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    Made some fretboard dots out of aluminium tube filled with mahagoni like the fretboard itself. Then I've routed the fretboard binding channel: For the binding itself I've cut off a stripe of a leftover piece from the body and planed it to thickness: ... and cut it to the binding itself: ...and glued it to the neck with a massive load of masking tape. Planed the binding flush to the outer edges of the neck and sanded the fretboard to a 12" radius: I've made a custom inlay for the 12th fret out of aluminium sheet (1.5mm thick). This is my first inlay and it took me hours and hours .... Then one of these numbers fell down to the floor and was never been seen again (until a replacement was manufactured... of course ) Who of youe guesses what these numbers stand for???
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    Nice color and proper work! Is this a satin/matt finish? How did you achieve that?
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    After the glue has dried I've cut off the backside of the headstock. That piece of wood is used for the headstock's ears, such that there is a minimum of waste.... and the ears are bookmatched as well. Then i've cut the fretslots (25.5" scale) and brought the fretboard into shape. Sketched up it begins to look something like a guitar. For a matched headstock a leftover piece of the body's topwood has been brought to thickness: Glued on the fretboard and headstock veneer, in between there is another veneer of wenge. Brought the headstock into shape and routed the neck flush to the fretboard: The scarf joint worked out quite nice At least the neck was routed to thickness and the transition to the volute/headstock was made using my spindel sander:
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    Exactly. When applying a very thin coat of a strongly diluted mixture one can expect a very shiny surface which does not require any final buffing or polishing.
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    I'm playing around with the idea of a carved back for a time now, but the implementation is still outstanding. ... curious how this one turn's out!
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    Congratulations, this is absolutely impressive! Have to follow this.
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    Thanks a lot! I guess for a nice bend joint it's important to plane both surfaces very carefully without any high or low spots. Then the routing the channels makes the bend much easier. And a good amount of patience and luck is rather helpful, too. Absolutely yes! Maybe he will be interested in playing music. Then the guitar will become his one. But I don't want to force anything. If he's not interested the guitar will stay at my home, which is also okay. As next i've started with the neck. I took a blank of mahagoni for that purpose, cutted off a slice for the fretboard and cutted the rest into three stripes. The neck stripes have been planed and jointed together with a veneer of wenge in between. The middle stripe has been turned around by 180°. The idea is to make the neck less sensitive for changes in weather conditions as the outer and middle stripes will try warp in different directions compensating each other. Then I took this laminate and cutted a 10° scarf joint angle with my japanes saw. It's alyways an exciting moment hoping that the saw does not run out. It worked out rather well this time: Glued together... beforehand the orientation of both parts has been fixed by two toothpicks: In the meantime the fretboard has been planed to thickness:
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    Thanks very much for the friendly welcome! To be honest, in first line I just had no motivation to make another template for routing the cavity.. and... some of these artistic CNC made chambered bodies influenced me so that i tried to make one by my own with the given simple possibilities. Yes, the wood shown on the first pic is just the template. Got it from the hardware store as a scrap piece for little money... but yeah, it is looking cool, too. 8-) I'm working as an electrical engineer where there's no place for art. So i have to live out my other half after work You guessed right: drop top over forearm relief! As the top wood I've chosen a piece of "flamed pearwood" (don't know the correct term, but you can imagine what i mean?): First the two peaces had to be planed to thickness and jointed together (did i mention my No.4? ;-) )Then i've cutted out the body shape and routed some channels to make the drop top bending easier: I've bend the top over the edge using water, heat gun, and a pack of clamps. After that the top has been glued to the body with tidebond (apologies for missing photography). OK, sorry guys, you know, it is especially the inner values that count: Regards, Sebastian
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    Great stuff, these woods look awesome!
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    Hallo everybody, I've been following the project guitar forums for quite a while now as "silent reader" and decided to register a few weeks ago. In short, it is high time to introduce myself... how could this be done better as presenting my recent build? To my background: Sebastian, 31 years old, coming from germany, so please excuse my poor language (and do not hesitate to correct me...). I have started to build electric basses 2 years ago. As most of us, meanwhile I'm completely obsessed. This is my first guitar and it is dedicated to my son born this year. So it started with two peaces of mahagoni, properly jointed and glued together. The body shape (and the complete guitar) is a design by my own: Roughly cut out the body with a japanese saw and then routed along the template. As next I've planed the armrest with my beloved No.4, preparing for a dropped top: Then the electronics cavity has been routed and I slightly chambered the body to reduce weight (approx. 1.7 kg / 3.7lbs at this stage): Regards, Sebastian
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