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Posts posted by fordguy_85
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Look forward to seeing your progress. You're obviously more of a woodworker than I am (the guitar I'm building is my first true woodworking project)
Good luck with your build!
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I'll try to get some pics here in a bit
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Thanks Scott. It is indeed Black Walnut, but the color is off a bit in the picture on account of the red shift from what it's laying on.
And, yes, it is very difficult to talk about crotch figuring without raising eyebrows
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No pics, but I took some thickness off of the back of the body with the router yesterday to get back down to around 1-3/4 - 1-7/8 once I sand the back. Also, here is a pic of the other end of my walnut boards... this figured end I wanted to save until I had finished at least one build so as to not risk ruining it.
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Aha! Imgur to the rescue!
Here I am still getting the top trued up for flatness. Then I have to decide on how I want to carve the top...
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I've tried uploading from the photo library directly from my phone, and from photobucket as well, but neither is working...
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I used the pine because I had it in the shop, I come from a Telecaster background (many great Tele's are made of pine. It's resonant, light, and has a snappy response and a bright tone.), the walnut I have isn't thick enough for a complete body, no local suppliers of dry hardwood, plus my impatience to not want to wait until green lumber is dry enough to use.
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Can't figure out how to upload pics... gimme a bit
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Hey guys, first time poster here from SW Virginia. I put together a swamp ash partscaster a couple weeks ago, and wondered if I could build a guitar from scratch or not, so I picked up some materials and decided to give it a go. I tried the outline of one of my Telecasters, and then tweaked it from there. Anyway, here is where I'm at this far... Pine body with a black walnut top. It will have a set of PAF type humbuckers and a Strat style tremolo. I'm going to attempt to build the neck from scratch as well.
First "From-Scratch" Build
in In Progress and Finished Work
Posted · Edited by fordguy_85
I had attempted to freed hand the cavity ends where the mounting tab is, and I couldn't stand them being so uneven, so I just angled them up from the ends to the point in the middle to even them up some.