sdshirtman

Marvelous build. Truly a piece of art. So now that its done whats going to happen to it?

Love the laminates on that last one.

Thanks for the info. I think I might of found some. We'll see when they get here.

Nice guitars. Welcome aboard.

The ebay seller accepted my offer so now I have two sets of pickups in the mail.

So anyone know where I can find pickup covers that will match cream Duncan bobbins?

Cool, you've got a book matched neck!

I'm pretty sure Gotoh makes a nice wraparound. You should check that out and see if the chome version of it fits your needs.

I save all my grain filling and finishing for last and do it all at the same time. I would think you would loose some of what you filled if did it before you finish the transition.

SR

Thanks for the advice Scott.

And thanks for the bridge recommendation. That looks pretty similar to what I used last time and its a whole lot cheaper at 60 bucks vs $160 for the Schreoder with studs.

Now right after my last post I pulled the trigger on a Duncan Sh-11/SH2 set with nickel covers from ebay so I'm half committed to nickel now.

I'd grab the Gotoh bridge but I cant find it in nickel anywhere here in the states. I guess I could swap out the nickel covers for chrome covers if I had to.

I just made another offer to this ebay seller for a zebra duncan JB/59 set as a back up. Now I can't make up my freakin mind and I'm going in circles.

I've been considering reviewing the Graph Tech ResoMax bridges recently and I noticed that they do wraparounds too. They're pretty sweet gear.

I was checking those out. They look pretty cool but the pre notched saddles Look kinda wonky. I'm wondering if you could swap em out for some TOM saddles.

Wow that sucks. That was a pretty board. At least you didnt get hit by any shrapnel when that thing came apart.

I've never had the opportunity to play a multi scale although I've always wanted to. I'm diggin that brown one a lot.

For this neck I just used my newly acquired surform, a spoke shave, and a scraper. Those surforms just power through wood. The carve went remarkable quick because of it. So quick in fact that I'm a little disappointed because I enjoy this part so much. Start to finish it too about 2.5 hours.

I'm having second thoughts on the pickups and hardware for this. My original plan was to use zebra pickups but I'm having a problem matching the cream parts consistently and its frustrating the hell out of me.

I really liked the bridge I used on the last two builds so I'm also thinking about using another Schroeder in place of the TOM. I think the only reason I was going to use a TOM was to save a few bucks which is kind of silly in the grand scheme of things. The problem is they are out of stock on the chrome version for at least another six weeks. But they do have nickel in stock so I'm thinking of doing everything in nickel now. This means ditching the chrome gotoh's I was going to use because they dont come in nickel. I don't want to use Grovers so I'm leaning towards nickel Sperzel's along with nickel covered Duncans unless any of you know of any other decent tuners that are offered in nickel. I've searched high and low and there doesn't seem to be many options in nickel sealed tuners.

Anyways that way I'll get my Schroeder bridge without having to wait six weeks and I only have to match my pickup rings and not the rings and bobbins. And before anyone brings it up I dont want to use a pigtail.

I also need a little input. I'm about ready to glue the neck so I can I finish the heel transition. Being that this is my first set neck should I partially grain fill the neck and body before gluing or just do it all at one time after I glue the neck and finish the transition?

JW

It's not the easiest modification. That being said post pictures if you go through with it.

That IS a tasty burger!

I can't usually get 'em myself because my girlfriend's a vegitarian which pretty much makes me a vegitarian. But I do love the taste of a good burger. Mm-mm-mm. You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese in France?

Been busy with out of town guests for the last two weeks. I did manage to get this fretted though.

And made another jig. I wanted to have this be adjustable so I could clamp any headstock angle in it but I got lazy and a little inpatient.

I do another one someday when I have more time.

I have to admit I was shaking my head a little bit when I first saw that recess you cut into it. Now that its in its final state I like it a lot better. Cant wait to see it with the bridge and hardware installed.

Dont think I've ever seen something quite like this. Any chance you could post a demo vid of this in action? I'd love to hear how it sounds.

I still have the ones I made for my last build. I'd like to install them on this one but I've got too much time invested in this fretboard to risk floundering it.

As in semi-hemispherical ends or not?

Update due.

I was on the fence about the layered binding on this before I decided to actually do it. This snag with the allparts binding changed my mind up for me and I went ahead and did straight cream. It should all tie in now.

Heres a pic of the cheapo binding laminator I made and was using before my snag happened.

Since my cream binding wasn't tall enough to cover my inner horns the way I wanted them to I made me a binding router jig. I used a very common design using drawer slides. The only real mod I made to it was making some slots so I could slide the piece that the base was attached to out to make it easier to mess with. It locks in using cut off nails set at an angle.

The trim router was on sale at HF for 28 bucks. Total out of pocket was less that fifty bucks.

Heres another simple but handy jig I made for drilling side dots straight and consistent. Wish I could take credit for it but I snagged it from another forum. I cant remember where though.

It works like a charm.

I got the headplate and fretboard glued on and its ready to fret.

Shot of the body binding. After installing wood binding on my previous builds this was a cinch. I used no glue, just acetone. It came out with no gaps to fill which was a bonus. It took longer to scrape it flush than it did to install.

Before I did this I had to shim and recut the side of my neck pocket because it wasnt quite as tight as I wanted it to be. It probably would have worked fine and I was probably nit picking but I wanted it to have a nice snug fit so it would transfer vibrations properly.

Almost ready for the neck carve. One of my favorite parts of a build.

Thats it for now.

Berry interesting. I wasn't expecting that deep recess. I'm sure you have it all worked out in your minds eye though. Its adding some mystery to how this will finish.

That looks like an awesome night. I've always wanted to see a show at red rocks. If you like the outdoors Colorado has some amazing places. Looks like you had a decent vacation.

Thx Allen. Since this takes a little while to set you think this would work for laminating?

Bag it up and sell it as hamster bedding. That stuff fetches like $15 per bag. You'll make a fortune.

Quick followup. I did a test with some CA glue. It just peels right apart so now that's not an option.

I finally decided on multi-layered binding but I have a problem on my hands I could use some help with.

I bought some cream and white binding from Allparts for laminating. I decided on .6 cream, .2 blk, .2crm, .2blk.

Using acetone for the bonding agent the .6 cream laminated to the .2 black just fine. When I went to laminate the next layer of .2 cream to the .2 black the acetone wouldn't bond the two together.

So I took some clippings from both the .2 black and cream and soaked them in some acetone for a few hours. They didnt melt at all so they are obviously not ABS.

I'm stopped dead in my tracks because of this and I'm a little annoyed to say the least. Allparts doesn't say its not abs but it doesn't say it is either. Because of the thin size I'm thinking that it's only going to be used for laminates. I just took it for granted it was abs and would laminate with acetone just fine.

So I guess my question is what direction to go next. Can anyone tell me what glue I can use to laminate this stuff? I was thinking CA glue but I'm afraid that with the brittle nature of CA glue that the binding will de-laminate when I start installing and bending it around the guitar.

Am I just SOL on this and have to source out different ABS binding. At this point my neck is already bound with this color cream so I'm committed to using the .6 allparts cream.

Any advice anyone?

The problem deft has is it doesn't get as hard as it should.

If you're doing the rattle can route I've heard Mohawk or behlen lacquers work very well. Or you can look at reranch.