jer7440

Thanks guys...sorry for the delay...I kinda forgot that I even posted this.

Ok....so I used DC Ross's calculator and it spit out a convenient DXF file. This should be good.

I have a question about the neck. Do you use a normal scarfed headstock? If so is there just some extra "flat" or fretboard surface above the angled nut where the nut angles away? Does that question even make sense? I guess what i'm asking is does the angle created by the scarfed headstock stay perpendicular to the center line of the neck.

The wood in that neck is fantastic! Just gorgeous.

NIce work! What did you design that with? (Software I mean)

I want to make sure I have this straight in my brain before I get to far on this guitar design I'm working on. I'm thinking along the lines of a multiscale with a 27" scale on the low side and a 25 on the high. I made the 7th fret the common fret between the two scales. So I took the fret positions from the 27" scale and the 25" scale and I laid them on the fretboard with the 7th fret being horizontal or perpendicular to the center line of the neck. Then I connected the first fret of one scale to the first fret of the other...creating the "fan". Does this sound about right?

That is going to be one sweet looking LP....nice job!

Teehee, i can see the cutting lines in the earlier pictures. This really makes me want to get back into it! Nice color and shape too. Can you get any shots of it in natural lighting so we can get the full effect of the finish and grain? Natural lighting will help the colors show up a lot better, and you won't have that blurring effect from not having a flash. Natural light will also eliminate the blinding effect of a flash should you decide to use one.

Not sure what cutting lines you are referring to? I will try to get some outdoor pics. The weather here has been suck lately!

Sorry, i'm a big CNC fanatic. I made a 1/16 scale guitar out of aircraft aluminum (decorational purposes only, totally not playable or to scale, or even stringable for that matter), and the bit left these nice swirly marks all around the guitar. Most things done with CNC mills leave those "cutting lines" behind, and they looked beautiful on that aluminum body. it gave it almost a holographic look!

The cutting lines in your guitar are gone now, because you sanded it, so don't worry about it I just got excited because i noticed them in the contours in the early pics.

Gotcha!....I thought you could still see cutting lines...after I sanded. You made me do a double take! LOL

Do you work in a CNC field?

Teehee, i can see the cutting lines in the earlier pictures. This really makes me want to get back into it! Nice color and shape too. Can you get any shots of it in natural lighting so we can get the full effect of the finish and grain? Natural lighting will help the colors show up a lot better, and you won't have that blurring effect from not having a flash. Natural light will also eliminate the blinding effect of a flash should you decide to use one.

Not sure what cutting lines you are referring to? I will try to get some outdoor pics. The weather here has been suck lately!

It looks very nice, my only suggestion for next time is to finesse more the carve from the waist down. It looks very nice on the horns, but once you go past the waist it looks as if smooths out like a flat top.

Thanks Maiden. The carve is a full 1/2 deep all the way around the guitar. I personally don't care for the "recurve" that PRS has in their carve. It creates an edge that rubs against my arm, so I made my carve a smooth transition between the flat plane where the bridge sits and the binding edge. When I get some better pics I will try to get a profile shot that will show this better.

Thanks for the comments so far.

Well...this one is finished! I'm really happy with the result of my second effort. Here's the run down:

The body is alder with a maple cap. The burst is wiped on using Color Tone dyes mixed in H2O. The red on the back was color tone mixed in nitro and the clear coats are nitro.

The neck and fret board are maple with Santos rosewood (I think) bindings, inlays and head plate. Finish is tru-oil. I love the feel of tru-oil on the neck!

The pickup rings, cavity cover, and knob are also santos rosewood. These are also finished in tru-oil.

The humbuckers are GFS...they sound really good for the price!

Tuners are PlanetWave locking...I love the auto string cut off feature.

The bridge is just a cheapy I picked up off ebay.

Man my camera sucks! Oh well here are a couple more thumbnails

Hopefully I can get my hands on some better pictures.

I was just curious...what was sparking when you were cutting your neck on the bandsaw? Looks good....did you inlay the fret board?

Very nice arrangement! Will his sander go down to the proper thickness or do you have to use some kind of a carriage board?

Chris, do you and Daniel have a thickness sander? If so what model did you go with...if not how are you thicknessing your acoustic wood?

I was primarily interested in the 2 and 3 o'clock sessions...like chops1983.

Any chance you will be making videos of the event....to sell to those of us who can't afford the trip from the US to Australia?

Dang you guys are kickin out some awesome guitars! I love that rosette. I was curious about the funky little notch carved in your back braces. Is it just for looks?

I was looking at the pics in your photobucket album and it looks like maybe you could stand to improve the dust collection on your router table! LOL

Yeah...I was looking at that page after I posted. The email i received had a different price than the webpage did. The email made it look closer to 100 bucks off.

I just got this in an email.

bandsaw sale

Seems like a good price... I just thought I would throw it up here for any one who may be looking for a saw.

You seem to be making some nice connections! Congrats! It looks like you are using some different bridge pieces. Are these ABM as well?

Thanks Perry...Looks great!

Very cool. I'm also curious about the copper detail....thickness and such.

Do you have a picture of the back of the neck?...I was just curious how you blend between the hard clearcoat and the oil.

I see the headstock has a clearcoat on it but not the rest of the neck....using tru-oil or something on the rest?

Is there and advantage to this tool over pressing frets in a drill press? I do have a couple of clams like that laying around...

Jehle...I do cnc work. I recently did some soloist templates for another member (MzI). You can see them in this thread...soloist templates

Feel free to pm me if you want to talk about your project.

Jeremy

Your best bet will be to test on some scrap.

You cold apply your color in the shellac, and the finish with clear lacquer. The shellac and the lacquer are compatible...actually shellac is quite often used as a seal coat before lacquer.