Bargle

Over Christmas I was back at my parent's house and had a chance to get a couple shots of my first band saw blade re-use. I wish I could say they came from a saw I owned as these were huge blades, but the reality is a friend gave me some pieces of the blade for this specific reason: to make knives. Here is one I made for my Dad.

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Very cool. The stand really displays it nicely. Don't have to pull it out of a drawer to show someone. Good job.

I would definitely go with the bookmatched set on something you're going to resell.

Love the pinstripes. Are those TV Jones pickups?

they look like standard humbuckers with cut-out covers to me.

I think you got it, WezV.

It does strike me as more of an advertizing post than anything. I was going to delete my original post, but time ran out.

Love the pinstripes. Are those TV Jones pickups?

Be sure the cap is back on the bottle of CA tightly, especially before you go in for the night.

It's also a good idea not to leave corded power tools near the bottle of CA.

Let's just hope it finally comes out this year.

Really nice. Very Stylish. Very tasteful.

Anyone have any opinions on using the 'drop down' headstock design for a Gibson-style guitar? It's the same headstock as Fender uses, right?

Seems to me it'd be easier to make than an angled headstock (without using a scarf joint), especially since you don't need extremely thick wood for it.

In fact, I've got a couple planks of some nice old birch that would perfect...

I'm assuming that there's no issue with using this type of headstock with an angled neck, right? Obviously, it wouldn't work for a Gibson replica, but for anything else, why not?

Might require string trees, but that's not a big deal...although (brace yourself, another hair brain idea coming...I'm going to start a new thread for that one... 

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Mick, I've got a late 60s Framus that uses that kind of headstock. It has a combination hold-down/guide piece to have a good break angle over the zero fret. Here's a link to a pic of one with the same type headstock, though mine is an archtop.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Framus-acousti...bayphotohosting

I think you're right. It does look like it's meranti. I did some google search and now I'm 99% sure that Dark Red Meranti is what I have. Appearently, it is a well known timber in Europe. It also says: "it's an excellent material for the production of high class joinery products especially door and window frames, facades and doors".

Still not sure whether it would make a good fingerboard or not though. I'd rather use Rosewood or Ebony.

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The guitar I've got in the planning stages is going to be made from all scrounged woods, so I'm going to give it a try. I'll let y'all know how it works out.

I think I've found it. I was reading a thread at another site and someone mentioned a wood called meranti. I Googled some images and found this:

http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/meranti.htm

If you scroll about a 1/3 of the way down the page, there's some pictures showing the whitish waxey substance that appears on the boards that Rista and I have. The variation is called Dark Red Meranti.

I was re-reading the thread and wanted to add this:

I have some small pieces of padauk and purpleheart and the wood isn't like either of those two. In surface appearance, it's similar to walnut, but much heavier than any piece of walnut I've come across. Not that I've seen huge amounts of walnut, but I mention that for what it's worth.

Just throwing in my 2 cents on this, which may not be helpful in the least.

I've got two or three pieces of what I think is the same kind of wood myself. I salvaged mine from a shipping pallet that was partly made from it.

The pieces I have are very heavy and waxey. The weight seems to be similar to hard maple, rosewood or purpleheart. I have no clue as to what it is. It does seem to be hard enough to use for a fretboard and that's what I'm planning to use it for. I live in east Tennessee and that's where I found the pallet. I don't know how likely it would be to have a shipping pallet made partly from an imported wood. It would seem unlikely to me, but I can't claim to know anything about the pallet making industry. As best I can recall, the remainder of the pallet was of something common, poplar, pine or soft maple. I salvaged the wood something like 3-5 years ago.

Good to know I'm not the only one scratching his head about this stuff.

Even the headstock looks strange to me

I think it looks like a profile outline of somebody's foot.

A modest suggestion. If you decide to do either one, use a different f-hole. I've always felt that Fender's design was too angular. If you don't want to design your own, copy one off a Gibson or Epiphone. Even those cheap Harmonys and Kays have better looking f-holes than Fender's.

That's my opinion, yours may vary.

Beautiful job with that piece of wood. I love the way it seems to flow out from just past the bridge in all directions.

I bought a pair of pickups from them recently. They were shipped very quickly, though the packing was only adequate. I haven't had a chance to try the pickups as I got them for a future project.

FWIW, I've heard from other people who have them that the smaller than 12" bandsaws are more prone to breaking blades. I can't attest to that myself as I've only used 12" or larger ones. Also nearly everyone that has one of the small ones seems to end up getting or wanting to get a larger one.

As to routers, I would recommend one that is at least 1-1/2 horsepower. With the lower horsepower ones, you're more limited in the amount of wood you can take off in one pass, especially with larger bits.