joshvegas

I would have thought your entire workshops worth of sharp tools flying across the room at your dogs stomach would be a more immediate concern! Stupid question but how do you get the cover off? it's bad enough with a recessed cover thats just held in by screws!

you could just have twelve strings tuned up in semitone steps and a fret at the octaves, sorted!

Oh how you dissapoint me!

This is a distraction so i'll play. What I Have... PRS Santana SE some sort of burst and easily the best looking PRS (to me) Washburn D46S acoustic An Ancient Suzuki classical guitar it's lovely with black unwound strings (rock and roll) Crap P-Bass knock off attacked with bandsaw One frankenstein strat which i need to set up One wesley blue clear lespaul with a nut extender for playing slide 2 Mandolins (one electric) 1 bulbul tarang (weird indian instrument but it has a pickup and can be used as a microphone!) 1 Sitar 1 ukelele okay the last bunch are not guitars but they are so much fun. PIGNOSE (brilliant) Marshall MG100 (crud) Assorted pedals What I want... Lespaul special double cut TV (you might now understand my PRS opinion) Rickenbacker 660 An epiphone crestwood Gretsch white penguin A nice old martin A lovely little tube amp Oh and one finger from each of my top ten players (the list changes daily)

Sharpening a scraper is totally correct the method for sharpening the scraper is burnishing. It's funny I have never had much trouble sharpening (whoops) a scraper (it's about the only thing i can do quite well) when i say i sliced my hand i just mean it cut a small but clean cut rather than gouging a lump out which is what would happen if it did have a "sharp" edge.

I'm still waiting to see what a custom knife is! can i see one please?

Sorry i was away in berlin for a weekend so i couldn't reply. was in a rush and had little to no cash so i didn't buy them my answer would be medium big probably do a body but nothing wider and it's probably to late anyway lidle like to keep us on our toes! josh

you scrape like this don't you? diagonal opposite diagonal straight I know mine is sharp because i slipped off the edge and sliced my hand! I've never tried it on a burl but I HATE sanding with a passion i react to the dust.

It's stranger than that - he's an American who knows how to write the date properly I allowed my self a small giggle for that one! teehee

Just popped into lidl for my weekly shopping (it's so cheap my pittance of a student loan goes so much further) Among the assorted fresh/canned goods could be found clamps (sash and those little plastic ratchet mole grip type jobbies) and a bunch of craft knives i was temted by a router but that wasn't so cheap! I also picked up a variety of cycling stuff. I'm such a cheap skate!

I thought you used a scraper on veneer infact I know you do i read it in a very old book! not to say sanding won't work of course but scrapers are perfect for burled wood if they are nicely sharp they'll leave a really smooth finish in alot less work!

Bonjour! Custom knife maker? how do you fit 21" spinners to a knife handle? can i see one? As to body shape iceplorer anyone? I am doing something a bit like but curvier and not very well! Look in building a guitar on a budget in the progress section the project is a bit further on now and the wais is a whole lot skinnier but once more i've lost my camera DAMN the drink!

The more i see this guitar the more i like it! it has a sort of "four strings? check, one pickup? check, Let's ROCK'n'Roll" vibe and i really like the scratch plate. It's kinda of like a vintage japanese guitar.

A sort of black and white minstrel in reverse?

I just don't like headless guitars usually! as to making cows.. http://www.biotopics.co.uk/edexcel/biotechnol/artins.html hope it helps I think making everything from scratch and it working AND it looking pretty damn cool is a fairly good characteristic in a guitar building competition. I do think you should make a strap though that would be cool and set it off nicely a spin strap of somekind would be cool!

I think you could be right or very nearly i mean my strings don't rust ever they barely even tarnish! possibly the ph level of your sweat? Probably not a good idea to lick you fingers!

I thought this was going to be a vid on how to replace my kinked dyson tube! hand me my swiss army knife!

you know those string trees are quite a good idea compared to original ones. I agree with geo in all other respects and questions! a bit more time spent tidying up little bits would lift this up a notch. especiall taking in the treble cut away so it matches all the other angles on the body. As for the headstock i either see a whale or a goat/rams head!

polish your frets i use a silver polishing cloth but check out the tutorials i'm sure i saw one on polishing frets. edit: as mark says below some people sweat some kind of weird stuff that melts metal

Block planes are bevel up because (i think) of the nature of the job it's supposed to do (cut end grain) which does not grab the blade and make it dig in like planing with the grain can do if you're not carefull. Think of it like chisels bevel up a chisel digs in to wood where as you get more control bevel down but if you are cutting across the grain the flat side goes against the cut face. Just in general for your basic common or garden planes (and spokeshaves) and their original uses. small angles (between sole and blade) imply bevel up bigger angles imply bevel down.

I have to admit I didn't really "get" your guitar at the start but i was impressed by the project! But NOW having seen it finished... ...will I have the opportunity to flex my voting finger? Do you have a picture of the guitar in it's case? And how are you going to make your own strap for it?

large planes (stanley no. 7 types) thats what you want it'l give you perfect joint with a bit of practice and it's pretty fast too with way less mess than sanding.

I tried a similar line with girls (not mentioning drak obviously) 0 success to drunk to add anyhting to this (99pence teusday today) pffft.!

Welcome. If you don't play guitar perhaps it would be a good idea to borrow one and learn a few chords just to get a feel for how they work having said that a certain mr fender wasn't a player! Also there are books you should definately read, I have only read "make your own electric guitar" by Melvyn Hiscock so I can only recommend that to you it is very clear on most things and doesn't require much knowledge of guitars to understand it. Josh.

I have no eperience but i can't see how using resin would make any difference to the possible shape of the guitar wood is pretty easy stuff to cut and carve compared to making an accurate mold i would have thought. I don't mean don't do it but your post says you'd rather use wood so i'd use it unless i'm missing something. One day i am going to make a resin guitar as soon as i work out how to make it light enough not to be a total pain! (bubbles in a clear resin would be super cool!)