Harvester Guitars

[FuzzHugger]

Oh fuck! LOVE!
Could do without the aluminum neck thing, but man!!!!

I...want...this:

[coldbrightsunlight]

Yeah that one in particular is WICKED hawt.

[Chankgeez]

I...want...this:

You should offer up a trade, Tom, he might go for that?

[FuzzHugger]

LOL! Probably not.

Would I have to trade 10 - 15 pedals?
And my guitar budget right now is $300.

How much does he sell these for?

[Chankgeez]

I just looked at his site:

For the remainder of 2012 I look forward to taking on several new guitar projects. I am a busy musician & guitar repairman ( and loving it ! ) but I will gladly take requests for custom instruments starting from AU$2100 ( AU$ roughly equal to US$ currently ) including a case, unless unusual shape/size of the instrument means that off the shelf cases are not appropriate.

So, yeah, a little out of your price range. I didn't even think of how many pedals it would take to equal a guitar. Offer him one of everything you build.

[skullservant]

About on par with EGC pricing. Not too bad. Especially since he's not afraid to try weird shit

[harvester]

Especially since he's not afraid to try weird shit

hey, none of those nasty rumours are true ...

hello people of ILF and old friends from the venn-diagram overlap with OSG !

thanks for looking guys, glad to see some aluminium love over here ( & i knew i put the old bee-baa in the photos with my prototype for some reason ... )
it's late here and i'm all rehearsed-out, just wanted to say i'm glad you guys 'get it'
any questions - fire away ! and maybe i should do a thread for a guitar here ?

PS that 'offset' looking Harvester with the aluminium neck ( custom order for an OSGer ) is based on one of these :


( pic from fetishguitars.com of course - no affiliation + they've done some updates in the past week for the first time in 6 months or so )

cheers, AP

[kosta]

Welcome to ILF!

[univalve]

Welcome!
Great to have you here. Your guitars really look hot. Dig the contra mainstream attitude

[skullservant]

Hey dude!!! You're awesome! And I love your work. A lot.

[rot gut]

Does EGC weld their heads and necks too? Not sure how I feel about that.

[dubkitty]

having pummeled an aluminum-frame mountain bike for years, i have no concerns about a welded headstock.

[Achtane]

Seems like you would really have to beat the shit out of it to damage the weld...

[FuzzHugger]

Welcome, Harvester!

having pummeled an aluminum-frame mountain bike for years, i have no concerns about a welded headstock.

Seems like you would really have to beat the shit out of it to damage the weld...

Thirded. My brother's a welder, and if done well--and I expect it is--there's no concern here.

Compare welded metal to glue wood...I think we're good.

[harvester]

Compare welded metal to glue wood...I think we're good.

sure, there wouldn't be much guitar left before you could break the weld !
sometimes the challenge with metal necks seems to be to not overengineer them into heavy, inert objects.
real wandres used hollow extrusion in the necks where i have used solid T6 6061 so i'm already pushing it much more towards the travis/egc side of things.

my guy TIG-welds stainless and alum mining machinery and truck parts etc all day long ... i'm the 'crazy guitar guy' sneaking in with my bits and pieces all marked up for him to work on at the end of the day. i considered learning to weld but on much advice from hotrodding/race car friends here in melbourne aluminium is not the place to start ! furthermore TIG gear is expensive and involves big ol' tanks of gas for 'shielding' etc etc so i'm happy to pay a professional to do it.

part of the appeal of the old wandres is the sort of 'workmanlike' industrial look of some of the parts.
the welds are exposed on early models - like bike frames - the welds become part of the 'look' .. although i end up grinding and buffing them out usually.


1961 wandre bikini from fetish.com ^

i also love how i can see the almost 40 year old milling marks inside the 'T' on my travis bean ( i'll try to photograph them )

to answer the question ... EGC's and travis's are milled from billet - no welds.



thanks for all the comments !

especially this guy ...

finally, someone doing the Wandre thing properly!

there's no point doing things by halves.
AP