kmensik Posted June 11, 2017 Report Share Posted June 11, 2017 I've had some birch planks from a tree my father cut 13 years ago, they are all too wormy now. I made a tele of it some 4 yars ago, since then the worms ate a lot of the remainig wood. Looks so bad I had to try to make something useful of it. A guitar. I let it bake in the oven to make sure there are no worms left. The board warped and shrunk a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmensik Posted June 11, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2017 The neck will be afican anegre with a thin sapele fretboard. Flat headstock, two way truss rod in hetshrink tube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmensik Posted June 17, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2017 I made one quick and dirty fret bender of a broken circular saw. Nice to find the right part in my garbage after a week of thinking how to build one. Frets seated, body oiled, neck wiped with first coat of nitro. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psikoT Posted June 17, 2017 Report Share Posted June 17, 2017 Great work!... I like the simplicity of your builds. BTW that body must have a special sound... it's a hollow body. ^^ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted June 18, 2017 Report Share Posted June 18, 2017 Oh man, that's awesome! Your oven might have driven out some of the bound water that the wood needs to be in balance with its environment, so be careful. It might easily rebound and move the other direction. If I had done this, I would be tempted to leave the wood laying flat out of the sun and with good airflow for a week or two to see what it wants to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted June 19, 2017 Report Share Posted June 19, 2017 On 6/17/2017 at 3:26 PM, psikoT said: Great work!... I like the simplicity of your builds. BTW that body must have a special sound... it's a hollow body. ^^ It should have some extra resonance. SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted June 19, 2017 Report Share Posted June 19, 2017 Not sure about resonance as such, as I would think that applies more to (more) consistent materials. It'll definitely alter the final instrument, however I'm unsure whether that would be the word to describe that change. It might shake the worms out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norris Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 Once those worms have desiccated you'll have a combined guitar & maraca! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmensik Posted June 21, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2017 I let the body re-acclimatize for maybe three weeks. Actually the worm holes are completely filled with solid white powder, it is hard to remove. I tried 10Bar compressed air with little success, had to use steel brush to remove the powder from the surface tunnels. Only the few fly-out holed are emty. Nothing will loosen with vibration. BTW it plays like solid wood. And the neck is so nice, comfortable, and no nut buzz even without retainers. The biggest issue was hiding the lenght of pickup cables in the minimal cavities. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted June 21, 2017 Report Share Posted June 21, 2017 2 hours ago, kmensik said: Actually the worm holes are completely filled with solid white powder, I've been calling that bug dirt.... SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted June 21, 2017 Report Share Posted June 21, 2017 It more or less is. The worms burrow through the Birch, metabolising the cellulose and pooping it back out into the tunnel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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