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  1. OK, So it's been a lot longer than I wanted it to be since I've been on here. Basically I have nothing else done in the way of progress. So many things happened lately. Anyway, I'm about to make up my templates, hopefully next week. I think I'm just going to do MDF and glue the paper on top. I do have another question for all of you, I was thinking that with my color scheme in my original post that it would be cool to have damascus steel hardware. Upon searching the interwebs, I have come up with nothing. Usually that means there is a glaring detail I'm missing. There are stainless types of damascus and other ways to keep it from rusting, so what gives? Surely I'm not the first one to think of that...
  2. This is out of the box thinking. I friggin’ love it! Al or of the logistical comments were already rolling around in my head. Maybe this will be a possibility for guitar #5 in my lineup...
  3. Yea maybe my idea would work if it did have about 1" there in the center and it taper down to 3/4-1/2" outward...
  4. @Norris, I just got thru your build thread. WOW! excellent work sir! Your thread was definitely educational. I have a Shinto Saw Rasp in my "save for later" on Amazon. It may make it's way to the cart sooner than later. Otherwise, I have very little tooling for woodworking. Most of my tools are mechanic tools, gunsmith tools, and machinist tools (which still don't equate to many tools). Thankfully I have a couple buddies that have pretty much everything I need. I'll be doing much of the bulk work in chunks, like all the templates at once, then on to chunking the wood out. Layout can be done at home as well as carving stuff. I plan of getting a beginners set of gouge chisels and a spokeshave. Tooling up at work is so much more fun because I don't have to pay for it! Hope y'all are ok with another long build like that! I have 2 under two years old, Full time work, trying to move, and trying to get out of debt. That leaves very little time for much else!
  5. This is extremely cool! I like seeing people do stuff on theory like this. Very neat. Was there anything in particular that made you decide 1-1/4" was a thin as you wanted to go? I'd like to make a two piece body (top and bottom) and route out a tight fitting X shaped pocket 1/4" (1/8" deep both sides) and fit a a correlating shaped welded piece of stainless inside. I'll bet you could go even thinner, (3/4"?) and still be comfortable with the rigidity. What do you think?
  6. Thanks for the welcome and encouragement Scott. To be honest I think I'm gonna do this solid body with nickel and go from there, see what I think after the build. I have all kinds of ideas floating around and at some point I'll pin them down but experience is my best teacher. I just want to dive in now but its going to be a very slow process for me. Maybe even longer that most to accomplish my first one just based on hows much free time I have.
  7. @mistermikev I have been looking at the stuff on eBay but thanks for the other places I’m gonna check those out right now @curtisa Wow thanks for the detailed insight! Stainless is off the table for me. Not my thing to intentionally add problems to a build. I didn’t think about the busyness of a laminated, no-fretboard neck. I would probably either dye it all similar or like you said use similar grains. I would definitely do the skunk stripe with the same type of material in the middle of the laminate. I think it would hide well. It would probably be a spoke nut at the heel for the truss rod. Fo some reason those give me a little more warm and fuzzy as opposed to being at the headstock. I think I am going to just use MDF for templates for now. I need to get basic experience with materials before I go hdpe I think. Only real experience I have with MDF is baseboards in my house. I don’t think I’m gonna go with active pickups. But the preamp idea may be something. As far as tone and all that, I’m just now reading about the TBX control pot and I may add that to my 5way switching get-up. As far as the offset lamination, as long as there are no structural issues, I think I may offset for this one and then glue up the rest of the board in 2 and 3 piece blanks. From how they sell those on eBay, I could pay for the board almost twice over!
  8. Where can you find tops for that cheap? I'v been seeing outrageous prices for stuff. That's the only discouraging part about all of this for me is the cost of everything.
  9. So I want to do a through neck on the semi hollow and it was recommended to start with my very first build doing a bolt on. I spent too many years not listening to people. I was thinking I wanted that one as just kind of a blue-collar type guitar. Just a workhorse that screams form follows function. Maybe I get a single wider piece of Swamp Ash to use as a top. Then I can still have my look and then i can chamber the thing....oh the possibilities...
  10. No joke!! That's the goal, I'd like for that to be my go-to guitar and someday maybe one of my sons will pass it down to one of their sons. So its really important for me to do this with intentionality and a careful pace. I think it would be very different to see a laminate neck fretted up with no fretboard. Maybe I'll do that on the Strat or something later. Right now, I'm trying to get my head to put the semi-hollow Tele on hold and try to focus on this solid body. I was a little trigger happy when I found this one and only 10' long Swamp Ash board at my local saw mill. I bought it and after I realized its a crappy width. It's 10.5" wide. Meaning I will probably end up having 2 piece bodies. I'm ok with that, but I was wondering, if I can match the grain a little better, is it a no-no to join the two pieces offset? Like can I take one section of 10.5" and join it to a 4" section and call that my blank? The other option is to do a three piece I guess. This would also be for the top unless I do a thin veneer but for this solid-body, I am kinda looking for the old-school, workhorse guitar look, not a fancy one. Andyjr1515, as for the jack input, yea I was thinking about putting it so the cord would run concentric to the lower radius. I don't know if I am explaining it the best, but basically I want it hardly showing at all from the front. I'm also thinking about putting the body up on a Prototrak Mill and taking care of that pocket with a 1/2" endmill. I also had a bout of mental instability and thought about active pickups for this solid body. Is that heresy? Also, Anyone have experience with HDPE for templates?
