Daniel Sorbera

alrighty, In a few hours I will go and cut out the body! Pics to come

ya when I try it i'll post a pic

well auccually here is a thred on my guitar i'm building. I will be posting there until I'm finished with my guitar. So just check there and i'll have some pics of the finishing process

relief at 7th. .003

action at 12. low E .035

action at 12. high E .019

O btw I use 10's

(edited to show what string gauge i use)

Thats on my godin SD(hence my name:D ) And I have NO buzzing anywhere on the neck.

ya I couldent find anything specific on using black grain filler on mahogany, So I was wonder if yall could give me an answer, but looks like i've decided just to try both (black and clear) on a little peice of scrap and finish the process and see which looks best

i'm prety sure hees talking about the purple wood (which is purple heart?)

argggg I just noticed that my fingerboard has a really nasty twist to it. So i'll only be able to get 1 fingerboard out of it(it's 1/2" thick)

dang matt I've been sooking around and you build a snot load of guitars!

Please tell me you sell all of these and you rnot just some rich punk who can afford to have 30 guitars sitting around(I'm very happy four you that you can build so many as its fun)

ok I got a peice of mahognay and will be staining it green. I need to fill the grain, I will do it in epoxy. Should I use the black epoxy or just clear?

thanks for the link

all you have to do is glue your template to your peice of wood and than cut around the lines. It's as easy as that!

ok I just had a new idea. I'm going to bind the bocote fingerboard in cocobolo.

I'm gonna do it like this to make it easy on myself

yes yes me thanking you sir (bows) ya thats exatly what I needed

I will be putting this on a guitar i'm building right now So I wont have a chance to test it for a whille

But when its done ill do a full report

I have a thred on my guitar here

You should build It out of a solid peice of cocobolo(EXTREMELY close to brazilion rosewood) even looks better than rosewood but costs a TON less. A peice of brazilion rosewood the size of a guitar body would cost about $2000 dollars. It is VERY pricy

wow sounds like just what I need. Where can I get one? is "general" the name of the company? do they have a web-site?

and $675 sounds way good for something I would use very often

ya curtis its just the really bad pic, I just shot it in really bad lighting on a bad setting on my camera. It really is a nice peice, I will take more so you can really see the grain on all the peices as the pics I have are a disgrace. But man o man is that mahogany HEAVY, I'm glad I got a heavy one(good for sustain). It is real hondurous mahogany. The board they cut my peice off of cost $700 dollars(and was about 10' long). mine costed $120 with jointing to make it flat and strait(it had some bad cup and twist to it) Also in the pic it looks discolored but its not, It's a nice pink all the way across.

More pics to come tommorow as I dont have acess to my camera at this momment...

O and by the way that cocobolo is the most amazing peice of wood ever I really want to make the whole thing out of it but It would cost like $1000 dollars

Seriously it sounds so good just taping on it that im inspired to make something ausome

lol ok thank you, question answered

do you think this is a good one?

well I would rather buy one... Just cuse I use it alot and am getting prety fed up with mine

ok right now I have a peice of crap shop smith 11" bandsaw that cuts like crap.

I need something that will give me STRAIT cuts and is able to ACCURETLY re saw maple tops. Also it needs to be able to eat through a $200 peice of mahogany and me not worry about me putting such an expensive peice of wood through it. Hope fully as cheap as you can get

any advice?

ok I just drew up these step by step instructions

1. draw the template on the mahogany from the template.

2. Rough cut the body 1/8” away from the line

3. double stick tape the template onto the mahogany

4. rout around the template with a 2”flush cut bit with a ball baring.

