So this is elwd's fault! Mudfuzz's creations of oddness....

[Mudfuzz]

Any chance you could make more? >.>

I don't know. On one hand I would love to work out a way to make one faster with less hand work on the other I'm just glad I'm done and it sounds how it is suppose to.

I got this idea that my mom needed this small guitar for some reason so I started to build this... 4 ears ago granted actually after it was "built" I strung it up in the white to see what it would sound like it being the first time I had ever build one and I was going a little off the beaten path... my mom took to it and actually wrote a few tunes on it but then I had to put a finish on it and that took a lot of time because even though I used true oil to finish it I applied it like a french polish which took for ever to get it the way I wanted. Part of the whole design and building of this was to go back in time and build a instrument like they were 200 years ago as much as possible which meant doing almost everything by hand, like sawing the wood for the sides using all hot hide glue. I don't ever want to do it that way again...

So to actually answer you... if I had the time ie didn't have to work or if I ever could actually make enough to live on and still do what I want to do then yes, but right now no.

[masked elwood]

Any chance you could make more? >.>

I don't know. On one hand I would love to work out a way to make one faster with less hand work on the other I'm just glad I'm done and it sounds how it is suppose to.

I got this idea that my mom needed this small guitar for some reason so I started to build this... 4 ears ago granted actually after it was "built" I strung it up in the white to see what it would sound like it being the first time I had ever build one and I was going a little off the beaten path... my mom took to it and actually wrote a few tunes on it but then I had to put a finish on it and that took a lot of time because even though I used true oil to finish it I applied it like a french polish which took for ever to get it the way I wanted. Part of the whole design and building of this was to go back in time and build a instrument like they were 200 years ago as much as possible which meant doing almost everything by hand, like sawing the wood for the sides using all hot hide glue. I don't ever want to do it that way again...

.......just

[phantasmagorovich]

That is the most amazing piece of work! Until now it was like an encouraging thread for me to just buy a couple of cheap parts and old guitars and use them as a Lego kit but this... is amazing. And intimidating.

Congratulations on the work of a master.

[Mudfuzz]

Thank you! but it should not be intimidating. Compared to a lot of people that post on forums like MIMF... and I had been researching building acoustic instruments for years for fun and it took me so long to build it... well that was mostly do to my fear of something going wrong acoustic instruments are a little scary to build just because if you build it too heavy it will sound like shit and if you build it too light it might explode

Personally I find doing the frankenstein stuff a lot more fun and if I was to actually build to sell I'd go in that direction... like putting good playable necks and hardware on cheeseballs or something

[Mudfuzz]

Here is a teaser I WILL take a better picture of it next time Mike is over but intill then... Here is Mike with the strat I made with firebird pickups..more later...

[Mudfuzz]

Oh shit here...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kpllVgJhDc[/youtube]
This is N@MELESS backing up mike w' strat.. in a political add/vid bass is the Red ESPNDER

[masked elwood]

strat w/ firebird pups = winning.

[sevenSHARPnine]

strat w/ firebird pups = winning.

bi-winning

[Mudfuzz]

Right.
So.
I started this new blog on wider ranging thangs...
No.
you all don't have to care...
But.
if you want to know what I is up to with this type of stuff...
Or.
How to carve a DB fingerboard..
And.
What Ever else comes through my mind..
There will be anime involved.. I'm sorry but this is me and all...
then... here is

http://sonicimplements.blogspot.com
/

[Wes Mantooth]

I'm trying to build a baritone fireman this summer so I'll certainly be frequenting this blog as well.

It's always good to soak up instrument building knowledge.

[Mudfuzz]

Coolz.

Well one of my upcoming projects is a bass VI useing a flying V body and a dano longhorn neck, I just need pickups and a bridge... I am on the fence about a pickguard I'll do a full photo documentation of the build

[Mudfuzz]

Hey look what I dug out of the archives...!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB5H8Fp6x9I[/youtube]

[Achtane]

Man that's so cool! I wish I could do that!

[Mudfuzz]

I bet with a bit of training you could. Really what is the must important part of building is in designing and researching first. The EUB took a few months of drawing and photo shopping [the shape is actually just if you start cutting away at a DB really] before I was happy. A lot of it was spent on working out the neck, bridge, tailpiece angles. I read through TONS of stuff on violin-DB building and repair to "know" what I wanted to do.. and checked out every damn EUB pict I could find on the net... I get obsessive about researching stuff... you should see my collection of images I have from when I was thinking about making a real upright... I have/had around thousand... We wont even get into that little guitar... other then to say it came out of researching every angle I could find to make a ABG loud...

[Mudfuzz]

Here is a teaser I WILL take a better picture of it next time Mike is over but intill then... Here is Mike with the strat I made with firebird pickups..more later...

Ok.
Mike came over and a mighty blues jam was had.

So here is the anchor...
Plywood lawsuit body which I routed out under the pickguard and added a piece of cherry which the bridge pickups and neck attach to, ebay neck, Swedish [supposedly] firebird pickups from Subway guitars in Berkley CA [I wish I had bought a create of them in hindsight...] and a ask pickguard I make. It makes a LP feel light...