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

[aaron_rose]

Super good ! Love the headstock, when I saw the early pics of it on paper I cringed but it looks awesome and brings balance the guitar least to my eye. real gnar \m/

 

[BIG ND SWEATY]

it doesnt look like it should be tuned above LOW C#
i would love to try that thing, i love big guitars

 

[Levi79]

Wow. Very, very nice work dude. Thanks for sharing!

 

[IkarusOnFire]

Sick build, but what is that headstock? I keep seeing it and I'm curious. Looks awesome.

It looks very much like a take on the Ken Lawrence headstock: (does super expensive stuff, think James Hetfield custom explorer)

 

[Ironbird]

Good thing this was necrobumped...if it wasn't, I probably wouldn't have seen only the most amazing Explorer build in the history of mankind!

 

[JStraitiff]

holy shit. Nice. That thing is huge. Im disappointed that its an explorer though lol

 

[SilentCartographer]

Righteous! Also sweet blankey

 

[OWHall]

For a brief moment in your second post I thought the calculator was inlayed into the back of the body

 

[Hywel]

 

[Renkenstein]

Hell of a job, man. That girl's a beaut!


Edit* Just noticed this was turbo-necro. Did OP build anymore since this one?

 

[Slunk Dragon]

This was a dearly-needed necrobump. Oh my LORD my GAS senses are on overload.

How many newborns do I have to sacrifice to have luthier skills as good as that?

 

[Simic]

Amazing build right there. Dat neck. Also this thing is freaking huge o_o

 

[electriceye]

That really is amazing. Beautiful creation. RE: the weight. Any reason you didn't chamber the hell out of it?

 

[BlackMastodon]

I like how this was the second necrobump for this thread.

 

[vkw619]

I like how this was the second necrobump for this thread.

So glad it happened though. I've never been an explorer fan but my god this thing is GORGEOUS!

 

[Totem_37]

Haha appreciate the necro-bump love folks!

For the record, (as stated in the OP) this was indeed my first build, but I did it under the tutelage of Tony Karol of Karol Guitars in Mississauga, Ontario. That being said, I have been working as a guitar repair tech for eleven years, and have been running my own repair business (Hanff Guitar Repair) since 2011. I've worked under some pretty heavy repair techs, including Allen Hunter (AVH Guitar Repair - Dendroaspis on here), so I'm not exactly green when it comes to this stuff.

Within the next week or two, my band (Earth's Yellow Sun - www.facebook.com/earthsyellowsun) will be releasing a couple live vids on youtube including a cover of Now You've Seen the Butcher by Deftones where I'm playing this bad boy. So hold tight, and there will be some live footy real soon!

Thanks again for all the love!!!

 

[Totem_37]

Okay, as promised, here's a live vid of my band, Earth's Yellow Sun playing You've Seen the Butcher by Deftones. Featuring Adam Matthews of Intandem and Third Eye Open - A Tribute to Tool on Lead Vox. My other guitar player is playing an M80M prototype on loan from Allen Hunter (Dendroaspis) of AVH Guitar Repair that was given to him by Frederik himself. Check it out! Hope ya dig!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCw-NxmivRM&feature=youtu.be

 

[metallidude3]

I don't know how I missed this, years ago. But this is spectacular!

 

[MetalDestroyer]

Okay, as promised, here's a live vid of my band, Earth's Yellow Sun playing You've Seen the Butcher by Deftones. Featuring Adam Matthews of Intandem and Third Eye Open - A Tribute to Tool on Lead Vox. My other guitar player is playing an M80M prototype on loan from Allen Hunter (Dendroaspis) of AVH Guitar Repair that was given to him by Frederik himself. Check it out! Hope ya dig!

HO. LY. SH*T.

Edit: remove the "s" in https:// to embed YouTube videos

 

[Blue1970Cutlass]

I too am glad this got necrobumped - I fvcking love explorers & missed this one the first time around!