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CoolerKing 02-23-2017 10:57 PM

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:

justonwo 02-23-2017 11:11 PM

This is going to be awesome! Great looking wood there!

Michael Watts 02-24-2017 04:26 AM

You have my attention...

ukejon 02-24-2017 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Michael Watts (Post 5243642)
You have my attention...

Yes indeed....nice chunk of wood!

CoolerKing 02-28-2017 10:22 PM

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

CoolerKing 02-28-2017 10:26 PM

Laminated neck

https://i.imgur.com/FHW51D2.jpg

CoolerKing 02-28-2017 10:28 PM

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!

CoolerKing 02-28-2017 10:53 PM

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!

https://i.imgur.com/02fdNLu.jpg

rogthefrog 03-01-2017 09:20 AM

Cool! Looking forward to seeing the final product.

What hardware are you going to use?

Marcus Wong 03-01-2017 09:34 AM

My vote would be for the Ebony fret board :)

CoolerKing 03-01-2017 09:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rogthefrog (Post 5251011)
Cool! Looking forward to seeing the final product.

What hardware are you going to use?

We went with a company from Italy:

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:

Originally Posted by Marcus Wong (Post 5251032)
My vote would be for the Ebony fret board :)

I'm leaning that way too, but we're going to do a formal mock-up once all the wood arrives and make a decision then.

Burton LeGeyt 03-01-2017 02:16 PM

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.

rogthefrog 03-01-2017 11:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by matthewpartrick (Post 5251059)
We went with a company from Italy:

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.



I'm leaning that way too, but we're going to do a formal mock-up once all the wood arrives and make a decision then.

Strandberg stopped selling guitars, or just hardware to other manufacturers?

I hope it's the latter, because I've been meaning to try his guitars.

Cool project.

CoolerKing 03-03-2017 01:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Burton LeGeyt (Post 5251479)
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.

Small world right?!?!? :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by rogthefrog (Post 5252115)
Strandberg stopped selling guitars, or just hardware to other manufacturers?

I hope it's the latter, because I've been meaning to try his guitars.

Cool project.

I'm not sure, the website is a little vague on that specific point.

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.

GeoffStGermaine 03-03-2017 10:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rogthefrog (Post 5252115)
Strandberg stopped selling guitars, or just hardware to other manufacturers?

I hope it's the latter, because I've been meaning to try his guitars.

Cool project.

It's the just the hardware. He's still delivering his guitars. The wait list is quite long from what I've read on some custom electric forums.


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