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Well, I got bored before the super bowl and designed a guitar, I have been meaning to design this around my custom scale length anyway. Feel free to comment however you want to, I can take criticism!

I'm probably not qualified to comment, but.....to me it looks like a different take on a couple of older designs. Like you stretched a Les Paul slightly and added an exaggerated Tele shape to the upper bass bout. I like it. I think you did a great job, but it needs something, and I can't put my finger on it. However, I could be wrong. Once you attach the neck to it, it will change the look of the body. i think for the better. When I design mine, i draw the whole instrument out in full scale, with the neck attached. Looking at the body and neck seperately might be throwing me off. I think you did a great job initially. I don't know if you want to hear that. I'll bet you spent hours on that design trying to get it right. I know that's what i go through. Almost like pulling teeth, lol. Good job! Now let's let the more experienced builders comment.

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when I worked at Washburn in 1998 there was a guy there named Mark (forget his last name) that designed a guitar with a body nearly identical to yours. The guitar was produced very briefly. And Mark was canned soon after that. then later on, a different model came out, and I always thought they just took Mark's design and changed the cutaway and the bass-side-upper-bout a little bit so that he couldn't receive credit.

here's the current one, can't find a pic of the older one.


No matter what we do, it's going to be similar to something else, I suppose. Go for it, it looks cool!

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I actually took a PRS, Les Paul, and Telecaster and blended them all together. Headstock is one I have used before.
I have a design for a V that I have a prototype for, but I wanted to make a singlecut style guitar design, now I just have to make a double cutaway design.
And no worries Mike. I value your opinion. I made all of that in less than an hour so you aren't insulting something I spent forever on.

i dont think that it quite fits my personal taste, but thats not to say that it is bad in anyway. personally i think i would have made that upper bout a little bit narrower but like i said thats just personal opinion from a purely functional standpoint i see nothing wrong with it. if i were planning a set neck then i might smooth out that contour around the cutaway. i would worry about trying to bind that headstock, but if you were using plastic or not binding it that would be non issue. those are just my thoughts, overall i'd say it looks good.

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I don't do binding, at all, have no desire for it.
I may try my hand at using wood binding someday, but plastic binding often gives a guitar a cheap look to me, sometimes it's nice though.

Like Mike says they look different with the necks on. A mixture of curve and angular, if it were mine though i would make a small change at the rear (on one side of the centreline) just to add some assymetry. Perhaps a small step in the body outline where the strap button locates (help me with the technical terms) It would be something that wasn't PRS or Les etc just mine/yours.

Steve

Wicked looking! I like it. But be careful not to poke the bass player's eye out with that headstock!

Well, cut it out got it about 95% shaped.
Decided to see how it would pass the "laser" test, passed it dead on! My rug however, needs to get a few passes with the vacuum.

Hey Jimmy, I really like that shape.
The headstock goes perfectly with it!
When ya gonna start?

Thanks Alan!

I will probably start it after I get this telecaster done. All I have left to do on the telecaster is fret it, shape the neck, slot the nut, install the tuners, drill for the input jack, sand it some more, seal it, sand it more, spray some finish on it, let it cure, cut and polish it, then wire it up. So not too much longer to go.

See, now it looks much better. I really like it. Showing a mockup with the neck did the trick for me.

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Mike

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Looks good. is it going to be a flat top? What type of contours do you plan around the edge?

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Speaking of PRS, Tele & LP, there was a guy on ebay years ago selling CNC cut bodies of an original shape taken from the same 3 sources - he called it the TelePolfusSmith or something. It was killer and I never bought one. Anybody know who that dude was?

what was that guitar Prince played in purple rain? Kind of a similar headstock no? Maybe not.

Nice design.

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I didn't see the movie. Too afraid someone might see me but I think it was the cloud guitar. http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2006/05/ ... uitar.html

No, carved top. I haven't come up with the exact carve yet, but it will be more like a les paul carve than anything. In my head it is anyway, may change when I actually get to it.

That's a fun way to work! Occasionally I have situations like that when I'm building something for myself. Today I was setting up for a fingerboard binding & couldn't decide if I wanted to do 1 color or 2. I laid it out on the neck, I decided I like 2 color better. In most situations this would usually be the case, but I just didn't know on this project. It's kind of a different bird. keep us updated on the project!

Tossing out an idea , probably a bad one !

Hole through at upper bought bass side and beveled

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