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So decided to get into some older jobs I had been putting off.
This LP was one I was working on before I flipped the neck off the work bench with a power cord and broke the headstock and effected a bad "fixup"job. (original thread completed with substitute guitar)
Adam kindly gave me a discounted new neck to replace the broken one so I suppose its time to finish it.
So wondering how to trim the bottom of the neck and ensure I maintain the correct neck break angle.
Hi Tony, might need to sand the bottom of the neck heel down a bit so the fingerboard sits flat on the body next to the neck pocket
Love this build Tony. The body colour is killer. Also that inlay you've got for the headstock is amazing! Who is the ebay seller?
cheers,
Gav.
After a bit of head scratching decided to have a crack at trimming the 4 1/2 mm of extra meat on neck heel off. After marking up, made a dodgy routing frame out of some plywood and wood screws with nuts as a base. Clamped the neck in the workmate and then started to set up the frame.
After getting the headstock flush to the plate did a test for depth and then routed the base of the neck off. Left a little meat and filed to where the fit was pretty good.
Still have to tweak to seat it properly, take a touch of twist out and trim the side to suit, but pretty happy with the result.
Made up a template off the headstock to start lining up the headplate to fit with the least amount of inlay obscured or requiring cutting.
great resurrection job Tony, love the new headstock
V cool. How'd you get that dragon inlay? is that rosewood?
Hi Andy off ebay with the following sellerQuote:
Originally Posted by Andy40
http://www.ebay.com.au/usr/bruceweig...72.m2749.l2754
Roughed the headstock to the shape I sort of wanted and then glued and clamped the headplate onto the headstock
Once dry used a router to trim the headplate down and then filed down to the headstock shape.
Very carefully drilled the holes through. Taped the front of the headplate to try and avoid chipping and then drilled through with a small bit. Used a hole reamer to slowly come out to the required diameter.
Did a bit of a mock up to see what would look like with black hardware. Will fit different tuners as the ones fitted look too small.
Still have to sand back the headstock to final shape. Have to sand a fair bit off the back of the headstock as the tuners dont fit correctly and the string holes are not above the headstock face.
Looking good. Love that headstock overlay.
Finished shaping and staining the neck and found that the neck heel was a little rough and gouged from routing down. Did a cover up with some green abalone shell and found two pieces that would cover the area and cut roughly to shape glued to neck and filed to the contour of neck heel. Then worked through sanding grades to get smooth.
Man that abalone looks full on!!
Nice!! You going to add any other MOP touches?
Yes, I like that touch with the MOP
This is a great build, nice job
Have some abalone fret markers but tossing up whether to fit or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zandit75
I would fit them,the dots would tie the fill piece on the back with the front and work well with the colour.
I'm really liking how this is coming together
So decided to fit the the new markers. Old ones removed easily and needed to widen the holes to the 6.5 of the marker. So used a standard 6.5mm drill bit and widened. The holes in the fretboard were pretty deep and needed to be filled. So the only thing at hand was some paper towel and tamped down a bit at a time and lightly soaked in superglue and gradually built up to the required level. Glued in the new markers and then filed down to level before sanding back.
A little more fine sanding to finish and then can start the fretwork.
dots worked out well
Fitted a black Tusq nut and filed to size. Was looking at the standard TRC and was a little long and didn't look that good, so glued some Shell to it and reshaped to fit a bit better with the headstock.
So now at the stage of gluing in the neck. Will wire tomorrow if have enough time and neck looks like it has dried
thats lookin sexah!
See now Im wanting to do my Guitar Blue now :(
Has anyone done any colouring or tinting of their bodies with printer ink at all? I'd use the Dingotone, but some of the colours I want are obviously not in DT. (like purple for example).
This setup looks gorgeous - am keen to know what paint you used on the face.
There's a fair few builds that have been done with printer and other inks. I did this with blue and black colourtone dies.
Nice LP Tony. Love a blue flame
Good to see you back VH. love that Blue. though, not enough guitars on the rack
Dingobass is playing around with some purples at the moment, but they are not quite ready yet. Send him an email for more information.Quote:
Originally Posted by depictedminds
And I'm playing with Keda dyes to see how light fast they are. The manufacturer told me they are fine, and I found good reviews online. But I'm running a little test of my own in preparation for my SG to confirm.
I managed to get some nice magenta and purple shades with these. Check the link to my SG build in my signature.
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Hey Tony, Just a slightly off-topic post, how did those Lace Pickups go in your other build?
Zandit still havent cranked em up. Redoing the nut and setup so should hopefully have It done shortly.
No worries mate, thanks for the update!Quote:
Originally Posted by vh2580
I used ink jet cyan blue on the Tele in my signature and that was cheap and pretty use to work with. Purple would be easy to make by mixing in a bit of ink jet magenta with the cyan until you find the ratio for desired colour.
Love the shell on the Truss Rod Cover Tony.
So now Completed except for some further minor intonation tweaks now shes settled
Gotoh locking tuners
Gotoh Bridge and tailpiece
CTS pots and orange cap
Schaller straplocks
Entwhistle HVX pickups.
Black Tusq nut
Was really worried about how was going to setup after I routed the neck down but have somehow jagged it and has a super low action with very little work to get there
Wasn't really happy with the pickups when first started playing the guitar. but have really grown on me. Really nice cleans on the neck.
Looks great Tony, the headstock came up nicely.
Tasty stuff, Tony.
Looking good.
Know what you mean about the Entwistles. The ones I put in my son's hot rodded strat copy will probably suit his taste but I found the bridge PUP a bit too shrill and agree neck one sounded OK. Overall reasonably good value and better than stockers IMO.
Wooohooo, epic build VH. looks swish with the headstock veneer and the upgrades ;)