5. sand the body until smooth and desired curves are met

6. find where the bridge pickup will be

7. rout out some of the center block so the wires can go from the pickup cavity to the main body cavity

8. take the top and make sure it is flat

9. rough shape the top

10. drill all control holes and f-hole into top

11. make sure the top is thin enough where the controls are to let them pass through the top

12. glue the top onto the body

13. using the body as a template rout around the top

14. make sure the neck is flat and strait

15. trace the template onto the neck

16. rout out the truss rod channel

17. cut 1/8” away from the line

18. double stick the neck template onto the cocobolo

19. rout around the neck template

20. sand the neck to desired dimensions

21. make sure the fingerboard is flat and strait

22. re saw fingerboard to 1/16” thicker than you need

23. sand fingerboard until smooth

24. insert the truss rod with a little silicon bathtub sealant on each end(DO NOT glue the truss rod in place)

25. put a piece of tape just covering the truss rod channel

26. get all clamps ready

27. spread glue all over top of neck

28. pull off piece of tape

29. position fingerboard over neck and clamp in place, let glue dry

30. using the neck as a template, rout the fingerboard to the same size as the neck

31. drill the tuner holes

32. saw the headstock to the desired thickness

33. sand the headstock until all contours look good and the thickness is correct

34. slot the fingerboard

35. start roughing out the neck contour

36. than once you have the back of the neck contoured, sand the back of the neck with 120 grit sand paper until smooth

37. radius the fingerboard and sand to finial thickness

38. measure and put a mark where you want the bridge

39. clamp two boards up against the neck legenth wise

40. position the neck so that you have the right distance from your bridge and it is STRAIT down the center line

41. now clamp the two boards to the body

42. cut a piece of wood so it just fits in the open space between the boards

43. push this new piece of wood up against the neck

44. now clamp it in place

45. take off the two neck clamps

46. slide the neck out

47. rout out your neck pocket

48. finish it up with chisels

49. mark the pickup positions and rout

50. mark the positions of the pickup cover screws and drill

51. drill down from on top of the neck pocket so you can pass the wires from the neck pickup to the bridge pickup and from there into the body cavity

52. use a ¼” round over bit in the router and go over the entire body

53. mark where you want your neck bolts on your body

54. drill your body for the neck bolts

55. position the neck in the neck pocket

56. now put the drill bit through the body and HAND turn it to get a little mark on the neck where you need to drill

57. take off the neck

58. mark the depth you need with tape on the drill bit

59. mark your bridge position

60. see exactly how far down you need to recess the bridge so you don’t need any neck angle

61. recess under your bridge using a round router bit

62. drill your bridge post holes

63. drill the string through body holes

64. cut the slots on coming out of the string through body holes

65. drill holes for jack

66. finish your fingerboard and neck

67. install nut and tuners

68. finish body

69. assemble all electronics and hardware

70. bolt neck to body

71. cut the nut slots

72. string up

73. PLAY THE SNOT OUT OF IT

Will this work?

Do you have any other ideas?

O heres a pic of the wood I bought

Trust me it looks WAY better in real life

More to come!!

I cant find anything talking about this and was wondering what exatly is a "VIP" member and how does one obtain this status?

ok I need to specify EXATLY what I'm going for and let you tell me what products I need. Ok I want the top to look like this tom anderson guitar. As you can see its mostly green. I want the back and sides a very dark green(almost black) forget about the neck as I have decided to go with cocobolo and will just fill the grain and shoot with clear. So what products do I need to acomplish this kind of finish?

YES earlier to day I went and bought some wood...

I got a 1 peice mahogany body ($116 ) cocobolo neck($40 ) And bocote fingerboard (10 )

O I absalutly love these woods. When you tap on the cocobolo it just sings, It rings for along time and it sounds wonderful. I tried alot of woods in teh store, tapping on them but that cocobolo just rang so clear and sounded SOOOOOO good.

I still have yet to buy the 1/4" maple top but as you can see I dont have much money right now considering I was going in thinking I would spend no more than $50

Pics To Come!!

I'm going to take pics along the way and document everything I do(who knows mabye this will turn into a tutorial(hopefully a tutorial on how to do it the RIGHT way )

ok biohazard, ya thats what I thought, But do you know what value of capacitor it needs to be? And psw, Ya I wasent expecting it to sustain forever, just add a new deminsion to the sound that I can control, So It's exatly what I wanted.

That is once I know what value of capacitor...

ok so what on earth is the symbol in the lower right? Also it says there is a capacitor but its not on the schematic.