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c jury wrote: Sun Feb 06, 2022 5:12 pm Yes- PT is for prototype- and will append letters as I go through further iterations. Next step is a purpose-build body, from some birch and walnut I have laying around. will likely refine the neck shape when I do that. Seriously considering the Peavey Patriot as an inspiration for the body shape- what say you all?

I mean if you're going Peavey, it'd be a real shame to do anything other than a Razer or Mantis.

All wrapped up- took some work to intonate and had to use my Rickenbacker trick on the string-up...but plays nice. Bismarck practice is tomorrow night...so we'll use it in anger then.

egc has all those high end tools and it takes them 20-60x longer to finish an axe...


brilliant job

Wow. I love it. The finished look is totally original and I'm way into it.

What's this Rickenbacker trick you speak of?

c jury wrote: Sun Feb 06, 2022 9:36 pm All wrapped up- took some work to intonate and had to use my Rickenbacker trick on the string-up...but plays nice. Bismarck practice is tomorrow night...so we'll use it in anger then.

Looks GREAT!

Hipshot makes shorter saddles for that bridge if you need a couple to help with intonation (I did on a build of mine).

Absolutely fantastic - love it, the neck through look on the telecaster body blows the roof off the whole thing. Way to go!

scrotescape wrote: Mon Feb 07, 2022 5:44 am egc has all those high end tools and it takes them 20-60x longer to finish an axe...


brilliant job

I wonder how the cost of tools and materials for this project compare to the cost of an EGC. I suppose you’d break even by the second one.

scrotescape wrote: Mon Feb 07, 2022 5:44 am egc has all those high end tools and it takes them 20-60x longer to finish an axe...

Not to take anything away from Jury but keep in mind, EGC makes pretty much all their own parts with the exception of tuners. So the pickups, knobs, bridges, all that is done in house.

tallchris wrote: Mon Feb 07, 2022 12:47 pm

Not to take anything away from Jury but keep in mind, EGC makes pretty much all their own parts with the exception of tuners. So the pickups, knobs, bridges, all that is done in house.

Yeah- I'm not even in the same zip code as Kevin.

As for tooling/costs. I kept close track of everything for this build and spent $305 on parts and tools I didn't already have (like a bandsaw blade, cup/flap disks). But I already owned all the power tools I used and had years of experience in building guitars and in machining tractor parts and other metal fabrication. not that anything I did was special, but I did have some advantages.

The rickenbacker trick is to double the length of string you're winding around the tuning peg, and wrap it in a downward spiral, so you maximize your break angle at the nut. I do this on ric guitars because they have a very slight headstock angle (8 degrees, vs 15-17 degrees on a gibson).

Couldn't help myself- so made a late-night trip to the practice space to plug it in to the big amp and pedals...fucking gnarly...so much clang and sustain. The neck pickup is great. Less in love w/ the 1/4 pounder bridge. Making a list of improvements, which I'll share after a few others have a chance to check it out.

It is beyond cool that Jury is so skilled and resourceful he could seemingly put together a car from scrap parts, if the Bismarck or a musician friend needed one.
But it is also fine that there are normal companies that can do that more normally.

I haven't yet bought an EGC, sadly, so I won't weigh in on anything about the Electrical Guitar Company that might be implied in this thread. But I feel like one guitar builder's motto could be "insane overkill on quality" and the other's could be "close enough for rock 'n' roll." Not sure which!!!!!!!!