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"Chipout" is what happens when Chip gets tired of hanging around doing nothing and leaves the party.

"Tearout" is what happens when an evil router decides  to destroy your hopes and dreams for the day.

3 hours ago, ScottR said:

It hates us too Precious, it does.

SR

I swear I would rather spend time with rasp and sanding blocks then let the Routers attack my creations. 

1 hour ago, curtisa said:

I'm enjoying seeing the S9 return to the In Progress section of the forum.

I spy a foot shot in your last post, too.

Ha ha ha. Got careless.

Nothing better than your best friend being a professional architect. He and i sketched some stuff on a piece of paper, talked about what it means to be an SG, and it became th e headstock design for the SG.

Gratuitous photos. 

Headstock mostly figured out

Pile of parts.

What a mess

Looks cool though

Neck roughed in.

Headplate attached.

Man hate I had to stop. Now I have to finish this by hand.

While RoboRAD is doing this

I am working on gluing the headplate

Then life and I have to quit for the day another body barely finished on the CNC

Before sanding

After sanding

Headstock plate for SG

Body blank for the new S9

And cleaning up the SG body because I ran out of time on the CNC and took it out early. 

Exaggeration of my CNC headstock. It is what happens when you cut them by hand. 

Chips fixed. Stupid router I hates it. 

On 9/14/2017 at 10:29 AM, komodo said:

OMG I'm trying SO hard to only build one, but my indecisiveness coupled with fiery imagination keeps other builds buzzing around my head and interrupting constantly. I've got little build time, so I get nothing done. 

Drink more.

17 hours ago, Mr_Riddler said:

 

Yes that's true, it's usually the hardest part of the build. I try to take pictures outside in daylight if the weather allows it. Usually it generates one or two decent photos that you can use  

When doing final shots of a guitar I use a black background (black sheet set). I use sunlight whenever possible. If not I have a strong single source of diffused light.  I use a Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM Lens and a Tripod for all closeups.  

3 hours ago, Mr_Riddler said:

Yeah, that blue resin looks nice against the black carbon fibre and it looks really cool when it glows in the dark. But it's kinda hard to get any good pictures of that. 

Hardest part about building guitars is taking good pictures of them

18 minutes ago, ScottR said:

Damn, you got a lot done. Looks like you made up for the holiday weekend.

I had to go back and get reminded where that second neck came in. I was thinking-wait- he said he was only building one at a time.

And it looks like Irma doesn't want anything to do with you.

@KnightroExpress is another matter altogether. Hope he stayed high and dry, and still has a roof.

SR

Yeah the second guitar thing... I guess I have to build two at a time because you have to have something to do while RoboRAD is running. 

Irma is leaving us alone. Hope everyone can dry out at some point>

Body done enough time to watch football. 

Patch up the nicks..

Shape up the other headstock little more svelte than the CNC model. Also added a taper so it is strong and flexible. 

Neck done enough I can finish it up by hand.

While I wait on RoboRad going to put the headplate on the mystery guitar.