johnn_h Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 (edited) Hello , my name is Joao, i live in Sao Paulo , Brazil. Im really proud to post my first progress pictures , after reading and learning alot from you members , i really intend to share this with beginner woodworkers and luthiers to help them as you guys helped me. SPECS - Strat 60´s template bought from Ronny Trigo ( wich i recomend to all beginner builders like me ) - 2 pieces Hard Ash body - quartersawn american maple neck - brazilian rosewood fingerboard - gotoh vintage nickel tuners ( 6 in line ) - seymour duncan vintage for strat single coil set - gotoh hardtail bridge crome - ORIGINAL AND UNIQUE piece of brazilian cow bone , for nut making - fiesta red finish ( nitro ) - white pickguard - gotoh pots ( 250k ) PROGRESS - The rough cut Hard Ash board , and the already planed maple blank -Strat templates and wood http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/20.jpg - The maple blank ( rough cut ) and brazilian rosewood fingerboard http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/2.jpg -Thickness sanding the maple blank , making easier to cut on the bandsaw ( squared corners ) http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/3.jpg -Bandsawing maple blank http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/4.jpg -Traced countours and tuner holes http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/5.jpg -Bandsawing the headstock profile http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/6.jpg -Headstock after bandsawing and drilling the tuner holes http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/7.jpg - trimming the excess before routing the headstock http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/8.jpg -Router guides made of maple leftovers , and truss rod http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/9.jpg -Routing the channel ( those chinese bits makes the work harder , expect to buy some infinity router bits soon. ) http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/11.jpg -That´s me , still routing the truss rod channel http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/12.jpg - Headstock flush trimmed and trussrod channel routing completed http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/15.jpg -Trussrod test fit http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/17.jpg -Trussrod test fit2 http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/16.jpg -Gluing the Ash pieces together http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/18.jpg - My high tech gluing jig http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/19.jpg UPDATED - The Body Rough cut and rought sanded http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/22.jpg -What shes gonna wear http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h -The neck already cut , without fingerboard http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/24.jpg -The fingerboard already cut , with stewmac fret scale template and miter box* http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/25.jpg (*As you guys can see , i centered the fretboard and aligned to the template , and it ended like this " / " , with some angle , is that a problem with the miter box or something ? or maybe the positioning of the fretboard ? If anyone could help me , i would be very pleased , since i spent a good quantity of money on something that frustrated me alot .) -Spreading the glue around the fingerboard http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/26.jpg -Gluing the fingerboard using steelrod clamps (worked really well , it didnt move sideways) http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/27.jpg -The already glued fingerboard ( Had a lot of work to align the neck and the fingerboard) http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/28.jpg -Doing the curve towards the nut ( the table sander worked really well because of the radius , very similar to fender style , saved me some work on sawing the peghead part too) http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/29.jpg -the already thinner and curved peghead http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/30.jpg -The couple of bits arrived from infinity , making it possible to move on template routing http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/31.jpg -Table router made of MDF boards and steelrod bars and the neck ready for routing http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/32.jpg -Flush trimming the neck http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/33.jpg -The body template and the bits , ready for routing http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/34.jpg -Trimming the body sides with a template pattern bit http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/35.jpg -Trimming the body sides . http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/36.jpg -Body and neck after routing Expect to be updating again soon ! Thanks Edited May 19, 2006 by johnn_h Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~john~ Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 It looks great man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redwhiteandthemaple Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g153/johnn_h/8.jpg Ahhh your cellphone!!! Good job! Looking good.. Is that your school shop? Looks nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnn_h Posted April 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 (edited) Oh no !! my mistake ,those machines sure make a lot of noise , gotta keep my eyes open when the display lights yellow , since i dont hear any ringing. Im learning luthery from a classical guitar maker ( you can see some rosewood and mahogany planks in the back ) , he used to be on electrical guitar and bass making , but realized he could be happier doing acoustic ones, like 6 ,7 string classical guitars , bandolins , and violas ( 10 string ones ). I use the machines of his workshop , like his homemade sander , wich can support 3" tall pieces of wood ( altought theyr not precise as the performax ones ) Joao Edited April 7, 2006 by johnn_h Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RLRSHOP Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Looks good so far! I hope that bandsaw blade never breaks or jumps the wheel. It's kind of hanging out there where it could do some damage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnn_h Posted April 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 (edited) "Those are ROUTING templates hehehe Weren't you afraid of cutting into the template? Very nice pics thanks!! Great work!!! " I guess i didnt explain myself right, because the picture doesnt show a small piece of maple that i forgot to take off when i was sawing. Lemme ask you , am i talking to the creator of the templates? I mean , the drawnings ? thanks for the comments Joao Edited April 7, 2006 by johnn_h Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mammoth guitars Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 Wow that is a huge bandsaw! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksound Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 Wow that is a huge bandsaw! If that blade breaks, well, I hope you're not attached to your extremities. Because, you know, you won't be if that thing goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~john~ Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 ^i was thinking the same thing, but i would still like a saw like that, it would be so usefull. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lietuvis Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 It looks like you do very clean work. Cheers on that! (I like your home-made glueing jig) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hughes Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 (edited) if the blade did in fact break, the wheel would continue spinning while the blade remains motionless inside the compressing cut slot of the wood. its happend to me at school, so hopefully im right and never got lucky :O ANYWAYS looks like it will be a very nice piece of workd Edited April 8, 2006 by Hughes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skatz Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 yeah but ive seen then jump the wheel a lot more then i see the blade brake. and that would not be pretty. but very nice work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mattia Posted May 20, 2006 Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 if the blade did in fact break, the wheel would continue spinning while the blade remains motionless inside the compressing cut slot of the wood. its happend to me at school, so hopefully im right and never got lucky :O ANYWAYS looks like it will be a very nice piece of workd Agreed, great project, and that bandsaw scares the HELL out of me. I don't want more blad exposed than the amount doing the cutting, and I'd very much like the rest in a steel box, ta. The blade on that could snap, and even if it grinds to a halt quickly it could lash out and do some serious hurt (sharp toothed piece of metal going from 700rpm to dead zero in seconds? NOT SAFE) It's also absurdly huge. Still, I have tool envy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~john~ Posted May 20, 2006 Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 how big is you're saw then mattia the guitar looks great, i love that drum sander aswell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattia Posted May 20, 2006 Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 how big is you're saw then mattia the guitar looks great, i love that drum sander aswell. A respectable 16", thanks. That one looks like it's breaking 40", easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnn_h Posted May 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 Thanks for the comments ! I really apreciate your concern In fact that is a dangerous saw , but unlike USA And some countries where woodworking habilities is something more common , and practiced by a very large number of people , here in brazil , those woodworking skills are only achieved by the ones who lives working with it. So we dont have a large number of machinery retailers ( and good quality for good prices ) like grizzly , and other ones. For example , a invicta ( DELTA ) used bandsaw like one in the picture ( 80/90´s decade ) Cost to us something like 1500 / 2000 american dollars. Im feeling a little shame for sharing those facts with all countries around the world (wich are reading this topic) But is more to show our different reality , when it comes to machinery and woodworking. We also have a very limited tonewood , and tool suppliers. With the growing demand of luthier instruments , Brazil maybe change its reality in some years , wich would be great , lowering the prices and making the life of all luthiers a lot easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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