My workshop

[vmax]

Finally finished it this week, looks and sounds pretty good for a first effort

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[PatBlock]

Very nice indeed Steve. vmax would be a great brand name for guitars, would look cool on the headstock. Let us know when you start taking orders.

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[John Flaf]

Bloody nora Vmax, not bad at all for someone with limited tools, very impressed.

[vmax]

Have stained and grained the body and neck, shaped the pick guard and laid the parts together to see what it looks like, pretty cool I think. Now I have to attach the neck and solder the pick ups and switches.

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[vmax]

The mocking bird ,Slash used one on the You could be mine video .Trouble with Floyd rose trems there are so many different ones ,and not all great quality ,the. Cheaper ones wear out the knife edges ,I prefer the Kahler trems with the Floyd rose lock nut in titanium ,stays in tune perfect .Trouble with guitars ,theres always another one to get

It wasn't the trem's fault, it was mine as I had to rest my picking hand on it as that's how I learned on my Les Paul. If you touch any floating bridge it moves so therefore goes out of tune. Guitars are like cues I suppose, always another one to try 'til you find the one. I'm putting together this telecaster style one for a mate at work, I'm not too sure on my woodworking skills to make a neck from scratch just yet, for a start I don't have all the correct tools, but this tele partscaster will help me with my wood finishing and will take my cues to a higher level, finish wise anyway as that seems important for some.
Something made from wood needs to be ultra shiny and not feel like wood for some reason

[mikee]

The mocking bird ,Slash used one on the You could be mine video .Trouble with Floyd rose trems there are so many different ones ,and not all great quality ,the. Cheaper ones wear out the knife edges ,I prefer the Kahler trems with the Floyd rose lock nut in titanium ,stays in tune perfect .Trouble with guitars ,theres always another one to get

[vmax]

Think it will look better with out the scratch plate ,what pickups you going for ,I really like the Bare Knuckles ,been using them for years .Guitar looks nice , have you made the neck too .

I haven't made any of it, bought the various parts from different suppliers as I couldn't find a decent kit with the exact specs I wanted. Pick ups are Vanson humbucker sized P90's and will change the plastic nut for a brass one. Flattened and polished the frets today, will contour the body when my bigger clamps arrive, my four inch ones aren't big enough to clamp the body to my bench. Scratchplate will be cut down below the pick ups so as to only cover the lower horn up to the control plate anyway.
I did make one back in the day in collaboration with a friend, I made the body and he made the neck and put it togther, a BC Rich Mockingbird copy with a floyd rose trem in metallic white, sold it on as I couldn't play the thing as I learned with my hand resting on the bridge and with a floyd rose it went out of tune everytime I touched it

Same as this but with a flying V pointed headstock

[mikee]

Think it will look better with out the scratch plate ,what pickups you going for ,I really like the Bare Knuckles ,been using them for years .Guitar looks nice , have you made the neck too .

[vmax]

Lockdown project 2021
Partscaster electric guitar, nothing has been put together yet just laid out to see what looks best. Body will be stained black with gold grainfiller, don't know yet if I'll go for the silver or gold scratchplate. Gold one looks more orange to be honest so it could be the silver one, will be cut down anyway. Anyone for a black ash cue with gold grain filler ? should look great

[DeanH]

that is lovely looking marblewood

[vmax]

Last cue I'll be making this year, no more shafts ready for splicing. I'll be concentrating on preparing some more shafts to settle over the winter ready for splicing next spring/summer. Got some pearwood, ash and maple, being on furlough has made me pull my finger out this year, this is cue number nine where I usually only manage four or five. Learned a bit more about the craft, making the process easier and I'm getting the hang of cue making with the tools I have to hand. I think I need a small metal lathe for cutting back the joints and making ferrules, the cue smith lathe doesn't have the torque required to cut and drill stainless and titanium unless I spin it up to the max and that makes it, and the bench it's bolted to, vibrate and it gets a bit

57.25 inches long, ash shaft, butterfly spliced with solid marblewood butt 3/4 jointed with a brass vacuum joint, (which adds the extra .25 of an inch, forgot that ) and mini butt, 30mm diameter butt, 9.2mm diameter brass ferrule, balanced at 16.5 inches, weighs 16.9 ounces, fitted with TS Long BA tip.
Again no metal added to weight the cue and it balances naturally near the joint, would be really good for UK 8 ball with the 9.2mm ferrule which started as a 10mm toothed one so has thin walls for less deflection if you believe in that 'tip end mass' bollocks.
One piece of marblewood left for a 3/4 cue along with some thin lengths suitable for decorative splices, will get some more when it becomes available. So that's me done for this year, hope you all like what I'm doing and if anyone is interested in one of my cues, I'm not expensive, they're all dead straight, made with care and won't break, nothing is imported ready made and simply finished and badged as mine, all made from scratch, by hand using the cue smith lathe for joint and ferrule work.

https://ibb.co/album/B4gQX0

[vmax]

Never seen that wood before, surprised it's not more popular, that's really nice.

Doesn't come up for sale very often, bloody expensive when it does. I like to be different, plain ebony I find rather boring and far too expensive for what it is anyway, and with something like marblewood any decorative splices will conceal the marble pattern so no need for them. Planes really well, naturally dense and heavy so no added metal to weight the cue, it naturally balances near the joint so simple to make and looks great. Glad you like it, thanks

[itsnoteasy]

Never seen that wood before, surprised it's not more popular, that's really nice.

[vmax]

Finished this one today
58 inch ash 3/4 with solid marblewood butt and mini butt, 29.5mm diameter butt, 9.8mm diameter brass ferrule, 18 oz's, balanced at 18 inches.
Currently working on a 57 inch butterfly spliced 3/4 also marblewood, last shaft for this year and will prepare my pearwood for next year when completed.

https://ibb.co/album/Dr91Jk

[vmax]

3/4 jointed ash with amargo amargo butt on wenge veneers. 62.5 inches long, balanced at 19.5 inches, 18.2 ounces, 29mm diameter butt, 9.7mm diameter brass ferrule. If you're six foot four or taller it could be for you.

https://ibb.co/album/0Kfqyn

one piece ash with ipe tabacca butt. 58.5 inches long, balanced at 17 inches, weighs 17.25 ounces, 28.5mm diameter butt, 9.5mm diameter brass ferrule. Same design as post #184 but slightly different dimensions.

https://ibb.co/album/LQ0NjV