How a "Professional" Guitar Maker builds em

feylya · 31-12-2004 2:49pm #1

http://www.jayalm.com/rp.php

Interesting...

Doctor J · 31-12-2004 2:54pm

"Also I don't bother to use a thrussrod or a fretboard-layer."

LOL

feylya · 31-12-2004 2:55pm

Mmm, MDF quality.

Doctor J · 31-12-2004 2:56pm

Indeed, famous for it's tonal properties

Oh, and excellent for shelves too!

feylya · 31-12-2004 2:57pm

I'll never forget working on that aria and finding it's high quality tone wood. Plywood.

Doctor J · 31-12-2004 2:59pm

Technically, any guitar with layers of different woods (eg maple top and bottom and mahogany in the middle) is a plywooded guitar.

I have a guitar at home that's made of chipboard. Someday I will burn it

feylya · 31-12-2004 3:00pm

Yeah, true about that plywood. This was about 30 layer plywood...

Chipboard? Yup, got one of those upstairs...

Doctor J · 31-12-2004 3:02pm

Actually, I think I have an MDF bodied guitar at home, though it could be cardboard. I bought it off a guy for £20 and a can of coke. I'm gonna burn that too, now that I think of it

feylya · 31-12-2004 3:03pm

£20 and a can of coke? You were ripped off. Dips on the hardware if you're burning it. Can I watch?

Doctor J · 31-12-2004 3:06pm

I'll take pictures. You don't want the hardware, trust me

feylya · 31-12-2004 3:07pm

Yes I do. Are they sealed tuners? I want to make a guitar with as many single coils in it as possible.

Doctor J · 31-12-2004 3:09pm

No, they're a line of six connected tuners with plastic buttons. The pickups are single coils, but the size of a humbucker, but with twice the buzz of a regular single coil. They must and will be destroyed.

feylya · 31-12-2004 3:12pm

Ah, I've those tuners upstairs... Single coils that size of a humbucker??? Intruiging...

D!ve^Bomb! · 31-12-2004 3:35pm

MMM, i have to admit, as ****ing useless as that guitar is gonna be, fair fúcks to him, he/she will have a nice feeling of achieving 'something' when they're finished!!! i guess we all have to start somewhere:)

Although he could have a done a better job with the woodwork, especially when measuring the neck and where it meets the body.. i've never done woodwork but i would assume that you would mark out where you have to cut, maybe undercut slightly and then sand the rest down to the correct specs so the neck would fit perfectly?

david · 31-12-2004 4:41pm

God! that neck will fold up on him/her if they try to string it. bridge from "sigaret" lighter parts!

feylya · 31-12-2004 4:43pm

Especially without a truss rod and made of MDF...

Giblet · 31-12-2004 4:54pm

It's gonna be so disapointing when all the paint flakes off and the mdf starts to get filed away, and he starts inhaling it.

Doctor J · 31-12-2004 4:56pm

Disappointing? I'd say it'd be hilarious

D!ve^Bomb! · 31-12-2004 5:10pm

i also dont know why he painted it, then sanded it, then had to paint it all over again:rolleyes:

John · 31-12-2004 5:22pm

Hats off! Quality craftsmanship. See, who needs a custom guitar made by some bozos in Fender or Gibson or whoever you want to throw your money at, just get a load of old flatpack furniture and you've got a shredding demon.

NotMe · 01-01-2005 12:34am

I hope he's just making a prototype and not a real guitar. But then why put real pickups and wiring in it?

How a "Professional" Guitar Maker builds em

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