Muzz

Great alternative to a maple top, cool shape too, the router was telling you the cutaway needed to be a bee's todger deeper, that guitar is built to RAAWWKKK

Cheers Brian, I will drop you a PM Ha! Go Eurovision! A shining beacon to all things tacky and kitschy in the music business! I'd play some of the drinking games but I suspect I wouldn't make it through the night if I had to take a swig everytime they broke out the wind machine. The drinking games are funny, the wind machine was working hard shaping the headstock base with a mini rasp Cutting out the drop with a bastard file Shaved and ready to sand

Such beautiful strats

I am enjoying Eurovision, final on tonight, who said Charlie Pickering could put on a funny accent and host? smoothing the back Spokeshaving the neck with a crab

I do that all the time, and the minute I buy the replacement it brings back the thing I lost to the first cupboard I open.

Clamped the neck in place, join 4 mm past the 16th fret Drew the join line and the neck carve line Marked out the side profile of the neck, I used pauliemc's technique of serating with the curved edge of the rasp first

Thanks Scott Getting an idea of what it will look like

Dusty but fretboard on and trimmed

Great save, now get the finish on quick

Red guitars rock The more you rub back and redye the better it looks

I stared at that picture and all of a sudden I saw what you mean, it was like one of those 3D pictures when you relax your gaze and all of a sudden you see it I routed most of the fretboard excess off using the neck as a template, I couldn't go all the way to the end though because there is an overhang Last piece of routing was done using straight edge MDF as a template, look carefully you can just see the excess sticking out Edges getting sanded, two bits of scrap being used as stabilizers to stop rounded over edges

I like the truss rod with some adhesive sticking the main tension bar to the sides of the neck, this way the tension is more evenly distributed along the neck rather than focused in one spot pushing against the fretboard. I glued the fingerboard on, I put a 8 mm strip of tape along the trussrod to stop glue getting in, spread the glue on, then removed the tape, like it advises on the Stew Mac site. I used way more clamps than I needed My theory is that increasing pressure has a bell shaped curve of benefits, you need enough pressure to make the surfaces adhere, but too much and wood fibres are going to compress, and that's not good. I cringe when I see clamps directly on a fretboard itself. I worry that will put crater like compressions in the wood. I used a caul with high density rubber. I tensioned the clamps so the rubber compresses evenly along the caul. This way I get an idea of how much tension is on the fretboard. Enough to make the join ooze goo. This guitar is an experiment, if the fingerboard falls off I will know I was wrong

Great idea with the clamping caul and the pins, guitar is looking fantastic too.

Definitely BOWWAHDII® I rounded off the edges of the neck using a mini file and sandpaper Masked off the truss rod channel and squirted some goo into it Truss rod siliconed in

beautiful wood colours

Everything looking fantastic here, what kind of nut is going on?

Screw it. Put some strings on it. That big hollow hull might make a good acoustic body. But I rekon Muzz will need to hit the weights pretty hard to use it on stage for more than a song or 2 BEEF CAKE !! I am doing it, shouldn't be too hard to put some strings on Tina and a couple of pickups, my neighbour says it's OK as long as I have it back by 5.30 am on Sunday Time for some genetic engineering. After your post I typed "super termite" into Google and nearly fell off my chair laughing when I saw one of the pictures that came up from an American store that sells T shirts and posters. I've posted it in the Misc thread Marking the centre line on the headstock Using BOWWAHDII to meet up with the truss rod channel from the outside. All OK, Allen key fits in fine. Why is it called an Allen key?

I keep mine with my tartan paint

She's a beauty

Cheers Scott, Yes, I am thinking it is going to be red like a toffee apple, but as usual, I am making it up as I go along. We are having a little reprise of summer here in the land of Oz in the last few days, I am loving it I think that boat would make quite a few,but I also think a name like Tuna Turner is not good for tone. Now if I could just train that termite to chew out the truss rod channel in necks I would be happy I routed a 4 mm channel to get the edge of the route straight and set the depth for the head drop, nearly time to get some more double sided tape I have been using heaps then put the router on rails, to get rid of the rest then sanded it down, A bit more scraping on that headstock face and then I will drill in the trussrod connecting hole.

Avengers and my legal teams settled out of court, he gets to keep 'block of wood with a channel cut in it', or BOWWACCII, I get to keep 'block of wood with a hole drilled in it BOWWAHDII. I think he got the better deal, perhaps I am getting settlers regret like the Winkelvi I put masking tape on the outline, it's easier to see than a pencil line to position the router guide up against shaped

Woah That gives me a warm glow, winning

That guitar just looks phenomenal, the F hole is awesome, and I love the claw rakes, I hope you keep them. I have mended little chips like that in furniture by cutting small pieces of wood and glueing them in with PVA, I put some pressure on for about 5 mins and they stay there. Then sand when dry. I check to see how much darker the pieces go first. If they go too dark I have used decoupage varnish instead to smooth everything out. No one is going to see it any way, it's under the knobs and that geetar is gonna be killer. SR

One side done, I am getting tired, time to stop routing Look at the moon tonight, amazing And on the way back from snapping the moon, look what 5 doors down has in their front yard, I wonder how many guitars he is going to make from that

Cool, you should see the paper drawing, so many pencil lines rubbed out and redrawn. Lining up my ruler against the sides of the truss rod to regauge the midline. Cutting off the excess Router set up Top off