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| Author: | billb [ Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:17 pm ] |
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It's not asthetically perfect. there are lots of mistakes but it sounds great. The bass notes have an great sustain and tone. It's much better than the classical I play now. I am happy to play it. specs 8 strings top: 4 piece spruce bracing: striped ebony Back: 5 piece striped ebony from a wall molding Neck: huang hua li (yellow rosewood) and ironwood center Fret board: Ironwood Bridge: Yellow rosewood Bridge cap: ironwood frets: brass welder's bar nut and saddle: bone finish: tung oil and wax 
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| Author: | John How [ Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:36 pm ] |
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Hey Bill, I love that guitar!!! The shape is great, the back is beautifull and the top has a ton of character, I just wish those cool braces could be on the outside so they could be seen. That striped ebony is about the best I've seen, it is very bold and you've really done it justice. It looks great with the binding of the same as well. Keep it up and show us some more. |
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| Author: | billb [ Fri Oct 21, 2005 5:06 pm ] |
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Thanks John. |
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| Author: | BlueSpirit [ Fri Oct 21, 2005 6:53 pm ] |
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Great Job, Bill. The 1st one is so exciting. Mine sits down in my workshop, and when I get tired of building, I pull it out and "play the blues". It didn't come out anywhere near as nice as your. You should be proud. It quite an accomplishment to build a guitar. Just ask anyone who hasen't. 
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| Author: | LanceK [ Fri Oct 21, 2005 10:17 pm ] |
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Very nice! And a VERY ambitious first effort! Nothing like jumping in with both feet!
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| Author: | KiwiCraig [ Fri Oct 21, 2005 11:56 pm ] |
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Congratulations Bill, I bet you can't stop playing it! That striped ebony sets it off. Your ingenuity too, is to be admired. What's next? Regards , KiwiCraig |
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| Author: | Dave Anderson [ Fri Oct 21, 2005 11:57 pm ] |
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Wow, Very cool looking guitar Bill 
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| Author: | Don Williams [ Sat Oct 22, 2005 12:04 am ] |
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Congrats! For someone who had limited access to parts and had to make their own frets and stuff, that really looks cool! The wood is really cool. Build another! So how does it sound? |
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| Author: | Skip Beach [ Sat Oct 22, 2005 12:14 am ] |
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Bill, You have a wonderful & interesting aesthetic sense. The design details & the body shape & your choices of bold wood grain ... all just beautiful. You should be very happy. Skip |
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| Author: | billb [ Sat Oct 22, 2005 12:15 am ] |
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Thanks guys. Hey Kiwi. I played it most of the day today. It sounds great. That was my whole reason for building it. I'm thinking about building something with cypress B/S next because I love that bright yellow colour with a black ebony contrast. I think I've made every possible mistake with this guitar. I had to glue the back on twice ha ha. The kerfing  and the binding  (that was a nightmare) etc...etc... but it sounds great. That's what counts.
My next one should be a lot better. |
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| Author: | billb [ Sat Oct 22, 2005 12:22 am ] |
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Hey skip thanks I am. 
Hey Don. It sounds great. It's only been a week since it's been finished. I compared it with the classical I play now. The one I play now has a very tin like sound to it. This one is a lot warmer. The sustain is the same. The bass is more prominent which is what I found my other guitar was lacking and the tone is..well...great. The intonation is off after the 14 fret, so I'll have to move the frets. That's no big deal because they are just super glued on the fingerboard. |
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| Author: | PaulB [ Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:22 am ] |
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Nice guitar. Feels pretty good doesn't it? Too many strings for me on that one tho, I'm flat-out making six strings sound bad  .
How did you make your own fret wire? That's a fairly major accomplishment by itself, and one that is probably beond me unless you tell me how. |
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| Author: | billb [ Sat Oct 22, 2005 2:51 pm ] |
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Hey Todd. Yeah they have a lot of exotic woods here. In China the way businesses are set up in a city is: all the computer store will be on one street and all the clothing stores on another and all the wood suppliers on another etc.. so it's pretty convenient. I just found out after I made the back that I could have gotten larger pieces. oh well. Hey Paul. The fret wire is brass welders bar. I had a couple options of what I could do with it. First I could shape a tang on it using a jig I made, or I could leave the bottom circular and file a round crevice for it like a Boaz Elkayam design. I found this to be very time consuming and difficult, so what I did was I filed the bottom flat and just super glued it to the fretboard, and then shaped it. I read about a luthier before that does the same thing with stainless steel frets. I've been playing it for more than a week now and have had no problems. During the shaping I pulled up on a few of the fret ends with the file and they came loose at the end, but it was easy to reglue them. The brass sticks really good. |
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