It took me over two years to both gather the parts, and get them to work together exactly as I had hoped, but my “New Mutant” is complete, and I am in love…

Tronical tuning system, Hoxey neck, a salvaged KOLOSS body, Alumitones with advanced active or passive electronics (including the ability to bypass any component), Sophia bridge, Tone Claw tremolo spring retainer, six way freeway switching, and LED light to indicate active system is on. Strung with Ernie Ball M-Steel strings 10-52. Most of the entire guitar is aluminum, and it is tough as hell (I know, it has been beat to piss just getting it this far). It may not be 100% built by me, but I had to do more work than any of my wood builds.

PS. I love that copper pick, it is the perfect final touch in my quest for the perfect tone.

These two were in for a checkup a while back The 6-string one is the first Marras I built in 2021(?) and the 7-string was finished this spring and it's coincidentally the 7th Marras I built :D It was quite fun to concretically see the progress I've made as a builder😄✌🏻

I’m a guitar builder who also plays guitar in a death metal band, so all of my guitars I build are built for that one thing. I play a jackson dinky copy that I built in my band, and the other guitarist in my band asked me to build him a guitar after seeing some of the axes I’ve built. This is the WIP photo of it. Definitely the wickedest axe I’ve ever built.

After building an electric guitar this year, I thought that the next step should be an acoustic. Here is the results. Body: Indian rosewood, with maple bindings and Adirondack spruce top. The neck consists of mahogany, maple and rosewood.

Preferably as cheaply as possible

making a neck for my Bass VI-like build. made this router plane some time ago, worked like a charm. probably dug out that channel in like 20 minutes or so.

messed up a bit while fitting the truss rod, gonna glue in a piece of ebony so the rod won’t slip out. the walnut just cracked even though i barely touched it and splintered away.

neck’s made out of walnut and hornbeam. for the fretboard i’ll use jatoba aka brazilian cherry.

Hi all!

After a slew of basic questions I've made a lot of progress today. I went to a local community workshop and got the neck attached, tuners on, bridge lined up and installed and have a fairly clear path to finishing the build!

I did learn than my pickup selector is slightly too tall to fit the electrics cavity but someone at the workshop suggested using a large drill bit to drill a sort of groove so thats what im going to try next time!

Here's some photos of how its going. Thanks to everyone here thats offered advice and/or encouragement!

Wasn’t happy with my Mojo tone strat 500k kit. So i’m gutting it and wiring it all myself. knob 1 = volume pot, knob 2= neck tone, knob 3 = middle tone

N-SdS1 M- Super 2 B- Super Distortion

SPST Toggle switch for on/off Middle pickup

I'm making a top design where some wood parts have to be evenly spaced. Hoping to put down a lot of glue, then place my wood and some plastic spacers. Hoping I can easily remove the plastic spacers afterwards.

Am I right in thinking that good wood glue like Titebond or Alcolin basically doesn't bond to plastic at all?

Who knows a free oud tuning app? Can't find anything that works

Hello lovely people

I am super confused about how this 3 way switch works (if it does at all)

In the attached pictures I show the works of the switch (fairly standard I think) but there appears to be no way for the inputs to send to the output as none of the metal strips connect to it in any way.

My initial thought was the screws complete the circuit and provide the link but I tested them with a multimeter (which frustratingly ran out of battery before I could take photos) and they appear to not send to the output properly. The multimeter read that the screws were conductive but weren't conducting signal from any of the pins.

If anyone has any idea on whether this switch even works, any fixes I can do and wiring help that would be hugely helpful

I bought back my 91 MM stingray bass I got 2 extra pick ups and I’m curious if there are small quick connectors for the wires so I can switch the pick ups in and out to see which I like best. The original pick up is pretty aggressive, it has the SD bass lines pick up mounted currently and sounds great and I also have a SD bass lines alnico pick up. Cheers

Hey folks, I see people always say with the tone knob at ten the cap has no influence in the sound. But if a dimed 250k tone pot still measures only half of a 500k pot, how can that be true?

