Building a Hufschmid Guitar (lots of pictures)

[Helldunkel]

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

Gluying the top:

At that point I tried playing the guitar but it did not work...

Cutting out the body and sanding the sides...

working on the neck:

shaping the neck:

 

[Helldunkel]

Kent building the pickups

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

 

[Helldunkel]

The custom pickups...

Final pictures...

final picture and happy owner

 

[peterc52]

Absolute stunning!

 

[IndyWS6]

Bravo

 

[fredster]

Gorgeous as usual! I do like the logo on the headstock though, rather than the back. I like a satin finish - looks fantastic!

 

[Helldunkel]

Gorgeous as usual! I do like the logo on the headstock though, rather than the back. I like a satin finish - looks fantastic!

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:

I just dont like stickers, I like the logo to be solid and detailed...

 

[Matt7]

That is sexy! The 7 string is sexy as well. mmmmmmm want

 

[The Hoff]

Wow, that thing is stunning. Fantastic job!

 

[mjtripper]

Nice work!!!

 

[155]

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?

 

[scottcrud]

Fantastic!

 

[Sierra Voodoo]

Awesome! That book matched top is damn near perfect! One of the best I've ever seen.

 

[chumbucket]

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?

 

[fluff191]

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!!!

 

[DoomBuggi]

Break fking killer build. Like the stained Pine that you did as well.

 

[Helldunkel]

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...

.btw are those glow in the dark fret markers?

from Luminlay

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

What scale is it anyway?

standard Fender scale 25.5''