I didn't get any of the wood directly myself, and honestly a lot of the materials are going to be that way, because the guy running the class does all of that middleman work. I do know that the Mahogany was from his own stash of it though.
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I didn't get any of the wood directly myself, and honestly a lot of the materials are going to be that way, because the guy running the class does all of that middleman work. I do know that the Mahogany was from his own stash of it though.
Mini update:
My "homework" this week was to sort out where my chambering and F-Holes are going to be on the MDF template, so I spent a bit of time scribbling all that out tonight
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The filled in part is where the F-holes will be, and the other outline is the chamber boundaries. The top left chamber will run along the edge of the F-hole for all of the top side, because it's fairly close to the edge of the guitar.
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Also stuck my fretboard outline on just to have a look at it and have a bit of a look at how far in to set the neck.
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oh mah glob it's basically done
But anyways, Friday will be maybe a little less productive on this one, because I'm going to go through wiring and setting up my MB kit for part of that time, but there will be a bunch of tasty pics nonetheless.
Fan frets! Nice!
So today's class started out with Matt and myself going "Oh shit..."
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We got in there, I pulled out my fretboard guide, and we realised that we hadn't taken the fact that I was going to need an angled nut in to account.
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The headstock veneer was really nice too :( Anyways, we realised that because we'd goofed like that, the easiest way to solve it all is to just do up a new neck. It took some brainstorming and contemplation to work out exactly where we would have to make the cut for the scarf joint, but we got there in the end.
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We tried first on a piece of scrap wood, and got this, which was wrong, but told us that we would have to make two separate, mirrored cuts. So we would make the neck from one piece of wood, and the headstock from a smaller piece.
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That's the two cuts we got...
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And that's how the pieces will go together. Or DID go together because there's more in the next post!! Why is there a 5 attachment limit gosh darnit...
So here's the two pieces actually sitting together:
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We also made something else happen unintentionally:
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The headstock will be on an angle THIS way too. The headstock just faces a little bit down compared to a standard headstock. It's not really something we planned on, but we think it should look pretty nice nonetheless!! Definitely another unique thing about the final product.
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Then I cut off some MDF blocks to use with the clamps in the right shape to go with the faces we glued together.
AND WE'RE DONE. Matt's going to glue a new veneer on next week for me, so I'll be back to where I thought I was at the start of today, and we're going to start dealing with the truss rod stuff, maybe even the fretboard next week.
This is very interesting stuff B'Lark. It is kind of cool (sometimes) when things don't quite turn out how you planned, will continue to watch with great interest.
Yea, I was kind of sitting there going "GAAAHHH" and pulling my hair out but Matt was constantly in a state of "Ooohh this is exciting!!" And in the end I did share his enthusiasm, it was just a bit annoying to have to backtrack over it all.
Too cool...thats the kind of mentor you want.Quote:
Originally Posted by B'Lark
Well it's a good thing you guys found out the mistake before advancing further! Look on the bright side!
So lesson number 1 of yesterday was that routers are FREAKING TERRIFYING...
Second lesson was that Matt did some research later about doing Compound Scarf joints like we did for the headstock, and he found that the way that we did it was pretty much the hardest way to get it to work, but we did it!!
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All together and nicely glued up.
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The pieces shifted slightly, but that was bound to happen considering the extra angles involved and not having something purpose-biult for it. So next up was just to clean the headstock up, because we were going to glue the veneer on the headstock a little later. But before we did that.
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Popped it in here to do our truss rod routing. Matt did all the routing here because he warned me that routers are dangerous if you're not careful and I was kiiiiinda scared because of that. So yea...
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And on to the next post because picture limit.