Muzz

Beautiful lines and work

What is the reason for routing without a template?

Cool

Yep that is an absolutely gorgeous guitar, great vintage vibe, rockin.

Dropping by to see how you are going with the neck pocket? have you considered gluing in matching strips along the sides of pocket then rerouting with the template clamped down?

It looks fantastic and sounds great, really like the straight 3 a side headstock

It looks fantastic Scott, beautiful work. What was the first song that you played on it?

All looking sensational

Yep that is a beauty, the colour burst is so unique and gorgeous. Is the control plate sitting a bit low at the moment? Your wiring diagram is in here http://www.seymourduncan.com/wiring-diagrams somewhere  Also love the glossy smooth finish and hope it will be playing sweet blues around the barbeque soon.

Yep this is progressing beautifully, really enjoying watching it shape up

Any sawdust yet ?

That is a great grain pattern, ash is the bomb 

That is looking sensational

Great project I am enjoying seeing this come together. Must be one of the first guitars to have 4 and 2 tuners. Also like that enclosive neck pocket, stable 

It will be interesting to see how the ink stain comes up when the poly goes on, it's a lovely shade of blue.

Great cut out on the cavity cover, the glitch is tiny, looks like it could be fixed with some with some epoxy, or other viscous clear finish.

Yep you are getting a roll off effect at the edge, really noticeable on the right slab making a convex surface, and that is due to wobble when you try to sand blocks standing on their edge. Try a sanding set up where the blocks lie flat and the sandpaper is held 90 degrees to flat. Remember you can work on one slab at a time, they don't need to be exactly the same size, if that works better for you, I always do one slab at a time. Also, if you route the edges carefully using a very straight guide, you should not have to sand at all, just a quick scrape being careful not to round over the edges and off you go. It's worth sticking at it, it is very satisfying to get a perfect joint, why not get some cheap wood and practice your technique first. Good luck with it.

After sanding or planing, bring it to perfection by scraping the surfaces dead flat with a long metal  ruler, but don't scrape right up to the long edges, leave a bee's dick width left unscraped either side, use sash clamps to put massive force to squish the two surfaces together. You will have a perfect joint.

That looks fantastic, I really like the blue stain, came out great.

Fantastico, beautiful and ultra unique, so enjoyable to get my guitar building kicks vicariously by watching this come together. I would love to see a vid of you playing it and hear how it sounds.

Looking awesome, where are the strings?

Looking fantastic, hey, my guess of what the horns were going to be was pretty close, but now it is clear that they are horns with peduncles!

Wow that was a productive weekend, looking fantastic, the bridge looks great, I haven't seen that kind before.

Plugging in a newly made guitar is an amazing feeling isn't it, it took ages to put this one together and my desk was a real mess at the end from all the little packets, tools, tape, bits of wire, solder etc. The impatience to hear the guitar overides the clean up as you go ethic. Got lucky with the wiring on this one, all worked OK, here is the control cavity

I made a little Faraday cage of copper foil all around the controls, nice and quiet.

Still, just pales in comparison to my diamond encrusted chainmail kilt & bejeweled manolo blahnik stilettoes. stylin bitches