ShonKy SS6 Sunburst guitar with piano black neck.

Remember The S3

I bought two of those gloss black necks and aimed to make two black and white strats. Just out of curiosity I tried the neck against a Sunburst body and wow! so it's been a while waiting for the finances to allow me to get the parts to build one but eventually here it is.

 

This one has actually a used squier sunburst body which is in pretty much mint condition It's a real beauty too in fact one of the nicest looking bodies I have seen. For some reason when you take a picture of a sunburst body the camera never seems to pickup the graduation very well in the flesh it's much more graduated. All the other parts are super quality and new. Great Pickups from Voltage guitar pickups. Staggered Locking machine heads from Sperzel. etc etc.

 

 

 

 

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SUPERB Vintage RARE 100% 1978 PEAVEY T-60 NAMM Protype s/n 0000 Fender strings! | eBay

I've been wanting a Peavey T series guitar for a while now. To me they look completely 70's with the bare wood and the fantastically designed hardware. They very rarely come up for sale on Ebay UK and then this example comes up with a 00000000 serial Number. Oh my credit card is twitching!
SUPERB Vintage RARE 100% 1978 PEAVEY T-60 NAMM Protype s/n 0000 Fender strings! | eBay

Mmm! how about a shortscale tenor wooden banjo guitar. made from a breadbin.

The latest from the workshop is this sweet little instrument.

It shares elements from various instruments essentially it's a shortscale (18.5" ish) tenor guitar with a round wooden body like a mountain banjo. The inspiration for this came from a beech barrel shaped bread bin we had but with the arrival of two children a bigger bread bin was required so it's bread storing days are over. I figure I can make four instruments out of this bin and this is the first made from the base.

It has a Cedar top and Mahogany neck scarfe jointed angled headstock. The neck starts off at the body as a fat U profile and tapers to a fairly sharp V this is to keep strength in the non truss rod neck whilst making it feel slimmer. It has a lovely organinc feel and sit's in the crook of your thumb forefinger quite nicely  The neck is attached to the body with a dowel and glued leaving the body hollow. Strings are retained via a Mahogany tailpiece. The ferrules are made from the primers of a shotgun cartridge. It has a hand carved Corian nut.
It is tuned CGDA and despite it's diminutive size it is incredibly loud and sounds somewhere between a mandolin and banjo and even slightly Ukulele. It has a fairly narrow neck so nimbler fingers than mine would be needed to do anything to fancy on it. It's great as a strummer

 

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