KnightroExpress Posted April 11, 2016 Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 Haha yeah, what @Norris said- that's what pickguards are for 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2.5itim Posted April 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 I am going to have to think on this, I really don't like the idea of someone someday taking the pick guard off and seeing this atrocity lol. I do think the best move here is doing a solid black painted top with faux binding and a natural back but I have also really been wanting to do some stuff with demascus steel and the pick guard could be a cool opportunity for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted April 11, 2016 Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 So, no chance of three humbuckers then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2.5itim Posted April 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 Man, that's one thing that I really thought about doing but they were just a little bit to far apart to fit a third in there. If it was about 3/8" closer together I would have had the room and it would be getting 3 humbuckers for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted April 11, 2016 Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 Great minds and all that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2.5itim Posted April 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 It worked!! Ok got it all smooth and routed out the cavity in the correct location this time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psikoT Posted April 11, 2016 Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 I understand your anger, but next time you may find a piece of wood which matches the grain direction... Just kidding. Even if you've already decided to paint it solid, I'd tell you that is not really necessary to keep that as a failure anymore. I'd definitely route it again and put two humbuckers together. There's the exact room for that. The only thing is that you have to make a custom ring, but that's not a big deal. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birch Posted April 11, 2016 Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 Megabucker. Could be the next big thing:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2.5itim Posted April 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 Haha @psikoT I looked for so long trying to find a piece that had close to the same grain pattern, I believe my exact words after were "are you freaking kidding me, all this ash here and not a thing that's even close?" the megabucker, now we're thinking! Haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightroExpress Posted April 12, 2016 Report Share Posted April 12, 2016 I definitely know of some triple-coil humbuckers out there. Check out "The Motherbucker" lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted April 12, 2016 Report Share Posted April 12, 2016 I've always looked at those triple coil pickups and thought, "Noise....okay....second one means no noise....okay....oh, noise coil. Nice". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted April 12, 2016 Report Share Posted April 12, 2016 Those triple coil buckers would be greater with an active buffering/switching system that provides certain phase/series/parallel summing. The bass I'm making will likely have the "Rick-O-Sound" dual outputs (mono/"stereo") so that I can optionally send each pickup through a independent signal paths. No sure how that might monkey with my obligatory 18v pre-amps. Since the bridge position is so sensitive to placement of pickups, having a three-coil switched around would allow for SO MUCH dialling in. Anyway. Back to the Ash. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2.5itim Posted April 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2016 I stayed a little late at work today and made up some positive and negatives of my toggle cavity cover on the lathe, I had some plastic laying around from a job I ran last year so I used that. I didn't think the plastic would make it thru more than one pass with the router bit bearing burning thru the material so first thing I did was routed these shapes into some extra hardwood I had here at the house. Now I used the id template to route my cavity cover shape on the body (my bit is to long so I had to use the plastic as a riser), then I used the od template to make my actual cover out of padouk, and after a little finish sanding it fits perfectly.I'm still not sure how I'm going to do the vol/tone cover, still thinking on that one! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2.5itim Posted April 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2016 I forgot to take a pic of the padouk with the template but it was something like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2.5itim Posted April 14, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 I got the vol/tone cover made and inset, I'm extremely happy with the way this padouk looks with the walnut. I need to drill the holes for the screws on the covers and the back of the body I could call finished minus the finish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2.5itim Posted April 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 I also got my fretboard radiused to 12", re slotted and somewhat fretted. I ran out of fret wire so I will have to run to the store tomorrow and pick more up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Me too. I need to figure out where is best to source Jescar wire in the EU without having to pay stupid shipping that costs more than the wire.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyjr1515 Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 I've been watching this @2.5itim as its been progressing but just realised I've never added any comments. It's looking like a great build to me - the back looks beautiful - love the contrasting colours As for the 'extra' humbucker position, there is no question in my mind....it's just shouting out to have magnets coils and poles in there rather than a lump of wood. If it was me, I'd go for three humbuckers and would be very, very excited what the combinations were going to sound like - and with choosable split coils...hmmmmm, there's an idea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2.5itim Posted April 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Pros, I have just been using stewmacs fret wire up until now. The local little guitar repair store here in Tulsa uses it and will sell it to me for their cost and even will bend it for me for no charge which is great with me since I don't have a bender. I have heard great things about jescar and would really like to try some stainless out in the future but I will need better nippers before that can happen. @Andyjr1515 thank you for the kind words! I was really tempted to reroute it and throw a 3rd humbucker in there, but after talking to the guy I'm building this guitar for he would rather just have the 2. Originally he wanted an all black top and natural back and I had talked him into the ash pore colored finish so when I told him we would have to go back to the original idea of all black he wasn't displeased at all! i do have a 7 string in the works that is this same body shape, I might just have to do the middle humbucker on that one. Hmmm 3 humbucker 7 string baritone I'm kind of liking the sound of that!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightroExpress Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Tim, check out Philadelphia Luthier Tools. They sell preradiused sets of Jescar wire in a variety of sizes. You get 25 pieces in a set, which is obviously enough to complete any normal fret job. For between 10 and 15 bucks, you can't go wrong! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2.5itim Posted April 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Ahh that would be perfect! Thanks I will check them out, Andrew. I have a 3 day weekend this week and will be heading to Arkansas for some hiking tomorrow so I figured I would spend today working on this. I re "carved" my top, I went to woodcraft and picked up a set of radiused cabinet scrapers and decided to do an undercut on what I had already carved. I like it a lot more now and these cabinet scrapers are awesome! They don't do so well on the open pores of ash because it pulls a lot of material out of them and then not so much on the closed pores so in certain places I was getting a ripple effect. After lots of sanding I have gotten them smooth again. Also because I'm now going a solid color on the top I decided to wood fill the screw ups that I have from when I clamped the top to the back and the little imperfection I got from hand planing incorrectly. Also finished fretting and glued them in, and reshaped my neck because I wasn't completely happy with it which now I am, I also used cabinet scrapers on that and enjoyed every minute of it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 That radius you put in the bevel is a nice touch. SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2.5itim Posted April 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Thank you Scott, I figured I would use this one as kind of a test piece with the scraper for the custom 24 but I like it so much I think I'm gonna do it to the spalted hackberry guitar also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2.5itim Posted April 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 I ended up not going out of town as I had planned so I spent a little time today working on this, I finished fretting it yesterday and left the glue to dry over night so that is done, today I drilled the tuner holes and mounted my pickups, I still don't have any hardware or electronics for this thing yet so I stole them off the other build for the time being. I was planning on mounting my bridge but I can't find any of my 3/32 drill bits anywhere so will have to run to the store tomorrow. The guy that I was building this guitar for said that he would order all of the electronics and hardware and get them to me when they come in, anyways that was over a month ago and last week he said he hasn't received them yet (he supposedly ordered from the same places I always order from and get my parts within 3 days), anyways I'm starting to think he's dicking me around! At this point I'm just going to go ahead and order everything I need to finish this thing as soon as I get the cash and just write him off Anyways, sorry for the long read! Here's a pics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2.5itim Posted April 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 Im not sure about this bridge pickup distance from the bridge, hopefully it's not to close! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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