6201 best r/luthier images on Pholder | Radius then inlay or vice versa?

Radius then inlay or vice versa?

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Check out this 2pc African Mahogany Strat body from a few months back!

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Merry Christmas Everyone with my latest built

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Making this pickup today!

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An electric uke for the office gift exchange

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Don't use polish on metal pickup rings! One way to FIX it by adding some spunk!

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Messing around with weight relief ideas. Haven’t decided if this is a great idea or just dumb.

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Built this body and pickguard (the neck is a fender mim). Based on fender's parallel universe series.

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One of my solid body models from back when I was building. This model is called La Strega

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Finished this electric guitar some weeks ago, London plane body, sycamore maple neck, steamed European beech fretboard

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Plugged the tremolo cavity on a Peavey Predator and refinished it in a transparent cherry nitro

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... I think I'm done ordering from StewMac

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Custom wood knobs

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Blue burst Dean Stealth - Next up, lightning⚡️

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can she be saved? (61 Bass VI)

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Homemade cedar neck + all the tools I used

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Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand...

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Wrapped up my first multi-scale prototype! (Album in comments)

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A black and blue top I finished up today using angelus dyes

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Just finished this neck-through five string

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Just finished my first build... not perfect I’m super proud

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Finally finished unconventionally restoring/abusing/electrifying this old archtop. I bought it 4 years ago with a totally twisted neck. This was my first ever guitar project, and I'm very pleased, so if any of you have also felt insecure about your endeavors, I want to encourage you, you can do it!

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Cutaway on the Back of my Ironbird build

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Client wanted an extreme style.

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The problem with OCD and grain matching

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Is there a specific reason the Bridge pickup is angled like this on Tele's and Strats?

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Got the body all zipped up on my 3rd build. A vices themed hollow-body Telecaster

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Scratch Build Number 3

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My most recent build and third collaboration with JML

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Finally getting around to fretting this beast. A cool thing about doing inlay with epoxy and mica is you can make picks that match the guitar.

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Strung, tuned and tested. She works and sounds amazing (too me). My first from scratch build.

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This redwood top is🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Getting shiny time.

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Made a neck-thru from a 2x4 I found

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Jaguar-style custom my friend and I made for his dad.

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I just had a cheap bass de-fretted by a local luthier and got it back with semi filled fret gaps and no finish. Would this be an issue for playability and the health of the fingerboard? Even if not, I hate how it looks so how can I fill these gaps and does it need a protective layer like a finish?

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Baritone Jazzmaster/Wedding Gift for My Brother Is Done

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Looking for best way to attach binding

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Building myself a gold paisley jazzmaster

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Im gonna make a build soon and wanted something like this, what do you guys think of the semi hollow strat style on this? (Sorry for the scuffed edit)

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New baby les paul for my son😍🤩

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I'm always jealous of people's build photos, I finally get to post my own! My first partcaster finally finished, even has its first couple of battle scars

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Like, barf me out! Gag me with a spoon.

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Tiger in a box. Finally found the time to inlay the tiger in an ebony trinket box. Tiger in gold, black, and white MoP, abalone for the eyes, pink mussel for the mouth and some ebony veneer for the black details.

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It is finished. Mahogany neck and body. Maple top. Glander Guitars. Birds. Yay!

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Tele-Jag hybrid update

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Headless Bass Neck Almost Complete!

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Peghead bevel detail

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seriously fender?

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Put some strings on her today, finished the wiring, got it all set up. I don’t have a guitar cable.

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I see your DIY spray booths and raise you my string and clothes hanger hook hanging from a broken basketball hoop

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Wanted to share a pic of me finally stringing up my first build! Such a great feeling!

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Past me making decisions present me wishes were never made 😅 a lot of work but will look fantastic in the end!

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My first scratch built body hit a milestone... Neck attached!

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15 years ago I dropped out of Luthiery school halfway through the program, falling apart with depression and anxiety. Dig this out of my mom’s basement today. Time to finish it...

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Making progress on my “fatline” jag hollowbody scratch-build, just need to let it cure

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Chambered // ZEUS

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Experimenting a bit. How bad is this idea?

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If anyone is wondering what to block their Bigsby with, 9/16” socket is a perfect fit

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Help paint raised with clear coat, is there any way to fix

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Here’s a couple of spalted maple pieces I’m working on. Same slab of wood, two different guitars and finish techniques.

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this is what I've been practicing for

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Just discovered this sub, here's my first entirely hand-made guitar. How'd I do?

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This one is gonna be fun!

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I haven’t had time for an instrument build for a while, but there’s always accessories! Dialed in my laser with a few picks in Purpleheart, Indian Rosewood, and Padauk.

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Made my own body shape + warmoth neck

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Guitar #4 Complete. First attempt at sunburst... giving this one away as a gift.

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Trying out a new inlay style. Thoughts?

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Guitar I built for my Dad 3 years ago!

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Last month, I designed and started building my first guitar ever, it was also my first real hands-on woodworking project. Today, I can say it's pretty much done... for now.

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Finished Tele - First Build

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Changing out harness and curious as to what this little circular cutout is typically used for if anything.

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Carve done on the new single cutaway.

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Did the final assembly in this strat today! Loving the myrtle top

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Made a custom pickguard (3mm semitransparent plexiglass) for my bastard Tele 🤩

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What are these called

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Found this guitar outside hotel dumpster, any recommendations on removing the rust from body?

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Client sent me their new guitar in it's forever home.

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Working on a 1793 Gagliano violin today. I have no idea how this ended up being my job, but I’m certainly not mad about it.

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Made my first frankenstrat today. Got Impatient and painted it before finishing it. I will be tearing it down and redoing the painjob and cleaning it up. I love this thing.

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3rd bass off the bench - still so much to learn, but each one provides so many opportunities!

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My Vinnie Paul signed Dimeslime, I want to protect the signature, basically she sits in the case. Clear coat? Yes or no?

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Anybody seen rosewood like this?

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DIY Spray booth for working in an apartment!

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Acoustic Flying V is finished! In just 2 days!

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Completed Esquire.

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Who said legos can’t be useful! I made this handy bridge shaping tool for fanfret archtops out of legos and super glue.

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A local luthier just posted this bass. Trying to get some attention for a builder with a ton of potential! @scabbathguitars on IG.

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Does a bigger String Gauge lift up the bridge? (Stratocaster)

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Built this thing from scratch about 2 years ago as a Covid project. Still can’t believe how good it turned out. Absolutely love it. Keep it in D standard with 12s.

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I made a custom designed double neck guitar using zebrawood, ziricote, curly walnut and chakte kok. What do you think??

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Carpenters Glue and a $12 clamp, its plays fine again

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I built this from scraps, not the prettiest but sounds like heaven

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My First (incomplete) Set of Tools for Violin Building

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