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2.5itim

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  1. Rough carving on the neck for the cocobolo/ash ta28 done and tuners holes drilled. This was the ugliest out of 3 neck blanks I bought but man it really looks cool after carving. This curupay is super hard stuff, I'd say like wenge on crack but I think the tough time carving was worth it.
  2. After much deliberation I've decided that I didn't like the finish on the orange curly maple prs at all so I saneded it all down, dyed the top dark brown, sanded back with a burst and then dyed it with a lemon yellow. It's much closer to my original goal of prs's black gold. First pic is what it was and then what it is now.
  3. Thank you! I got the binding scraped yesterday so can start carving on the neck tonight. No the Bridgeport is at my work, I seriously don't think I could build guitars without it, I use it for so much stuff. If I ever quit here I'm gonna have to buy one for myself lol.
  4. Everything went smoothly with the binding so far. Indicated the neck level and then indicated it horizontally, cut the slot at 70 thou wide, flipped the neck indicated level, indicated horizontally cut the slot. Cut the fret slots to depth, wiped down the cocobolo with acetone, glued up and taped down. I'll untape it tomorrow and start scraping to make sure everything looks good. I really like the way this roasted curly maple looks but it chips out so dang easy, I've got 2 more little bitty spots that tore out and not sure how I'm gonna go about fixing those yet.
  5. Yeah, the fretboard chipped out on me so im gonna bind it to get rid of that spot. The fretboard was already radiused and glued to the neck so the Bridgeport is pretty much the only way I can think to do it. Fingers crossed that it works. Thank you all!!
  6. And that about catches y'all up to where I am at at the moment. Except for this new build Me and the lady just found out started a little while ago. I think this will be the best one yet!
  7. I've finally been able to get the black top prs body wet sanded and polished and have started the refinish on the neck today.
  8. Here's a ta28 model. Specs are, ash body, cocobolo top, curupay neck, roasted curly maple neck that will be bound with cocobolo, arete bridge, roasted curly maple cavity covers. My cocobolo binding just came in yesterday so I can move on with this tomorrow after I get the binding channels cut on the Bridgeport.
  9. I haven't had time to get on here in a while but I have been busy in the shop. Let's see if I can get caught up real quick. This guitar is one of my pg17 models, I'm making it up for a local guy. It's a curly maple back, walnut top, bloodwood sandwiched in between, 5 piece rock maple/walnut neck, dual action truss rod, carbon fiber rods in the neck, bareknuckle juggernaut pickups, evertune bridge, hipshot locking tuners. The guitar is a 6 string 27" scale length.
  10. I worked on the bass a bit yesterday and got it as far as I'm going to take it, I really wish I could finish it out but the guy wants to do as much as he can to save money. I rounded over the front and back, he decided against the arm bevel so walnut wouldn't show from the top, routed the control cavity and made a cavity cover out of some pickguard material.
  11. And finally, I was contacted last week by a guy who had a bass neck and hardware for a p bass, he needs a body made for the neck so we discussed woods and costs and decided on a walnut body with ambrosia curly maple top. He wants to do the finish and final setup to save money so I won't take it to the complete state. All I have left to do is the arm contour, belly carve, round over the edges, control cavity and mount the bridge and then it will be getting sent off.
  12. I have also refined and finished my 6th body design. I started this design about mid last year and just got it to where I want it, here's that design cut out of an ash body.
  13. I have been crazy busy lately with working mandatory 60 hour work weeks so work at home has been somewhat slow. Ive been working on a few things here and there so figured I'd go ahead and post those up. I have spent the better part of last year stock piling wood, my spare bedroom in my house has pretty much turned into a lumber yard, while I've been stock piling I've been focusing on getting my body designs exactly where I want them in preparation for this. I've got 6 designs that I like and am going to continue using from now on and don't plan on adding any more to the lineup so went ahead and glued up and cut out body's out of the stock piled lumber, I've still got a bit more to do but I've done about 10 so far. Here's some of them, you will see more of them as I begin to build them out.
  14. You don't need to dye and sand back to get a nice top, this one was one of my mixtures that's just straight purple, with no dye dark and sand back.
  15. Today I had the joy of stripping the black top prs body again.... I am so freaking tired of this guitar lol. I was level sanding and sanded into the base coat, so I have decided to change my approach. No base coat, no color coat and tinting the nitro lacquer instead. I'm 5 coats in right now but it hasn't gotten to the opaque stage yet so tomorrow I will continue spraying, after I get it to the opaque stage I will continue on with clear lacquer.
  16. I got the necks carved out yesterday. Holy crap, this wenge is not fun to carve. It's definitely the hardest wood I have carved yet. Still have a little refining to do and finish sand but they are done for the most part. And also got the inlays for the headstock done, still need to sand the other one down so don't have a pick of that one.
  17. Yeah I cut the inlay with a coping saw and the pocket with a dreamer and a 1/32" endmill. It's really hard to get the lines in the pocket just right but I'm getting better each time. This is definitely the best I've done so far. As for the reason I couldn't use the 2 bolts is because the heal in that area has to be quite thin and I use t nuts/bolts instead of wood screws, the t nuts are to long and I couldn't take the heel as thin as I needed with the t nuts in there. I've been able to do it once before but I had to do a bunch of modifications to the t nuts and it's to much of a pita to do when 3 bolts will hold just fine.
  18. Second top has been carved, belly carve has also been done, rounded over the back with a 1/2" round over bit. I also did a mountain top inlay in the back of that one using black limba. It's the same mountain top I use on my headstocks this one is just a little bigger. As I said a few posts back I originally planned to do a 5 bolt neck joint and could only do 3, I didn't realize the 5 wouldn't work until after I pilot drilled the body for the bolts holes so I had 2 holes I had to do something with. I originally tried to make a padauk/wood glue filler for them but the filler was a bit to dark and stood out to much so inlay it was.
  19. That's what I've been thinking about Scott, and honestly I really don't know. I know that prs does it quite a bit but they also do a hard type finish where I will be doing a oil finish on this neck/fretboard so I'm kinda weary.
  20. As for the body outline no I don't plan on taking the padauk outline all the way around, like pan_kara I like the way it stops right at the hips. With the fretboard the maple is already glued up so ebony or padauk is out of the question now. I do like the plain curly maple that it is now I just can't help but think it'd be cool to do a really dark brown dye and then sand it back so it still has the plain maple coloring but in the curls will be a darker brown to match the wenge neck a bit better.
  21. I also think that it should have a darker fretboard, can y'all give me some advice here? I'm thinking I should do a dye and sand back type finish on the fretboard, something sort of like the last picture.
  22. Back carve on the first one is done. I had a really hard time deciding on carving the treble side of the back but I think I'll leave it asymmetrical and just round the rest of it over. Fixing the split worked out well I think. I did even out the bottom area on the last pic after the picture was taken
  23. Ahh crap! Was I suppose to be saving those? Lol. I'll start now haha
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