one piece elm barnwood top with original red paint, on quartersawn sweetgum back.
walnut neck with persimmon fretboard.
two homespun humbuckers.
brass compensated tailpiece with locking studs.
grover deluxe tuners.
weighs 7.7 pounds
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this is one i built a couple years ago and decided to change a few things on.
here is how it looked before~
and now, with an antique copper pickguard and one less pickup~
the top is one single piece of elm barnwood with the original red paint, on a single piece cucumbertree back, with a distressed finish.
neck is maple, with a persimmon fretboard.
single coil pickups with coil taps wired to give humbucking operation in the middle position.
grover deluxe tuners and brass hardtail bridge.
weighs 7 pounds.Sold
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i haven’t played much music in a while, but i recently ended up playing bass in “Rock of Ages”, a broadway musical from 2010, playing at the Arts Center of Canon County , so i decided i needed a new bass. i had the body and neck mostly done already, as i had started them a few years ago and never got around to finishing them.
the body is butternut, with a 1/4″ bookmatched knotty eastern red cedar top.
neck is birdseye maple, with a persimmon fretboard.
the bridge is a thick brass hardtail i have had for a long time, and i don’t remember where it came from.
front pickup is a razor sinle coil p-bass
rear pickup is a humbucker i made. the coils are built like jazz bass pickups, with 8000 turns on one coil. and 12,000 on the other, with a coil tap at 8000.
the three position switch gives a heavy humbucker, a hot j-bass bridge, and a classic p-bass sound.
weighs a little over seven pounds, which my shoulder likes a lot.
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Completed May, 2016 for Rebel Guitars
Body: Salvaged quartersawn poplar center block, butternut wings with salvaged, green painted, yellow pine topsNeck: Bolt on, black cherry, with osage orange fretboard.
Pickups: Dismal homespun mini humbuckers
bridge~4500 turns per coil, 6.7 K ohms
neck~ 4200 turns per coil, 6.3K ohms
Tuners: Hipshot classic
Bridge: Tuneomatic, nickel, strings through body
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finally gave up wrestling with the previous web hosting.
haven’t been able to log in to update the website in months, so i just scrapped it and started one of these things where it is a website and a blog.
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Completed April, 2016 for Rebel Guitars
Salvaged pine bead board top with original green paint, on sassafras back.
Quartersawn red oak neck with persimmon fretboard.
1965 Georgia license plate pickguard.
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Completed March, 2016 for Rebel Guitars
Salvaged pine body
Maple neck with black locust fretboard
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archive post~ sold
completed august, 2015
Body: Basswood, with blue/green milk paint finish
Neck: Bolt on, quartersawn oak, with persimmon fretboard
Pickups: Dismal Ax Homespun humbuckers
bridge~ 5000 turns per coil, 8k, alnico 5 polepieces
neck~ 4500 turns per coil, 7k, alnico 5 polepieces
Tuners: Sperzel locking, nickel
Bridge: Brass three saddle hardtail
Pickguard: 1964 Tennessee license plate
Control knobs: Old stock phenolic knobs
Control plate and neck plate: Brass
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Completed mid 2015
Chestnut barnwood rafter body.
Maple neck with black locust fretboard.
Antique copper pickguard.
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Completed July, 2015
Salvaged elm barnwood body
Walnut neck with persimmon fretboard
Dismal Ax 