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Nope, solid maple! It's not nearly as heavy as you'd expect, actually...

I did many things today, but this is what I'm most excited about at the moment:

PURPLE POWERRRRR

Ah, good thing you caught him! I have one specific crappy chisel for glue clearing, that way I don't worry about getting it all gross. 

I don't usually get to do much on Tuesdays or Thursdays (full time student probs), but I ended up having this morning free, so I took advantage of the extra time. 

Neck and fretboard have been joined, now trimmed flush:

Neck pocket routed:

Tune-o-Matic recess routed:

Binding applied:

That'll set up overnight and I'll scrape it back tomorrow. I'm also going to start the neck carve. 

Thanks for looking!

Cool! This sounds like it'll be a fun one.

Nah, I use a chisel or scraper to clear as much of that stuff as I can. 

Today, I worked on the neck and fretboard. 

Truss rod rout:

Neck cut and routed to shape:

Same for the headstock:

Fretboard glued on with the help of some registration pins:

And finally, I've got decals!

While waiting for that neck to set up, I went ahead and knocked out another 6 string body from one of the maple blanks I have. 

I forgot to take a picture of the first few steps, but you can imagine a rectangular slab of maple, right?

Pickup routs done:

Bridge holes:

Control cavity:

Body radius:

Neck pocket:

Wiring and ground holes:

So here we are, ready to be carved at a later time:

I'm going to paint this one...most likely a pretty outrageous pearl lime green. 

Actually, it's the Slot-O-Matic Mk.2... a few of the screws stripped pretty badly while I was making some adjustments, so I went and replaced them all with nicer stainless steel screws. Gotta adjust my label!

First things first- the paint is exactly what I was looking for, I'm pretty excited to get it on this guitar. 

3pc maple neck out of clamps and into the sander:

Putting my scarf jig to work on the neck shaft and headstock pieces:

Safe-T-Planing the headstock to proper thickness:

Finally, joining the neck and headstock:

Welcome to Project Guitar! 

Ah, you're too kind! I've still got a lot to learn (hence the total redo!), but I appreciate the encouragement 

Yep, I'm using TwinLands. Mine are German, I bought them 5-ish years ago. My sets have always performed well and don't match the packaging or rough quality of the ones in your recent review, so I think I got in before the decline. I've purchased a few random Fisch HSS bits in various sizes, they seem to be very well made and will likely be my choice of replacements for the TwinLands whenever that's necessary. 

Back to work! More little stuff today...sanding, grain filling, paint testing. 

The face of this headstock will be painted black, so the rosewood strips need to have their pores filled. 

With that drying, I moved on to the neck and fretboard for the surf green V. 

I'll get some pics of the paint  when I go back in on Friday, I'm really happy with the color. 

@verhoevenc I have! Hopefully a few will sign up

You're too kind! 

With the server issue/reset thing done, I'm hoping it's safe to post. 

Cut, sand, rout:

Drill, then rout a bit more:

A quick mockup and we'll call it a day!

Still waiting on decals and paint supplies...the ash/walnut guitar will get wrapped up as soon as I get those in hand.

I am! But as a terrible guitarist, I'd rather it go to someone who deserves it lol

I thought so! Well, let me say it again: this is a gorgeous guitar. 

It's mainly the result of a templating error on my part. The neck pocket just isn't how it needs to be, which resulted in an ugly join on the neck sides.

Well, that and some ugly carving on the bass side of the heel as I was working out how I wanted it to flow. 

It's all good, just some prototyping issues 

To echo the others: very well done! I'm sure the new owner will be more than pleased

Thank you!

I'm waiting on paint and decals for the ash/walnut 6, so I've just been attempting to get the shop somewhat organized. Oh, and I've been working on a couple of my other projects:

I'm going to end up completely redoing the V-inspired guitar, too many little details haven't been cooperating with me. Thankfully, I made a second set of blanks for this design, so it's not a big deal to redo the woodwork.... I'd much rather start fresh than try to kludge something together.   

Oh, for sure! I'm not complaining about the process, I just don't have much to take pics of until it's done.

Before I get too far in the sanding process, I like to take care of any remaining tasks that might require fixing if I screw them up 

Aligning the tuners and drilling for their retainer screws:

Installed machine screw inserts at the pickup mounting points:

Painting the control cavity and backplate with conductive paint:

Aaaaand now back to sanding. 

They have a lot of tutorial content on the Fusion website, as well as a Youtube channel. Splines are just sort of something you have to play with until you get a feel for how they want to be worked, if that makes sense.  

+1 on the charged bits of plastic, it's even worse than pickguard material!

@curtisa I'm happy to share! The pickups are Bare Knuckle, they offer 10 degree slanted baseplates as an option. The bridge is a Hipshot 8 string bridge, slanted at 18 degrees. I got in on the first consumer-available production run of these. Also, I've got the only nickel-plated one as far as I know. They're not on the website yet, so you'll have to call and order directly. Hipshot is going to offer 6, 7, and 8 string bridges in a few different degree variations soon.

I have a couple preview spec sheets and will have the full DWG files for everything soon, so let me know if you want any additional info! 

Thank you! 

Man, I didn't realize how behind I am on posting!

A bit of basic prep work on the multi 8:

And back to the ash/walnut sixer, I drilled some holes, tested the hardware, installed huge SS frets, made a matching walnut back plate, and sanded a lot. 

I'm hoping to get through the sanding process and have some oil on this one by the end of next week, fingers crossed!

I've been using Fusion 360 for all of my 3D work. Not only can you design, model, and render, Fusion also generates Gcode and other CAM functions.

You're not kidding, that bubinga is intense!

Interesting! I think I'd go for a finer flake. Definitely worth experimenting!