XII Build (my first ever lefty)
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XII Build (my first ever lefty)
This is my first ever Lefty build.
It is strange.
I'm using the Faction templates. They are excellent!
A little bit different to a real XII but I was expecting that.
The person I am building it for is fitting it with a Musikraft Hockey stick neck.
More progress pics soon.....
It is strange.
I'm using the Faction templates. They are excellent!
A little bit different to a real XII but I was expecting that.
The person I am building it for is fitting it with a Musikraft Hockey stick neck.
More progress pics soon.....
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Re: XII Build (my first ever lefty)
Very nice! What color will it be?
I have a guitar tech/luthier friend who is a lefty and he says it strange to work on right handed guitars. Funny how the brain works.
I have a guitar tech/luthier friend who is a lefty and he says it strange to work on right handed guitars. Funny how the brain works.
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Re: XII Build (my first ever lefty)
It's bloody gorgeous.CROSS_guitars wrote: ↑Mon May 27, 2019 2:21 amThis is my first ever Lefty build.
It is strange.
I'm using the Faction templates. They are excellent!
A little bit different to a real XII but I was expecting that.
The person I am building it for is fitting it with a Musikraft Hockey stick neck.
More progress pics soon.....
Your work is always top notch.
I feel exactly the same way. Every time I had to do things for a right-handed I had to keep marking things up "THIS SIDE UP!", "ROUTE ON THE BACK!", "IT'S NOT FOR LEFTIES!".
It's definitely funny to find yourself a situation when something "right" triggers the "off/this is weird" output inside your brain.
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Re: XII Build (my first ever lefty)
This is going to be magnificent!
I'm already in love
J.
I'm already in love
J.
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Re: XII Build (my first ever lefty)
Plates and Bridge arrived today.
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Re: XII Build (my first ever lefty)
Lovely project!! Lefty guitar love!!!
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Re: XII Build (my first ever lefty)
Got heaps done today.
My router blades are getting blunt.
My router blades are getting blunt.
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Re: XII Build (my first ever lefty)
It's mostly done.
Just a bunch more sanding to do.
I have contoured it and cut the parchment pickguard out.
It was handy having an original XII to compare the contour shape with.
Just a bunch more sanding to do.
I have contoured it and cut the parchment pickguard out.
It was handy having an original XII to compare the contour shape with.
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Re: XII Build (my first ever lefty)
Tummy contours.
Pretty spot on!
Pretty spot on!
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Re: XII Build (my first ever lefty)
VERY nice!! Do you have a traditional-style XII string anchor for the back, or are you doing something different?
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Re: XII Build (my first ever lefty)
It's being fitted with a Gotoh 12 string bridge, which has weird staggered string spacing.Shadoweclipse13 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 04, 2019 6:59 pmVERY nice!! Do you have a traditional-style XII string anchor for the back, or are you doing something different?
It will have Tele style ferrules on the back.
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Re: XII Build (my first ever lefty)
So, you're just drilling 12 holes for single ferrules?CROSS_guitars wrote: ↑Tue Jun 04, 2019 11:40 pmIt's being fitted with a Gotoh 12 string bridge, which has weird staggered string spacing.Shadoweclipse13 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 04, 2019 6:59 pmVERY nice!! Do you have a traditional-style XII string anchor for the back, or are you doing something different?
It will have Tele style ferrules on the back.
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http://www.offsetguitars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=104282&p=1438384#p1438384
http://www.offsetguitars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=104282&p=1438384#p1438384
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Re: XII Build (my first ever lefty)
No, just 6. The bridge is designed in a way where there are six strings that string through the top of the bridge and the other 6 strings pass through the body.Shadoweclipse13 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2019 12:10 amSo, you're just drilling 12 holes for single ferrules?CROSS_guitars wrote: ↑Tue Jun 04, 2019 11:40 pmIt's being fitted with a Gotoh 12 string bridge, which has weird staggered string spacing.Shadoweclipse13 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 04, 2019 6:59 pmVERY nice!! Do you have a traditional-style XII string anchor for the back, or are you doing something different?
It will have Tele style ferrules on the back.
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Re: XII Build (my first ever lefty)
Oh yeah! I forgot about that. And I used to have one of those bridges too
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