Building a Hufschmid Guitar (lots of pictures)

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Hi guys,

Well I recently completed this project and I have been taking many pictures for the customer so I thought that maybe you guys might be interested to watch the build story of the guitar, enjoy :)

The top is some old growth salvaged burled/flamed western maple, really unique!

If you guys have any questions, I will be happy to try and reply as best as I can :)

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Gluying the top:
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At that point I tried playing the guitar but it did not work... :lol: :LOL:

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Cutting out the body and sanding the sides...

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working on the neck:


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shaping the neck:

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Kent building the pickups :)

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This is my new headstock which I've optimized for Steinberger Gearless tuners...

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The custom pickups...

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Final pictures...

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final picture and happy owner :)

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Gorgeous as usual! I do like the logo on the headstock though, rather than the back. I like a satin finish - looks fantastic! :thumbsup:
 
fredster":lleh0p68 said:
Gorgeous as usual! I do like the logo on the headstock though, rather than the back. I like a satin finish - looks fantastic! :thumbsup:

Thank you :)

About the logo, I kind of grew out of the heastock logo thingy and wanted something different...

The new logo is 5cm in diameter so it is too big for the headstock but I also placed it on the top on my recent spalted maple build:

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I just dont like stickers, I like the logo to be solid and detailed...
 
That is sexy! The 7 string is sexy as well. mmmmmmm want
 
beautiful as usual, Ive been inspired by you to take on my own build...will report back when complete....btw are those glow in the dark fret markers?> was gonna use those but the ones I got are hard to see in the daylight on black binding..or are those fiber optics?
 
Awesome! That book matched top is damn near perfect! One of the best I've ever seen.
 
Nice work! That must leave you such a sense of accomplishment after bringing a project like that from start to completion.
What scale is it anyway? It looks small in that guy's hands in the last photo or maybe he's a giant?
 
Reminds me of the clean lines of one of my favorite guitars ever, The Blackmachine. Absolutely stunning. One I want to order that very guitar. Live the old Fender headstock!!!
 
Break fking killer build. Like the stained Pine that you did as well.
 
Thank you for your kind words guys :)

This week I am celebrating my 16 years of guitar building, here is a picture of my very first superstrat model I built in 1997, I am still using the same body template on all of my SS designs, never changed the design...

Thats a swiss cherry top and Bill Lawrence XL500 pickups which I was using until Kent started to build my pickups in 1998...
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155":1ydws8e4 said:
.btw are those glow in the dark fret markers?

from Luminlay :)

http://www.luminlay.com/indexen.html

chumbucket":1ydws8e4 said:
What scale is it anyway?

standard Fender scale 25.5''
 
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