Jimi Buckle

Finally made a real buckle for myself. My pants are happier now. Jimi's face is gold and black mothers of pearl, headband is pipestone, shirt abalone, pickguard and pickups are white river shell, guitar strap is tiger eye, and the neck of the guitar is a rare wood that I forget the name of but looks similar to maple on this scale. Oh yes, and his teeth are white mother of pearl.

Patty

A few more pictures of Patty.

Quick photos of a newly finished Model S Flat Top. Figured Mahogany body, burled Walnut pickguard, Macassar Ebony fingerboard, Paduak and Curley Maple neck, Gotoh 510 tuners, Schaller roller bridge, Snider handwound pickups, nickel silver and Paduak inlay. She's called Patty. I believe this was actually the first time I've ever included a pickguard on a guitar, other than the clear ones on all of my steel strings.

Tried out the newly wound pickups in the TestBot 5000XJP900DDSR 1.2. This is a testbed guitar I designed to easily switch out various pickups that seat in acrylic templates. Each pickup is easy to slide around and test in various positions. You can also switch between 250k and 500k pots, and toggle back and forth between two different capacitors. Patent Pending.

Made some pickup covers. The Soapbar covers are solid wood (curly maple and walnut). The single coil covers are actually plastic covers over which I laminated maple veneer. Finished all of them to a nice low gloss sheen. Available for $40-$60 depending on wood and type. Email me if you'd like some.

Wound a small batch of pickups. One single coil with alnico Vs and plain enamel wire, one with alnico Vs and Formvar wire, and two with alnico Vs for the wound strings and alnico IIs for the plain strings, with plain enamel, as well as a Soapbar with alnico V bars and plain enamel.