woodfab Posted February 5, 2023 Report Share Posted February 5, 2023 Felt like cutting wood so I guess I'll make a guitar out of scraps I have laying around. So far I've glued up the neck out of some mahogany shelving pulled out of a dumpster and some maple pulled from grand piano I cut up. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodfab Posted February 5, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2023 After using milling machine 30 years ago I felt I couldn't live without one and bought one in the 80s. It's great for so many jobs, You guys make great guitars with hand tools, so I feel like this is cheating. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodfab Posted February 6, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2023 Truss Rod Looks like I need to recut the angle of the head surface. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicco Posted February 6, 2023 Report Share Posted February 6, 2023 Bloody nice looking scraps of wood! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizman62 Posted February 6, 2023 Report Share Posted February 6, 2023 6 hours ago, Nicco said: Bloody nice looking scraps of wood! So true! That said, a board too thin for a one piece strat type neck is plenty tall enough for a slanted headstock when split and slats of 1½" width seem to be in scrap bins where ever some sort of renovation is being made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodfab Posted February 11, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2023 Here's the wood for the body, Maple for the top pulled from a 1911 Baldwin grand piano and the mahogany back from a dumpster dive. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusader Posted March 12, 2023 Report Share Posted March 12, 2023 ...where is this dumpster? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodfab Posted March 26, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2023 I decided rather than making just one I'd make three. Here's my fingerboard radius jig. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodfab Posted June 4, 2023 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2023 This ended up being Guitar 4, 5 and 6. I always found it takes time per build when you make more than one at a time. After building the Fretting saws I cut the tabs on my milling machine and pressed in the frets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodfab Posted June 4, 2023 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2023 Guitars, guitars, guitars, Wife wants to know when I ever come of the shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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avengers63 Posted June 4, 2023 Report Share Posted June 4, 2023 Don't feel like you're alone. I have 4 in various stages of incompletion, and a few others that have been abandoned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodfab Posted June 5, 2023 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2023 I guess I'm going through a phase of Guitar building obsession. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodfab Posted June 11, 2023 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2023 #4 close to putting a finish on it. Lots of dust, wife's not happy! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizman62 Posted June 12, 2023 Report Share Posted June 12, 2023 19 hours ago, woodfab said: Lots of dust, wife's not happy! That's not your living room carpet, is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodfab Posted June 13, 2023 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2023 Quote That's not your living room carpet, is it? No but, my clothes and hair were covered. She want me to take my shirt and pants before leaving my shop. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizman62 Posted June 14, 2023 Report Share Posted June 14, 2023 6 hours ago, woodfab said: She want me to take my shirt and pants before leaving my shop I don't know where your shop is but as many of them are in the backyard (the men in their sheds) it might be somewhat confusing for the neighbours watching a naked guy run across the yard with clothes tucked under his arm, spreading dust all over the place! Like Pig-Pen of the Peanuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodfab Posted August 19, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2023 Finally putting the parts on. I haven't checked the fret level yet. I'm calling it the Black Cherry! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodfab Posted August 20, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2023 Bummer, The front face is 1/16" too thick for the pots. ARRRRRRRRR! I need to make the cavity deeper. Well, live and learn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizman62 Posted August 20, 2023 Report Share Posted August 20, 2023 Are you going to rout it or just drill the pot pits deeper? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodfab Posted August 20, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2023 I just drilled the pot holes deeper with a forstner bit and chiseled in between them. Getting close.800 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodfab Posted August 22, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2023 Well I need to make the nut and I'm using brass. I don't have nut files so I'm trying to come up with the most efficient way of making them. I need four right now. I'm trying to come up with a way to cut all 6 slots at once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizman62 Posted August 22, 2023 Report Share Posted August 22, 2023 4 hours ago, woodfab said: I don't have nut files so I'm trying to come up with the most efficient way of making them Out of curiosity I tested my rough-edged feeler gauges on a copper tube, Worked just fine, could cut through the wall with a 0.15mm/0.006" blade in a few minutes. Silly me, I mixed the thicknesses thinking I'd be cutting the high e slot! The 0.010 blade wouldn't have wobbled half as much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodfab Posted August 23, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2023 feeler gauge, no teeth, wow. I just bought 6 Slitting Saws, I'll mount them on an arbor in order to cut all 6 slots at once. Ya I know I'll spend 6 hours mounting the blades and only spend 5 min. cutting 4 nuts. Well it's all in fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizman62 Posted August 23, 2023 Report Share Posted August 23, 2023 6 hours ago, woodfab said: feeler gauge, no teeth, wow. Actually it has some sort of teeth, or rather a file pattern made. I put each blade into my tiny vice and rounded and roughened the edge with a coarse file. It sort of worked but even with bone it seemed a bit slow so I took a small hobby metal saw and scraped the cutting edge, moving the saw blade diagonally across the feeler gauge towards the tip, both sides for a soft V or something like that. It now cuts when pushed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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