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  1. I love the project and the sentiment. I'm coming along for the ride. SR
  2. That actually yielded a very clean and controlled cut. I may adopt it for that particular step even after I replace the bandsaw. SR
  3. And it does fit. So I rubbed in a little mineral spirits for the first glamourish shots of it looking recognizably like a guitar. SR
  4. Two things happened this week that put a kink in my building plans. First, is my pickups have not arrived yet.I prefer to rout the neck pick up prior to glue up, so I don't have to work my template around the fretboard. I love my Klein pickups and have purchased many pairs over the years. They take a while to deliver. The website says 2-3 weeks is normal.....and I have had a couple orders deliver in that time frame, but 6-10 weeks is more common. Apparently, Mr. Klein himself, and only Mr. Klein is allowed to build them. And they ship them world wide. And my bandsaw went kaput before I cut the neck pocket in the top. So first I cleaned up the neck tenon and made a template for the pocket by taping together three pieces of polycarb with straight edges to frame the pocket and then drawing the body shape on it. I used that to locate the position on the top and traced the pocket onto it. Normally I would bandsaw the opening out just inside the lines, but no working bandsaw anymore, So I used my fretsaw and clamped a couple of polycarb blocks to form a saw guide. Then I glued some sandpaper to a small scraper for a sanding block and using a machinist's square to keep it the opening true, I finessed it to the proper fit. SR
  5. Thanks Ash. I hope so too.....it is the plan. SR
  6. Thank you sir! Very nice of you to say so. SR
  7. I recently did a table top with Total Boat. Your description fits that nicely as well. SR
  8. That's good to hear. It certainly felt smooth routing out that neck pocket. But then it was brand new and and as sharp as it ever was going to be. Let's see how long it lasts. SR
  9. Thanks Henri. That headstock and volute has evolved a bit over the years. In my earliest builds I was always concerned that headstocks were fragile constructions with the stress of angles, string tension and trussrod channels and counter tension. My early headstocks included the stout volute and a center spline to give the headstock added strength (in my mind anyway). That got refined to eventually lose the spline since I saw no evidence of breakage, and was often fighting with enough room for the tuning machines as I tried to get them closer to straight pulls. That lead to them more current shaped volute, which I freely admit took some design features from @killemall8's volutes, namely the transition from the neck to the headstock. Then I was building a guitar for my son and getting some pressure to sign the builds. I recalled a comment from @sdshirtman stating the volute would be a good place for a logo. This didn't happen all at once....there was no lightbulb going on over my head. In fact I thought it was all my own idea, but over the years I recognized the influences. Anyway I signed my son's guitar like this: And have done so since. SR
  10. For a long time I've been looking for spiral cut pattern following bits. I hate the noisy chattering of the straight bladed pattern following bits that seem to be what is only available. I found what I was looking for this year. It's from SpeTool, sold on Amazon, made in China, a half inch compression bit on a quarter inch shaft, with a one inch cutting surface. It's the smoothest cutting pattern bit I own. So far. It hasn't had a huge test yet. Zero chatter. I'd think it would guess less tear out in figured wood. We'll see. Look at this beastie! It cut a fine neck pocket. Set neck guitar neck set. SR
  11. Next I signed the headstock.... Then I taped off the fretboard and go to leveling and dressing frets. Is it just me or does Evo lose some of its gold color after polishing? SR
  12. That's an idea that's been tempting me as well. What brand of epoxy did you use? SR
  13. I do enjoy seeing such fine examples of precision machine work. SR
  14. Haha! Come on. You'll have to wait till I'm done with this build though. SR
  15. I've had good luck wetting the surface with water and planing 45 degrees to 90 degrees to the grain direction. Don't know how that would work in a scraping situation. SR
  16. Mahogany often has interlocked grain....that's what makes that ribbon striped figure. What that means is you get one stretch with the grain running uphill sandwiched with another running downhill, and that keeps repeating. Looks great, but hard to scrape, or plane. SR
  17. I may have mentioned this in the past, but I truly enjoy making necks! SR
  18. Time to carve the neck. I'm still using my wicked rasp I made from a used bandsaw blade. SR
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