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Loving the Dayne SS6. Pure sex

Love the beaver reference. Very fitting. That top is defiantly a stunner. Have you decided on a finish color?

****raises hand***** Like Carl said, we know these are going to be good, so in addition to the pleasure of watching fine builds progress, I'm interested in learning if building in multiples and setting production goals with deadlines takes any of the fun out of it. Or perhaps, if three at a time means three times the fun. It looks like you are either a fretboard ahead.......or a neck and body behind, depending on whether your glass is half empty or half full. SR Well thanks for the vote of confidence Scott (and Carl). You'd be right on both fronts. Deadlines and building in multiples takes some of the fun out at times. During some of the other stages of building such as carving and shaping necks and bodies its triple the fun and relaxation IMHO. I spent Easter Sunday fretting three necks and I couldn't think of a better more relaxing way to spend the day. The extra fretboard is an extra rosewood board I ordered. I ran the slots on it while I had everything set up for slotting. In reality I'm not a huge rosewood fan and it will probably never get used unless its requested. Here you go Carl. Its pretty simple and straight forward. I work in adobe illustrator vs CAD. Its what I have and what am comfortable with after working with it for the last 18 years. I have a copy of solidworks I've had sitting around for a year that I want to tackle but I just cant seem to find the time. I'll get to it someday because there WILL be a CNC machine someday in my future. _______________________________________________ Here are the cavity covers cut. I used some screws with thinner heads on it this time to allow me a little more freedome with the back carves. The darker one is cocobolo. Scott asked me a while back if I was going to ever do more inlay like the last one. Well the answer is yes. I really like the pattern. This time I cut them all by hand. This would be one of those times where doing two or three at once is a little draining. After going to the NAMM show my wife and seeing so many guitars she insisted I do one with block inlays. After cutting the other two this was an easy decision. Sooo much easier. For me the hardest part of doing the 3 pc pattern was getting them placed correctly. I really like this pattern and I think I'm going to be using it a lot in the future. I'm considering having a steel template cut out to speed the process up. That combined with having someone cut the shell with a cnc would shave so many hours off this task. And the finished boards. On the cocobolo board there was little room for error. Filling in the routing errors with brown dust would be pretty noticeable when done so they had to be routed as close as possible. The whole time I was doing this I was thinking about how nice it must be to have a small CNC for inlay work like Parable does. Thats it for today.

Hello all. I've been working on several new builds this year but I havent been posting progress of the work that I've been doing lately. Partly because I've been crazy busy and partly because they are small production duplicates of the same design I've done previously. I've been asked to start posting some progress on my builds so here goes. I'm just going to have this one thread going with everything I do this year. I set a modest goal of 12 complete builds this year. I'm already behind that schedule. It should be interesting to see where I am at the end of the year. Like I said I've been pretty busy so I haven't been taking as many pictures as I usually would for a build thread. I'm missing the beginning stages of these three builds so we'll just start off with what I do have. Rough bodies and necks. Two of these are south american mahogany with maple tops and the darker one is sapele with a spalted flame maple top. All will be carve top set neck with a wrap around bridge. And my fretboard blanks. I'll start updating this thread a bit each day until I get caught up to where the builds currently stand. Cheers.

Very cool and informative. Thanks for posting.

Carving the top and neck is the best part of a build IMHO. Yours came out great. The consistency of the flame on that piece of maple is awesome. Be careful about repeatedly soaking that top in water to pop the grain for photos though. Remember all the water that soaks in must evaporate back out. A better alternative is naptha or denatured alcohol.

Looking good as always. So how much weight were you able to drop?

Maybe its because I'm working on a piece of spalt at the moment but I really like this. Judging by the way the grain runs out past the trim it looks like this is purfling vs binding. Do you have any progress shots of you doing this? If so I'd love to see em.

He is super positive isnt he? If I haven't said so, nice build and congrats on your win.

Greetings and welcome. Where in Italy are you?

I'm confused. You flattened this out before you routed for pickups and the neck pocket right? If that was the case I dont think you'd have to worry about tearing anything up. I do understand about the joy or simply working on an operation like carving ect. But 4 hrs worth of sanding isnt my idea of gratification. Just this weekend I started in on doing back carves by hand for 3 guitars I have going (I need to start a thread) and said screw it and broke out my grinder with some 60 grit. Having the patience you do would serve me well.

Ive said it before and I'm saying it again. You're a patient man Scott. I'm thinking its time for you to build a router sled to help flatten timber like that out. Four hours is 3.5 hours too long to be spending on a task like that. Other than that this is turning out stunning. The top is incredible.

Dont know how I missed this thread Scott. You definitely have a signature headstock. Quick question. How thick is your headstock?

Pic isnt showing up Shad.

The ebony dust mixed with epoxy will look fine but I'd do it like this. Mix your dust and the epoxy with a drop or two of black leather dye (from stew mac) and fill. When cured for 24 hrs sand over with a matching radius block till level. Then dye the whole board jet black with the leather dye. The dye in the epoxy along with dying the board will ensure a perfect black match. When your done I think you'll be hard pressed to even see where the chip once was.

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Wow. What did you use for the finish?

RDS are you thinking of a scratch build soon?

Scott~ Thanks. I put the pic of the neck joint in there because it doesn't show well in the finished shots. I had originally pictured something a little deeper and more dramatic but things dont always work out as planned. The guitar plays very nicely. Better than expected actually. Its got a nice open balanced tone to it. The mohawk out of a gun is the way to go. Much cheaper too. I think I got a gallon of the stuff for under $45. As far as the inlay. It was a pain but it had a nice payoff. I actually just cut an identical set out by hand in gold mother of pearl. It took me about 3 hours from start to finish and left me with a very sore thumb. Little more work but a little cheaper. I'm wanting to tackle a tree of life in the future. So yeah, I guess I'm up to putting the effort into it again. Sully~ Thanks dude.You compliments are always appreciated. Same goes for you too Psikot. And congrats on your GOTY win. Well deserved.

I wasn't going to enter this but since its crickets in here I'll get this month started. At the behest of family and friends I'm calling this model the Dimple SN. Maple top One piece chambered Sapele body and matching neck 25” neck w pearl inlay. Ebony fingerboard & headplate w magnetic truss cover. Bone nut Seymour Duncan SH-4/SH-2 pickups Master volume, master tone, 3- way toggle, push-pull coil split on tone control and treble bleed on volume. Build thread and a few more pics here.

Been a while since I've posted in this thread because the guitar has been done for several months now and I've been extremely busy. But after seeing the Feb guitar of the month thread go lights out 1/3rd of the way through the month I decided to throw it in there. So these are just some back up pics.

I have to agree with Scott. I wasnt diggin the binding until I saw the shot with fretts. I like the staggered box look of it. Well done.

Some more good reading from Terry McInturff on this subject. http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=1375407

Once again all very nice builds. Voted for Buttman. I'm not a bass guy but the headstock sold it for me. Nice job.