  11. Hey Andyjr1515, thanks for the response! I love your work on here! So I think I will start with the solid body Tele. I think it will give me more wiggle room in the first-timers department. The thinline is kinda my unicorn and you’re exactly right if I do mess up that through neck it will bother/discourage me. The reason I was going to do stainless was I was under the impression they would hold a fine polish longer. I’ll definitely defer to the wisdom in that. Stainless is a pain to work with on stuff at work, I can imagine it would suck trying to get it to cooperate with wood. As as far as the strat cover, I think I still want to attempt it, I can mill my own if I need to in whatever dimension I need, I just really think it would be slick to be able to have the cord run along the edge of the guitar instead of perpendicular to the body. I could even do something like the Ibanez guitar where it’s just counterbored in there with wood surrounding it. I don’t know, I’m still deep in the planning stages. I probably won’t make chips for a month or so still. And when I do, it’s gonna be templates and more templates. A woodworking friend of mine (and coworker) suggested using 1/4 or 3/8 HDPE for the templates. Claims it is stronger and will last without warping. What do you all think? I have a question about laminate necks. Why do you never see a laminate neck without a fretboard? Couldn’t you just radius the top part of the neck and cut feet slots like you would on a one piece maple neck? I looked around for any kind of example of that. If there is no real reason not to, I may try that in bolt on form with this solid body.
  12. Hello all, I have been around here lurking for quite some time. I didn't really find and introduction forum here so I'll do a quick one here. I am finally ready to build a couple guitars, despite the lack of knowledge and financial flexibility, I am GOING to do this. Long story short, I just got back into playing guitar after about a 10 year hiatus. My thought was I can buy a kit guitar and do it up right and play that to my heart's content. I did so (semi-hollow body Les Paul) and right off the bat there were issues with it and it bothered me to the point I just need to build my own from scratch. The pickup routes were off probably .100" or so, the quilted maple veneer was poorly glued, etc. I say all that to say this: I found this site and there have been so many builds in here that are absolutely jaw-dropping, and some of you people in here are true craftsman. SO I come here for help, encouragement, and some accountability for these projects. I don't have a lot of woodworking experience nor do I have guitar building experience. I am a prototype machinist for the Air Force so I do have some abilities. I just hope that those skills translate to guitar building! Anyway, Here is the list of guitars I want to build (not in any order): 1. Solid Body Telecaster 2. Solid Body Stratocaster 3. Semi-Hollow Tele 4. Starcaster I bought a 10.5" 8/4 chunk of Swamp Ash that I believe I can get 3 or 4 guitars out of it. I feel like I ought to start with one that may be simpler (solid tele) but My heart is really drawn towards the semi-hollow tele. That being said, I want to make these my own, not just a copy I can buy off the shelf. Maybe for the Starcaster, but the others need to have my own flair to them. I really want to start with the semi-hollow tele, and I just had my tonsils taken out so here I am recovering and tweaking on pain meds researching the crap outta stuff. I have most of the semi hollow tele planned out and I wanted to run it buy you top minds and see what you all think about the build plan before I buy anything else. '69 Semi-Hollow Telecaster --Laminated Through Neck (use some kind of combination of some of the following: flame maple, orange osage, black locust, bubinga) --10-15 degree angled headstock similar to a PRS with a tip of the hat to ScottR's "not quite a tele" headstock (that thing is gorgeous!) I attached a picture I found. I want it to be similar to that. --Finely Figured Pau Ferro Fretboard with no inlays, stainless steel medium jumbo frets --Spoke nut dual action routed at heel truss rod --Abalone side fret markers larger than average --I want to use a strat jack plate but i want to countersink it flush along the lower radius where the cable would be plugged in downward and can be easily looped into the strap. --I want some black limba or nice flame maple for the body top. I want it at least .500" thick, I want to round out the body a little bit. --old school 3 saddle bridge with option to run strings through body or top load because I'm still toying with the idea of a bigsby and I think that setup would maintain the original tone im looking for. --I want to do a 5 way switch with series, parallel, and half out of parallel selections. Wiring scheme below too. --Fender Vintage Noisless Tele pickups --I'm thinking about doing a black, emerald green dye scheme on the body top like the picture I found, maybe more black than that. I don't have a lot of tools, but I do have access to pretty much anything I may need. But I do want to grow my inventory of guitar-specific hand tools. So there it is, I'd love to hear your opinions, as I have a pretty healthy respect for the abilities of a lot of people on here.
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