killemall8

From an engineering/ scientific standpoint.

What will make a stiffer neck? a 1/4" x 1/4" square carbon fiber rod, or the standard 1/8" x3/8" rod?

It's been YEARS since I've documented one single build from start to end. 

It's time to change that!

I'll be documenting this step by step with pictures and videos

Here's what we have so far.

Premium grade maple burl 

Light roasted flame maple neck ( 5 other pieces to be decided)

Black limba body 

Fretboard to be decided 

Ive had this problem on 90% of necks ive ever made.
Regardless of the method of radiusing, including pre radiused boards.
 

With fretboard glued to the neck, either radiused or flat. 8" sanding block or 20".

Fretboard dead flat, with 4 different straight edges.
use either long or short sanding block. 5 passes with it, already a hump in the middle.
Blocks are flat and straight measured with precision straight edge.

I dont understand how people can just clamp a neck to a table, radius with a short block and it be fine.
Ive tried so many d ifferent methods to avoid this and none do anything.

I have to go back and manually knock down the middle and it takes forever.
How do you avoid this and do you have any ideas of why this happens?

With a long sanding beam it doenst seem like it should even be possible.

Here's the next batch of builds. 

The burl neck will be on a burl king v. 

The quilt will be a quilt/ burl super strat 

The flame v had some super crazy grain and I'm contemplating leaving that dur job as the final color. 

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

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!

On 7/14/2023 at 2:48 PM, ScottR said:

Cheers Luis!  Is that mango also what you used on the pointier v in that pic of three in the first post of this latest string? That one caught my as unusual as does this.

Of course they all are crazy good, and that is not unusual at all.

SR

Thank you scotty!
Yes, the v at the top is from the same billet as the traditional v

14 hours ago, avengers63 said:

Almost immediately, disaster tried to ruin my night.

I put a couple of light coats of amber shellac on the back of the Kelly body. Poplar is plain and kinda weird looking, but it takes color like a champ. The amber evened out the color and looked damn good!. The first swipe with 220 on the ROS immediately sanded through. (My inner thug takes over) Dat's aight. That is ALLLLLLL right. I got sumpem fo you ass. Ima strip it all off, buff that wood up to 10K - you know, when it feels like plastic. Then Ima dye & oil it. Can't sand through it THEN can ya! How ya like me now?

I get like this sometimes. I don't get a lot of human interaction outside of my house. Working overnights is just gonna make it worse.

Brave man sanding with 220 on a finish. I never go under 400.

Here is a mango v I just sent out 

I saw a post on another thread talking about scarf joints and how even if you get it perfect it doesn't come out perfect after gluing and planing. 

Unfortunately that isn't true. If it isn't coming out perfect after gluing, the joint wasnt perfect to begin with, or it slipped while gluing. 

Here are 2 scarfs after planing. 

It is very possible to get perfect 

Hello friends,

Building has been non stop as usual. Here are some progress pics as well as finished pics 

Hello friends,

Building has been non stop as usual. Here are some progress pics as well as finished pics 

On 3/15/2023 at 10:11 AM, ScottR said:

I'm trying to think of new ways to say WOW.

SR

You are the man Scottie! 

one of the coolest builds ive seen on PG!

any specific reason for the slotted headstock?

On 2/7/2023 at 8:39 AM, nakedzen said:

Neck's on.

 

Next time its definitely a better idea to clamp a radius block on the frets instead of directly onto the fret. Those frets will definitely have a big dent/ mishape on them where that clamp was.

looking like a cool guitar. But man those upper frets are really buried in there

Pretty predictable now, but here is some stuff if anybody is interested. 

2022 was a personal worst year both for business and building. Sold a handful of guitars.  Made a lot of mistakes. Super disappointed.. business is almost non existent.

On 11/25/2022 at 10:50 AM, mistermikev said:

you must be the hardest working guy in the biz.  constantly cranking out stuff that is breathtaking.  I very much admire that about you.  very inspiring.

Thanks man, i appreciate it. you have made some really great stuff too!

On 11/23/2022 at 9:44 AM, ScottR said:

Dammit Luis, those are insane!

Except that for you it's not insane--it's business as usual.

So many different backgrounds in the outdoor shots. Are you just facing a different direction in the yard for each one?

SR

haha thanks scottie!
Yeah, they are a mix of my side yard and back yard.