homemade guitar

This is the first guitar I ever made. I'm almost finished building this guitar ,I just have to tweak the frets and the nut a bit. Overall I'm pretty happy with the way it came out.
I posted some pics of the progress at woodworkerspost.com.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• guitar
• gibson SG
• GFS pickups
• bigmouth
• loudmouth

[MonkeyAtTheTypewrite]

That sounds as mean as it looks, well done man!

[woodworkerspost]

@MonkeyAtTheTypewrite Thanks!!

[rabbitddog]

hate it when ppl play through an amazing amp and i have to figure out if thel sound good through my amp lol

[woodworkerspost]

@rabbitddog I know what you mean...one of the pickup co. sites has sound clips of each pickup from an actual recording. There's probably 10 effects/processors on that. Lets hear that same pickup on a 15watt fender frontman amp!!!!! The mesa boogie I'm playing on is a real monster amp....this one was actually special built by mesa for Metallica to try out and possibly order back around the early 1990's..

[metzepp]

i'm lookin for pickups that will give me a metallica sound like on their album kill em all, but all the ones i found in this price range are over the top (output wise). these bigmouths sound good and chunky, let me know if you think that this is a good fit

[woodworkerspost]

@metzepp I think for the price they are worth a shot. If you're not happy you could ebay them and get something else. What you hear on an album is way more than pups,,like effects, amps,processors..etc. I'm playing on a mesa boogie dual rectifier that was actually built for metallica to try out and order if they liked it. Also check out Rockfield pickups..they have sound bites (cost is a little more though).

[rabbitddog]

@woodworkerspost lol i have a tiny peavey blazer that sound bad with even the best guitars. im using emg select humbucker so im in a world of pain right now

[luthier23]

Thanks for the input on the pups. Just checked out your thread on wwp. Chechen was an interesting choice for the fingerboard you don't see much. Again, good work!

[woodworkerspost]

Thanks! I really like the sound of them, I basically use the loudmouth (bridge) most. To me the pups sound slightly vintage with a lot of crunch. Nice harmonics and tone. A little hot clean but I havent tried totally clean from the amps clean channel. The remind me of "Accept" from the '80s.

[woodworkerspost]

thanks Rob, I'm playing on a Mesa Boogie dual rectifier