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New Guitar!

Post by Tokuro » Tue Jun 27, 2017 12:21 pm

Hi everyone! I've just finished a new guitar that's going to be kind of a prototype.
The pickups and hardaware are from GFS. The wide range sounds great! I'm thinking adding a Staytrem bridge. Although the roller tune-o-matic is working fine, I want to try a rocking bridge.
The circuit works as follows: each pickup is controlled by a mustang type switch that selects one coil, the other, or the two in series, full humbucker mode. Each pickup has a volume control and the other two knobs are a varitone and a pot that controls the intensity of the varitone. Has a lot of useful tones.
The finish is a very crude acrylic applied with a brush, then sanded for the recil looks. I don't like relic, but was the cheaper and faster way to finish the guitar as i was moving from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Barcelona, Spain.
The neck is made of three pieces of guatambú, an South American wood very similar to maple. The fingerboard is guayubira, a great and very hard wood, and the body is "spanish" cedar. It's a bolt on.
As the guitar was damaged during the trip (you can see the cracks in the control area) even it was repaired, I'm thinking on making a new body as soon as I can, with a decent finish also.
The guitar has a zero fret and handmade bone nut that acts as a guide for the strings. The zero fret It's great! The play in the lower frets is super smooth and the action is real low whith no buzzings.
Well, VERY happy with the results, so far.
I hope you like it.

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Re: New Guitar!

Post by storyboardist » Tue Jun 27, 2017 12:55 pm

Very cool. Reminds me old Maton guitars from Australia. Very similar vibe. Nice work!
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Re: New Guitar!

Post by Deed_Poll » Tue Jun 27, 2017 3:07 pm

Nice! Like a double cut Firebird! :)
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Re: New Guitar!

Post by Tokuro » Tue Jun 27, 2017 3:45 pm

Deed_Poll wrote:Nice! Like a double cut Firebird!
Thanks! Exactly!!!!! It's based on the inferior half of a Firebird, mirrored.

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Re: New Guitar!

Post by OV7 » Wed Jun 28, 2017 12:38 pm

Very unique!

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Re: New Guitar!

Post by Tokuro » Thu Jun 29, 2017 3:43 am

storyboardist wrote:Very cool. Reminds me old Maton guitars from Australia. Very similar vibe. Nice work!
The Maton Wedgetail is one of my favorite desings. Thanks!

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Re: New Guitar!

Post by Tokuro » Thu Jun 29, 2017 3:43 am

OV7 wrote:Very unique!
Thanks!

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Re: New Guitar!

Post by danp3man » Thu Jun 29, 2017 3:58 am

Very nice- love to hear how it sounds! Good work! :w00t:

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Re: New Guitar!

Post by epizootics » Thu Jun 29, 2017 10:17 am

Really cool build!

What made you decide to use a zero fret? I'm curious, as those are pretty cool but got an unfairly bad reputations because of cheapo 60's/70's guitars...Good to see them used again...

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Re: New Guitar!

Post by Tokuro » Thu Jun 29, 2017 3:53 pm

danp3man wrote:Very nice- love to hear how it sounds! Good work!
Thanks! I'll see if I can record some samples. Sounded great in the Roland Jazz Chorus of friend and forumite Axolotl.

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Re: New Guitar!

Post by Tokuro » Thu Jun 29, 2017 4:02 pm

epizootics wrote:Really cool build!

What made you decide to use a zero fret? I'm curious, as those are pretty cool but got an unfairly bad reputations because of cheapo 60's/70's guitars...Good to see them used again...
Thank you! I dont't know why zero frets have bad reputation, really. All good European guitars like Ekos and Hofners have them. And I have see them in a more modern guitar -can't remember brand nor model, sorry- so I decided to try and so far resulted very well. And additional reason to use it is that is a lot easier -to me- replace a fret than file a new nut.
Thanks for the comment!

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Re: New Guitar!

Post by epizootics » Thu Jun 29, 2017 9:18 pm

Well, your build actually prompted me to finally register on this board :) I had been lurking for over a year and thought this was a good excuse for a first post.

Anthony Paine seems to have a few of his Wandrè-inspired guitars that feature a zero fret. I've heard luthiers say that a lot of customers didn't like the idea of having one as they associated them with the old Sears & Roebuck copies. But it was actually a Jedson Tele copy someone gave me to mess with that sparked my love for those!

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Re: New Guitar!

Post by Tokuro » Sat Jul 01, 2017 5:20 am

epizootics wrote:Well, your build actually prompted me to finally register on this board I had been lurking for over a year and thought this was a good excuse for a first post.

Anthony Paine seems to have a few of his Wandrè-inspired guitars that feature a zero fret. I've heard luthiers say that a lot of customers didn't like the idea of having one as they associated them with the old Sears & Roebuck copies. But it was actually a Jedson Tele copy someone gave me to mess with that sparked my love for those!
Ah, ok! The Antonio Series, I guess. Harvester is one of the bests, I think. Zero frets where really common in the 60's. Many cheap Argentinian guitars used them. Another advantage is that pressed notes and open strings sound the same. Enjoy the forum!

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Re: New Guitar!

Post by druunkonego » Sat Jul 01, 2017 11:45 am

:w00t: that looks awesome. Love the design!

I look at that and wonder "why has no one done that before?!?"

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Re: New Guitar!

Post by Tokuro » Sat Jul 01, 2017 3:49 pm

druunkonego wrote:that looks awesome. Love the design!

I look at that and wonder "why has no one done that before?!?"
Thanks!

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