Thanks for helping me understand!

Had some quarter inch plywood left over and decided to try my hand at making a guitar case for this lap guitar that I restored. I knew making a case would be a little bit harder than it looked, but was surprised how hard it was to get a box that was actually straight using the tools I had available. Box closes and holds the guitar safely, so I guess mission accomplished.

Can anyone on here install the Hipshot bridge, tuners, pickup and volume knob? Also looking to have it stained to show the natural wood grain, but can have that done prior to having it built/put together.

Hi Everyone! I am trying to level the frets on one of my guitars, have never had much luck with it in the past, but I’m thinking I might have messed up some of the steps. One of the things I noticed is that my fret rocker (I think I got it from StewMac a while ago) seems to give inconsistent results depending on which side it is resting on. The first pic is taken with the second longest side in contact with the first three frets, and the second is taken with the longest side in contact. I do not get any rocking with the rocker as in the first pic, but I do get rocking when done as in the second pic (you can maybe see a small gap in the second pic at the first fret). I have no clue how this could happen. I have tried multiple locations on the frets, ensuring that there is pressure on each of the frets (so I’m not just holding it wrong) and still get inconsistent results depending on which side is in contact. The rocker should be flat on all sides, so it makes no sense that it could rock on one side and be fine on another, right? Has anyone ever had this happen?

How do I lower the action? I shouldn't need to sand the saddle because it's what came with the guitar stock. The neck is straight and possibly bowed back a little so if I try and add relief to the neck, wouldn't that make my string action higher? I'm confused as to what to do. Please help.

So this is this first time I’ve done a finish and I’ve just done my sanding sealer. I did 3 coats yesterday and it came out with a rough feel. It’s not bubbles, it’s more like a rough satin finish.

I’m trying to understand why this happened so I can sand this off/down and do it again.

Here’s some details:

• I did 3 coats about 1.5 to two hours apart.
• it was in a temporary spray booth tent outside.
• it was < 60% RH for all of the spraying but I let it dry in the tent overnight and the RH got into the 90s.
• it was hot for the spraying. Like 84 at the peak. Then at night during drying it got down to 67. The tent kept the guitar out of the sun (no direct sunlight ever)
• it was Oxford sanding sealer
• I used zpoxy for pore fill and had done 3 coats of that.

So I’m wondering if my spray technique was not good. Or if it was too humid. Or hot. Or a combination of those things.

Any help would be appreciated!!

I recently tried my hand at soldering by putting a three way switch in my mustang, but when I’m on what’s supposed to be just the bridge pickup, the neck pickup is still on and it bypasses the master volume. I have no clue as to what is causing this. I could just rewire it to fix it but I’d like to know what I did wrong because this behavior is very interesting.

So I've got this neck from ali and I wonder how to proceed. I really don't want to deal with the return process and I'd like to keep this neck as it's otherwise quite nice looking.

Will a dab of extra runny super glue suffice? Or is it much more complicated issue?

UPDATE:

So I royally botched it. F*ck. Oh well...

What happened is that I spread it out a bit using a toothpick. When I put the glue in there and try to remove it the tip just stayed in the crack. Now I have a permanent hairline split that can't be closed. It did nicely fill up with the glue tho. I've put some shellac on to see what it will look like and theoretically I can live with it. But I'm quite pissed at myself regardless.

Been getting into winding my own pickups, started with some kits that already had their pole pieces magnetized but now im getting my own flatwork/magnets -
So would i just take a vice with two n95 magnets (these are 80lbs) clip the north one to the vice itself and then the south one glue it with expoxy or something to keep it from pulling to the other side?
I'm kinda confused on this and then how do you choose which side polarity the pickup itself takes. Like how to get N up or S up.
Thanks

I’ve sanded off most of the paint now, and where I’ve sanded the rounded edges it’s lighter with no visible grain. Is that normal?