Thanks guys, good to be building!
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Thanks guys, good to be building!
While I'm waiting for coats of Wudtone to dry on the body, I'm getting on with work on the neck. The loud and obnoxious process of shaping the headstock is not one for a weeknight with the kiddie-winks in bed, so I've removed the plastic nut tonight, using the Dingobass-approved method: hacksaw down the length, squeeze with some blunt-ended pliers, and pull it out. Worked like a charm.
Below you can see the successfully removed plastic nut, and the Dingobass-supplied bone nut, awaiting installation. I might wait till I've shaped the headstock before putting in the bone nut.
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Yay! Glenns back!
Feeling an LP coming on, DB ... seems like a natural progression.
All righty, it's headstock time. Even though I like the authentic shape of a Tele headstock, I still think they're a bit on the small side, so this time I went looking for the largest authentic template I could find. Strangely, it turned out to be pretty much identical to the one I used last time! Oh well, here we go - put the template down and trace around it ...
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Be sure to line up those holes with the template!
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... then I take out my standard "this saw cuts wood" saw and do a rough cut around, followed by trimming up with a sanding head on a dremel.
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You can see I got as close as I cared on the bottom edge there and stopped - my thing about the size, you know? I figure it'll be fine. Now I can just neaten the whole lot up with some hand-sanding and we're there.
The beefier Tele headstock looks good.
If you are going to do a few kits invest in a cheap jigsaw, it will save a bunch of time
Oh, I have a jigsaw, I used it on the Yellow Peril. Didn't spend much more time on this one than I did on that, with the added advantage this time that, when I got to the low side, I didn't put a big-arse groove in the transition up to the nut with the edge of the jig-saw foot-plate!
Here's where we finished the day. There are still some little marks I need to sand out properly, but otherwise the headstock is done.
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In this picture you can see how far I deviated from the template. I'm pretty happy with the result.
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Nice GGP, I like that shallow start to the headstock.