A Birdie Challenge

[birdie]

heeeeere's Lumpy!!



 

[Nocturnal]

WOW!!!!! That turned out beautiful!!!!!

[Lightyear]

AWESOME!!

[Freuds_Cat]

Lumpy looks fantastic Birdie. I love the styling

Enough of my 6 banger already!! The following is being built by Ed's student that preceded me (he already built his pre-requisite archtop guitar, which is damn nice BTW.

I like this one too but to me it looks like it would have benefited asthetically and sonically from a pair of Humbuckers. Just my view.

[Daniel_J]

Congrats!

Really great job, it's miles (and miles, and miles, and miles...) away better than my first build - heck, it's better than the work I do now!

So, how does she sound?!!! Pluged and unpluged?

[birdie]

Thank you all! I feel like my head was sliced open and they put a fire hose of knowledge  in there- I've now got to remember all the steps I did in the making of #1 here, and try it all over again . Am recalling when I first got my private pilots license- the "license to learn". I now know just enough to be REALLY dangerous with a router ....
And yes, that bass would have looked fantastic w/ hummers.. the future owner requested that layout. They are nordstrands though, killer sounding pickups.
A bass is next. Already started it, and trying some new (for me) things....

[birdie]

BTW Daniel, I have rounds on it. Not very traditional on a jazzbox. Unplugged it sounds clear and toppy, not overly loud. It is after all a rather small -for an archtop- guitar. 15 in. bout.
When I plug it in, she just killed me! Sounds somewhere between a 335 and a lester w/ paf's....
The pup is a Kent Armstrong paf, appropriately enough. Thank you for the kind words!

[Basvarken]

Incredible!

I am awestruck.

[godofthunder]

Beautiful, beautiful work !

[Pilgrim]

Absolutely lovely....I bow in your direction (whatever it is)!

[Basshappi]

Birdie, that instrument is absolutely awe-inspiring, congratulations!
That bass your fellow student is building looks wonderful too though I agree that soapbars would "look" a bit better.
What's your next project?

[birdie]

Absolutely lovely....I bow in your direction (whatever it is)!

you would have to bow to the south by southwest. but honestly, that wont be necessary!

[birdie]

Birdie, that instrument is absolutely awe-inspiring, congratulations!
That bass your fellow student is building looks wonderful too though I agree that soapbars would "look" a bit better.
What's your next project?

this right here;



roughed out the body and neck,and the headstock is taking shape.

[Dave W]

Beautiful job.

[drbassman]

Wow, excellent!  I'm working toward doing something that nice in the future too.  For me, the finishing is a pain, but once I put a concrete floor in my barn this spring, I'll have more painting options.  Nice job!