My first solo build!!!

[Rainbow]

Hey Paul,

I do not think you need so many guitars. I am always available if you have no place to 'house' all these guitars!!!!! :D;)

[songsender]

Hey Paul,

I do not think you need so many guitars. I am always available if you have no place to 'house' all these guitars!!!!! :D;)


Rainbow, someday I hope to be able to let you know what the fee would be to store one of these permanently.

Right now - we're just learning a LOT.

"So many tools to buy.... so little money left"

[soundman48]

Really nice guys !

[Mandarb]

Looks great. Keep up the good work.

[songsender]

This is totally new to me - but I bet not unique at all. I find myself thinking of designs for guitars I plan to build down the road.

As mentioned, my next guitar (#5) will most likely be the same shape as #3 - but I'm going more for a theme guitar.

I'm planning on bloodwood bindings that I've already purchased from StewMac - and am thinking of taking the Aramaic text from the tattoo that Kyle and I share and putting it on the fretboard. Why? Because the text says "Blood of My Blood" - and that would be a fun tie-in with bloodwood binding and other bloodwood accents.

Here's a rough layout of the text on the 12th fret of our neck design. Sorry it is just white text - but I plan on it being either abalone or bloodwood. The graphic is placed on a photo of my neck from guitar #1.

http://www.wheezetones.com/band/guitarbuild2/BOMB_Inlay1.jpg

Here's a little closer view
http://www.wheezetones.com/band/guitarbuild2/BOMB_Inlay2.jpg

[Hodges_Guitars]

I'm loving the build thread Paul! Looking good !

[wingman399]

Man for only building the one guitar with Kevin you guys sure are tearing this one up. I hope I get to build one with him in the next few years. I hope mine will turn out as good as yours. Looks good guys and I want to hear sound clips........

[hann]

wow nice one!!

so the headstock logo on your other builds is a symbol for "blood of my blood"? wow cool!!!

maybe your next tattoo should be "flesh of my flesh"!!!

[songsender]

wow nice one!!

so the headstock logo on your other builds is a symbol for "blood of my blood"? wow cool!!!


Actually no.... the logo is a design that my son and I came up with for a tattoo we each got last April.

http://www.wheezetones.com/band/guitarbuild/tattoo1.jpg

The design combines a bunch of letters from our names - and a cross - and then we added the aramaic text which DOES mean "Blood of my blood".

We liked the design of the logo so much that we decided to use it on our guitars - but the aramaic text was too small at that size to use.

[hann]

that really really is a very nice logo for a guitar =)

i've seen some pretty awful ones...

[pkang]

wow im loving this thread....im inspired to build a guitar....but i have no idea where to start lol...been reading but ahhh....

so whats the progress now? i am loving this guitar man...great work

[banpreso]

this build looks incredibly clean, hahaha
good job guys! i'm looking forward to see how it all comes together

[songsender]

Well - this thread was left hanging last fall - and I'm here to celebrate the fact that guitar #003 was strung up tonight.

It was a long process where many new skills were learned - but we are very pleased with the initial results.

A GREAT finish job was done last month by Joe White, and it was a very special moment to get to play the finished tonight with my son. We've still got a little tweaking to do to the setup and need to dress the frets - then we'll see where we stand.

Thanks for all of you who waited us out on the build.

Believe it or not - #004 is well on the way and #005 is being started. We're hooked!

Enjoy the photos! (more to come when I have more time)

http://www.wheezetones.com/band/guitar003/beauty003_1.jpg

http://www.wheezetones.com/band/guitar003/beauty003_2.jpg

http://www.wheezetones.com/band/guitar003/beauty003_3.jpg

http://www.wheezetones.com/band/guitar003/beauty003_4.jpg

http://www.wheezetones.com/band/guitar003/beauty003_5.jpg

http://www.wheezetones.com/band/guitar003/beauty003_6.jpg

[hann]

you guys sure work fast!!!

how're they sounding so far? too many pics too little clips!! wait.. no no.. too little pics too little clips!!!

great work paul!

maybe I should get you guys to commission a custom for me.. haha

[Jeff D]

Wow that's amazing. Great work and I can't wait to see 004 and 005.

Excellent job

[Kevin Gallagher]

Paul,
The guitar looks great. Love that rosette wood. I'm sure the finish is great from Joe, too.

Man....you must have had a great teacher! Just kidding. I'm a strong believer that the student has as much or more to do with success than the teacher in many cases.

Great job,
Kevin Gallagher/Omega Guitars

[songsender]

Paul,
The guitar looks great. Love that rosette wood. I'm sure the finish is great from Joe, too.

Man....you must have had a great teacher! Just kidding. I'm a strong believer that the student has as much or more to do with success than the teacher in many cases.

Great job,
Kevin Gallagher/Omega Guitars

Kevin... you should almost get equal billing on this guitar as so much of it came from you. Thanks for getting us started down this road - and for providing the items we needed as we got our shop set up!

For those of you who don't know, Kyle and I took a one week class from Kevin last May and I truly believe it put us about a year or two down the road of experience.

[Fliss]

That guitar looks great, congratulations! I hope you'll post pics of the next ones too?

How's she sounding?

Fliss

[songsender]

That guitar looks great, congratulations! I hope you'll post pics of the next ones too?

How's she sounding?

Fliss

Fliss... I'm quite happy with the sound for a small body guitar. It is a lot louder than I thought it would be.

As a perfectionist and tinkerer I may do some sanding on the tone bar braces to see if I can coax even a little more from her.

I have a friend who is interested in her - and I'd be happy to have him own her just the way she sounds now. However - I think she has a little more in her ;)

[Kyle Burner]

Going home an playing that guitar last night was definitely an awesome experience. Very cool to play something that you just built. I am sure we will be posting pictures soon of the next guitars.

[hann]

man... it looks soooooo good...i want one.. the way cool logo makes it all the more enticing

[songsender]

Thank you Hann,

I'm glad you like the logo. It is always such a subjective thing.

[hnuuhiwa]

Hey Paul :up::up: I'm genuinely envious....you're doing one of the few things that I'd like to accomplish at some point in my life (learning to craft guitars is right up there with learning to pilot a plane, and some other things in my "bucket list") :D...Great job..Aloha,

Hen

[TBman]

Wow, great looking guitar!

[songsender]

Well - it's been quite a while since I posted any updates on the progress of this guitar and I need to get some new photos up here.

But I wanted anyone following this thread to know that we started another guitar over the winter and are putting together a thread about it - with photos.

This guitar design and execution was mostly done by my son. We call this guitar #004

Here's the thread: http://www.acousticguitarforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=151982

[songsender]

Guitar #003 and #004 are now done - and we decided it was time for #005

Here is a link to the build of guitar #005

http://www.acousticguitarforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=157683

[J0sA1Ac]

looks great. any sound clips though?