David Ivy

So a friend of mine who plays Ukulele, wanted an electric ukulele in the shape of a telecaster. So I obliged by building him exactly what he wanted. One piece Mahogany body and a One piece poplar neck. A 4 pole single coil pickup with one volume and one tone knob. A top loaded 4four string bridge and some economy tuners. I made the neck plate and the control cavity plate out of 1/8 inch aluminum. The side dots and fret marker dots are also mahogany. I finished it with a can of shellac.

Well this guitar has nothing to do with my Simi Hollow body But just wanting to show it off. This is my Original design from the body shape to the stencils work on the paint job. This is a build for a custumer.

@ZekeB Thank you Man, I appreciate it. I wanted to come up wth an original design of my own. I also made an electric solid body with the same style.

@Bizman62 Thank you for your kind words. I do appreciate it. I am going for a bit of a vintage look. I'm thinking about finishing it with some true oil or maybe some while on polyurethane.

I have glued the body together and Glued a flamed maple veneer on the front and used dyes on it. Built the neck, shaped it and radioused the fretboard, then installed the frets.

Poplar wood glued and routed to shape. I chose to route 2 sides and glue them together rather than just gluing a top on.

@Bizman62 ThaThank you sir, appreciate your comments. I am trying to figure it out.

I decided to try and build a hollow body guitar with my original design.I got the templates cut out so far. The body blanks cut and glued. The hardest part was drilling out the f-hole and filling it to get the shape I wanted.

I with the help of my friend Jody (who builds iron fiences) made the frame work for my harbor freight mighty mite saw for cutting fret slots. We flipped the saw upside down So the blades runs over the fretboard and not dragging the fretboard across the saw blade. I got some ideas from people on YouTube on how to make your own fret slotting jigs. Using a nail as a locating pin and sheet metal with holes drilled on the edge as the fret slotting jig.

@ADFinlayson I am thinking it is pushing the wood across the blade. I have a friend who is going to try to help me rig a way to use the saw like a radial saw or a mitter saw. To pull the saw across the wood rather than the wood across the blade. Maybe that will keep it from bogging down the blade. Thanks for your helpful comments.

I am looking to replace a motor in my mini table saw. It is a 4 inch harbor freight mighty mite. I want to use it to cut fret slots faster, but I Boggs down cutting hard wood. I am using a jewelers blade. When I did use it to cut fret slots I had to go back with a hand fret saw to cut them in deeper. Can any one help??? Thanks in advance, David Ivy

Nice! I use stencils on paint jobs on some builds. I have a cricut explore air 2 machine. It plots and cuts images that I design or find on free internet sites.

@mistermikev That's a Nice body you've built! I Really like the colors. The binding is a great frame for your art Sir.

Awesome inlays! I haven't tried anyinlay other than dots.