Bionic Dave Posted April 23, 2010 Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 Well with the First Raven built and sold and the Orca in finishing and the tortoise lying in waits for pickups and parts. time to start a new project. This one is going to be a Raven Design but a neck through, semi hollow body. It's going to have a different raven inlay then the first. Specs: Multiscale 6 string 27.5 - 25.5 Body - Figured Sipo Neck - Lacewood / Sipo Laminated Top - 5 A Quilted Maple Fingerboard will be bound with Lacewood. Body will be bound with lacewood as well. Hardware: Chrome ABM single bridges Chrome locking tuners That's all I know for now. Here's a quick mockup. It's now going to be a double cutaway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ae3 Posted April 23, 2010 Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 I like that feather f-hole, fits in nicely with the raven theme and inlay. Also it looks awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengers63 Posted April 23, 2010 Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 Well with the First Raven built and sold and the Orca in finishing and the tortoise lying in waits for pickups and parts. time to start a new project. You sound EXACTLY like me when I'm justifying starting another project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauliemc Posted April 24, 2010 Report Share Posted April 24, 2010 I like the inlay on the board. Get yourself on here http://www.williamlaskin.com/ to see how to make big inlays realy work well. You gona do a multi laminate neck ? would look coooooooooool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bionic Dave Posted April 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2010 I like the inlay on the board. Get yourself on here http://www.williamlaskin.com/ to see how to make big inlays realy work well. You gona do a multi laminate neck ? would look coooooooooool I posted it as being a LAminated neck, but I'm changing the layout. it's going to be Lacewood with Sipo laminated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bionic Dave Posted April 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2010 I like the inlay on the board. Get yourself on here http://www.williamlaskin.com/ to see how to make big inlays realy work well. You gona do a multi laminate neck ? would look coooooooooool I was also thinking of adding small feathers on the fretboard but it looked to busy in the mockup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauliemc Posted April 24, 2010 Report Share Posted April 24, 2010 I like the inlay on the board. Get yourself on here http://www.williamlaskin.com/ to see how to make big inlays realy work well. You gona do a multi laminate neck ? would look coooooooooool I posted it as being a LAminated neck, but I'm changing the layout. it's going to be Lacewood with Sipo laminated. Sorry. My mistake. I meant a 5 or 7 piece laminate. you know. Lotsa detail goin on. I think the feathers would look cool, maby make them up & just place them on the board for a visual to help make up your mind. But the fanned board might be enough so you may be right to ditch them. Never realy know untill you realy get into the build. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bionic Dave Posted April 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2010 I like the inlay on the board. Get yourself on here http://www.williamlaskin.com/ to see how to make big inlays realy work well. You gona do a multi laminate neck ? would look coooooooooool I posted it as being a LAminated neck, but I'm changing the layout. it's going to be Lacewood with Sipo laminated. Sorry. My mistake. I meant a 5 or 7 piece laminate. you know. Lotsa detail goin on. I think the feathers would look cool, maby make them up & just place them on the board for a visual to help make up your mind. But the fanned board might be enough so you may be right to ditch them. Never realy know untill you realy get into the build. tell yeah what I'll add them into the mockup so you tell me what you think. it's a 7 piece laminate neck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bionic Dave Posted April 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2010 Ok here's the progress so far. The Quilted Maple top. still need to joint and glue it. Here's the body wings still need to bookmatch and plan. Here's the Gabon Ebony finger board, with some wicked figure. And piece de resistance, the 7 piece laminated neck Lacewood and Sipo. Cheers more to come tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauliemc Posted April 24, 2010 Report Share Posted April 24, 2010 Nice piece of maple there. Wish I could get that over here. Typically $50 worth of timber would cost $200 to ship, total pain in the nuts man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bionic Dave Posted April 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2010 Here's the neck out of the clamps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bionic Dave Posted April 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2010 Got the body wings bookmatched. Here's the top with neck. And the Top wet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bionic Dave Posted April 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 Ok got the templates all made up for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verhoevenc Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Lucky SOB and your CNC'd plastic tempaltes! Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauliemc Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 lookin good dave. This this is gonna be grain-tastic when its finished. The sipo looks freaky cool. & while your on the subject of templates. That vine template I got from you worked realy well. A Little bit of fine tuning on the board after the mini router/template part & that was it. All prety much done in less than an hour. Just gotta finish sand the board now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bionic Dave Posted April 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Sweet, good to hear Paul. now I need to try that myself. I'm cutting out the feather template today so I can try doing it on the f-hole. I hope it works. Chris you know I make custom Templates for people if they want. a small price depending on what it is. just need an AI file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauliemc Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 Sweet, good to hear Paul. now I need to try that myself. I'm cutting out the feather template today so I can try doing it on the f-hole. I hope it works. Chris you know I make custom Templates for people if they want. a small price depending on what it is. just need an AI file. F Holes freak me out a little. I can never decide if I should cut them before or after I carve the top. Then once they are done I always want to bind them, but once they are bound i hate it & rip it all back out I used a dremil with a tiny slot cuttin bit on the ones you sent me. Worked a treat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bionic Dave Posted April 29, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 Well I was thinking of doing it after the carve. I will cut the body out to rough shape, then do a small chamber the reverse of the body in the top. Then use my small thumb plane to do the reverse carve in the under side of the top around the F-hole. At this point I will then do my rough carve and then cut the f-hole out. If I do it this way I can use my coping saw to do the main part of the f-hole and then a dremel to touch it up. Then glue to body and route to final shape. So I hope to get some work done on this build this weekend. I plan on getting the neck angle done and the scarf joint done as well. then I can lay out the design on the body wings and cut them out and route the chambers in them and cavity cover as well. It's going to be tough to find the time between the build and MotoGP practice's Quallie and race's to eat sleep and drink. What's a guy to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauliemc Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 It's going to be tough to find the time between the build and MotoGP practice's Quallie and race's to eat sleep and drink. What's a guy to do. All at the same time man. its easy. I glued on a fret board whilst eatin a steak dinner, asleep, havin a bulmers, lappin gits at the track on my 748R. All at the same time I was watchin a spongebob marathon on nickelodeon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chops1983 Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 Sounds like you need to setup in the living room! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bionic Dave Posted April 29, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 I'll just be working on the build inbetween morning practice and afternoon qualifing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bionic Dave Posted May 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2010 Got some work done on the neck today. Got the neck angle and scarf joint done. I also have the headstock back plate glueing right now too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solomon684 Posted May 2, 2010 Report Share Posted May 2, 2010 Where do you get all your wood from? All that figure is just amazing And am I crazy or did you change your username? I ask because I haven't here in a little while....were you PRS Tait? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bionic Dave Posted May 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2010 Where do you get all your wood from? All that figure is just amazing And am I crazy or did you change your username? I ask because I haven't here in a little while....were you PRS Tait? I have a great supplier that specializes in Exotic woods. They just bought a wack load of stock off of PRS because PRS are in a little trouble from what I hear. NO your not Crazy, I had Brian change my username just a couple days ago. I should add that in my Signature. Formally known as PRS_Tait Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verhoevenc Posted May 2, 2010 Report Share Posted May 2, 2010 feel free to steal wood from PRS for me too! Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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