Author Archives: gryder

A combination rain and a stomach bug has meant I’ve had time on my hands to ponder what the end guitar will look like. If I’m brave enough to try a stain, here is what it might look like (via … Continue reading →

A rubbish photo but I forgot to take one during the day. I spent a few hours sanding the neck and blending all the contours. I’m quite happy with the result. The neck is still pretty deep but not a … Continue reading →

I didn’t make much progress on the neck this weekend. I smoothed out the back of the carve a bit and cut the nut slot. What remains is a lot of sanding and smoothing of transition areas. While it rained, … Continue reading →

Lots of progress over the bank holiday weekend Remeber to measure and not just guess how deep to drill the tuner holes! Got it wrong, but wasn’t too bad to redrill after the headstock was cut to thickness. The fretboard … Continue reading →

Here is the neck after I: Band sawed it rougly to shape Attached the 12mm template and routed it to shape Fitted the truss rod Next I cut the tuner holes from the back to 3/4 depth (with the aim … Continue reading →

I’m still not confident enough to try a ‘traditional’ fender style truss rod (front or back fitted). However the type I used for the last build requires taking the neck off to adjust it, which is fairly annoying. My Peavey … Continue reading →

I decided to pause on the body at this point and start on the neck. The neck template was made in the same way as the last neck. The 4+2 headstock was chosen to keep the guitar dimensions more compact. … Continue reading →

The body shape cut out. I could of played with the pickup locations in Photoshop but it was easier to do it physically. My current thoughts is a single coil in the neck and a P90 for the bridge pickup. … Continue reading →

Not sure around the neck pocket (as I don’t know how wide the neck will be at that point yet), but I’m quite happy with the general outline. As you can see I’ve added the cental line (all important), the … Continue reading →

I started in Photoshop by tracing over a PRS image, though it’s a farily standard double cut shape. I printed it out 1:1 scale onto three pieces of A4 and now for a Blue Peter moment…..