|
|
Post by dnic on Jul 29, 2015 14:05:00 GMT -6
I'm visiting my son who owns Jonah guitar #3. Thought I would check it out and take some pics. |
|
|
|
Post by dnic on Jul 29, 2015 14:12:09 GMT -6
The entire guitar is made from poplar less the maple fretboard of course. Bone nut, jumbo frets, EMG passive pups. It's very stable the set up is still just how I would have set it up back then, almost no relief in the the neck. I would have just a tad more now. And the nut width is slightly wider then I do as standard, prolly close to 3/4". |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2015 15:11:02 GMT -6
Still looks good! So the neck is poplar and maple?
EB
|
|
|
|
Post by dnic on Jul 29, 2015 18:06:59 GMT -6
Yep it's thru neck poplar everything but the fretboard is poplar. And if memory serves the neck is one piece, no scarf joint. Also prolly has a one way rod that I made in the shop in a bowed channel like the early Gibbys and Fenders.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2015 20:47:20 GMT -6
OK a neck though... Yes I was going to a neck through with poplar a long time ago. Hum... wonder now why I didn't...
Will I have been busy again, fixing and finishing up some of my long over due guitar projects.
I just got another custom guitar order. This one is going to be a carved top Tele. With a bold on neck. he want's the neck to have a slight angle to it as well as a angled peg head. Going to make it out of maple and cherry. The customer liked my LP I did with the maple and cherry.
So that's going to put my neck through Tele on the back burner. So it may not ever get built.
I have so many builds I would like to do in my head. But they just can't happen. I may try and build my neck through at the same time of the other custom I'll be building. Along training my apprentice. Wish he was around more. I would have him build my neck through. LOL! But once a week thing I can't teach him fast enough to get him were he could do it, and spend the time on it that it will need to make it come to life.
EB
|
|
|
|
Post by dnic on Jul 31, 2015 9:43:41 GMT -6
The first two Jonah body shaped guitars I made #s 2 & 3 were neck thru style. And after studying and building guitars for over fifteen years now it still amazes me that the big name guitar manufactures only offer guitars with huge neck heel to body joints that really limit access to the upper frets. Only lately have I come across a video bashing Gibson for their failure to make any changes to the LP. I have always made an effort to make access to the upper frets easier, even my first Tele copy had an angled neck block. To be continued. |
|
|
|
Post by dnic on Jul 31, 2015 10:02:51 GMT -6
Here are some pics of guitars I've made that have extra carving for added access. The last pic is the Nighthawk I'm currently working on. I'll get a more up to date pic once I get back home. The Nighthawk neck still meets the body at the 16th fret like a standard NH. So the challenge there was to stay true to the design scale while vastly improving playability. |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2015 11:19:50 GMT -6
I like it Dane, I too make my neck through's and set necks easy to get to them upper frets. Most of the customs I have built are neck though.
I just rebuilt one of my teles. It was my first tele I did. The body was way too thick and it was heavy.
So I cut the maple top off of it. cut the in half to make two sets of tops. Put one of the set on top of a Swamp ash body that was a kit body. For the first time I used screws with the furls. That made it easier to make it not so thick at the heal.
If I ever do another bolt on neck, I think that is what I'll use again. Plus I like the look better than seeing a plate.
Cant wait to see the Night Hawk done.
Hey, if you don't mind, can you send me an out line of the night hawk? I may just build me a neck through Night Hawk too. I was thinking of doing the tele. But at the same time you started yours, I too was thinking of making a Night Hawk. You beat me to it is all. HA!
EB
|
|
|
|
Post by brianloco on Jul 31, 2015 18:04:28 GMT -6
I really like the look of that nighthawk the alternating pieces of wood look really cool
|
|
|
|
Post by dnic on Jul 31, 2015 18:32:16 GMT -6
Hey Eddie, I'll send you a pattern.
Brian, I'm regretting that I didn't use something darker for even more contrast. What I'm really liking is that from the front view it has all the same wood from the same board. Kinda cool, it should be almost identical face on. Then rotate it slightly and all the other woods come out.
|
|
|
|
Post by hoz on Jul 31, 2015 20:49:47 GMT -6
The Nighthawk is looking really cool, Dane. and this post reminded me that I wanted to build an all popular guitar!
I think the big names try to keep the classics intact. The people that did the innovation and creating in those companies are dead and/or gone. Leaving the legacy to the suits. Probably not players or builders themselves. They only know they have to keep supplying Les Pauls and strats to keep the numbers up. I know nothing about big business,lol.
-Chris
|
|
|
|
Post by dnic on Jul 31, 2015 21:41:07 GMT -6
Hey Chris, you got it right, the guitar companies will keep making what sells and what players keep buying. Obviously people can play past the large heel block obstacle. There are decades of guitar heroes that have made it work. And the other thing is so many players want the same kind of guitar they're hero plays.
|
|
