Finally, I'm getting my shop space back!!

Finally, after what feels like months of getting no work done, the shop is mine again.  We have been storing the contents of my mother in law's house in our garage.  Not to mention, the non-required contents of our own house.  Well that has finally been moved out onto the driveway for a garage sale this weekend.  Now I have the daunting task of arranging the shop.  that always takes a few trys to get it right but at least it is coming together.  The first project, a 5-string bass.  Look out boys, I'm back in business.....YES!!

Live Edge guitar has been accepted

I got the e-mail yesterday that my latest live edge guitar has been accepted into the Sidney
Fine Art Show. Check it out at the following link:http://blog.sidneyfineartshow.com/
Remember, the art can be purchased at the show so don't wait, get your live edge guitar from the show....and tell your friends.
Talk to you soon.

First pics of the new Live Edge guitar

Well, here are the first pictues of the new live edge AS10 guitar. This thing is SICK. What a great guitar. It sounds as good as it looks. I went really simple in this design. Single humbucker and volume control. Strat style bridge, Grover tuners, Graphtech Tusq nut. Neck wood is maple and walnut laminations. Body is Flame maple with a Jatoba back. Control cavity cover is Paduk. Anyway, here are the pics. I will get some better for the website tomorrow but for now, here they are.

The Live Edge guitar is done

The shop is still out of commision but I have managed to finish the Latest Live edge masterpiece. Well, almost finish. I still have to setup the guitar and attach the truss rod cover but it is mostly ready to go. It will be going into the Sidney Fine Art show that is coming up in October in Sidney B.C. I will have pictures for the website and the blog by tonight I hope.
The shop is still disaster zone, I don't know when the hell I will get my space back. So all I can do right now is work on guitars that don't require any cutting. The table saw, jointer, bandsaw are all out of commision right now. The drill press, Spindle sander, and routers can be used as well as any of the hand tools and finishing equipment. There MIGHT be time this weekend to do the garage sale and get rid of this stuff once and for all.
andy
www.apscustom.com
andy@apscustom.com

Well the shop is full.....AGAIN!!

Well, guitar building has again ground to a halt. The shop is again full of "non-guitar building" stuff. I can't even move in there at this point. This is all due to our latest move.
We have TOOOO much stuff. We are going to be having a mother of a garage sale in the coming weeks. It's crazy how much stuff we have.
So on a positive note, the Live edge guitar neck is done, just needs to be put on the body now. When I can get in the shop to do so...... At least I'm mostly caught up on the custom orders. This is getting frustrating!!

Andy
www.apscustom.com

APS Custom necks and bodies

The neck for the live edge guitar is coming along nicely. I'm putting on the third coat of finish this morning. The necks feel like silk when I'm done with them. There is no heavy gloss finish that will slow you down, it feels incredible.

And the next guitar to be worked on is actually the first prototype I built for the company. Things have changed since that first one and I want to update it with latest cool things I do. So I'm stripping off the old finish and I might install a floyd trem on it. I will see about that as things progress. Anyway, off to the workshop......

Andy
www.apscustom.com

Live edge neck all shaped and ready for fretting

The neck is all shaped. I have my first coat of finish on it and today's task is to get it all fretted up. I have no absolute method in doing necks. Sometimes I fret the neck before shaping and sometimes after. the pros in doing it after the shaping are if you damage the fretboard while shaping the back (the fretboard is clamped down to a surface, thus can get damaged, even with taking the proper percautions) you can resand afterwards to reflatten it. If you have already put the frets in....to bad for you. however, if you fret it before the neck is rounded it makes the fret job extra easy as it does not shimmy around from side to side when installing the frets. So each method has it's pros and cons and I just go with my gut instinct on each job.