Guitar build complete!

Meet Pumpkin! :D

 

 Pau ferro fretboard!

 DiMarzio Tone Zone!

 Quartersawn canary neck!

 

One more shot with my orange seatbelt strap XD
I'm just missing a green knob (or a pumpkin knob haha) and it'll be 100% complete! :D

This was my first guitar build and I learned many things. SUPER happy that it turned out amazing! She plays super well and sounds huge! :D This is my first single humbucker guitar (I've wanted one for a while) and I find it sounds a lot better than guitars with 2+ pups...simplified circuit perhaps? She has nice clean sounds too! but distortion will be where it's at for this one ;)

This guitar also has quite a few new features to me. First being the 10"-16" compound radius fretboard. I must say this feels AMAZING...so comfy all over the neck. The second would be stainless steel frets. They feel smoother when bending but I still need to polish them at some point. Third would be the raw canary neck. Warmoth says that it's ok for it to be unfinished and right now it really feels great! You can really feel it vibrating when you play :)

Will post the rest of the in-progress pics later...for now, I'm too excited about it! :D

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Guitar build cont'd!

 Got a package from GFS today. Here's a quite pic with the parts together!

Looks neat :D
The body feels incredibly cheap tho (well it was only $50 :P) haha. There are lots of weird dents/scratches but feels pretty light. Can't wait to see how the whole thing sounds! The bridge is really hefty! They weren't kidding when they said "huge brass block!" The tuners feel alright, nothing too special but don't feel super cheap. Pickguard is pretty nice too :)

The rest of the parts are still in the mail...neck should arrive next week. Can't wait!

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Guitar build!

My first guitar build! The nickname is "pumpkin" for now hahaha
Here's a mockup from photoshop:

Specs:
Neck is a quartersawn piece of canary with a pau ferro fingerboard from Warmoth. Compound 10"-16"in radius with huge stainless steel frets :P Standard thin carve with cream dots :) Since this is my first build I wanted a nice neck I wouldn't have to modify much to get working properly so most of the budget of this build went here :P

Everything else is from GFS to keep the final price down. Trans orange poplar strat body. 6-point trem (different from the picture) with a huge brass block. Black hardware and staggered gotoh-style locking tuners

The pickup is a dimarzio Tone Zone. Why green? Well...initially I was looking for a black one but then I saw a green one on ebay so I said "What the heck...it'll look like a pumpkin XD"


Future upgrade considerations
-will definitely put in a neck single coil at some point and add a tone control...just gotta save up some money and decide what kinda pup I want there first
-might upgrade the body in the future if I end up not liking the feel of it. I went with a budget body so I could practice putting something together and even if I mess up I won't be in tears.

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New Pickups!

Changed the pickups on my Ibanez SF470 :D

+ Smoke neck and Hellarail bridge from BGPups :D

 

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Together with my S470 (that one has a whammy bar :P). Sounds great :D

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New toys!

Well...sort of haha. Got these interesting guitar picks from Brossard Guitar Picks over the holidays. They look really neat and are made of different types of wood, bone and horn. I find that the horn ones play the best, but the wood ones are the nicest to look at :P

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Cool song by Miyavi x Hama! This makes me want to play bass guitar haha