avengers63 Posted June 1, 2010 Report Share Posted June 1, 2010 NECK teak neck flamed maple fretboard art deco inlays cocobolo faceplate cream binding for neck & headstock INLAYS cherry cocobolo goncalo alves yellowheart BODY 1"+ white limba base 1/4"+ cherry pinstripe 5/8"+ spalted maple top (I say "+" because I don't remember exactly how thick the pieces are, but they're at least as thick as the number listed) I'm currently planning out the carve on the new top. I might go for a cream binding on it as well. Maybe not. Like so much of this build, I'm really just letting the wood tell me what it wants to be, and the guitar tell me what it wants me to do to it. That's how the headstock and inlays came to be. gold hardware Wilkinson Imperial tuners Gotoh TOM resonator trapeze t/p Gibson P90 pups This one happened because I stumbled across some teak on the cheap. The first top was bookmatched hackberry. That ended up really looking like crap, so I planed it all off and went with the spalted maple. Y'all have already seen some of the inlay pics, but here's the whole thing in context. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted June 1, 2010 Report Share Posted June 1, 2010 What's that log sitting on your floor there? SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengers63 Posted June 1, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2010 What's that log sitting on your floor there? I never cease to be amused at what folks notice in the pics. It's a 1 1/2 year old walnut log that I can't split but the wife won't let me keep in the garage. If I could split it, I'd have split it into boards 6 months ago like I did the others. They're all finishing drying under one of my workbenches. I figure to try and do something with them next Summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengers63 Posted June 1, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2010 I love my scroll saw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narcissism Posted June 2, 2010 Report Share Posted June 2, 2010 That's actually pretty sweet! I'm interested in what the rest of the build will look like. Is this your LP of kickass, kinda like what my SG is going to be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengers63 Posted June 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2010 Is this your LP of kickass...? Perhaps my own Instrument Of The Bards. (RPG nerd joke FTW!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorgo Posted June 2, 2010 Report Share Posted June 2, 2010 I love the inlay. I mean LOVE it. Fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblaty Posted June 2, 2010 Report Share Posted June 2, 2010 I am really interested in that neck, because I could get some teak wood out of an old railway carriage.. should be about 110 years old... I believe teak is hard to work with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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chops1983 Posted June 2, 2010 Report Share Posted June 2, 2010 Nice Slippers John! Oh and the inlays look good too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim37 Posted June 3, 2010 Report Share Posted June 3, 2010 John i think im gonna like this one. i am really diggin that fretboard. dont take that the wrong way i always respect your build but sometimes they just arnt my style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengers63 Posted June 3, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2010 John I think I'm gonna like this one. Dont take that the wrong way I always respect your build but sometimes they just aren't my style. You & a lot of other folks here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpcrash Posted June 3, 2010 Report Share Posted June 3, 2010 Nice work on the inlays John - I guess that bar chair in the background of one of the pics is off limits? Sure looks like it has nice thick seat in it..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengers63 Posted June 3, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2010 I guess that bar chair in the background of one of the pics is off limits? Sure looks like it has nice thick seat in it..... More noticing stuff in the background. I love it. We found those a couple of years ago. They were at the end of the driveway with a FREE sign on them,so the kids brought them home. They thought they were going to paint them for their rooms. After letting them sit there untouched for 9 months, I claimed the best of the bunch and disposed of the other three. They never noticed. I use that thing constantly - usually at the scroll saw, routing inlays, and during assembly, and other fine detail work. It's really a used-up POS, but it still holds my butt off the floor and I don't have to worry about messing it up, so it's perfect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Workingman Posted June 3, 2010 Report Share Posted June 3, 2010 That looks like a great start on a nice guitar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengers63 Posted June 3, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2010 Thanks. The inlays into the maple wouldn't have been possible had I not made individual templates for every one. As for routing in those small corners... the Dremel is your friend. Those teeny bits got really close in, which made sharpening them up with an X-acto pretty easy. Once they were all epoxied in, I cut them down with a Japanese-toothed flush-cut saw. Man, that thing chews through wood like it's butter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted June 3, 2010 Report Share Posted June 3, 2010 nice. the first go at this scheme was pretty good but this is 100% better hold on - there was another attempt at it wasnt there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengers63 Posted June 3, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2010 hold on - there was another attempt at it wasn't there unsure.gif Ummmm..... Yea! If this one is 100% better, then yes it's a whole different thing. It's pure coincidence that it looks exactly like the one I posted some pics of just to show off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted June 3, 2010 Report Share Posted June 3, 2010 i remember more filler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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avengers63 Posted June 4, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2010 This is the original top: bookmached hackberry. I'm pretty disappointed that I had to plane the whole thing off. There were some really interesting colors in there, including some blue! You'll see pretty soon why it had to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengers63 Posted June 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2010 Again, the original top. The carve looked pretty good. I was trying to get away without 1) doing a neck angle and 2) buying anything else. To that end, I tried to recess a wraparound t/p and smooth out the edges of the recess. I feel it was as well executed, however..... The more I looked at it, the more I hated it. It not only pointed out but prominently displayed that I can't do a neck angle and was trying to get around it. And that's why I had to plane the whole thing off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Our Souls inc. Posted June 6, 2010 Report Share Posted June 6, 2010 ........I tried to recess a wraparound t/p and smooth out the edges of the recess. I feel it was as well executed, however..... The more I looked at it, the more I hated it. It not only pointed out but prominently displayed that I can't do a neck angle and was trying to get around it. And that's why I had to plane the whole thing off. Dude , you can Sooooo do a neck angle. *I* can , and if my cave-man like building style allows for neck angles , i KNOW you could do it. * what a shame* about that top ! I loved it !!!!! I don't think it prominently displayed anything but schweetness , but I just used the words "I don't think" .... that was a nice top tho. Inlays are the bomb too. nice work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killemall8 Posted June 6, 2010 Report Share Posted June 6, 2010 Neck angle is easy john... Just rout a regular flat neck pocket... then, leave your neck blank a bit thicker than needed... Then, cut the neck angle into the heel, with a bandsaw. Then fine tune it with a sander or sanding block. Ive done it about 50 times. Its easy. You just put the bridge on the top where it would go, and put a straightedge across the fretboard to see when you have enough neck angle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narcissism Posted June 7, 2010 Report Share Posted June 7, 2010 All this time I've been trying to make a 3* offset leveling jig so I could just carve out the pocket at an angle with the router. Cutting the angle into the heal is a really good idea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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