Are we There Yet?
January 19th, 201190%
I am finished with the major woodworking on my walnut guitar. Check this out.
It looks like the switch is not in line with the knobs, but that’s a trick of perspective. However one knob is a fraction of a millimeter out of line. That can probably be adjusted out later.
I put the knobs close together because I thought it would give me a nice custom look, and I put the switch far away in order to correct Leo Fender’s blunder. He put the switch so close to the volume knob, it’s hard to use it without changing the volume. Someone told me the knobs looked too close together, but the centers are an inch and a half apart. That’s plenty.
I’m about to do the final sanding and cleaning up. This should be pretty sweet.
January 19th, 2011 at 12:05 PM
Is it going to have a pick guard? Call me unimaginative, but pickguards make guitars look more guitar-y to me. Classical excepted, of course.
January 19th, 2011 at 4:28 PM
Very nice. Looks kinda steampunk-ish.
January 19th, 2011 at 8:02 PM
Is very pretty, even in the rough.
January 20th, 2011 at 12:04 PM
Wow. A work of art!
January 20th, 2011 at 2:16 PM
Very sweet. So now with the major workworking done, the only outstanding worry-point is … the sound. 🙂 If it sounds half as good as it looks … oh my,
January 20th, 2011 at 3:00 PM
That’s coming together quite nicely, Steve. In fact, it’s so nice, you might be able to make a business out of custom guitars. Of course, that would probably be one big headache.
January 20th, 2011 at 9:59 PM
Guitars and pizzas in one storefront! What could go wrong?
January 21st, 2011 at 12:50 AM
Steve, I just got smacked with a thought like a thunderbolt.
You know the “inlay” you had to do to correct the neck inset?
Enlarge that on your next guitar, so that it exposes about 3/8″ of an inch, in perfect symmetry around the base of the neck. In fact, make it a 1/2″, then re-mill it for another inlay at the 3/8″ line, in contrasting wood.
And there you have a signature feature found onliy in a Genuine Graham Guitar. G-cubed.
And if one of those inlays is milled carbon fiber instead of wood? (patented stabilizing feature?)
On that topic, I’ll e mail or phone you on a tip to make a neck so absolutely rigid as to nearly defy physics. It’s an F class benchrest rifle trick, but I’m certain no one in the guitar world is using it.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX