piercefield

The wood grain in that rosette is mesmerizing... looks good!

love that pitch fork head stock... I've always been rough on head stocks i would always be scared i would bump into something...

Awesome work

That's going to be a sweet looking back if you can get the color to hold.

SR

Yeah the color of cedar usually holds and gets brighter

Here are a few more...

drilling the post holes the one on the right got a lil squirrely on me... the bushing covers it so im ok...

sprayed some water on to see what she looks like...

Gotta love ugly wood!

Front and back roughed out...

guitar2005, what do you think about the tone you get from cedar?

Still going to get out the camera and try to get some better pictures than the ones from my phone...

But I have already started the next build... I picked the worst looking boards I have... they almost have a spalted look to them....

I will turn them into something awesome lol...

Not quiet ready for a GOTM RestoraionAD... Have a few more skills I want to acquire first but coming soon. I have 5 more projects I'm working. 4, string bass, 5 string bass, A strat style and an LP style... and finally a herringbone style acoustic with ambrosia maple sides and back... I will pick one that is worthy.

guitar2005, The cream does do a certain justice...

Thanks Scott, I agree with you, I am going to find some black knobs... that should give it a balance...

Thing plays like butter...

I've had good luck doing just a round over... but I'm leaning towards the binding just to keep the top flat.

I have some black walnut strips already cut...

very nice!

I drew my dinky style 335 type body a few years back and had the cad drawings printed out in a vinyl printer. I made the internal template with wire channels and the external with bidge, pots and neck pocket... I never remember to use the internal and always drill the wire channel afterward lol... Because mine is semi hollow I drill off into the cavity... But I like your spade bit idea... I'll have to keep that in mind.

Neck is awesome! I know you said don't get attached, but man! those woods match so nice it would look great natural and just black grain filler...

It's hard for me to picture the black when it looks so good already but with the lighter neck binding i can see the black working too..

great job so far!

trying to do the wiring today

the post for the V pot is too short

I don't have any long-post pots

crap

I need to make a small order anyway, but still......

I ran into the same problem on the buck guitar... i'm impatient at times, so I flattened the anti rotation lug to get enough height to get the nut and washer on.... I know, it will loosen over time... but man i wanted to hear it play lol...

That neck is killer! can we get a close up?

wow my freehand rotes are tighter than that... id be sending it back for a replacement

Put a 250k volume pot on that dimebucker and it'll be much more mid-rangey / less brite.

The guitar sounds great- the kid plays real good too. Congrats on both you should be proud.

Thanks for the compliments! The super brite tone very well could be the treble and presence both on 10, mid at 7 and bass at 5, carvin sx-200.

I'm very proud of my son, he learned well...

http://youtu.be/v0-iXtIW4Uw

http://youtu.be/SsH_81mn2XY

Still havent finished the truss rod cover and rear panel cover but had my son demo a few things so i could get a video of the tone it has...

He's not perfect but good enough to show what tone qualities oak/cedar has....

Thanks for the welcome mike...

I am a process specialist engineer in the aviation field... I still program but now I program EDM's, Surface grinders, robots and lasers which have their own special quirks.

Action set, Wiring soldered and nut polished... Forgot the bridge ground Hole is there just forgot to put the wire...

Very nice job. The cedar looks great, and the wood burning art is quite good. Like DemonX said, the detail and proportions on the fence post and barbed wire are excellent.

SR

Thanks

Thanks for the advice. I will look at my code again.

All that extra coding and toolpathing gives me a headache. For now I am going to leave i t alone. This winter I plan on revisiting all the drawings again. Right now I have guitars to finish...

Brent I think Piercefield is thinking that you are hand routing?

Mike

Nah I know he's using CNC, I have been programming CNC for about 10 years now... did 5 in a furniture factory on a 4 head komo. I have learned about every trick to preventing chip out and chatter as well as some grades of maple fuzzing up... The ones that fuzz up are the pains in the ass...

It's mainly all about feeds and speeds but power cut and climb cut on a CNC can be aweful if you don't you dont use some of the tricks...

And anyone who climb cuts with a hand router will have disaster anyway lol