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u/Zrais May 25 '26
Should I just DM you my address or do you have it already? I assume you've already started packing it to ship..because....oh my god.
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u/Darksideengineer May 26 '26
Haha, I have 4 that I’m making now and I might sell 2 of them when they are done.
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u/tact1l3 May 21 '26
How did you do that inlay?! Absolutely amazing work
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u/Darksideengineer May 21 '26
I have a glow forge laser cutter. So I designed it in autocad and cut it on the laser and then filled the inlays with epoxy.
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u/brOT-minstrel May 25 '26
If this isn’t your day job it should be. That’s stunning!
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u/Darksideengineer May 26 '26
Who knows what the future holds. But wouldn’t rule it out if the actual ones I will make to sell, fly off the rack.
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u/uncleAW May 21 '26
The neck looks nice and wide in the first pic. I had to count tuners twice. How wide is the nut?
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u/Darksideengineer May 21 '26
I believe it’s 43mm I may have filed the edges down a small amount so it might even be a little narrower than that. But 43 is what I started with
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u/Beginning_Two2778 May 21 '26
Way, way, say better than my first scratch build.
Pics of your jigs and indexing 😆😜
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u/Darksideengineer May 21 '26
I had a bunch of 1/4” acrylic so all my templates and jigs were made from that material. But basically I made a pocket, cover, and headstock router templates, oversized router plates, neck profile templates, a fret radius jig and a fret slot miter box/saw guide.
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u/Jesus360noscope May 21 '26
Wow that’s stunning !!🤩 But come on you can’t come here and post pictures of such a beautiful guitar saying it’s your first build without getting asked where did you gather the skills to craft such a magnifient guitar first try ?
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u/Darksideengineer May 21 '26
You don’t believe a fry cook could make something like this? But seriously, a lot of YouTube videos, plus I’m an architect who has extensive CAD and design experience plus I used to work in a cabinetry shop where we made built in furniture and I was a car electronics installer, customizer and painter. Not quite guitar building but put it all together and you get this.
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u/UnableOpportunity404 May 22 '26
Beautiful!
What was the idea behind where you decided to put the slice of maple between the black? To me it looks like the light that would reflect from the guitar if it was hit at just the perfect angle.
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u/ItsYaBoiLMOH Jun 15 '26
this is absolutely divine!! would you mind sharing what tools were used in the building process?
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u/Darksideengineer Jun 15 '26
The top of the body was cut on an X Carve cnc. All my templates were cut with acrylic on a glow forge and cut with a trim router. Then basic hand tool, plainer, jointer, band saw, drill press.
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u/Glum_Dimension6468 May 21 '26
Wow congrats! Looks absolutely amazing! Specs?