Fun with scraps

I want a decal like that for my headstock.

Thanks Drew!
 
PM me Ed. I lost all addresses in my last fun with computers session.

Me likey!

Very nice.  

Wookiee

bapu
I want a decal like that for my headstock.

Ditto 
 

Let me know where to send it John.
 
Appreciate the kudos guys. Sure wish I had a big
stack of that Mahogany.
 
 
 
 
 

Karyn
That's beautiful Micheal,  but where are the LEDs?

Thank you Karyn!.
They are on the first one I built. It is also the first instrument I ever built. It is to blame
for all this mess I create.
I'm at work but will post a pic of it this eve.
 
With every build my main interest(s) other than building a nice instrument has been
to attempt learning something(s) new.
With this build it was the way the neck joins the body. Very much like some Les Pauls.
I also wanted a shot at inlaying the frets. It was a pain having to sand the maple to size
and installing - I think I'd like the results much better if the fretboard was bound. Maybe next
time :) 
I do plan on building another with a shorter scale length- it makes good use of the scrap wood
and these darn lap steels...they have different tunings that just work better with different scale lengths.
The next one I'd also like to use a solid rod saddle/bridge with string through body and possibly a rod nut too. They should work fine and it would sure cut the bridge cost down.
 
Maybe after building a few I might learn enough to play a song with one! LOL

I'd love to have a guitar that had LED's for all positions on the neck.  Then you could select exactly what scale, key and mode you'd like to work on and it would light up the included notes.

Hi,
 
Can I have a bass guitar? Short scale, slim neck for small hands ... and the best pickups in the market ... should have dummy proof marks on the neck for a blind fool ... let's see what else ... has to be colored purple or dark blue ... as in space ... spacey!
 
And the head (headless is what I would really like( has to say ... SPACEY
 
Now I have to bring up a few bob like 500 or 600 or so!

I worked with a tech in the early 80's and we built
that guitar.
We had lawyers in Albq, NM perform a patent search
and we were advised not to challenge the patents. I later
had a law firm in Phoenix, AZ look into it and was given the
same advise.
 
What we didn't know was that we didn't need a patent to build
and market the thing.
It was over 10 years before that guitar showed on the market.
 
It was a fun trip though. We had linked the binary code to music theory.
The proto-type was just to prove that it had been done and we were
on cloud 9 along with a bunch of others thinking we had something special.
 
Challenging a patent is something if you don't know about that will sure
put a damper on your "dreams". I'll avoid the details. Trust me.

Here is a vintage 1993 ad I just found on ebay. Sometimes ebay is more effective than Wiki.  :-)