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2.5itim

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  1. Ok that really doesn't sound to hard at all. I was planning on making a miter box like this one here, does this seem like a good idea to you? I didn't know that there was any other way than using a miter box, if there is I wouldn't mind herring about them. Thanks scott, I really appreciate it!
  2. I had started refinishing this guitar a few years ago and just decided to pull it out to finish it, it's a ibanez sz that I have rounded the edges of the body over, reshaped the headstock and pulled the fretboard off planning to make a new one. Yesterday I ran to woodcraft and picked up a piece of bocote, used the old fretboard as a template and routed out the shape. I think that I got ahead of myself from watching videos on YouTube about making a fret slot cutting jig everyone cut there slots before cutting the shape of the fretboard out. Did I screw up? And if so is it possible to slot it with what I have already done?
  3. @Prostheta it worked perfectly, thank you so much!! You saved me many of hours block sanding and it still wouldn't have been good enough.
  4. Spoke to soon, just did my 3rd one and it looks terrible, maybe even worse than my first lol. Good news is I gave myself 2 inches extra length at the heel end so I should be able to fix my mistake.
  5. Thanks for the idea man, it will help out tremendously! i gave it another go on the next neck with the Japanese saw and this one came out much better than the last. Just a little work with the router jig and it should be great! Here's some dry fit photos after sawing.
  6. Wow I didn't know that! This is by far the best forum format I've ever been on. Well here it is! I think it should do its job perfectly! I seem to have miss placed my router over the years so I'll need to go buy another one before proceeding.
  7. Well I didn't see that you had replied until I finished it haha. But anyways here's what I came up with, length of 20.25", height of 4.25, gave me a angle of 11.9 degrees. When I check it with my protractor it's right at 12 degrees. Thank you you so much for that, this should work out perfectly!! photobucket is down for maintnance right now but when it comes back up I will post a pic of it.
  8. Prostheta, that is a great idea thank you for that! I will get to work on making a angled box like that and see how it works out today. Thank you! Hopefully I won't let you down. The back of the necks will be ibanez wizard ish shaped, tele headstock shape scarfed at 12 degrees and 4x2 tuners instead of the usual 6x0
  9. Do you think a bandsaw would be a better idea?
  10. Thank you for that Scott! I just looked that over and it looks like exactly what I need and I do agree, I don't think the Japanese saw was a good idea because it's extremely flimsy Time for me to go buy some dowel rods and do some trig.
  11. So... Scarf joints really freaking suck!!! I cut up 3 pieces of this board last night and planed them. I'm gonna go ahead and make 3 necks, one for practice, one for this build and one for me tele, I got them planed to thickness and did the scarf joint on the extra neck. Before doing the other 2 necks I need to find a better way to do them(if anyone wants to throw out advice here please do!!). I used my Japanese saw and drew out a 12 degree angle, my saw decided to cut a 15 degree way crooked angle. So after hours of block sanding it was close enough to glue up, I'll need to do a little more sanding on the top after I unclamp it.
  12. Well since nobody chimed in, I took a trip to the local woodcraft to see what they had available. I ended up picking up a piece of ambrosia maple and I really like it!! It has some really cool looking patterns in it. I went ahead and bought the whole board since it was pretty well priced so I'll be able to get 3 necks out of it, 2 pieces with some really good looking patterns in it and one that won't have much at all, I'll use the piece that I cut already for this guitar and another for my tele. as for the body I got the back laminated walnut piece and the hackberry piece glued up. The hackberry bowed on me a bit and most of it glued flat so I just took my hand planer and got the rest flat. The top 1/4" pieces of walnut also warped on me pretty bad! I got a pot of water boiling and let them steam for about 10 minutes then put pressure on them for 24 hours, they are perfectly straight now.
  13. I'm having a really hard time deciding on what woods to buy for the neck and fret board, what type of woods do y'all think would tie in with the walnut/hackberry body combo? Maybe just a Birdseye maple/walnut laminate neck with a Birdseye maple fretboard? id really appreciate some opinions if you have them!!
