Mors Phagist

I definitely won't be making any more maple bodies. Maybe a maple cap, but not the whole thing.

Why no maple bodies? Hard on tools and hard to work with? Or do you not like the tones?

Bloodwood???

Real blood on Bloodwood? You just gave me a really brutal idea...

A tendon ripped out to the elbow? Yeee-owwww...gruesome!

Thats messed up.

I dropped a finished body the other day. I need a padded shop.

I tried to carry too many things at once and dropped a partially finished neck. Tip of the headstock chipped, and I had to superglue it back on.

Also, I need padded hand clamps. When applying the FB to a neck, after I removed all the clamps, One of the clamps left some indents just before the first fret on the neck side. FB was fine, but Neck was indented. :|

i found vaglinks rather disappointing

Your a funny man Wez.

Cool project idea, Ill look forward to seeing it.

/\ Our school has one of those. Its nice.

Mine has the main sander flat, Parrellel to the floor, and is around 2 feet long.

Hm... I have never seen a belt sander that did not move towards the operator... Your talking about a mounted upright belt sander, right?

Its an upright one, parrellel with the floor. It moves away from you when you use it correctly, and I decided to move so it went towards me.

The wife came running, wanting to help ME. I sent her in to get the blood off of the wood so it wouldn't stain it too bad. We still laugh about the priorities on that one.

Sorry, but thats hilarious.

What kind of wood was it?

I'm pretty safety-conscious though (i.e. paranoid), and think through every operation.

Im getting to be that way now. Too many mishaps that could've been avoided with 5 minutes more of thought.

As people have said, maple is a good building material, and a good base to use to build a guitar around. Sure, it may have a maple neck, but the body wood, Fretboard wood, Pups, and everything else make it unique.

Now if you were to build nothing but Strats, with the same wood, over and over again, but with say, Walnut necks...

Now that would be boring.

The neck is just a piece, theres still alot more of the guitar that makes it unique and interesting.

Unstringing one of my Explorers from the low E upwards to clean it (think about the banana headstock and the string paths) and the nut pings off across the room, denting the top on one of my acoustics. AAAAAAAAGH!!

I never make mistakes, I just learn new repair techniques.

On a side note, I decided to stand on the opposite end of a Belt sander to get a better angle. So that the belt was moving towards me...

*** WAS I THINKING.

The little piece of Mahogony that I was going to use as a truss rod cover flew out, my finger slipped, and sanded off half my index finger's nail. Any more and I would've sanded right through it.

Obviously much worse things could've happened in that situation though.

Ive seen Glass covered wood on Fretless guitars, and even stone fretboards. Epoxy should work well, from what you and other people have seen.

And on topic, I have my own question, sorry for any thread jacking.

I just made a Fretless guitar, and after a few coats of poly, and being glued to the neck, my Dad told me to put epoxy on it.

I guess I could still do it, if I were to tape off the Neck, but what would you guys do?

Will 3 coats of Poly hold up to Flatwound strings?

Ah, I see. Sort of similar.

I just glue-ificated the scarf, and it looks like this will go good. "Oh ****" has been avoided.

Nice work.

Glad you got more out of it than expected.

Wouldn't you have a massive amount of waste though if you didn't volute? You would need a large piece of lumber anyway.

Might've messed up on my new headstock/neck. Was making an angled stock, and I may have cut the volute(?) wrong. Its hard to explain, but I may have just wasted a good amount of mahogony, which is never a good thing.

Just sliced up all the flooring into usable pieces. I think I should have enough for a sheet 3/4ths inch.

Also, I found more than enough mahogony for a full body. three pieces, when laminated, will become a single piece of 1 1/2". It pays to dig around a bit.

If anything, Ive got thicker mahogony that I could laminate on. 1 1/2 + 3/8ths makes a decent thickness.

I found some Mahogony plywood and Solid mahogony siding/flooring. Im really wondering if I can use any of this.

If I were to cut the siding/flooring into laminatable pieces, and get an area large enough for a body, the thickness would be 1/8th inch for that square, and I would have roughly 3 more of those.

So from maybe 3 dozen pieces of wood, I would have a 3/8th inch piece of laminated Mahogony, large enough for a body.

Now, if all that was done, what could I do with 3/8ths of Mahogony? "Double" top it, and use it as a Core between two other cuts? Any ideas here?

Wow, compared to some of the mistakes that have happened here, my first build went pretty well.

I have a regular Xiphos, and I love the thing. Unfortunately, Im not looking for another.

The guitar sounds... Odd. Inverted Crosses? Lime green? Green hardware? Sounds like the guy told you to make an ugly guitar, and then he ran off.

Hmm, Discount products of quality? I will look into this.

Oh yeah, thats a BC rich Beast. Its been awhile.

Explorer... Exploder... Lol.

On my next build, I may have had another moment.

I cut out the neck/fretboard area of the neck off a piece of mahogony, but left the headstock as a block for the time being. I want to make this an angled Headstock, and I don't know if Ill be able to do that now though.

Im hoping it'll work, but Ill see what happens. Also, thanks westheman, you made me realize something.

For a flat headstock, like a fender, I can just flip the neck to the side, and bandsaw it out to the proper thickness. Last time I routed it down, and to fix the right angle that formed, I had to spend a few hours sanding and "Dremeling". There was terrible tearout. I had to fill some of it, and was forced to paint it because it looked ugly.

Holy hell, that Exploder is amazing. Would you mind if I were to ever borrow that shape?

Also, this is an appropriate area for this thread, right?

Im pretty sure everyone has had some of these moments.

On my first build (Now Complete!) I had quite a few of these. When...

I over routed the neck pocket, so there was too much space between the Bottom Heel of the neck and the pocket. Sides still fit great. After the initial "Oh ****" I filled it with some filler and moved on.

Whenever there was routing tear out. That really got to me.

When I realized the paint I used on the neck was REALLY runny stuff, and afterwards when I saw that I painted it in a way too dusty area. Tiny little specks everywhere...

When the neck fit into the pocket, and I saw that It had a back bow. I had to make a wedge for the pocket.

And OBVIOUSLY there were more.

How have your "Oh ****" moments gone?

I know you didn't make the guitar, but still, the guitar should complement the inlays pretty well.

Is that laminated Mahogony, or a single piece? Just wondering.

Did the Premade neck come with the FB and Frets?

Find the middle line of the neck, and that will tell you where to position the Pups and Bridge. If you think its off, it might not be in the dead center of the body, but as long as the neck, pickups, and bridge line up, your good.

Hmm. The build was looking nice, but now your in a situation... If binding won't work, a carved top might do it. I wish you luck over this obstacle.