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  • FelineGuitarsFelineGuitars Frets: 11495
    edited August 2017 tFB Trader
    A guitar being made for a banjo player who wanted something that would feel familiar that he could play open G bluegrass, blues and Rolling stones open G guitar licks on

    Open G tuning makes Keith Richards licks a must


    Yes the inlays on the front of the narrow necked beauty are laid out like a bluegrass instrument - 10th inlay instead of 9th


    We had a special 5 string hardtail bridge made just for this guitar




    Oil City pickups made us some special 5 polepiece pickups with coil taps to go between a tele sound to a more P90-ish sound. These will have custom cut flatwork inside an open fronted humbucker shell.


    We adapted a 6 string headstock - brought the two tuners on the underside in a bit and visually separated them with a small pearl heart. There will be a Feline logo on there too when it's all finished


    All access neck joint ....why not


    Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
    Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.

    Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.

      Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com.  Facebook too!

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  • Wow - That's awesome. Presumably the body is a little smaller than a normal LP?
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  • FelineGuitarsFelineGuitars Frets: 11495
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    Body is standard size and scale is 25.5" - so it'll feel not too strange for him compared to his Banjo

    Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
    Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.

    Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.

      Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com.  Facebook too!

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  • FelineGuitarsFelineGuitars Frets: 11495
    edited August 2017 tFB Trader
    Now got some lovely pickups from @TheGuitarWeasel for the Banjo guitar


    Specially made 5 string "big block" pickups by Oil City Pickups .
    These have a tapped winding to allow you to switch from a Telecaster type voicing and a P90-ish voicing

    Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
    Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.

    Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.

      Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com.  Facebook too!

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  • earwighoneyearwighoney Frets: 3489
    A guitar being made for a banjo player who wanted something that would feel familiar that he could play open G bluegrass, blues and Rolling stones open G guitar licks on

    Open G tuning makes Keith Richards licks a must



    We had a special 5 string hardtail bridge made just for this guitar




    Lovely work. A very interesting project and great solution to it. 

    Would it be possible to ask who made the custom bridge?  
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  • FelineGuitarsFelineGuitars Frets: 11495
    edited April 2017 tFB Trader
    The bridge was made by an engineer friend of mine who does a few bit and pieces for me when needed
    Wasn't cheap in the end but was a tidy way to do it

    Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
    Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.

    Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.

      Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com.  Facebook too!

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  • earwighoneyearwighoney Frets: 3489
    The bridge was made by an engineer friend of mine who does a few bit and pieces for me when needed
    Wasn't cheap in the end but was a tidy way to do it

    Thanks for the info Jon.  The bridge looks very tasteful and looks perfectly at home.  

    Lovely work again. 
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  • KebabkidKebabkid Frets: 3301
    edited May 2017
    @FelineGuitars - I was over at Jonathan's today and he's putting together and putting out some great pieces. That 5-string in G tuning was wonderful.

    The workmanship, weights, playability and resonance of these things are superb and whilst I really like the Lions, those Lion Cubs are pretty special.

    Great guy, great guitars and good company, too. Nice chatting and catching up, Jonathan and cheers for sorting out my pedalboard. 
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  • FelineGuitarsFelineGuitars Frets: 11495
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    Just finished another of our Tabby Hybrid models. 
    This melds together classic elements of strat and tele designs with our own twist.

    A swamp ash body mated to a three piece maple neck with a separate fingerboard.
    We alter the body shape to utilise a stray style lower horn so a regular start pick guard can be used



    Rear view showing the all access neck joint and the start style contours on the rear



    Electrics are a trio of Bare Knuckle Irish Tour pickups and an LR Baggs piezo equipped strap tremolo bridge



    We used Luminlay  side marker dots that glow for an hour from a 5minute UV charge



    The lean back headstock  with a volute  and locking tuners



    An Earvana Compensated Tuning nut helps with giving the guitar a greater degree of in tune-ness

    Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
    Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.

    Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.

      Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com.  Facebook too!

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  • TimmyOTimmyO Frets: 7349
    Nice. The tilt-back and outline of the headstock is very Hamer (which is a good thing!) 
    Red ones are better. 
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  • TimmyOTimmyO Frets: 7349
    That blended body shape is fab too - great looking guitar 
    Red ones are better. 
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  • FelineGuitarsFelineGuitars Frets: 11495
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    So Mathieu's Lion Supreme finally got assembled after paint took an age to get her done.
    Lightly quilted top. Lightweight build and a slim neck with a 42mm wide nut - like on his G&L



    The back was done in satin finish whilst the front was all glossy
    Still got that comfy heel



    Seymour Duncan Tripleshot mounting rings allowing each pickup to be set for series humbucker, parallel humbucker and each of the two single coils chosen on it's own.
    Pickups shown here are a pair of Oil City Masterwound Tubesnake model which were designed to give a vintage PAF with an alnico 2 magnet. The tone benchmark players were Slash and Billy Gibbons ...hence the Tubesnake name.






    Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
    Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.

    Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.

      Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com.  Facebook too!

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  • Wowzers ... that thing is amazing. The neck joint is something to behold! 
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  • breadfanbreadfan Frets: 376

    The back was done in satin finish whilst the front was all glossy
    Still got that comfy heel




    @FelineGuitars ;Is this an oil finish? It looks incredible!

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  • FelineGuitarsFelineGuitars Frets: 11495
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    No - it's satin polyurethane finish on the back, with a gloss Poly finish on the front

    Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
    Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.

    Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.

      Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com.  Facebook too!

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  • FelineGuitarsFelineGuitars Frets: 11495
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    Well the Russ Ballard inspired guitar we built got to meet the original recently, and got played by Russ Ballard too




    Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
    Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.

    Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.

      Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com.  Facebook too!

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  • JerkMoansJerkMoans Frets: 8774
    Well the Russ Ballard inspired guitar we built got to meet the original recently, and got played by Russ Ballard too




    Turing weight relief into a design feature.  Cool.
    Inactivist Lefty Lawyer
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  • DrBobDrBob Frets: 2998
    I meant to ask when i saw this on Facebook earlier, was there any reason he went for a Tele neck on it ? Even more weight reduction from the smaller headstock ? Maybe thought the square heel would mean less side to side movement now that there is less side support from the neck pocket maybe ?
    Or just needed a new neck and that's what was available ?
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  • FelineGuitarsFelineGuitars Frets: 11495
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    Russ Ballard's guitar wasn't drilled out for weight reduction as far as I know  - it was pure;y a looks thing . 
    The 70s ash bodied strat body that I made into a Ballard inspired guitar on the other hand DID need weight reduction as it was killer heavy. It was like a boat anchor. It was a left over body after we made the owner of the original guitar a new lighter body for the original

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    Russ' strat neck had a hole drilled in the headstock too and this made it split when it was dropped on tour some time in the 1970s. They found him a neck to replace the broken one and it happened to be a tele one. There wasn't anything more cunning than that , although it may be that he liked the feel of the neck.




    Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
    Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.

    Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.

      Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com.  Facebook too!

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  • FelineGuitarsFelineGuitars Frets: 11495
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    Been neglecting posting my updates for a while . Here is one for one of our FretBoard brothers

    A Feline Lion Supreme with a touch of a '59 LP look about it


    Still got the easy neck access players love


    Added a couple of push /pull pots subsequently to give phase reversal and coil split tone options

    Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
    Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.

    Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.

      Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com.  Facebook too!

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