kully

it could be done witha convex one but personally i'd just use a 4 or 5 inch grinder with a rough sanding disc, doing it my hand sounds novel but unless you really take your time and know what ur doing i think you would be up a certain metaphorical river quick

thanks for this it is going to be really helpfull.

now i just wish a certain family memeber of mine that desided to clean up the work shop had not knocked over my bandsaw and smashed the motor out of it

how ever i think i don't need it as the rounded ends i should be abal to achieve by putting a round over bit in my router bench and to save fingers mill the slots out with the mortise gadget on my combination machine

i love the look personally would have gone with 3x3 tuners inteasted but 2 quick questions

whats the scale lengthof this? and is it a lefty?

I never tried with a spokeshave. As a matter of fact I don't have one...

they are a really satisfying tool to use and its really easy to pick up a good secondhand old one from swapmeets and small weekend markets cheap

and geo if you use a convex not a flat blade it would to it a breaze

did your rose wood knobs come with the inlay or did you do that ur self?

i expect in a while i will revisit my first build aswell. it was built with a warmoth premade bolt on neck which i routed the the neck pocket to deep and made the action to high(i temperarily fixed it bye placing washedts between the body and the neck) i feel know that i am making my own necks the i should actually make one for her that actually fits or at the very least recess my bridge and remove the washers so that she looks and feels better. but for my first build i am very proud of her despite the fact she is extremly heavy.

another thing about ur guitar i love the inlay in the top of the body most of the guitars i have come across on the internet that have any inlay on the body i feel goes way over the top with it but urs i feed just looks in place and feels right

I have to recommend Schatten coil wire to anyone who is after coil wire - cheaper than Stumacs and also have AWG44 (which is what this bobbin is wound with). I read a few places that Stumacs wire has a tendency to not be wound on the spool perfectly and snaggs, well Schatten coil wire doesn't this for a fine gauge wound so easily I was amazed - no snaggs, breaks - nothing, quality stuff.

Anyway more soon!

I am intending (been asked also) to do a 'How to make your own bobbins' thread at some point if anyone is interested?

stewmac sell the schatten pick up wire. by that i mean they but it from schatten along with the winding machines and sell them on to us customers which is most likley why it is more expensive. as for it previously breaking it could be a dodgy batch or they had a differnt supplier. btw i love ur zebra coils and is very interested in the how do make ur own bobbins tutorial

a mate of mine has asked me since i am good with woodwork to make him oneso what measures have u gone to to regulate humity and ect.. in this?

love the legs not so sure i would have glassed the whole front if i was making a cabnet i would have covered the draws from sight in the door or made it 2 doors instead of one and used brass fittings but this looks great!

Tell me what format you need and I can probably send you the file in that format. I use a 1/8" bit and on the rare occasion I need to use a couge for the corners...

pdf is good

and it was not the diameter size i was after it was the depth i was after in regards to the routerbit and top bearing bit

what router bit size would you use with this?, i think all my top bearing follow patterns are too big to use with one of these.

also what final file format do you have the cad as? there is no use getting the file if i don't have software to open it

cheers kully

i'd never go near my work shop with out steelcap boots!

well at lease not with out some footware i have cut my feet or kicked a machine and broken a toe a few to many times barefoot to do it again

i'd have to say the 3+3 headstock as the 6 in a line just looks out of place with the body shape maybe the 6 in a line if it was slightly altered to come to a sharp point like the body wings do.

that aside i am loving the general desing but the sharp point the wing comes to under ur controls just feels too extreme and looks in my opinion like it needs to me slightly rounded there. but hey its ur design.

as for ebony or rosewood top i think it wound look stunning with both top 1/2 one bottom 1/2 the other contrasting the 2 timber colours

ouch!!!! don't supose you have a pic of that?

it is very easy to do stupid things to one self with power tools a mate of mine was subing a wood shop class and teaching kids how to use a jigsaw got his hair stuck in whre the motor and the blade meet goes to show how distracting having others in ur work space is.

so watch the fingers, tie your hair up, use safty glasses and ear protection and DO NOT use gloves when using machines you will lose a hand!

nice work i love how the lighter coloured timber goes through the middle of the body.

what pick ups are you going to are thinking about going to put in the guitar?

welcome to the forum i am also farily new and really digging this space on the internet.

enjoy!

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=7908...p;id=1441872939

there is a public link to the bass (i had it as my profile pic for a while and can't find the pic on my comp to upload)

I can give all the od advice you want

yeah sorry that was a typo meant to say "of"

and chops oh i know jarrah is heavey most of my house is built from it. and i work part time in a timber mill next to mundijong shiftting it.

i have already hollowed the sucker out and glued the neck through and without cutting the shape out yet she is already lighter than my bass that i made with a warmoth bolt on neck out of the same piece of jarrah

(i will post a picture as soon as i figuar out how to)

p.s. about losing fingers i am very consious about that my ad made his two middle fingers on one hand the same length thicknesser when i was very young

is it at all possible to order them from the steinberger direct or scroll through the compnays list of distributers on the website if they have them and call the shops see iff they will send it to u if they don't have internet store seems like if u need them asap then that ur best bet for getting them

what program are you using to draw these? asume it s some version of cad not paint or photoshop

that is amazing i love the consept it looks like a getsch jupitor thunderbird crossed with a v

i have had a few of the top rasps in my shed for years and its never really clicked to me as to what they were but hot that i have seen this i shall have to try them also the bottom one looks like a course thread piece of all threat rod with a handle on it

my question is how do you acieve the perfectly circle shaped recess for the control knobs in carved tops?

i have been raping my brain trying to figuar out how its done and the only thing i can think of is that its beed done by using the tip of a large drill but like 32 mm but i don't think thats the case so how do you guys do it with your guitars?

the help is greatly appreciated!

i have done the nozzle thing before it works well but it takes along time and its hard to get the coat even

yes thats what i was saying

i some of my mates work at dicksmith and from thier group training thingo they had to do corpret have mentioned that they will be phasing all components

Hey guys,

Had abit of time this week to have a play with this little amp. Bought enough parts for two which set me back 60 bucks. One is complete and works and the other just needs the LED connections soldered. Its really quite fun to do and they sound pretty bloody good! The one thing ive found is with the volume full and gain full it sounds great, but flick the grit(boost) switch on and things turn messy. Not sure if its a dodgy pot or shotty wiring, anyone else getting this? But it does sounds great with the vol at 2/3rds, tone 3/4 and gain full with the boost on. Quite a crunchy blues tone in the neck p/up position and abit more snappy 70's rock in the bridge, nice!

To finish these off im gonna make a template with writing for the controls and spraypaint onto the closures. If anyones interested i will take a photo of the insides.

Chad.

hey where in WA did you go for your parts?

jaycar or altronics?

Ya gotta be more specific on what you're looking for advice on.

looking for advice at to whether i should be inlaying those materials or stick with mop

and wether i am biting offmore than i can chew making my own tremol from scratch