Bizman62 Posted July 24, 2023 Report Share Posted July 24, 2023 8 hours ago, ScottR said: The little slice I cut off making the nut angle didn't get destroyed. I have to flip it over to keep the angle correct. That's not a repair, that's a thing to stabilize the nut slot with a counteracting slice to prevent a potentially warping headplate from nudging the nut out of its place! Neatly done! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted July 24, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2023 7 hours ago, Bizman62 said: That's not a repair, that's a thing to stabilize the nut slot with a counteracting slice to prevent a potentially warping headplate from nudging the nut out of its place! Neatly done! Yeah, that's right.....that's what it is all right.... sure! I promise you one thing. It will be invisible before it's all said and done. SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killemall8 Posted July 25, 2023 Report Share Posted July 25, 2023 Your carving skills and hand tool skills still blow my mind! Ive been wanting to get into making things other than guitars as well. cant wait to see the rest of it scotty! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted July 25, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2023 4 hours ago, killemall8 said: Your carving skills and hand tool skills still blow my mind! Ive been wanting to get into making things other than guitars as well. cant wait to see the rest of it scotty! Thanks Luis! You should try some side projects just for the variety. If nothing else it lights the fires for building more guitars while you're side-tracked. And with the crazy hig bar you've been setting with your guitars, your side projects are sure to be stunning. SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killemall8 Posted July 25, 2023 Report Share Posted July 25, 2023 2 hours ago, ScottR said: Thanks Luis! You should try some side projects just for the variety. If nothing else it lights the fires for building more guitars while you're side-tracked. And with the crazy hig bar you've been setting with your guitars, your side projects are sure to be stunning. SR I'll definitely start off more basic than a burl table with carved stand haha 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted July 26, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2023 14 hours ago, killemall8 said: I'll definitely start off more basic than a burl table with carved stand haha Good call. I will admit that was one of my more ambitious endeavors. SR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyjr1515 Posted July 27, 2023 Report Share Posted July 27, 2023 Excellent tip in terms of using an old plane with the perspex block for flat sanding...which I find a real challenge. I have an old plane in the cupboard - consider the idea stolen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted July 27, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2023 9 hours ago, Andyjr1515 said: Excellent tip in terms of using an old plane with the perspex block for flat sanding...which I find a real challenge. I have an old plane in the cupboard - consider the idea stolen! Andy, that may be the most useful idea I've ever had. The weight makes hand pressure unnecessary....and reduces the temptation to add it anyway. Between that and the wide stable base, it reduces the occasions of rolling off the edges of the piece you're sanding. And those nice sharp edges are what make glue lines disappear. SR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted July 30, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2023 Time to carve the headstock. SR 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted July 30, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2023 Head stock plate. Maybe with a little mineral spirits, just because figured maple is so much fun. SR 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyjr1515 Posted July 31, 2023 Report Share Posted July 31, 2023 I can see the finished headstock already in my minds-eye and it will be knockout. There is something quite special about that forward carve at the back of the headstock. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizman62 Posted July 31, 2023 Report Share Posted July 31, 2023 9 hours ago, ScottR said: Time to carve the headstock. You make it look as easy and fast as the "spindle sander with a guiding block" method we mere mortals use! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted July 31, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2023 5 hours ago, Andyjr1515 said: I can see the finished headstock already in my minds-eye and it will be knockout. There is something quite special about that forward carve at the back of the headstock. Thanks Andy. I rather like the way that S curve turned out. SR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted July 31, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2023 5 hours ago, Bizman62 said: You make it look as easy and fast as the "spindle sander with a guiding block" method we mere mortals use! Time lapse photography..... SR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted August 6, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2023 This weekend I radiused the fretboard to 16", inset gold MOP fretmarkers and side markers made from those little bamboo skewer things. SR 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted August 6, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2023 Then I fretted it with EVO. I haven't used anything other than SS for years. It was cool to be able to cut the frets with regular fret trimmers, but the stuff felt a little brittle compared to stainless. This is something I should have gotten years ago! I just barely started evening up the fret ends, and then called that a stopping point. SR 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistermikev Posted August 7, 2023 Report Share Posted August 7, 2023 wow, so many colors in the back of that headstock. v cool. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted August 7, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2023 22 minutes ago, mistermikev said: wow, so many colors in the back of that headstock. v cool. Yeah, rosewood is wonderful stuff. Did you ever pick up any of your local Arizona Rosewood? SR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistermikev Posted August 7, 2023 Report Share Posted August 7, 2023 2 minutes ago, ScottR said: Yeah, rosewood is wonderful stuff. Did you ever pick up any of your local Arizona Rosewood? SR matter of fact I did. have a chunk sitting there and was thinking I might use it for yet another les paul. rosewood... ah yes... that purple... beautiful stuff! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizman62 Posted August 7, 2023 Report Share Posted August 7, 2023 How on Earth can you keep all that shiny wood intact during the rest of the process??? I wouldn't dare sanding the headstock shiny as it would be filled with scratches and nicks during the neck carving process... Or maybe I just store my projects sloppily... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted August 7, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2023 6 hours ago, Bizman62 said: How on Earth can you keep all that shiny wood intact during the rest of the process??? I wouldn't dare sanding the headstock shiny as it would be filled with scratches and nicks during the neck carving process... Or maybe I just store my projects sloppily... I have never. Ever, Not even once have a fretboard survive booger free after doing it this way. But I want to put the frets in while the neck is still flat. So the fretboard has to be as close to finished on the surface as I can before fretting.....because that's nearly impossible after fretting. And for me shaping the fret ends is part of the neck carving process and for me the neck profile begins at the rollover on the edge of the fretboard, not under it. Once the neck is shaped and the frets are dressed, I'll tape them off until the thing is assembled and the body is shaped. I'll do the finish sanding on the headstock, neck and body all at the same time, and uncover the fretboard to see what kind of boogers I have to fix..... SR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted August 13, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2023 Time to carve the neck. I'm still using my wicked rasp I made from a used bandsaw blade. SR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted August 13, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2023 I may have mentioned this in the past, but I truly enjoy making necks! SR 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizman62 Posted August 14, 2023 Report Share Posted August 14, 2023 9 hours ago, ScottR said: my wicked rasp I made from a used bandsaw blade. Shinto is so last season... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengers63 Posted August 14, 2023 Report Share Posted August 14, 2023 10 hours ago, ScottR said: I may have mentioned this in the past, but I truly enjoy making necks! If that's how you feel, I'll send you some wood and you can knock one out for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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