Ben Liggett Fan-fret electric
Full disclosure--I -might- have gotten a little leeway about posting an electric thread in the custom shop due to my volunteer works as a mod here, and I did clear it here with JR.
So, without further adieu, I give you Benjamin Liggett from Oklahoma. He is well known in the custom/one-off electric world, and consigns his guitars at destroyallguitars.com, one of the preemenint online electric dealers. www.liggettguitars.com www.destroyallguitars.com Ben trained at Roberto-Venn in Arizona, where many of our friends including Mike Baranik and Jason Kostal trained. He moved towards electric and also moonlights as a finisher at a banjo company in Oklahoma, where he does hand rubbed sunbusts on maple routinely. I decided on Ben because his aesthetic is above par, his stock pickups are either Lollars or Bare Knuckle, and he was willing to do a fan fret six string with acoustic neck dimensions which I'll elaborate later. Specs are so far: Six string pragmatist body style 1 3/4 nut ( weird for electric I know.) Headless fan fret with locking nut and tremolo arm (cool Italian design) Two BK or Lollar hummers wired to a six way switch for both single Coil split Knopfler tone and full les Paul hb sound. Fan fret and scale yet to be determined. Woods are: Solid flamed maple billet book matched, carved so top is separated from body and then interior chambered, and the top carved and put back on: https://i.imgur.com/4GjCjTb.jpg We both want a retro aesthetic, so a heritage cherry sunburst seems appropriste: |
This is going to be awesome! Great looking wood there!
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You have my attention...
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An update to our plans:
Fan fret chambered maple body,,headless, fan fret tremolo. Maple body maple fretboard: https://i.imgur.com/wXc0OJq.png Maple body ebony fretboard: https://i.imgur.com/cZhqnKo.png |
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Liggett's most recent maple burst:
https://i.imgur.com/G2LGOsM.jpg The shape of the guitar will be more like this one, except headless and more of a late fifties les Paul cherry sunburst. More to come later! |
Two piece full thickness flamed maple billet in house. Top will be cut off, body chambered, and then replaced. I don't think this has ever been done before with a book matched flamed billet to create an electric. Stay tuned!
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Cool! Looking forward to seeing the final product.
What hardware are you going to use? |
My vote would be for the Ebony fret board :)
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www.technologyformusicians.com Pretty much the only people we could find that were doing headless locking nut and fan-fret tremolo. Check out their site, pretty cool stuff. There was a guy in Sweden, Strandberg or something like that, doing similar stuff, but he stopped selling his wares recently. Quote:
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Everytime I see this thread on the main page I do a double take! My brothers name is Ben and lots of people mis-spell my name like Liggett.
The mock ups look cool! Can't wait to see it come together. |
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I hope it's the latter, because I've been meaning to try his guitars. Cool project. |
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Also, Ben wanted me to clarify that the above computer mock-ups are from Ormsby guitars and were only intended to show wood and hardware choices, no body style etc. |
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