HazBeen

I bought John’s Helix, picking it up at his house. Great guy, he gave a really good deal and was nothing but welcoming. Highly recommended!

Lovely 🤩, next build going to be glass?

He has a double humbucker Strat, but only uses the neck pickup. So he basically wanted to just have a guitar with just the single …. I obliged Wouldn’t be my choice, but hey ho…

Well, he finished it…. Waiting on some chrome bits, but he did a good job so my effort of building him a body was not wasted.

And next build…… another wimp machine with 6 puny strings. Dragon’s Blood Red / Nitro finish Ebony cap on headstock Alder body Mahogany neck Waiting on some templates and hardware, so will start in a few weeks time. Watch this space…..

Anyway, I routed the pickup / control cavity and neck …. Now up to him to finish. The logo is laser engraved - such a great way to get a nice logo.

So my mate has this Warmoth Strat neck, and wanted a body with just 1 neck pickup and hardtail bridge. Needs to be light, just wants an oil finish …… and importantly wants to do all the sanding and finishing himself. Those happen to be my least favourite activities…. So said sure… I ordered some White Limba, I quite like that as a body wood. Very close to alder in tone (also relatively soft) but with nicer grain. The entire process only took a few hours, so just posting a few pics of “my bit”, and will post once my mate has finished things.

Interesting “whatsit” build, I want to say it is ugly, but in the most beautifully ugly way….. if that even makes sense.

I will just drop this here for your viewing pleasure, decided to build a 5 string 35” scale neck-thru Flea M inspired bass, with 19mm spacing. Walnut, Bubinga, Wenge, Maple, Ash Harry Haeussel M5 Stingray 76 preamp clone Gotoh GB350 Hipshot Vintage bridge Zero fret Oil finish

Just wow!

You have done so well! Congratulations.

Very nice indeed!