Bizman62 Posted April 17, 2020 Report Share Posted April 17, 2020 Some pretty wiring indeed! The only thing showing you're a mere mortal alike the rest of us is the red wire to the jack staying straight instead of evenly swirling with the black. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woltz Posted May 15, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2020 On 4/17/2020 at 5:03 PM, Bizman62 said: Some pretty wiring indeed! The only thing showing you're a mere mortal alike the rest of us is the red wire to the jack staying straight instead of evenly swirling with the black. I didn't even notice that haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woltz Posted May 15, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2020 So I've been a little quiet as I've been quite busy and no work has happened on the Rick build. But my maple has arrived and I have a piece of Australin timber called Wadjil which I'll use for the fretboard if I have enough thickness left after I take the twist out of it. My next step is to make a template of the headstock and do a mock up to check that the tuners all fit together. Hopefully I'll get to that and making the rest of the working templates in a few weeks. I also need to finish the new saddles for the bridge and make the tailpiece parts now that I've tweaked the design. Here is a glimpse of some of the other projects on the go. A couple of pedals built using Aion Electronics boards. Here they are wired up to test. I've also done a couple of things on my strat build. I'll start another thread for that. And here is a piece of timber that I have drying in my shed that I'm trying to work out what I'm going to use it for. We call it Silky Oak here but most people know it as lacewood. I've always wanted a PRS Style guitar so maybe it could be the top for a PRS Style build. It's a bit over 2 inches thick so I can split it and have roughly a 1 inch bookmatched cap to work with. I have enough if it to probably make a couple of solid bodies and an acoustic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curtisa Posted May 16, 2020 Report Share Posted May 16, 2020 14 hours ago, Woltz said: A couple of pedals built using Aion Electronics boards. I'll raise a toast to Aion as well. I've done their Blueshift, Aurora and Tempest builds. They're all permanent fixtures on my pedal board now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
komodo Posted May 16, 2020 Report Share Posted May 16, 2020 Sweet! Im a pedal builder too, til now have only done the veroboard stuff from tagboardfx. What is your first pedal there? EDIT: nevermind I saw the label. Super interesting pedal. I just built a clone of a Throback Strangemaster, and it’s 10x cooler than I thought it would be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayT Posted May 19, 2020 Report Share Posted May 19, 2020 I'm a little disappointed at the shortcuts you've taken ... I mean, you didn't even smelt the metal yourself. Obviously that's sarcasm born from the awe I'm in from the various skills showcased in this thread. Seriously though, did you smelt the metals? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woltz Posted May 21, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2020 On 5/20/2020 at 1:11 AM, JayT said: I'm a little disappointed at the shortcuts you've taken ... I mean, you didn't even smelt the metal yourself. Obviously that's sarcasm born from the awe I'm in from the various skills showcased in this thread. Seriously though, did you smelt the metals? I just bought a sheet of aluminium and made it from that. However, the woodwork club that I am a part of actually has a forge so maybe for my next project I can learn to smelt the metal as well haha. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woltz Posted June 7, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2020 It's been a busy few weeks but now that I will have some free time again, it's time to get back into it. Decided today was a good day to mock up the headstock using MDF to see if the tuners I purchased fit. It's tight but there doesn't appear to be any tuners the collide with each other. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted June 7, 2020 Report Share Posted June 7, 2020 11 hours ago, Woltz said: It's tight but there doesn't appear to be any tuners the collide with each other. How about knuckles? SR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woltz Posted June 7, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2020 5 hours ago, ScottR said: How about knuckles? SR Do you mean can I turn the tuners without my hand hitting other tuners? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistermikev Posted June 7, 2020 Report Share Posted June 7, 2020 lovely stuff but not sure I agree with the scale length and choice of tone mdf (hehe). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woltz Posted June 8, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2020 12 hours ago, mistermikev said: lovely stuff but not sure I agree with the scale length and choice of tone mdf (hehe). Haha hadn't you heard that the resin in the MDF is the secret ingredient for tonewood? Lol 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistermikev Posted June 8, 2020 Report Share Posted June 8, 2020 14 minutes ago, Woltz said: Haha hadn't you heard that the resin in the MDF is the secret ingredient for tonewood? Lol mdf is made exclusively from tonewood... they grind up maple, bubinga, snakewood, and magic beans (in the correct proportions of course) and bond them together with the tears of luthiers. Once it's finalized it is blessed by the pope. That's how they seal the tone in. hehe, that said I'm a big fan of danelectro so I should probably stop laughing! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
komodo Posted June 12, 2020 Report Share Posted June 12, 2020 In all my years of guitar worship, I’ve never been versed in the cult of Rickenbacker, nor have seen the witchcraft that is that headstock. It’s a tuner orgy. Amazing. Fun build! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woltz Posted June 27, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2020 I have been slowly ticking along with things when I get a chance. Got the neck blank jointed and glued up. All cleaned up. Cleaned up the pieces for the body blank. Joint looks pretty good, I'll glue it up in the next few days and then I can cut it out the rough shape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woltz Posted June 27, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2020 And a new toy arrived a couple days ago to replace my really cheap auto parts store gun that I had been using. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woltz Posted July 15, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2020 For everyone following along, don't worry, I haven't forgotten about this project. I've just had a few things competing for my time. But I have glued up the body blanks and yesterday I did rough cut the body. Next job is to finish up my working templates for it so I can check the fit of a few things and then do the routing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woltz Posted September 5, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2020 This build has been just sitting in the background with nothing happening as my focus had been taken by a couple other projects which I want to get out of the way so that I can pay close attention to this one. But I did cut out the pickguards today. They aren't perfect but they'll do the job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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