hi, anybody build a guitar

Hi I'm Jack,

I've been playing for 7 years and finally decided to build my own guitar. :cool: I'm building a 50's Gibson Flying V Korina in my own style with a glue/set neck. The neck is built with a curly flame maple and a indian rosewood fretboard

Its gonna be one sweet piece. The main body is made of ash while the front and back is made of AAAA quilted maple. I plan on doing the finish with an emerald green (hopefully look like a PRS finish).

The sound should be a killer. I purchased the seymour duncan "Dave Mustaine" live pickups. All the hardware is gold finished and the tuners are all vintage. On top of that I plan on doing my own inlays.

Check out this guys blog thingy....

http://www.guitartricks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20727

He's done an awesome job.

If you're not going to use korina, I strongly recommend making an all-maple neck-through guitar with a rosewood fret-board. I have an Odyssey Custom V made by Atilla Balogh in the late 70's. It looks like a square-shouldered '57 Gibson V, except that it doesn't have most of the face covered by that clunky pickguard. And it sounds so much better than any of the Gibsons or Epiphone V's that I've tried out.

If you're only going to copy a standard design, why bother doing a custom?