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Join some blanks and tops and try and patch a few knots

I don't really like your horns either.

Sorry Mr F Body I think you are a bit pointy.  Let me fix that.

Drum sander time.

Looks good enough

So I need a test b ody blank for another project so Soft maple it is. Knots and all. And while I am at it I will make the back for the F body. 

6 hours ago, ScottR said:

Voodoo and mojo are the most important elements of guitars.

I went back to titebond for every type of wood. No issues anymore.

SR

I know but on old work like this epoxy fills mistakes

Mad now... I didn't mix the epoxy right on the headstock plate and it is not curing. 

6 minutes ago, Andyjr1515 said:

I like the look of this

Tx... it is one of those things. The neck was nice enough to use and I didn't feel like building a new guitar. I have an F body design in CAD but it is way more modern than this horsey.  So all scraps all the time.

I glued up some stuff today. Tomorrow we sand...

Might as well fix the headstock while I am at it. Man this thing is sloppy. Neck is well built but the headstock is a mess. 

You can find these things for around $150 bucks. With a little work they can be really nice guitars. 

Hell yes. With this piece of Sapele in the middle of the guitar it will be lit. Basswood + Maple + Sapele = Tone

I built some wedges to make it tight and squeeze out all the glue. Nothing better than a starved joint

Next up is the "Tone Block"   All Voodoo all the time...

Adding the maple strengthening strip. Seems I didn't take a photo of it... anyway there is a 1/2" maple board going in this route

First up. Rebuilding my old pickup horse.  ESP F-50

My friends daughter started playing guitar a few years ago. She is tiny (4' 10") and most of my guitars are too big for her. I have this ESP that is tiny 1 5/8" at the nut with a short 24.75 scale. She liked playing it so much I am going to fix it and give it to her. 

Not much to say... other than at least it is solid wood.

Starting up a new thread for random guitar building silliness. I have two goals this year. Finish a bunch of old projects and resurrect guitars that I should have burned in a barrel. If at some point I can't resurrect them I am going to burn the parts in a barrel so I stop trying to resurrect them.

I also have to build a bunch of pickups so I will chronicle that as well. 

I have started building tube amps and pedals so I may add some of that in as well. 

I am still really busy with real work and life (kid is in high school) so  this might take a while. 

1 hour ago, avengers63 said:

If you do, hit me up on Facebook. 

K.

Also I am looking forward to the Tele Bass. Going to lIsten to a lot of The Police while building it. 

On 12/10/2018 at 10:53 AM, Prostheta said:

I've spent a lot of time with your 5-string Tele bass pickup, and it really has a lot of range in how you can play it. I hope that you mentally saved that one.

Yes I wrote it down. Pickups are science not art... and I can't remember anything not related to my job like #code, #InfrastructureAsCode and #CI/CD these days.

Yeah. Painful process. Fill Grain. Paint White. Paint Transparent Fluorescent Green. 

I should have used an expensive 2K Clear but I just didn't care as this is my guitar (so much more fun building for myself). So I shot it with shellac and threw a few coats of Behlens Instrument Lacquer over it. 

It is already chipped and I know it is going to yellow in a few years but I don't care. It is supposed to be my workhorse but I still play my silly old Padauk/Ash single pickup S9 Express all the time. 

Just now, ScottR said:

Wow, you've had wookie parts for a long time. I forgot how nice that looks. And I forgot the accent lines you built into the body.

Is Robo-Rad still running nicely?

SR

When Robo RAD gets used yes. I fried a board in it a few years ago... pulled it out put new terminals on and jumped out the burnt traces. I really should buy a replacement board but it keeps working.

I used it for the recent SG and Greenie...

I am going to use it again for the Tele Bass. And of course building the custom pickups.

And I finished the Green one a few weeks ago. Even did some recording with it... still too new though needs to be played for a while before it breaks in. The other two are well broke in...

On 8/20/2018 at 9:25 AM, avengers63 said:

Have you started making pickups again too? You know I'm jonesing for a HSS set with rail magnets...

Not yet. But maybe over winter break. I have a Tele Bass project for my brother and a Warmoth strat to put together for a friend. Both need pickups. And I want to do a new blade design so we will see.

So I am finally getting around to final assembly on the Wookie...