab]

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUCK!!!!!!!!

 

[Totem_37]

Dude its gotta be said...this is the most impressive build i've personally ever seen on here, for someone who hasn't said they're an official luthier, claims its there first ever build, that is outstanding.

I've always like the explorer shape but worried how it would look as an 8, however that thing is stunning, the kelly style headstock is just perfect for it as well.

The spalted maple and all the little things you've done/added to it just work and come together to make a thing of absolute beauty. Outstanding work man, i honestly hope to see more from you one day

Thanks dude! I really appreciate that! Hopefully one day I will be a full on luthier, but for now I'm just a journeyman. It is my first build, though I have lots of experience with repairs and mods.

Re: the explorer shape... I needed to scale up the body so it wouldn't look silly with the huge neck (both in length and width). The headstock was inspired by James Hetfield's KL Explorer. That's always been one of my very favourite guitars, and I was just itching to turn that sucker into an 8-string.

I hope to be able to keep putting stuff out there! Thanks again for the kind words all!

 

[jay133]

Well, man, i think you trolling us, because this thing is too good and cool for the first buil)) Just joking, but we have to see some videos as with it as soon as possible))

 

[ivancic1al]

That guitar looks extraordinary! Great job, it turned out very well.

 

[Daemon]

Really great job dude !

 

[MetalBuddah]

That spalted top is astounding!!! Amazing build!

Please make a vid

 

[josh pelican]

I hate the shape, but the wood is fucking perfect.

 

[Corpsegrinder88]

That turned out so tits... Man what's next? And great choice on the q tuner! They are awesome pups..

 

[Razzy]

That is NASTY in all the right ways!

 

[noob_pwn]

 

[Jontain]

wow, really sweet build man.