My first bass done. I call the model/design "the street mutt" The first of several. It functioned as kind of a sketch pad to try different techniques, design, ideas, materials and finishes.

She's a bit on the heavy side, you can see some toolmarks in the finish, even if i grain filled it, and the electronics could be planned and soldered better. But i'm very happy still. My mindset was always: "i'll fuck something up almost guaranteed, so this is a practice run"

Neck pickup is a cheap crappy one from allparts. It works fine, but will probably be replaced.

Bridge pickup is a nordstrand mm4.2 that sounds amazing. I have a on-on-on switch configured to series/single coil/paralell and i love all the possibilities.

Badass bridge and tuners, a stolen string tree from my fender kingman.

Ash body with an allparts neck and a black decor wax finish that's very very sweet to play with. Frets needs some work to be perfect, but it plays well.

It has two outputs. A mono one, and a stereo one. I have a switch that is used as a stereo/mono switch. It doubles as a killswitch in mono mode. I'll probably experiment with bi-amping. Rick-o-sound is awesome.

I will use this thing with my band that plays mostly stoner and heavy metal. So the "wood from a cursed tree-look" suits it well.

On to number two!

I laughed pret

From scratch build. Was literally a day away from level sanding and polishing the nitro.

Took it down to go see my stainless steel frets in the morning sun. Hung it back up and the eye screw spun out. BOOM.

Fell 6 feet onto concrete floors and bounced off of the scarf jointed headstock. Luckily it’s not a Gibson.

Set neck came out. Finish jacked up in like four places. I don’t think anything structural went wrong… that I can see anyway.

Rookie mistake! Damn. This actually sucks.

Searching for some moral support here lmao

My slotted headstock Rickenbacker inspired Street Mutt mk.2 is coming along nicely. I even managed to make it conform to the wrist relief cutout. Hyped to get the top painted white. Gotta do the inside of the horns too. Fretboard glue up and pushing frets in will also be pretty damn scary, but worst case scenario i will learn my lessions very well. Considering fretboard inlays, but i'm kinda paranoid it will look bad.

These are my latest two guitars and I am working on refining my headstock shape and logo design. I like the shape of the second headstock more, but I wanted to show how it looks with the tuners in.

I’m doing a separate logo on the back that says my name, so I’ll leave just the “A” for Artalona on the headstock.

Any feedback or advice?

Thanks!

Thought some of you might get a kick out of this specimen. I’ve never seen anything quite like it and would have loved to be a fly on the wall during its construction. And no, I didn’t buy it!

Hello again! Sorry I didn’t get back to my last thread but I wanted to update y’all on the process. I decided to take y’all’s advice and glue it back together and while I am at it I figured I would give it a makeover with new hardware, humbuckers and the like. Thank you again to everyone’s advice and to the one who asked about my rug, I’m pretty sure I got it Ross or Marshals.

Bass is nearing finished. First instrument i've made, and aside from a couple of longboards, this is my first real woodworking project. The thing tunes and intonates perfectly. Neck pocket could have been tighter but i'm real happy. The finish turned out sweet i think, but i'm unsure about the pickguard color.

I'm thinking matte black, but i'm open to ideas!

I'm calling this one the "street mutt" as it's kinda a frankenbass. Jazz neck, music man bridge pup, rick neck pup, rick ish shape but based on the comfort carves of a fender P.

Also, if you have other ideas for how to improve the next one (i'm fucking addicted to this now), let me know. You guys are incredibly skilled and knowledgeable, so i really appreciate the input!

Body is alder Neck is mahogany Fretboard is rose wood. Pickup is a seymour duncan p90 dog ear vintage.

Plays as well as my epiphone les paul sounds as good as my friends gibson les paul jr.

I got a rickenbacker 408 in the works now. Key feature being hot swappable pickups.

I already know what I did wrong, but I can't fucking believe I didn't check the tightening screw on my bit depth clamp before routing. I think I'm just gonna leave it and call it metal, but I might drop some epoxy resin on the cutout. What would you folks do? I built up the part near the switch screw with toothpicks, sawdust and super glue and it is solid. Might wait for the epoxy fix until it's inevitably not. Also a photo of the tru-oil finish on the body. Also got it all wired up and playing the waiting game on custom Etsy and e at parts.

Still need to level sand and buff, but that’s for another day.

So I had this Meteora style body made for me all the way in Verona, Italy. I initially tried staining the body blue but the finish didn't go to plan, so I went with my plan B and sprayed it forest green with a matte polyurethane finish. Tbh I think the green was the right choice.

Previously enjoyed, customized, and already refinished once Ibanez. I got this guitar for free from a buddy, I veneered the body with AAA bosse cedar and the headstock with a walnut burl. Finished in green as that’s what color my buddy wanted body fauxed too

Who all uses compound radius for their fretboards? I find radius blocks kinda useless unless you have a graduated set. I also find a straight radius on a tapered neck seems to show more pronounced curve at the fretboard tongue, where it should flatter there. Curious to hear opinions from luthiers and non luthiers.

Also included pic of a fretboard slotting jig with matching router template. It's much quicker for repeating the same scale and size. This one is 14" scale, 16 frets just incase for soprano ukes

There is much still to be done with the lacquer. I'm about 4 coats in with some fixup sanding I'm between

Still need to wire up the pickups, go over the frets again, and mount the control cavity plate. Will update with more detailed pictures soon.

Officially started my first guitar build, a six string multi-scale Strandberg. Rough cut the body out yesterday. Wish me luck lol

Cheers to adventure and not being boring!

Picked up this all rosewood Tele neck with medium jumbo SS frets. Can't wait to use in on a build.

This job was done 2 months ago and I never realized I forgot to show off the nut in its slot 😿

This is my second all time build for a close friend last year. I made three walnut Tele’s so I could learn the process. Bought two 8/4, rough cut, outdoor dried black walnut slabs and learned as I went. I’ve never shared my work here but this morning when I got this picture I felt like I should! Thanks for looking.

https://youtu.be/IiO4-7H3AA4?si=hp8pWeBg99BD9YzO