Daniels guitars builds and finishing

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This is a very limited run of one only, never building another one, it's a firebird 1 build for a customer/friend.
It's mostly vintage spec apart from I used a 2 way truss rod which keeps more meat on the headstock and butt jointed wings.
There are no plans for these so I had to copy a friend's gibson firebird 1.
It'll be finished by end of January, it's getting nicely aged.

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This is my riffraff junior, it's built with vintage specs and hot hide glued together, mojo dog ear p90 with kluson wraparound, gotoh sd 90 tuners.

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We have a reverse firebird, these mojo pickups are spectacular and becoming a favourite of mine,just a truss rod cover and strap buttons to finish it then it's off to a new home
Looks rather nice next to my 3x10.

Rich210

Looks incredible! 

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I'm blown away by how good this firebird sounds, playing is by Ramon Goose whose a superb player.

He came over so I could sort his strat out so I put him to work, fantastic playing and I'm blown away by how good this thing sounds, I feel a pugilist version is needed.

My 3x10 sounded fantastic.

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Here's some sounds on my lightweight pugilist, it only weighs 6.1lbs.

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Semi hollow carved top using flamed English and flamed maple which has staining but customer said keep it, it'll look good when it's finished.

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Review of my pugilist 59 by Dave Simpson, my version of an offset Les Paul

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Here's a new model I'm working on, this is set neck slightly bigger offset than my pugilist, gibson scale length, this one is an alder body mahogany neck with 3 single coils, trem and it'll get a blend circuit.
Also a prototype 2 way truss rod but built like a vintage one with a maple filler strip 
The idea being mix woods pickups and hardware, an all mahogany version would be nice with a trem.

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My version of a custom is nearly done, lighter weight, thinner and fully sculpted, it'll be 7.5lbs ish hopefully.

webrthomson

Custom looks awesome - love that combo of pickups - Staples in the neck are just magic

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webrthomson said:

Custom looks awesome - love that combo of pickups - Staples in the neck are just magic

Cheers Ross, have to say very excited for this one and that new offset above, can't wait for that one too.

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Think I absolutely nailed my goldtop colour, same thing lightweight and thinner with all the sculpting on the back , I've got nos old wire mojo p90s going in this one and I'm putting it up against a real one ASAP 

webrthomson

Now that is a goldtop - thats very nice indeed - smashing it out the park Darren!

Are you going to age that?

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webrthomson said:

Now that is a goldtop - thats very nice indeed - smashing it out the park Darren!

Are you going to age that?

Yep all aged and I've got a thinner burst next that's getting the whole treatment, I want these to look like proper old ones from the front but fully sculpted on the back 
I've got mojo old wire pafs going in the burst 

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It's alive but needs pickup heights adjusted then just pickguard, backplates and truss rod cover to make and I'm done.
Love the pickups so far

guitars4you

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - that looks so cool

roberty

Yeah it is! Missed this post the other day. I do love my Custom but it is nearly 11lbs. This looks like a much more sensible way to do it. The headstock is better too. Superb 

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roberty said:

Yeah it is! Missed this post the other day. I do love my Custom but it is nearly 11lbs. This looks like a much more sensible way to do it. The headstock is better too. Superb 

11lbs is just ridiculous, I wouldn't even want 9lb now, if you're going to Bristol come and have a go

I'm doing Marc at mojo pickups a full on 55 replica, I've got an original 60 headstock veneer to copy too, it's one off and that might weigh 8.5 ish pounds but I picked the lightest body blank and used a lightweight mahogany cap to control weight, I'm still drilling the wiring channel like an original.