Morning all

flatfourfan

My name is Gary from Pretoria. 36 Years old, been playing for about 2-3 years now. I session with some oldies in Pretoria and play anything from old Metallica, Slayer, Black Sabbath and the odd punk track.

My daily player is a BC Rich warlock copy that I made when i was 16 in school, solid Canadian Maple construction, neck is a BC Rich KKV unit that I bought off ebay, the guitar is killer, weighs a tonne, but the sound is KILLER. Schaller fixed bridge as well as Schaller single humbucker and Gotoh tuners...............great guitar to play fast.

Previous guitars include. Jackson PS-4, Dean and a Les Paul. Currently building a Les paul for the collection.

Old picture when I just got the neck from the US and when I still had the PS-4.

My old Dean

My PS-4 as I bought it.................best R750 I ever paid. I got this thing in bits..........

Bob-Dubery

Welcome!

I'm intrigued. My calculation says that you started playing in your early 30s but built yourself a guitar when you were 16. There's a story in there somewhere ?

Sean

flatfourfan wrote:
My daily player is a BC Rich warlock copy that I made when i was 16 in school, solid Canadian Maple construction, neck is a BC Rich KKV unit that I bought off ebay,

Am I understanding this correctly? You built the guitar 20 years ago with a neck you bought off e-bay? Had no idea e-bay has been around that long ?

Welcome. Always interesting having guitar builders join the forum. Infernox has just started a project and is keen to build a Les Paul at a later stage as well. I think he's from the Pretoria area as well.

inflames

Welcome to the forum!

I would love to hear about building a guitar at 16 and only started playing a few years ago ?

TomCat

Howzit and welcome to the forum...... ? ?

aubs1

Welcome to the forum Gary........

Sean wrote: Am I understanding this correctly? You built the guitar 20 years ago with a neck you bought off e-bay? Had no idea e-bay has been around that long ?

Come on Sean, we live in the 21st century......anything is possible....... ? ? ?

Ray

Howzit flatfourfan. Welcome. You didnt know you get the interro first off before anything else hey?

6x9base13

Let me test my abilities before CSI tonight ?- I'm going to guess the neck was bought in the last few years when he started playing.

Also, I remember making a ton of stuff I had no use for in woodwork class, why not a guitar ? I owned one for 16 years before I learnt more then an Am chord :-[

Welcome flatfour ! You use the same nick on the acvwsa forum ? I go by Insane_Primate there, but just a lurker since my Ghia was stolen years ago. Thinking of getting another before year end.

Sean

Yep, that seems to be the case ?

DonovanB

welcome to the forum. Never mind the calcs, cool guitars. I had an old Jackson a while back. I smaak them

flatfourfan

Thanks for the welcome guys...................nice to see that we have a local forum.

6x9base13 wrote: Let me test my abilities before CSI tonight ?- I'm going to guess the neck was bought in the last few years when he started playing.

Also, I remember making a ton of stuff I had no use for in woodwork class, why not a guitar ? I owned one for 16 years before I learnt more then an Am chord :-[

Welcome flatfour ! You use the same nick on the acvwsa forum ? I go by Insane_Primate there, but just a lurker since my Ghia was stolen years ago. Thinking of getting another before year end.

Yup, one and the same...........air cooled VW's, porsches, skateboarding, hondas, gardening. I use the same handle.......lol.

Okay, here's the explanation on the time frame.

I built this guitar (neck and body) when I was 16. I didn't know how to play back then and when I finished the guitar, it was almost impossible to play, action was too high, intonation was wrong, neck was too thick and frets were wrong and I kept on breaking strings, so shortly after I finished it, I gave up with even trying to learn to play it. I simply packed it away in a cupboard and decided one day when I have some more patience and skills, I'll rebuild it.

Enter 2007.

A friend got a paypal account, so I decided to hunt on ebay for a widow headstock to finish the guitar as that was the biggest issue with the axe, during that time I bought my dean and started to learn to play guitar waiting for the day that I'd have the warlock sorted. I grew out of the dean pretty quickly and was sick and tired of it getting bashed around. So I picked up the Jackson PS-4. Fixed that up and used that as my daily shredder. By this stage I had found a widow headstock and it was being shipped to me from the US. Once that arrived, I sent the whole mess to my guitar bud who put it together, set it up and re-did all the wiring. I've since sold the Jackson and use this guitar as my main one........

I hope that explains it all.............

This was the warlock when it had my own neck on...............gotta love that DIY truss rod..?

Sean

If you had the chutzpah to build that thing at age 16, then I reckon you're going to do pretty well with the Les Paul build you're planning ?

flatfourfan

Sean wrote:
If you had the chutzpah to build that thing at age 16, then I reckon you're going to do pretty well with the Les Paul build you're planning ?

Cheers man, much appreciated. If I don't find a project out there, (neck/body), then I guess I'm going to have to make it all from scratch.

Warren

Speaking of flat fours, Porsche or Scoob? ?

EDIT: :-[ Imagine Porsche don't do fours...so Scoob then...

flatfourfan

Warren wrote: Speaking of flat fours, Porsche or Scoob? ?

EDIT: :-[ Imagine Porsche don't do fours...so Scoob then...

Older Porsches have fours...............I'm a vintage nutter. 2.0 914 flatfour out back with a lot of balls. It's a replica by the way.