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Beautiful contrast between the woods.

What is the length of ecala that you used for multiscale?

Merry Christmas!

A few days ago I carved this belly cut.

Then I drilled all of the access holes and stuff

Sanded to #400

First coat of oil. Im using Teak oil. The first time I used this, It was on some really tight grained pine and the oil didn't soak in like I wanted. Its working great on this walnut, and the pine looks spiffy also.

So when I put oil on the back this dark spot jumped out at me. Its a defect that was basically invisible until the finish went on. I guess thats what i get forusing a 2x10.

Second coat which was wetsanded

Third and final coat

Not that much progress lately

Started on some solder side dots

Thinned the back of the neck

Recesses for the tuner bushing s

Just to get an idea of what this will look like finished, I put some mineral spirits on the tops

Photobomb Level:Cat

Started on the body

routed the neck pocket first this time

Finally did one right

Then i did pickup routes

If you've got any of that top wood left you need to add it to your shim.

SR

Ooh

Then I glued the 8 string neck to fretboard

Then i started to route it.

Then this. It doesnt look that bad in person though.None of my roter bits can handle this zebrawood.

I got lucky because

A) Its inside the neck pocket

the piece stayed connected, so i just had to glue and clamp.

Look what came today....

Now to recap the last couple of days.

I decided to route the neck pocket.

Hogging most of the meat out with a forstner bit.

Then disaster struck, i was finishing the last edge of the last pass and my mom came out to the garage, I was so focused that i didn't even notice her.

When she said something, It scared the crap out of me, I jumped, and the template shifted.

This is what i was left with.

So i routed it straight.

So i glued in a strip of mahogany and re-routed, It can support its own weight now,

The pocket was a little to shallow so i routed a recess in the back of the neck. While I was at it I thinned the back of the headstock.

Then I rigged up ghetto router sled to thin down the back of the neck ( Ignore the part closest to the nut)

Then i started to shape the back of the neck.

I went trapezoidal this time and Im glad i did.

Abalone offset inlays

Drilled string thru holes

And the worst string thru holes ever award goes to...

So I just extended the battery box cover (In case I ever switch to active pickups)

Routed out

The cover will be held on with magnets, so I made this little finger slot. Still working out the transition

So not much progress today, but i did get some carves roughed in.Tummy cut no forearm.

I dont think teles look quite right with strat style carves, so I tried to keep them basically invisible, but still making it more comfortable. I think i did a decent job considering it took me a while to get a picture where they are still visible.

Tummy cut

Neck heel

Please ignore the glue lines that I have been too lazy to sand down.

Routed Pickup and control cavities

Time to fix some chipping from the planer

Ill let that set up overnight

Fret slots

$7 flush cut saw from Harbor Freight. Putchase of the year.

Huh?

What is this?

Bookmatched bocote fretboards, Oh yes!

Glued the sides together

The glue line is almost invisible in real life.

Over to the jigsaw

Rough cut done

Routed the body

Little tearout on the last pass, It will probably be invisible after the roundover is done

You seriously need to invest in LOTS more clamps!

Yeah, I know i went out and bought twomore after gluing this.

So tomorrow I get to go to resaw the bocote and joint the pine.

But while I've been waiting I decided to make a template.

Just to get an idea.

I also decided to route for truss rods.

I tried to offset the 8 string truss rods, ut accidetally routed too far

Solution,I put an earplug into the gap, it seemed to work well enough.

Dat Grain.

Got my Bocote in the mail tonight.

Decided to join the top seperatley because it was cupped.

The glue joint is horrible.I think it is only like this on the edge, but I'm having binding anyway, so it wont matter.

Not too bad.I'll joint them again.

Hey guys, I've lurked here for a while, and since i'm starting a couple of builds I decided to post them here.These are my 4th and 5th builds.

They will both be teles, but with a twist.

One will be a seven string based off of RestorationAd's Tele shape (with his permission of course)

The other will be an 8 string based off of the OAF Tele shape (also with his permission).

The Specs:

7 String:

Pine Body

Walnut top

Mahogany neck

Bocote fretboard

Lace X-Bar 3.5's

25.5 scale

Hardtail style bridge

8 String:

Pine Body

Walnut top

Zebrawood/ Walnut 5 piece neck

Bocote fretboard

Lace X-Bar 4.0's

27-25.5 scale

Homemade bridge

These may take a while because,

a) I'm 14 and in school

b ) I dont have money

c) I have a lack of equiptment

I've started gluing and stuff but nothing major.

Zebrawood

Mahogany

Body blanks

Neck Lams

All glued up

I tried thicknessing with a router bit in a drill press and it actually worked pretty well

Only casualty, less than 1/2mm deep, so I'm not worried, It'll be carved with the back of the neck

Walnut tops