A bit long in production on this one. Got quite sidetracked by the fretboard layout with the addition of wrap around ‘sun’ side dots, a larger diameter ‘moon’, a Fender style nut slot and a few other keeper details.
Went with a satin poly finish on the back of the neck… super silky!Added a finger notch to ease the removal of the cavity cover.While I liked the ease of removing the nut afforded by a simple rabbet notch, I wanted to assure stability on either side of the nut. It’s also just a prettier transition to the headstock.Moon travel over first three frets.Moon travel from frets 5 to 8Moon travel from frets 11 to 17Moon travel from frets 17 to 24
The guitar is similarly equipped to my last 3 p/u build, Dimarzio Super dist. in the bridge, Super 2 in the neck, obviously sans mid, Schroeder original stop tail bridge.. I opted Hipshot Open Locking tuners on this one. The set I used on CJE3SP1 were a real bugger to install.
The pickups are switched with a Freeway 6 3+3, giving B, B + N, N full up 1,2, and 3 positions and B, B + N, N single coil up 4, 5, and 6. Controls are master vol, N tone, and B tone. It’s actually a pretty versatile set up and limits wiring… which is, well, totally fine by me.
The Satin finish starts on the back of the volute, runs up the heel where it’s blended into the gloss of the rest of the guitar. Initially, I’d never played a guitar with a satin neck, though, having worked in furniture for so long, I knew that it could be made to feel amazing. In the end, I liked it so much, I did CJE3SP1’s neck over to match.
CJE2SP2 and CJE3SP1 will be going up for sale by the end of the month. I’ll post when they go live but, if you’re at all interested in either, feel free to hit me up!
Gavin John Sheehan (D.B.A. Custom Job) Is a Musician, Composer, Luthier, Builder, and Fabricator of 35 years. Before knowing what a luthier was, gavin took care of all his own instrument repair and customization. By the time he had his first job in finishing at a local funiture store, he’d been thinking about building his own instruments from scratch. A lot of years of repairing and working jobs, mostly related to carpentry, he picked up skills in furniture design, building, finishing and woodworking in general. Over time, as he’d encountered more complex instrument repairs, a lot of the work he’d done in the trades lent well to his work with musical instruments. After a 10 year spell living in Montreal, QC and playing all types of music, traditional and nontraditional western, eastern and experimental work, he began to fall out of love with the instruments he was playing (though he now misses a heafty amount of them). Around that time, he bought his first table saw for 150 bucks from a humidor maker which came with an almost embarassing amount of beautiful and highly figured woods. He carried at least 6 pieces of highly figured tiger maple and other odds and ends around with him for the following 15 years. Over that 15 years, he’d been doing work on other people’s instruments and building/restoring his own drumset, a combination 1948 Gretch Broadkaster he picked up in a junk shop and several other custom drums he built to go with it. He finally began construction of two Guitars (Earth I and Earth II) which would be the only electric guitars he’d allow himself to “Buy” after close to 5 years without a dependable solid body guitar. Gavin Decided to go into business in 2017, opening his first shop as Custom Job in Tolland, CT. He’s since moved to Sterling, MA and is building a home and shop down in the Quiet Corner of CT
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