It looks amazing, and feels totally, 100% smooth. In this case, he carved some oak leaves into the guitar body and then applied a two-part epoxy to fill the voids. I only have the final pictures, but note that I am going to do two things to the guitar NOW, so I will take pictures of that process (or maybe a video?) and update this posting.Īs you will notice in the pictures, Art is not one to simply build an SG that looks like other SGs… he has to “Art-ify it”… which means he has to carve something into it, burn something into it, or bolt something on-to-it. Unfortunately, good ol’ Dad didn’t take too many pictures of the guitar in-progress. I think the kit (and many like it) allows for bolt-on construction as well as glue-in. Strangely, if you look at the kit you will see a neck plate, but this guitar is clearly built to be a set-neck. Jeez, almost looks like a guitar! Here is the kit on perhaps the ugliest tablecloth ever It was all mahogany (or, at least a close cousin to mahogany) and seemed to be of decent quality. I don’t know the manufacturer… he doesn’t remember either. But here it was… one day… bang!īefore we jump into that, let me show you the beginning of that guitar… a basic guitar kit he found online. I never expected him to build a glue-in set neck guitar. ![]() Now, he had built me a guitar in the past, the Golf Ball guitar, but that was a bolt-on kit, and he then modified it like crazy. I figured something was up, but you never really know what he is up to. The next thing I know he is asking me about guitars… how they are wired, how they are made, what certain words mean (“relief”? “intonation”? “scale length”?). ![]() Have you ever built a guitar from a kit? A few beers into the evening and you are on Ebay or Amazon and you spy a guitar “DIY” kit that looks amazing – all for the low price of $167 shipped directly from China! Or Korea! Or NYC! That must have been what happened to my father, Art, one night.
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