Work is continuing- feels like things are moving quickly now which is great.
Body has been glued.
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Forshage update #6
Forshage update #5
We now have a nice hollowed back for the ergo.
I guess the next task to to glue to top and back together?
Don’t quote me on that.
Forshage Gallery
Just a little gallery of Forshage instrument pictures that I have collected since placing my order.
If you own the image and are unhappy with me posting it then please contact me and I will remove it.
Music Radar £100 build challenge.
I’m participating in the Music Radar £100 build challenge.
I already have a healthy bunch of parts lying around as you can see from the pictures.
I also have a USA ’62 reissue strat body, strat bridge and aged Fatboy pickguard incoming but they cost more than £100.
My idea is to build two guitars.
One will be a strat made out of the incoming body and other parts with the Fender Japan ’62 reissue neck in the pictures.
I have some Tom Anderson pickups that can go in it or perhaps I might go for some Suhr single coils.
Not sure yet.
This guitar is NOT the guitar for the challenge.
The other is likely to be the Aria body with the dragon carving with the Mightymite neck.
I bought the Aria guitar back in the 1990′s in Australia.
I think I paid $100 for it back then- the neck was completely screwed and it has laid around since then, although I had a warmoth neck on it for a bit.
It has a PRS trem on it that I paid $20 AUD for as I was working in a guitar shop and replaced the trem on a late 80′s PRS with a Floyd.
I bought the PRS trem from the previous owner as there was no way her could use it with the Floyd being on there.
A bit of a score.
The pickguard I cut myself from an Allparts blank.
Pickups I will probably go for the two PRS vintage Treble and Bass.
I have no idea what I paid for them.
The Mightymite neck was bought when I lived in the US.
Forget what I paid for that- will have to see what they go for.
Suhr M5 Pro Modern
New guitar in the house-a Suhr M5 Pro Modern.
HSH (SSH+, ML, SSV), Pau Ferro board, Basswood body, maple neck.
Really happy with it.
Here are some pics:
Forshage Ergo Update #3
Build is coming along nicely.
Truss rod is in.
Chris has been fantastic making himself available to discuss details of the build- couldn’t be happier at this point.
Forshage ergo update #1
I have a nice bookmatched mahogany back for the ergo build now.
Chris is still getting other guitars built before he works on mine in earnest.
Great communication thus far though.
Forshage Ergo
I’ve commissioned a new guitar from Texan luthier Chris Forshage of Forshage Custom Instruments.
I’ve been aware of a couple of ergonomic issues associated with ‘regular’ guitar.
The headstock weight coupled with the weight of the tuners pushes the neck down away from the player and over the last 20 years of playing I’m finding that it is more of a struggle than I would like it to be.
Also, several surgical interventions and other postural issues have reinforced the need for something that is a bit better for me, as a player.
Forshage’s ergonomic guitars are loosely based on the work of Steve Klein’s ergonomic guitars but pushes the envelope a bit more in terms of playability and ergonomics, as well as being just damn pretty.
There is a lot more information over at Building The Ergonomic Guitar. BTEG seems to have stopped updating but there is a lot of information there.
My ergo will be a set neck, hollow mahogany body with maple top, maple neck with cocobolo fingerboard instrument.
Electronics will be a pair of Lollar highwind humbuckers.
Here is the top we started with:
Chris has already cut and glued the top, which you can see here:
Here is one with black hardware mounted on it:
The final product will have side mounted sound holes, chrome hardware and a satin finish.
Pretty exciting stuff- so far Chris has been absolutely great, particularly as I vacillated about various details of the build.
