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sixsixsix · . Joined: 25 Oct 2014 Posts: 3 Location: Ontario, Canada

First post! I am not even sure if I was aware of this forum until today. I am not a very flexible person, so find even regular length guitars uncomfortable to play.

Here are some pics of a short scale guitar I am building. It's made from one piece of soft maple (except the fretboard). 24" scale, with a flat, wide neck - 2" at the nut. I wanted to try a few different things, so figured I'd build them all into one guitar.

It will end up being dyed red, with a black pickguard. It is a little bit of a homage to Brian May's Red Special. I am calling it "Special Red". Soon I will be building a 28" bass. but that is a topic for another thread...

Fresh off the CNC. The drop on the headstock is more than needed, and the horns are too... horney. I am pretty sure frets past the 12th are just for show, but I suppose access to them shouldn't be painful. I ended up cutting them back later on.

Mock up with a temporary pick guard I made from teak. I may reposition the knobs. There is a switch under there, but I am probably going to rewire just as two volume knobs - one for each pickup.

Rosewood fretboard with maple inlays.

After carving the neck some, and sanding the fretboard. I don't have a bit small enough to cut fret slots, so I used a v-bit to start the slots, to be finished by hand later. You can see the cut back horns here.

Frets! I filled the fret slots in with gel superglue the pressed the stainless steel frets in. They still need to be leveled and dressed.

That's all for now.

daftsupernova · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2014 2:19 am Post subject:

this looks like some sort of wacked out 60s cartoon guitar and i fucking love it, cant wait to see more of it
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Chris Fleming · . Joined: 08 May 2013 Posts: 507 Location: Glasgow

Yup, pretty wacky shape. Usually the kinda of thing I don't like, but in this case I do. Really like the scratchplate design you came up with. Don't think I've seen one quite like it. Nice

cur · . Joined: 18 Jan 2009 Posts: 7296

Nice stuff. I like wider flat necks too. Maybe not 2", but you gotta do what you gotta do. Trans red with glossy, black pickgaurd will look cool.
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plopswagon · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2014 8:17 pm Post subject:

NickS · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2014 8:42 pm Post subject:

Skills!

sixsixsix · . Joined: 25 Oct 2014 Posts: 3 Location: Ontario, Canada

Thanks guys

Funny enough, the shape and colour I went with sort of surprised me as I like pointy black guitars for the most part. I got to the point that I just wanted to start on it, and I had this shape all ready to go.

sixsixsix · . Joined: 25 Oct 2014 Posts: 3 Location: Ontario, Canada

A bit of progress.

Bacchus · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 6:01 pm Post subject:

Pictures aren't working for me, which is a shame because I was quite excited by this thread the last time I was looking at it.
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BearBoy · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 6:13 pm Post subject:

Working for me. Looks kewl.
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