| RIVER GUITAR #2: STALLION LXT |
 
So one of the last two body blanks I had left for the "Acrylic" builds, left me looking at how it's laid out - basically, I was narrowed down to three body designs for a choice with this blank to use full thickness and make most efficient use of the wood: an H804 style body, my new "student" design that's original, and the Stallion LX body style - the GT was just too wide. So the LX was chosen since it was long enough to use most of the wood.
This one has a single dot of missing "knot" in it that will be nice to fill with a small bit of epoxy resin. Honestly - this one will be more about filling the SIDES of the body than the top. I'm thinking we may go "pink" with this one, and make a more "Hipster Appreciative" style build. As we all know, the Stallion LX is kinda' based on another guitar design that's very famous and from which I ripped the "trim levels" from for this series. This one will have a contoured body - but with a contoured, modern style heel as an experiment. Status - 1/11/2024 - Updates So as it stands right now, the body is glued together, cut out, and the resin pours have begun, and I think I've figured out what I'm going to use on this guitar. The Resin Pour on this guitar is going to be bubblegum pink, and it's being routed for ONE Humbucker screwed into the Wood, Eddie Van-Halen style - an EMG Select SEHG humbucker at 8.4K Ohms - the one from my KRamer Focus 3000 with the tabs broken off. This might one I will sell, but we shall see. I now have a neck template built out - a 24" Scale, 24 fret (yes, 24" scale dual octave). I have NOT Decided on a headstock shape yet though (I'm working on that). This one will have a solid neck. My ideas for my necks is I will be using both solid, and maybe even some special one-offs with resonance slots in em' for fun (the Dean Machine, and my first Resin build Jaguar with a Sustainiac will have this, and possibly the Ford Explorer guitar as well). Most of my necks will be solid and possibly use the same resonance slots for graphite reinforcement (maybe I'll try my own unique idea - hollow tubes?). I'm doing a tilt headstock too. No reason in me building guitars that buck all the knowledge I've learned, whether that's stuff I learned from Lynch/Dean/Van-Halen/Leo Fender/LEs Paul, or things I learned on my own experimenting around. Also, while at Home Depot - I sourced some materials there. I see they have Mahogany - so I can make actual high end guitars, and the wood does not cost that much. Another thing I saw is they have some boards of very dense wood (not maple or rosewood) that are strong that Ic an use for fretboards. I forget the name, but I'm definatley using it on these early prototypes. |
