Bionic Dave

Got the body wings bookmatched. Here's the top with neck. And the Top wet.

Here's the neck out of the clamps.

Ok here's the progress so far. The Quilted Maple top. still need to joint and glue it. Here's the body wings still need to bookmatch and plan. Here's the Gabon Ebony finger board, with some wicked figure. And piece de resistance, the 7 piece laminated neck Lacewood and Sipo. Cheers more to come tomorrow.

I posted it as being a LAminated neck, but I'm changing the layout. it's going to be Lacewood with Sipo laminated. Sorry. My mistake. I meant a 5 or 7 piece laminate. you know. Lotsa detail goin on. I think the feathers would look cool, maby make them up & just place them on the board for a visual to help make up your mind. But the fanned board might be enough so you may be right to ditch them. Never realy know untill you realy get into the build. tell yeah what I'll add them into the mockup so you tell me what you think. it's a 7 piece laminate neck.

I was also thinking of adding small feathers on the fretboard but it looked to busy in the mockup.

I posted it as being a LAminated neck, but I'm changing the layout. it's going to be Lacewood with Sipo laminated.

Well with the First Raven built and sold and the Orca in finishing and the tortoise lying in waits for pickups and parts. time to start a new project. This one is going to be a Raven Design but a neck through, semi hollow body. It's going to have a different raven inlay then the first. Specs: Multiscale 6 string 27.5 - 25.5 Body - Figured Sipo Neck - Lacewood / Sipo Laminated Top - 5 A Quilted Maple Fingerboard will be bound with Lacewood. Body will be bound with lacewood as well. Hardware: Chrome ABM single bridges Chrome locking tuners That's all I know for now. Here's a quick mockup. It's now going to be a double cutaway.

You know what I think about this build Buddie WICKED

The Raven has found a new home at BWC Studios in Brampton, Ontario. Owner is GREG Dawson.

The Raven 2 Ok seeing I did some major re-working to this beauty and that it has found it's self a new home. I am entering here a 2nd time. Specs: 6 String Multiscale 27 - 25.5" scale. Top: The top is 7 piece construction of Curly maple Mahogany and Roasted Curly Maple. Binder with wenge/maple & Finished in BURST Body: The body is made from South American Mahogany. Cavity covers are the same, and use magnets to hold them on. Neck: Made from Wenge this is where I did a lot of reworking to the instrument. I reshaped the neck and made it thinner. Custom Gold MOP DS guitars inlay. Fingerboard: Cocobolo Fingerboard with custom made Raven Gold MOP inlay. Custom made cocobolo bobbins and pickup rings. and custom wound buy RestorationAD The guitar is finished in Target coatings water borne Laq Pics: More pics: 1 2 3 4 Build thread link http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.ph...mp;hl=the+raven The Guitar is at it's new home. In a hard working Studio in Brampton Ontario. The studio is called BWC Studios and is owned and operated by Greg "GERG Dawson. Any questions about the guitar or the build in general feel free to ask. Hope you all like it now, Cheers

:D Yep I go past the light I want to turn left at then make 3 rights gets me back on track every time. Not so good on gas though. B)

Use shorter screws. Walla it's that easy. Or raise the neck so the fingerboard is higher then raise the saddles.

God this whole thread is a waste of bandwidth. if your to ******* lazy to do a search then don't try to build a guitar. It's a waste your time and ours, not to mention the wood. Oh this post is a waste of even more bandwidth. So why doesn't Perry do the tutorial write up on " How to do a search on this forum and not ask the same **** question for the hundredth time.

We need a Tutorial on how to do a search.

I wont be filling it with epoxy it's meant to be a carving be it a negative carving not a positive like this. Do you think this looks odd? Mine is meant to be a carving that can be seen but doesn't jump out at you. What looks to be un even stain isn't at all it's the light hitting the round carving.

I'd say Vancouver-ish no Orcas in Manitoba. LOL the dye looks uneven do to the carve and the roundness of it. Al so the flash on the camera. In person it looks great.

It was going to be there all along. I have talked it over with several people through pm'd on how to go about it. I had first thought about burning it into the wood. But we figured it could be a hit and miss. Meaning it might look good but it might not and once it's burnt in it's there. So after that we divided to stain it in black and leave the ash natural. This looked good but I over the build decided on my own I wanted the guitar black. So I stained the guitar black leaving the orca natural. This didn't look good at all. So it then hit me, I got my chesils and carved the Orca into the body it's about a 16th" deep. Then I stained it black to match the body. It looks great it's there but it's not like jumping out at you if you know what I mean. Un like if it was natural ash and the body is black it's suddal. Adds some texture I feel it helps the look of the overall build.

Dyed and ready for filler and finish. Here's a teaser.

My piani is now 4 steps away.

Hey can't tell what's going on post a pic of the bridge as well and a pic of the guitar from the nut to the bridge. Over head will work.

Update time got my long awaited pickups and parts. Thanks once again to RestorationAD Best pickups in the land and great parts supplier. Now it's just time to sand and do the finish on this beast. Cheers

Thanks Postie.

doesn't sound snooty at all. It's the truth. Next time I finish a guitar I'm going to do it the way I want to. This was the original plan. Thanks for the nice comment guys.

I would get some mop and a file make some dust add to crack then super glue it. Then sand and polish.

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