MIMF

Here is my tenth guitar built for a talented young musician as a college graduation gift. Walnut/maple/purpleheart neck with walnut/maple/purpleheart/mahogany body wings. Fingerboard and headstock overlay are ebony bound with purpleheart. Pickups are Stew-Mac P90s. After using true oil on my two previous guitars, I tried Waterlox. It was more difficult to apply, and I am not totally happy with the results.

Here are some more photos. Pickup covers are flamed maple dyed black. Ebony inlay on back is to cover a hole drilling tear-out.

And the headstock.

Some people have trouble reading this, but the new owner's name is Nick.

Very nice work Charles and welcome to the forum! Very clever spelling of "Nick" too.

That's a very beautiful guitar. Do you have any sound clips?

Charles Faulstich wrote:Here are some more photos. Pickup covers are flamed maple dyed black. Ebony inlay on back is to cover a hole drilling tear-out.

No, no, no! This "feature" on the back is a matching inlay, opposite the clever tailpiece on the front!

Cool, compact design. I hope that purpleheart stays bright next to the ebony, 'cause it looks great.

Nice!

How thick are your maple veneers? They look awful thin. Did you cut them yourself? I haven't had any luck creating veneers that thin.

Impressive job Charles. I would like to try my hand at a neck through and laminate like that myself at some point. Nice work.

Thanks for the compliments. Markku, I do not have any sound clips but will try to post some asap. Terry - I purchased the maple veneer, and it measures 0.025". By the way I pre-rounded the fret ends and pressed them in with great success. This was the first time I did not have to level the frets! Just a minor truss rod adjustment at it played buzz-free. I also made a compound radius fretboard cutting jig for my router and I presume that contributed to the fret level accuracy as well.

Very Nice!

Any chance you can put the details of that radius jig in the tools section?

Samuel - I based mine on this one: http://www.cambrianguitars.com/compradjig.html.

So is that router jig not adjustable? Is there only one compound radius you can shape (i.e. fixed at say 12 inches to 16)

Samuel: You are correct - the jig can only cut one pair of radii since the bearings are bolted in one location. I suppose you could mount them in slots so that any combination of radii could be cut.