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2019 Solid Body

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2020 11:55 pm
by Frederich Holtier
After about 25 years of building mostly classical guitars, I decided to build a few solid body electric ones.
Here is the first, Mahogany body, maple bolt-on neck, 2 Blues engine UK humbuckers.

Re: 2019 Solid Body

Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2020 11:16 am
by Brian Evans
Elegant simplicity, I like it a lot.

Re: 2019 Solid Body

Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2020 12:06 pm
by Mark Wybierala
Yes, no-nonsense stands on its own. I'm not a fan of glitz. The mojo comes from other things.

Re: 2019 Solid Body

Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2020 12:16 pm
by Frederich Holtier
Thanks, Brian and Mark.
I tried to keep it simple. It was intended to be more a blues guitar, that’s the reason I didn’t install a tremolo.
In order to preserve the natural look of the wood, the body is stained red and then satin finished with tung oil, no filler for the grain.
The same for the curly maple neck, it was stained black and finished with tug oil.The fingerboard has simple dots of beautiful abalone
and the pickguard is made of unfinished ebony. I tried for the first time the Blues Engine ( Iron Gear, UK) a PAF design and they are really great,
very musical, warm and clear. The bridge is a 8.6 kOhm and the neck is a 7.4 kOhm.

Re: 2019 Solid Body

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 8:36 pm
by Karl Wicklund
At least in these pics, the black hardware and pick guard look very classy against that mahogany.

Re: 2019 Solid Body

Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2020 1:22 pm
by Peter Wilcox
Karl Wicklund wrote:At least in these pics, the black hardware and pick guard look very classy against that mahogany.
Yeah, but what's with those switch screws? :o :lol:

Re: 2019 Solid Body

Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2020 11:47 am
by Karl Wicklund
Just a hint of steampunk.

Re: 2019 Solid Body

Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 10:08 am
by Frederich Holtier
I couldn’t find black screws for that swich. And for an excuse, the pickups screws are also chrome.
Next one (natural mahogany and maple) is going to have all the hardware in chrome.

Re: 2019 Solid Body

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2020 9:59 am
by John Kingma
That looks beautiful.