  14. wow, it has been a long day!! this stuff is really rewarding and I could definitely see my self getting hooked. Prostheta, you were so right! A 5 piece laminate was a very brave venture but I think that it worked out well, I couldn't get the table saw to cut a good 90 degree angle to save my life. The 5 piece laminate back ended up being a little catiwampus when clamped together so what I ended up doing was glueing/clamping the 3 smaller pieces to one of the wider walnut pieces then ran it thru the planer and made it flat again, this worked perfectly until I clamped the last wide piece of walnut to the rest, then it ended up to wide for the planer. It didn't end up completely flat so I took my buddies weird little card planer that I had never seen before and got it close. It's still not perfect but when all 3 layers are clamped together I don't think it'll be noticeable! Anyways on to the pics top that I still need to glue together middle back
  15. I agree westheman, I think it'll be fine. It's been drying for 2 years according to the date he had on it. I think it'll turn out looking and sounding good at the same time. I had a little free time this evening and decided to start on my body template, lesson learned never use 1/2" birch plywood for a template. I had it here laying around so figured I'd use it, it just splinted way to bad and with finish sanding my finger caught an edge quite a few times. But anyways here it is, I'm happy with it! I ended up just tracing my ibanez s body, erasing the whole upper horn and free handing the new one for the single cut body shape
  16. Man in that case that will work perfect!! Thank you for all of your help so far!
  17. The press is 10 tons but I got to thinking about it and it has a lot of bleed out so it wouldn't work out, there's no way I could stand there for 24 hours pushing the pedal down every 10 minutes lol.
  18. Prostheta, in regards to what you were saying about clamping force, would that amount of pressure be needed for both the laminating of the back 5 pieces as well as the top, middle and back pieces being glued together? im trying to figure out in my head how I'm going to clamp all of this together, I have some regular ole 24" clamps that I was going to use to laminate the back together but I don't think I could get anywhere near that pressure with them. Sooo... I guess I'm thinking I have 2 options, I could go buy some all-thread cut up some 2x4 pieces glue up some steal to the back of the 2x4 drill holes in that and stick the all thread thru then weld on some bolt heads so I could hit it with an impact to pull them together or, use the hydraulic press I have at work to push the pieces together, only problem I could see having here is the press only applying pressure in the middle and not to the ends. any help here would be appreciated seeing as how I was just gonna glue them up and get my clamps as tight as I could then call it good
  19. Prostheta, thanks for all that! Like I said I this is my first go around so I can definitely use all the advice you'd like to give haha. As far as the spalted hackberry it probably wasn't the best choice to go with because it's definitely got some flaws, there's quite a few cracks, knots and rotten places but I believe I have enough here that I can find more than enough to do what I need to do. I've bought some of this from him before so I knew what to expect, I've used it as shelves mainly but once it's planed and finished it just looks so great so I had to give it a go, this is how I'm planning the body although it will be a single cut, hoping for something along the lines of a ibanez fr body shape. 3/4" thick back 5 piece laminate (walnut/hackberry/walnut/hackberry/walnut), 1/2" thick hackberry for the middle, 1/4" walnut for the top then carved almost exactly like the knaggs guitar that I will post a pic of minus the upper horn area, I will keep all of the walnut top in that area.
  20. Hello, my names Tim, I've been a long time looker and first time poster. I have wanted to build a guitar for quite a while and just haven't had the drive to do it. I had bought a board of mahogany and Purple Heart a few years ago and just never finished it or really ever started, I had planed it and that was about it, really hoping I can keep the drive this go around!! so I guess it started a couple months ago, I was looking around online and came across kraggs guitars and just fell in love, although I could never afford the price tag that comes with one I figured I could build something similar. This guitar will have a body similar to the 3 piece sandwiched style they use, i went to my local saw mill today and picked up 2 boards of walnut and 1 board of spalted hackberry, anyways here's the boards but I won't be able to show much more till I am able to get over to my shop to straight edge/plane and glue the body together. Thanks for looking!!
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