Cactus

Lookin' sexeh as hell!.. Love the honey burst.

F-in awesome. Keep the updates coming, this is inspiring!

Welcome Fagerlund, looking good! Hope that isn't your current view from your workshop. Looks cold!

Not Fagerlund, Fagerholm.

But I wonder what Fagerlund is doing nowadays..

and today I dropped the guitar while oiling it.

From a pretty great height.

Onto a wood floor.

F&^%K!!!

There's a chance the broke bits may glue back. It ain't gonna look pretty, but it might still play nice.

Or it might be firewood.

Ouch!

Scott;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Hankey,_the_Christmas_Poo

Johnny, yeah - the Les Paul Honey Burst is awesome - I like it pretty soft, not like some cherry burst standards.

I was thinking something like this one:

http://www.suhrguitars.com/images/colorChart2/large/Faded%20Teardrop%20Honey%20Burst.jpg

Honeyburst?

Or maybe some sort of stained orange?

Oh my.. this is going to be unreal. Chrome hardware och pickupcovers?

So, when are you going to build some guitars?

.. or maybe some guitar stands?

Dude, you have chocolate shavings in your trussrod slot.. mmmm.. choooclaateee...

How bout' doing a reverse Iceman.. like the Fireman?

Schweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeing!

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Wademeiater that is an excellent idea I may use. Got to work today and realized I don't have clamps here so I'm looking for some way to clamp to the saw. Might make some clamps from wood and bolts, we'll see.

Also, I am tempted to make the body out of walnut. It would be a nice look with the neck I think, and seems to be a decent tonewood. Anyone have any opinions on walnut as a body wood??

Walnut is perfectly acceptable (maybe even a step up from Alder or Ash) tone wood.

eh? What flavor of walnut? Black?

I am fond of the expensive ones... Claro, Franquette, Bastogne, Peruvian. But Black or anything from the West coast of the US is fine. Watch out for the cut... a lot of plain walnut is riftsawn and it is tough to find nice quartersawn or flatsawn pieces.

Awesome, I saw i nice looking walnut board the other day. I thought it was labled black walnut. The price was good, maybe I'll give it a shot. It'll give me something to play around with until the tops and fret boards show up for my other builds.

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Wademeiater that is an excellent idea I may use. Got to work today and realized I don't have clamps here so I'm looking for some way to clamp to the saw. Might make some clamps from wood and bolts, we'll see.

Also, I am tempted to make the body out of walnut. It would be a nice look with the neck I think, and seems to be a decent tonewood. Anyone have any opinions on walnut as a body wood??

Walnut is perfectly acceptable (maybe even a step up from Alder or Ash) tone wood.

eh? What flavor of walnut? Black?

I am fond of the expensive ones... Claro, Franquette, Bastogne, Peruvian. But Black or anything from the West coast of the US is fine. Watch out for the cut... a lot of plain walnut is riftsawn and it is tough to find nice quartersawn or flatsawn pieces.

Awesome, I saw i nice looking walnut board the other day. I thought it was labled black walnut. The price was good, maybe I'll give it a shot. It'll give me something to play around with until the tops and fret boards show up for my other builds.

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Fix it!

I would try getting the top off without damaging it, remove old glue and clean up surfaces and then re-glue. Covering up mistakes will make you better at covering up mistakes - re-doing will give a pain in the butt and more satisfaction in the end.

As for how to get the top off I don't know - but I'm sure someone does know.

What kind of glue did you use for the top?

That is SICK.

Looks great, would love to be able to mill custom bridges.

Why do the groves for the tuners thin out on the middle strings?

My guess would be for a radiused string height, like a TOM-bridge has..

Any feelings on open grail vs filled?

I prefer my grail holy. Preferably with a hint of Monty Python.

I'm have a problem designing a 4X2 headstock now

It just looks stubby, any pointers?

Whatever you do, don't use that PRS-headstock like so many do on non-PRS-bodies..

About the body, I'm a little worried about the balance of this thing. I do like the look of it, but it seems to me that the lower waist should go forward (towards the neck) a little. To me It looks a little neck-heavy.

Otherwise, I'm keen on watching this project!

Cactus - where are you in Finland? We're moving to Pori in around three weeks. Off to Tuska? ;-)

I'm finnish but I'm born and raised in sweden. Both of my parents are fins.

For some strange reason I was under the impression xplo was finnish.. that's why.. and I have no clue to why I thought so.

That would be cool. I just can't send PM's, I don't have access to this function. Would you be so kind to send an email to neno@epignosis.at or nmg8@hotmail.com? Thank you very much.

xplo

Done.

If you still need an outline or whatever, let me know - I'll help ya out, for free.

PM me if ya want. If your native language is finnish you can use that. Or swedish. Or english.

I dunno man... I think roundovers that are larger than the top piece is thick end up looking odd...

Chris

+1

I've used one man... they're not that useful. I thought the same as well but the router is a MUCH easy, and better (results wise) way to go!

I'd suggest getting a sheer cut top bearing bit that's big enough to route the whole body in one pass. Since it's sheer cut I never get any chipout, even when doing 1.75" thick in one pass (but I cut pretty close to the line before routing). Ever since David Myka showed me the bit... I've never looked back!

Chris

Is that a bit that you put in your hand router, i.e. with like an 8 mm shaft? I haven't seen one that tall - I have top bearing bit but it doesn't cut the whole body in one pass. Also, I don't have a router table although that would make things a lot easier.

Cheers,

Ola

http://gitarrdelar.se/product_info.php?cPa...roducts_id=1934

That top is so good lookin'.. It makes me wanna cut my foot off.