Post by avengers63 on Feb 15, 2010 16:34:52 GMT -6
I'm a child of the 80's. The shop I started taking lessons at carried Westone. The coolest Westone made by far was the Dynasty.
Westone is a remarkably undervalued guitar. They're dang hard to find, but when you find one they're a pawn-shop special. It's sad because they were really high quality Japanese instruments.
So anyway, I have a Westone neck. I used it on this PRS-shaped guitar...
Ash body, maple neck, P-90s, and a Kahler. It played and sounded pretty good, but I had plans for the neck & bridge, so it got disassembled.
After fussing with some pictures, a lot of measuring, and an ounce of compromise, I finally came up with a template I was happy with. A little judicious use of a short piece of maple....
... gives me the blank I need. A few minutes with the bandsaw & router took me to this...
That was in October. And there it sat, under a workbench until I had enough projects cleared up that I could work on it. I've become determined to only have one active build going on at a time. With two in the finishing stage, I don't consider them active anymore. I mean, they're just sitting there until tomorrow when I can put another coat of whatever on them. 5 minutes of work allowable per day is not active, therefore I can work on this one, right?
OK, maybe that's justifying it a bit, but let's not get nit-picky here!
In all honesty, I've been waiting for some hardware for a few weeks. I haven't been in a hurry to get it because I couldn't work on it anyway. But now it's here, so out comes the router.
It's getting an Ibanez set of pups (thanks eBay!), the Westone neck, and a strat-like trem.
They originally only came in red, black, or white. Occasionally they had some pinstriping. In my nostalgia, I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around anything but red. The problem is that RED, BLACK, OR WHITE GUITARS ARE DANG BORING!!!!!!!
So I'm at an impasse. Either I bite the bullet and paint it red, or I try and do something fun. The only compromise I can think of is to make it red with black crackle over the top.
Westone is a remarkably undervalued guitar. They're dang hard to find, but when you find one they're a pawn-shop special. It's sad because they were really high quality Japanese instruments.
So anyway, I have a Westone neck. I used it on this PRS-shaped guitar...
Ash body, maple neck, P-90s, and a Kahler. It played and sounded pretty good, but I had plans for the neck & bridge, so it got disassembled.
After fussing with some pictures, a lot of measuring, and an ounce of compromise, I finally came up with a template I was happy with. A little judicious use of a short piece of maple....
... gives me the blank I need. A few minutes with the bandsaw & router took me to this...
That was in October. And there it sat, under a workbench until I had enough projects cleared up that I could work on it. I've become determined to only have one active build going on at a time. With two in the finishing stage, I don't consider them active anymore. I mean, they're just sitting there until tomorrow when I can put another coat of whatever on them. 5 minutes of work allowable per day is not active, therefore I can work on this one, right?
OK, maybe that's justifying it a bit, but let's not get nit-picky here!
In all honesty, I've been waiting for some hardware for a few weeks. I haven't been in a hurry to get it because I couldn't work on it anyway. But now it's here, so out comes the router.
It's getting an Ibanez set of pups (thanks eBay!), the Westone neck, and a strat-like trem.
They originally only came in red, black, or white. Occasionally they had some pinstriping. In my nostalgia, I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around anything but red. The problem is that RED, BLACK, OR WHITE GUITARS ARE DANG BORING!!!!!!!
So I'm at an impasse. Either I bite the bullet and paint it red, or I try and do something fun. The only compromise I can think of is to make it red with black crackle over the top.
