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Beyond Black said:
Just recently finished this. Body and neck from Precision Guitar Kits, both black limba. Fastened with hide glue, and finished with French polished shellac. Very resonant and plays and sounds great with a thick, rich growly tone.
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Great looking V.
Before doing my first "from scratch" build i did a kit guitar to get my feet wet with building guitars and bought a Les Paul Kit from Precision Guitar Kits. Quality was awesome and it was a great experience. Can absolutely recommend them.
 
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simonfrewler said:
Those sg faded models are hidden gems. I love mine.
Got mine back when the prices were still good for $500. Put a little love into it, and bam, perfection.

I want someone to carve into mine, like a relief carving. I don't have the guts.
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That's about what I'm into this one for including a brand new SG hardshell case, it was hard to say no to, local sale delivered to me, easy deal. Felt great and played great when I got, it was just sort fugly hahaha , so I know the bones are good. I got another headstock overlay for it, gonna get the body cleaned up and sprayed, off to the races! Might even go with just a single bridge bucker ala Phil X

Jeff Kollman is swearing by his stock $560 SG faded, if it works for him :-)

 
* velcro-fly * said:
That's about what I'm into this one for including a brand new SG hardshell case, it was hard to say no to, local sale delivered to me, easy deal. Felt great and played great when I got, it was just sort fugly hahaha , so I know the bones are good. I got another headstock overlay for it, gonna get the body cleaned up and sprayed, off to the races! Might even go with just a single bridge bucker ala Phil X

Jeff Kollman is swearing by his stock $560 SG faded, if it works for him :-)

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Mine had a case too! Killer!🤘

Yeah, I try to stop playing it, but it just feels like home. I am not a huge binding fan anyway, so it was perfect. I prefer the brown over the red too.

Look forward to seeing what you come up with!🤘I changed the nut, saddle pieces and all the electronics, and installed a cap and resistor series treble bleed....it is seriously amazing to play.
 
Infernal_Death said:
Great looking V.
Before doing my first "from scratch" build i did a kit guitar to get my feet wet with building guitars and bought a Les Paul Kit from Precision Guitar Kits. Quality was awesome and it was a great experience. Can absolutely recommend them.
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Thanks ID, yours look killer as well.
Yes, I had a great experience with them as well and highly recommend them. The quality is excellent, the neck pocket fit tight, and the frets only required the slightest leveling.
 
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Beyond Black said:
Just recently finished this. Body and neck from Precision Guitar Kits, both black limba. Fastened with hide glue, and finished with French polished shellac. Very resonant and plays and sounds great with a thick, rich growly tone.
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That is so cool. I had no idea there were guitar kits out there for anything other than bolt ones. So, did you have it completed by a local tech/luthier? I’d assume one would need special tools to affix the neck properly like clamps, etc.
 
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That’s what I have left of one 50+ year old American chestnut. It’s been dead for a few years and standing with no bark. It leaned onto my building this winter and me, my son, neighbor and granddaughter (she supervised everything) brought it down. That piece is almost 7’ long. I have an esp Strat head neck and just need a body cut out of this and I’m ready. American chestnut is pretty much extinct so it’s not like there’s a lot of guitar’s made out of it. I just want to do this because my grandfather planted them when I was born.
 
thegame said:
That is so cool. I had no idea there were guitar kits out there for anything other than bolt ones. So, did you have it completed by a local tech/luthier? I’d assume one would need special tools to affix the neck properly like clamps, etc.
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Thanks TG! My buddy has hide glue and the heater required to soften it for application. You apply the glue to the neck pocket, set the neck, clamp it in place, and clean any squeezout with a warm damp rag. I let it set overnight, removed the clamps, completed the finishing process (French polish) over the course of two weeks, then did all assembly and wiring.
When completed I had a local luthier give it a fret leveling. The frets were already very playable as is, but still required a slight leveling. It was a very enjoyable and therapeutic project and I’ll likely do another.
 
rsm said:
Is that a Yamaha YC Reface? I had two I combined, and I still felt limited...but it sounded great. Yamaha could have made a dual 61-key manual with that engine and undercut the clonewheel market IMO.
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My synth player got all his toys out for the studio. It's been fun watching him experiment and wrangle sounds out of all that while we're rehearsing for the recording.
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I'm building tempo maps for recording to put the songs on a grid, but I don't want to force it. I would rather change the grid to fit the song, than sterilize the song to a grid. Once we have all the tempo changes in there so it feels right, I'll send him the clock from the interface through MIDI so he can synchronize all of the LFOs and delay tails to the grid and it will automatically follow the variations in tempo from part to part.
 
rsm said:
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Who sells the body and neck blanks? I have several Jackson (X series Rhoads and Warriors; neck thru; FR)...are neck thru available as well?
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Well all of those 4 are neck-thru builds. But they are not kit guitars. I have built those from scratch.
Means i turned stuff like this into the guitars you can see in the pictures:
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I guess basically what a luthier is doing. However i would not call myself a luthier, just somebody who likes to make guitars as a small hobby (and strictly for self-usage) besides the hobby of guitar playing.
 
Infernal_Death said:
Well all of those 4 are neck-thru builds. But they are not kit guitars. I have built those from scratch.
Means i turned stuff like this into the guitars you can see in the pictures:
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I guess basically what a luthier is doing. However i would not call myself a luthier, just somebody who likes to make guitars as a small hobby (and strictly for self-usage) besides the hobby of guitar playing.
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That's why I never found the body/neck blanks :(
 
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