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Thanks Gav :) And of course Wokka, I shall be taking it as slow as needed :)
Pickups also arrived this morning!!
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Neat little box
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4-wired, naturally. But I Probably won't end up doing much crazy switching, probably just series/parallel.
And assuming nothing spontaneously screws all of my plans up, am going to be heading in tomorrow to work on stuff. Huzzah!
nice pair of pups B'Lark !
at least you have plenty of wiring options to choose from
They look great
Whee much progress was made today.
So first off, I didn't take pics of this last time, but I had to pull out a few frets and replace them, cos some smaller fretwire ended up mixed in, and threw things off. Not too big of a deal but the ironwood got a tiny bit ripped up in a couple of spots unfortunately
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Also got to see the tuners Matt ordered for me, and they look excellent. Hipshot, locking and open-geared :)
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So first thing to do was get this neck pocket routed out
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The little channel I routed for the electronics ended up popping through this end, but that's no problem
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Had to file a smidge off the corner on the Bass side of the neck, as the router bit didn't get all the way in to the corner, but it fits there now
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Not a 100% perfect fit, but it's not bad at all
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After that, lined up the bridge pieces, and set out the locations for the pickup routs
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And then, whoa who would have guessed, ROUTED THEM!! And popped the pickups back in, and all the bridge saddles on to mock it up
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And that's where I'm at now. Super close to done, Matt reckons 2 more lessons and it'll be done!! I think maybe one more? But it'll be damn close to done by then anyway. I'm also going to try and get 2 lessons in next week, so HOPEFULLY!! It'll be done next week!!
looks awesome B'Lark great progress. So by lessons you mean your mate Matt is helping you with the build or is all this your tidy work ?
Will you be able to reach the 24th fret ok ? Or are you gifted with long fingers?
Nah I mean lessons. Doing them with the Australian Guitar Making School, and Matt runs the classes in Newy. I spose I do end up doing a lot of the physical work (wouldn't be learning much if I wasn't :P ) but he's providing the guidance (and the tools haha)
Nah, I just won't end up playing that far up, I'm not much of a shredder honestly, and I'll mostly be playing fingerstyle stuff
sounds good B'Lark sure you have learnt a ton building your first scratchy. Next one will be easier with the knowledge and experience you have learnt from this one
Yea for sure. My next one's gonna be fairly simple by comparison too, so that'll help make it a ton quicker as well.
Looking great B'lark. That angled neck pocket was always going to be hard to do, but you managed it well.
Looking amazing dude. Really getting there now. I have the Australian Guitar Making School very close to me as well and have toyed with the idea of scratchie lessons. Your build is certainly pushing me in that direction!
cheers,
Gav.
This is really nice work dude. To tackle a scratch project is fiddly but to do it multi scale, chambered with a body shape like the Mockingbird is setting yourself a challenge. Very inspiring to see how you have overcome some of the issues you had encountered along the way. Hanging out to see and hear the finished article!
B'lark - awesome work. Gav - go for it!
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Yea Gav, for real go and do it if you can (And everyone else too!!!) It's been an awesome experience, and the fact that you have free reign over what gets built is just fantastic.
And thanks to everyone for the support and kind words. I'm so glad to see people enjoying the build!!
Oh boy I'm exhausted as heck. I did double lessons yesterday, because we thought I'd be able to get it basically done (bar sanding and oiling) in that time. Unfortunately didn't get it totally done, but there's really not much to go now.
First up was tuner holes
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Plan the electronics cavity
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Drill the pot and toggle holes, then rout out the cavity
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Quick mockup
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And mockup with neck
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I didn't take any more pics after that because I was concentrating on actually getting stuff done, but we also cut and filed a nut, drilled out the neck screw and ferrule holes, and plotted out the locations of the bridge pieces. It's ALMOST a complete, playable guitar, huzzah!
great stuff B'Lark looking like a guitar now ! Glad your workbench looks like mine after a few hours - pile of tools !
Will this be a natural and just a clear coat ? is the headstock veneer flame maple ? looks choice
@ Gav I urge you to book into the guitar school, you will learn alot of new skills. I am lucky I have had DB to guide me
Oh yea, always such a mess after I'm done.
Just an oil finish. And nah it's Jarrah like the top.
good one B'Lark, that jarrah veneer has some nice flaming !
yeah before we extended the workbench myself and Popeye would have a huge pile of tools between us, no idea how we could keep working like that haha
It's useful to have them to hand, so you don't want to put anything away, but then you need more tools and you don't want to put them away either. It just grows.
Holy hecking heck I'm exhausted. But the upside is, I'm all done with the lessons, and the remainder I'll be able to finish up at home.
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All of the bridge holes are drilled. We actually only had 6 string ferrules, so I've gotta order an extra in a couple of days.
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Tuner screw holes too.
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Also routed out a nice little Mahogany cavity cover (complete with a cool little knot, which wasn't planned, but it popped up when I was running the Mahogany through the thicknesser, so I decided to include it.) I'm going to get a few magnets and drill some in to both the body and the cover, so that I'll just be able to pop the cover off without having to goof around with screwdrivers. Huzzah!
But yea, basically, all that's left to do is to sand everything down, oil it up and put it together!!!
looks great B'Lark, good work. On the home stretch now you are at about the start of a kit build haha
Only took 12 months to get to that point, haha
You doing a colour stain or paint?
Neither, just gonna be Tru-oil all over. The figure's too good to be painted over, and there's enough colour in it already I think
Finished sanding it all down today
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Didn't get a great pic of the headstocks figure there, unfortunately
But that's fine, because then the first coat of Tru-Oil went on
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And yea the figure came alive SO much. It ended up a little more brown, and a little less red than I expected, but I'm still so happy with how it's looking now
Figure came up beautifuly.
Very nice!
Excellent.
Sooo god man. You gotta be pleased with yourself.
Ohmahfriggingherdthatssiiiiiiick!
Truly Beautiful.....
Sorry for no reply before now guys. But thank you all so much for the kind words. I really really appreciate it.
And now, at 4am, the night before a uni day, it is together!!!!!
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I only did 5 or 6 coats of oil, because it was coming up really nicely and also I was impatient. I bumped a couple of bits throughout putting it all together so I will probably touch those up at some stage, buuut not now.
It's also not 100% totally done. Still got a bit of setup to do on it, as well as attach my straplocks (but I'm gonna have a chat to Matt tomorrow, because the screw on the neck end has to work around one of the chambers, so gonna discuss the best way to deal with that.) Also have to paint the cavity with conductive paint, and will be doing the same with the chambers because there's some router burn on the inside edges and an oil splotch in one cavity, all just a touch messy, so that'll clean those up nicely.
I'm sure there's more to talk about, but I am tired as heck now that I'm done and the adrenaline I had while I was working is all gone, so my brain's non-functional. So tell me what I missed!!
Alrighty, got my strap buttons on today, as well as getting a couple of pictures in a more natural light ('cos even though the flash is great to show the figure, it makes it look much more yellow than it is in reality)
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Also haven't had the chance to extensively test the pickups, but of what I have heard, I am quite happy with them. And yea as mentioned last post, couple of little things to tidy up, but it's definitely as good as done!! Huzzah!!
man! you gotta be happy with that! Well done!
I am!! Thanks man!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dedman
The biggest issue I'm having right now is that I am far too keen to start building something else, and have like 3 things that I really want to build, but I don't have the money to start more builds. Sad times.
I decided to pop all of the pics of the build up in an album on Imgur, for the perusal of anyone who so desires.
http://imgur.com/a/KF2vF
http://imgur.com/a/1wICw