I’m still building guitars for my spring breakout, which I’ll cover later but anyway I got a commission, yay. She wanted a Strat in French Blue and I asked why not just buy one? She wanted my work, I was humbled. I had never done a solid color guitar before but accepted the challenge. I like to lay down the color on the headstock so I get a sense of the color I’m dealing with.
Nice color
The body was prepped with 5 coats of white primer, sanded between coats, now was the nerve wracking point, paint.
I got so happy with the paint I started building and forgot the pics, it’s a good start.
and the finishing touches,
Now it’s time to set the guitar up. I start by installing my strings in an odd way. Low E first as it’s the heaviest then High E all the way up to A, this destresses the neck and lessens warping, remember this is a brand new piece of wood. Next is initial intonation, my chord lentgh is 25.5″ in this case so I measure from the nut to the 12th fret. At this point I use a castaway E string and intonate the E position at octave, relative to the bridge, Once I find the sweet spot I set the entire bridge at the same distance, cut the test string off and then voila! more setup.
Now I pull out my fine tuners and begin,every string must be tested, detuned if needed and then tested again and every string effects the others. It takes about 3 hours if the guitar is close, on the other hand I have needed to pull a neck and shim it to work at all, ah well.
I’m not done yet, this as well as my other things are studio bound, maybe I can get the La Jolla people enthused, next time we are green!
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That’s purty.
I like the rainbow effect.
Imitation abalone shell?
Yes, the real thing is far too pricey for me.
Ah, baloney. They’re just snails.
Concur. Very nice shade of blue, and fawncy guard plate is on point with that color.
Always glad to hear you’re doing well, Yusuf. You had a helluva tough ride there for a few years.
Neat.
That blue really pops. Great work!
Yusef, you need a nice logo to put on your work. The head on this Strat would be a great place for one.
I agree,
Nice work!
The skills and talents of the Glibs continue to amaze me. Maybe we can get Yusef to bring a guitar to HH, a couple others and a jam in the afternoon to keep some of the glibs around a little longer.
It might happen this year, I’ll bring some toys,
Might have to commission something with you in a near future.
I like your other work, but man, this is absolutely stunning. That abalone goes perfectly. My middle kid wanted a Strat this color at one time. But now she’s on her own and not talking to mom and dad, so she can buy one herself.
I hope and pray she snaps out of it. Best to you and yours.
One day there will be some communication like nothing ever happened. Seems to be tougher for girls. My grand daughters (3) broke with their parents and each other, covid opinions certainly didn’t help. Now the two youngest are talking to each other and their Mom, oldest is getting married soon and invited her sisters and mother to the wedding.
Growing up is hard to do, both for kids and parents to realize. They want to be independent but hard when money is scarce. Most of us went through those times, I betcha.
Thanks. I hope you are right and it’s nice to hear things do work out sometimes.
I never had that, even with my siblings making really dumb decisions and my parents letting them know they were making dumb decisions they/we were never alienated.
We never had any expectation of money from our parents, so that was never much of an issue.
Now, my nieces are a different story… They all got brainwashed in public school.
Redhedz 4 Yusef.
https://archive.is/KGIxQ
Yes!
Ernie Ball. God, a bunch of my friend back in high school worked for them. Some were able to score cool Music Man guitars and basses, some lost fingers on a forklift.
Lovely work!
I’m curious, if you care to share: What do you charge for something like this, finished and delivered?
Would a client supply the guitar, or do you get one for them?
It depends really, I could do either.
My guitars start at around 700$ ready to play, with nice gig bag.
Ever do a Les Paul clone?
Not yet, I did a flying Vee and an Sg would look good. I’ll think a out a LP
Great read and nice work. Thanks!
OT – In case you feel BMW hadn’t completely jumped the shark.
You will need to subscribe to the digital store so that you can in turn purchase games to play in the car you should be driving. Interesting lesson to learn after the subscription heated seats fiasco.
https://www.pcgamer.com/bmws-latest-brilliant-microtransaction-idea-let-them-play-videogames/
Pretty sure this was Musk’s idea first and already a feature of Tesla.
Musk charged you to activate the back seats for a one time fee on his lowest spec model. Any of the upper trims came with it.
BMW said hold my beer, let’s make it a monthly reoccurring charge on multiple models of all price ranges. People screamed.
I do think the fact that the Tesla console is just a PC makes me tingle a little. I bet it’s very hackable.
“Was just letting the car drive along when someone started playing Doom on my console!”
Grand Theft Auto would be amusing.
By physically attacking the CPU folks have managed to get root access.
One of the more famous is:
https://twitter.com/greentheonly?lang=en
He disassembles the latest updates to give you a clue what Tesla may or may not turn on at some point.
*shrug*
BMW hasn’t been interesting to me in over 20 years.
US judge in Trump’s election case subject of apparent ‘swatting’ incident
Police responded on Sunday night to an apparent “swatting” call falsely reporting a shooting at the home of U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, the judge presiding over the criminal case charging former President Donald Trump with attempting to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
The incident marked the latest in a string of “swatting” attacks nationally in which individuals have falsely reported crimes in progress to trigger emergency responses by police and get them to respond to particular locations.
Both side playing stupid games.
And stupid prizes
Nice guitar, before I forget again
Thanks
Or it was called in by a Prog as a false flag.
Don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty of stoopid to go around on Trump’s side, but swatting and false flags are most commonly tools of the left.
I would imagine a lot of people on the right are familiar with selective enforcement and assume they’d get the book thrown at them. But then again, some people are stupid.
Maybe they’ll finally solve who did one of these now.
Well, it won’t stop until both sides feel the pain. Nobody ever won a battle by unilaterally disarming.
Excellent work, Yufus.
But I did notice the knobs on the body- they only go to 10.
He just made 10 louder.
Good spotting!
What Sensei said below
Is there a way to customize a standard instrument like a Les Paul or a SG to make it easier to play for someone with sausage fingers. Say increase the space between the frets with a longer neck then adapt the strings and tuning to compensate?
I would say yes, who would fab one is the question, I can research it.
Thanks
I KNEW you were Price Charles!
Went out to take XY to work. It’s days like these I’d give my eyeteeth for a manual transmission.
That’s why I left MI,
Automatic is OK when mated up to AWD or 4WD. But I prefer manual.
Front wheel drive does it in a pinch, but I certainly wouldn’t drive my RWD auto truck in this shit.
The 350Z never sees snow.
I’m not sure what the difference is, I had to go to 4WD in my yard today, F150 auto, snow wasn’t so deep but warm and slick. I wouldn’t trade for a stick. OTOH a stick would be tough for me to drive, one leg doesn’t work as well as it used to.
Well, for me, I like to use the transmission to slow instead of brake. In the nasty slick slush, it really allows me more control.
Manual transmission allows one to feather the clutch to help prevent the drive wheels from spinning on snow/ice/slush. It can be hard on the clutch, but it is better than losing control of the vehicle. It was pretty much the only way to drive rear wheel drive in the snow back in the old days.
The tranny lever (hard to call it a shifter) on both our cars has a setting at the back that allows selection of gears (which I have never used).
The FJ has 4WD (High and Low), including a locking differential if you are so inclined, so for getting unstuck you are least have a toolkit. It has gotten out of some seriously deep mud/ruts on a pretty decent incline. Won’t keep you out of the ditch if you drive like an idiot, of course.