Spalted Maple Iceman

[Anthony7]

Here is a few pics of the guitar from my painter; I build but stink at painting.

This one is for one of our forum members. My camera stinks, the paint job is beautiful in person. I still need to do final buffing, fretboard cleaning and oiling, assembly and set up.

[AllroyPA]

Spalted maple makes me feel like I'm insane ... must find my pills ...
Vote ~! GOM

[Jesse]

its not finished yet, save it for GOM

[GodWentPunk]

Cool looking guitar. The fret board near the neck joint looks super wide. At first, I thought the guitar was a 7-string. I had to count the tuning head holes to make sure it was only a 6.

joe...

[Pauly]

I know what I'll be voting for next month lol! NICE.

[Anthony7]

Cool looking guitar. The fret board near the neck joint looks super wide. At first, I thought the guitar was a 7-string. I had to count the tuning head holes to make sure it was only a 6.

joe...


It is somewhat of an illusion - the guitar is a 3/4 scale body, about 11" x 17". There definitely is room to bend, though.

[Anthony7]

Assembled!!

[AllroyPA]

Wow~! Congratulations ~! I'm gonna be sick ...
Sorry spalted make me motion sick ... kiddin'
That's one of a kind for sure gonna be up next month for GOM

[Anthony7]

The customer received it and loves it.

After I fine-tuned it Friday, I played it for ... awhile.

The sustain was incredible. I think it's the smaller, but thick body (1-15/16"). I also use long-shaft pots and do not route the control cavity deep - maybe that helped it. Tone was fantastic.

The customer is a forum member, maybe he'll chime in with a review.

It's a good feeling. I'm the only lefty guitar player I know, so no one has been able to demo my previous builds.

[lostinthemasses]

is that the hipshot bridge?

i have it on my vee and the corner of it really digs into my hand when i'm palm muting

how'd it hold up for you?

[Anthony7]

I only played it for two and a half hours before shipping it out and I really liked it. I didn't find any issues with it.
I tried to set the neck so the saddles would not have the allen screws popping through and you could clear the edges. That may have helped. I could see where there might be issues with a guitar where the fretboard is right at 1/4" or a little less higher than the body surface.

I think it is a little pricey for what it is. I liked it enough to make it the standard on all of my fixed bridge builds. The sound and sustain I got out of this guitar were pretty amazing.

[jp529]

nice ice!does it play like butter?what did you throw in for the bridge pickup?

[Anthony7]

It played pretty good, nice low action - great sustain.

I stuck a Bill Lawrence L-500XL with a Q-filter in it. Accept no substitute.

I am losing to a Kramer in the Guitar of the Month Poll. Darn.

[kramerfan]

It played pretty good, nice low action - great sustain.

I stuck a Bill Lawrence L-500XL with a Q-filter in it. Accept no substitute.

I am losing to a Kramer in the Guitar of the Month Poll. Darn.

no shame in that

what's a Q filter?

[Anthony7]

It's an inductor run in parallel to ground with the pick up. The tone control is set up as a voltage divider. As you turn it down it makes a humbucker sound like a single coil and all points in between.

HOt humbucker - PAFish - Hot single coil - Neck Single coil.

The onlt sound you can't really approximate is the P-90 sound.