It has been quite a while since I last posted any progress on the LP Jr I have been working on. I am getting the body ready for grain filling now. I have been practice spraying with my Harbor Freight gravity feed gun but I do not quite have the hang of it yet. A testament to my lack of spraying skill is the roughness of the shellac coat I put on the neck and fretboard
The body of the guitar will be finished in canary yellow nitro and the neck will be natural.
Kent Armstrong P-90 with coil tap switch
Grover Imperial tuners (yikes those suckers are heavy!)
Wilkinson aluminum bridge
I know most of this stuff is old hat to a lot of the pros out there, but this is my 1st complete build so I thought I would throw in some pics of the entire process to this point:
fretwire bending, I made this bender using Jay5's plan (Thanks! it works like a charm and cost me less than $15)
fretwire bender
fret press (Harbor Freight, home made caul holder [thanks again Jay5], and Stew Mac 12" radius caul - all for under $40)
fret press
begin fret leveling with 12" radius block
leveling
begin neck carving with microplane
carving1
more roughing out the neck
begin heel
roughing out the volute
rough volute
aligning neck in neck pocket jig (thanks to Myka) with cheap laser level
neck pocket jig
routing neck pocket
route
route and test fit pickup
P90
control cavity
cavity route
finished volute
back of peghead
neck glued in
back of guitar
back of guitar, neck is mahogany and purpleheart with ebony veneer on peghead, 2 piece mahogany body
back2
shellaced fretboard - birdseye maple and paua shell inlay on peghead
fretboard
Well, there you have it to this point. I will be posting some finishing pics soon (hopefully)
Cheers
Greg