Muff's Modules & More

sduck · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:48 pm Post subject: Here's a guitar you can't buy:

...cause I built it. Sorry, a shameless showing off post.

Many years ago I built a strat clone with Warmoth parts - it's green, and is a great guitar, and has been the only guitar I've had for many years. But after upgrading my amp situation radically in the last few years, I thought it'd be nice to build another guitar. And maybe even another green one. What the heck, I built a green amp.

So this time, instead of the cheapo bargain basement seconds I used last time, I used primo stuff that I ordered specifically to match what I was dreaming about.

The neck is a strat style thing, but with an angled headstock, with a mahogany back, and a jet black ebony fingerboard. Jumbo gold frets, and no inlay markers.

The body is chambered mahogany, with a select quilt maple top dyed green, rear routed.

Pickups are Dimarzio: Air Norton by the neck, and a Tone Zone by the bridge.

Sperzel locking tuners, and a hybrid wilkinson tremelo bridge round everything out.

Sorry about the kind of shitty pics - I squeezed them out last night in kind of a hurry, not enough light to really do it justice, but what the heck.

infradead · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:20 pm Post subject:

i want a corduroy chair!

cool looking gitar as well

rico loverde · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:21 pm Post subject:

wow that is seriously impressive! very cool. good job sduck applause

dkcg · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:29 pm Post subject:

She's a beauty! Looks sorta like a strat shaped swimming pool with all that gnarling surrounded by "trim"? applause

Could you describe how the woodwork is done? inlayed gnarly wood?

dude · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:33 pm Post subject:

your powers are endless

JohnLRice · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:36 pm Post subject:

AWESOME guitar! Very nice choices and build!

I actually applied for a programming job at Warmoth many years ago. (they are like only 15 miles or so from home) I really wanted to get it so I could do programming for a music gear manufacturer. My experience and skill set matched and exceeded what they needed. The guy interviewing me liked me. But the owner didn't want me because my main instrument is drums. meh

I let them know that I do own a few guitars and I'm familiar with the basic terminology (although not really a 'player') and that's besides the fact that the job wasn't really to create data, it was to organize and provide access to data so it could have been anything, guitars, motorcycle parts, contraceptives, buttplugs, cats but they wouldn't give me a shot! cry

It actually didn't pay great for that type of job but I was willing to do it to be cool! cool

dude · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:38 pm Post subject:

you make buttplugs?

oops

dkcg · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:42 pm Post subject:

That'll get you in the end.

sduck · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:53 pm Post subject:

Wait... cats, buttplugs, motorcycle parts? Is this all part of some elaborate new trend developing in the Northwest?

dude · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:55 pm Post subject:

funktug

skipperdean · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:03 pm Post subject:

i've been juggling the idea of making a warmoth/moses graphite frankenstein bass and this thread and that "how do you guys stain your cabinets funky colors" thread isn't helping.

Popski · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:33 pm Post subject:

stunner!!

doctorvague · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:59 am Post subject:

Gorgeous!!
The top looks like a glass overlay on wood.

Cat-A-Tonic · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:25 am Post subject:

That is a very sunny and considered algae pool. screaming goo yo

Congratulations!

Now lets hear a track of sduck guitar through sduck modular!!!!
with CELLO!
seriously.

sduck · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:06 am Post subject:

What, you actually want to hear me play the thing? Maybe you wouldn't afterwards. While at one time, many years ago, I practiced a lot and was pretty good - good enough to get gigs in bands, but nothing fancy. Back in 1987 I had a bad wrist accident, which really screwed up my guitar playing (and cello playing to a lesser degree), and since then I really only play for fun. I did manage to keep getting hired for guitar gigs for a while, but basically played my last one in 1999 or so. I still play on recordings in my brothers studio and here from time to time - in fact I heard a song I played on on the radio last night - weird.

Took some more pics this morning - look what I found in the yard -

xpander · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:46 am Post subject:

sduck's building abilities.

doctorvague · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:02 pm Post subject:

REALLY cool pic - I love it!!

TestSetRadio · Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 11:45 pm Post subject:

i have no idea how warmoth has managed to not get any of my money yet. my frankentele is in dire need of a real, non-hand-me-down neck.

JRock · Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 12:10 am Post subject:

Gorgeous

deastman · Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 12:52 am Post subject:

I've wanted to build a Warmoth for a long time now, but I'm afraid of screwing it up and wasting all that money. You obviously know what you're doing. Beautiful job!

Dr. Sketch-n-Etch · Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 3:25 pm Post subject:

Jeezus H, sduck, yer puttin' us all to shame! we're not worthy

I could no more build something like that than fly to the moon by flapping my arms.

I'm surprised you didn't build a guitar synth!

Moog$FooL$ · Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 5:56 pm Post subject:

i love parts-caster-frankensteins-guitars. we're not worthy

well done fella thumbs up

myself, i've had a hankerin' to build a SG jr. of sorts. this would be a good way to put to use a Lollar p-90 i've collecting dust.

Rockin' Banana!

Adam-V · Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 6:09 pm Post subject:

That is simply gorgeous. Nice work.

Cheers,
Adam-V

sduck · Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 7:18 pm Post subject:

Thanks for all that guys!

Oddly enough, there's an unofficial warmoth forum. Basically a fan site. They have a semi-monthly build contest, and I entered it in this months contest. I thought I had a pretty good chance, but there were some really excellent entries besides mine, and I ended up in dead last place. Oh well, there's always the next months contest. And I'm still a winner - this thing sounds fantastic!

numan7 · Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 7:49 pm Post subject:

what a very, very pretty green top!

hmmm.....

i believe the original parker fly also used the air norton / tone zone pup combination too. i've always loved the sound and playability of those! Rockin' Banana!

cheers

decaying.sine · Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 8:20 pm Post subject:

Really fantastic build!

I keep that Warmoth link right beside my Muff's shortcut on the firefox bar to remind myself to build one someday.