One More Vee
Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2021 2:20 am
Last week I bought a Dimavery V for $40, because I wanted a bolt-on body to embed my '80's Yamaha 24-fret neck in.
It came with actually decent bridge system and pickguard; tossed just about everything else.
As a '69 shape it was too long with flanges extending far over the fretboard, so I chopped it almost 2" shorter, removed those flanges and then narrowed it to keep the dimensions. Now it's almost exactly the dimensions of my Dean Schenker Retro.
Painted it cream white and put in new pots and a pair of Blade Levinson Alnico 5 pickups I had on the shelf. The main problem with the build was that while the neck was the same scale, having 24 frets I had to attach it deeper into the body than the original. That also meant moving the neck pickup backwards about over half an inch. But it was no big hurdle. Amazingly, the neck pocket angle was absolutely perfect and even the neck width matched better than I could have done it myself.
Turned out better than expected. I always loved that neck; razor straight and hard rock maple, solid as they come. A little flatter radius than my others which are 12" I suppose this might be 14" and a little wider, but it's not a flat slab like Jacksons etc but offers enough hand support. Has light scalloping past 7th fret and getting deeper towards the end of neck, but nothing wild.
Balance came out perfect, and it even sounds good. Did the final setup and intonation and all in an hour, once I had gotten the paint and lacquer dry enough.
I'm gonna be using this quite a bit I think.
It came with actually decent bridge system and pickguard; tossed just about everything else.
As a '69 shape it was too long with flanges extending far over the fretboard, so I chopped it almost 2" shorter, removed those flanges and then narrowed it to keep the dimensions. Now it's almost exactly the dimensions of my Dean Schenker Retro.
Painted it cream white and put in new pots and a pair of Blade Levinson Alnico 5 pickups I had on the shelf. The main problem with the build was that while the neck was the same scale, having 24 frets I had to attach it deeper into the body than the original. That also meant moving the neck pickup backwards about over half an inch. But it was no big hurdle. Amazingly, the neck pocket angle was absolutely perfect and even the neck width matched better than I could have done it myself.
Turned out better than expected. I always loved that neck; razor straight and hard rock maple, solid as they come. A little flatter radius than my others which are 12" I suppose this might be 14" and a little wider, but it's not a flat slab like Jacksons etc but offers enough hand support. Has light scalloping past 7th fret and getting deeper towards the end of neck, but nothing wild.
Balance came out perfect, and it even sounds good. Did the final setup and intonation and all in an hour, once I had gotten the paint and lacquer dry enough.
I'm gonna be using this quite a bit I think.
