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I've begun my next guitar building adventure. This one is going to be a 27.5 scale baritone guitar in the body style of a Danelectro Longhorn:




I'm not sure if I want to do with or without F-holes. Any input?

Oh yeah, and this guitar will be made of 100% found wood, the neck and top of which will be maple boards that I ripped off a pallet taken from work. Nice flamed pieces for the top. The fretboard is a piece of curly cherry also from a pallet. It has a very pretty quilt figure that looks like clouds. Here's some pics of the pallet wood:




The top piece of wood in the last pic is the cherry. You really can't tell from the picture, but when I sanded it down to a 1/4 inch it was obviously quite darker than the maple boards and it matched other photos of curly cherry so that's what I'm calling it.

The body will be made of some big chunks of pine I found left out for the trash. I'm not doing the masonite top like the danos but I'll probably do a semi-hollow body. I'm also doing a different headstock, 6 in line and more of a metal look. Thank you to the user on this forum who posted plans for the Longhorn. I'm probably one of few who appreciate it.

I took some pickups out of a B. C. Rich my cousin gave me and converted the two conductor cable into four. My multimeter tested them out to 18.odd k, around 9.5k for each coil. I plan on doing some series/parallel switching and/or single coil. I think I might re-pot the pickups just as a precautionary step as well as doing some extensive shielding in all cavities. I heard of a guy using copper tubing for the holes the wires run through and I might try this. I was also looking for advice on hollow bodies and feedback issues. Basically, I'd like the guitar to have as much acoustic sound as possible while still being able to play with heavy distortion that doesn't sound like complete crap and feed back like crazy. Does anyone here have experience in this department? Any info is appreciated.

So that's where I'm at. Cut my first scarf joint yesterday and getting ready to plane up that pine for gluing.

Ah, I almost forgot. Does anyone here have any advice for achieving a sunburst finish by hand, as in not using a spray gun?

Thanks!

Chameleon

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man i like that. reminds me of something Pr- ....er, "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince", used to play......the '50s and '60s were so wonderfully creative
i like the F-hole design, seems to look better for some reason..
sunburst seafoam green with F-holes! thats my vote

I was thinking about it, but the way I cut the boards for the top there won't be. There will be one or two on the back of the headstock though.

I'm considering putting a dark walnut stain on the top. If I do the sunburst instead, I may just put a coat or two of the walnut stain and then sand them back from the middle to make a sunburst. We'll see how that works though, I've never done a sunburst, and while it seems very easy to do with a spray gun, I will not be using one.

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Pictures!









And I got my scarf joint glued up. There's a sandwich piece in there to extend the length of the headstock.



I'm leaning towards not hollowing out the body because I don't want feedback at high volumes.

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Nice!
That body shape looks great with the headstock.

Thanks. I thought the original dano headstockes left something to be desired.

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