Mr_Riddler

19 minutes ago, Prostheta said:

Very jealous of your chisel stash. I'd immediately take the red-handled ones to 20° and the ferruled wooden ones to 25-30°. That's totally just me coveting your stash! I normally take mine to about 22.5° so they work best with hand work and with occasional use with a mallet. I really love my edge tools. They return so much beauty in process and result.

Haha the pile is about 50+ chisels right there. The red ones are BAHCO, and most of the wooden ones is E A Berg another Swedish and very popular brand. Thats actually the angles i normally prefer around 25° tends to hold an edge a little better when working in hard woods. 

@Prostheta

Yeah I got that figured out after sharping a couple of chisels I think this machine and I will get along very well. 

@ScottR well I think that's a good name for it. The Tormek is awesome bit that wasn't really a surprise. It's Swedish after all

Well not much progress on these projects, but I took some new pictures.

I've been noticing that my pile of blunt chisels had grown a lot. And not got the time to sharpen them. That means new tool day to speed up the sharping process :) 

@Norris Well that's a nice idea, but I think that would be a huge one. We will see what i can make out of this one when it have dried up. 

@verhoevenc Well after reading alot of reviews of this paint it changed my mind. To much work to redo the black parts. But I think I will order a bottle soon anyway, This is perfect for another project I have in mind. 

On 4/12/2018 at 10:58 PM, ScottR said:

I see guitars in nearly every tree I look at.

SR

Well that's true I do the same

Hmm future guitar build? Maybe anyway this is a big piece 😁

Damn I think I need this. Should have showed me this earlier now that I have added laquer to it  Gonna need to do some sandback then. 

Sounds like typical sorcery.

Daamn that is black, what kind of sorcery is this?!

@ScottR  that's about it, a couple of souls in return and the deal was done.

@Prostheta Do you got any examples of this? Google wasn't that useful in this case. 

On 3/13/2018 at 7:20 PM, ScottR said:

That looks like you reached into the fire and pulled out a live coal.

SR

That's true, It did get that hellish look i was aiming for with the cracks and chunks missing in the black paint. 

Obviously the perfect blues guitar

Thanks guys glad to hear that you like it. As promised some more pictures how it looks at the moment.

Just got the neck glued in but got some sanding and stuff left. The neck is Swedish oak and padauk. But unfortunately it got an aesthetic issue. Didn't do that much thinking when cutting the pieces for it and the centre piece is a little to wide. Which made the padauk peak out on one side when cutting the taper. It Bothers me a alot but it's an easy fix, will just paint the neck solid orange and red and of course add a crackle finish to that as well. 

Thanks, I need to redo some parts of the crackle because it didn't crackle as much as I wanted thank God it's really easy, just need an exactoblade and rip it of like plastic sheets. 

It does remind me of the Etna build also! That build is one of the nicest I have seen on this site 😁

Been kind of slow work the last couple of weeks. A lot of snow and really cold weather don't really get you to excited to work in an unheated shop. But I have managed to get some progress done. Here is a little sneak peak of the progress hopefully I can add some more pictures of it during the week. 

yeah there is a lot of work if not using a hole saw, But absolutely possible, but I would just buy one

11 hours ago, beltjones said:

I used the new bandsaw blade to resaw a piece of wenge from scrap - it's about 3/32" thick - which I will use on the headstock. Is that too thin? After sanding it might be 1/16" or so (~1.5mm).

I also made a template for the control cavity. I need to figure out how to route / drill the switch cavity, which by my measurement should be about 1 11/16" (~43mm). I don't think I can make a perfectly circular MDF template - at least a method for doing that doesn't come to mind. I may just have to buy a hole saw with the correct diameter.

Use a holesaw for the template.

10 hours ago, Skyjerk said:

This is your basic Stratocaster build. Not vey well documented from a perspective of process, though. Apologies.

I didnt take as many photo's as I should have...

 

 

Well that happens all the time, when you'r'e busy building you usually forget that part. 

2 hours ago, ScottR said:

I was thinking that when you re-slot the area of your carving / inlay there will be areas where the fret tang will be pressed into the resin only...or so it appears to me from the picture. I was just curious as to whether the resin would hold the tang in the same manner as the wood. I expect it will, but I got curious and asked. (I do that often).

SR

Ah! I see what you mean, don't think that would be an issue, but will add some drops of CA just to be on the safe side. 

@Skyjerk Thank you Sir! 

@Prostheta Thanks for the gesture but I will stop by the local supplier, It's just next door to my daily work. They usually have some great stuff laying around, hopefully they got a piece i can use for testing, I keep you posted if it's a dead end

14 hours ago, ScottR said:

Man, you've got some artistic skills and talents on display here. Your builds have always been great so I shouldn't be surprised.

That's a very nice carving and nicely shaded with stain to add depth. Very impressive! Have you used that epoxyresin to hold frets before?

SR

Thank you for the kind words! 

Never tried the resin to hold down frets, but I think it's possible. 

the resin turns rock hard when cured, hard as CA or even harder. The downside is the curing time of 24h so I don't see the point of using it for frets or am I missing something? 

1 hour ago, ScottR said:

That inlay is perfect for this guitar.

How did you do it? What materials did you use? It's going to almost be a shame to run frets across that.

SR

Thanks, it's just carved in the fretboard, added some stain and filled it up with epoxyresin.

Your guitar necks are probably some of the nicest I have  ever seen, Always very clean work. 

Looking forward to see that Zebrawood under some clear, or are you going with just oil? 

14 hours ago, Prostheta said:

Not sure about stain. Maybe a toner in a clear. Birch can be pretty blotchy as well.

Damn, I don't have any scrap pieces so I can't do any tests before going maniac on this fretboard. Maybe I will do one very dilutet stain that is easily sanded off, if it turns out terrible. 

Thanks it's about 90 percent done. It has a pretty cool 3d effect. 

Thinking about adding a vintage amber stain to this fretboard, thoughts about that? 

Today's work was finishing this fretboard inlay.