Andy40's Semi-scratch build

[Andy40]

That is all for now

[Dedman]

oh oh the monochrome wood!

[wokkaboy]

nice one Andy you have more than enough experience to have a crack at a scratch body. Is that pine ? What shape are you thinking of ?

[Simon Barden]

Doesn't look quite thick enough for a guitar body (though it could be the camera angle), so are those pieces meant to be a figured cap on some other wood?

[Andy40]

American white ash and it's going to be a tele

[Andy40]

5cm thick at the moment I've got to thickness that down somewhat

[FrankenWashie]

Yep, so glad i bought a thicknesser, can't begin to tell you how much time that thing has saved me already.

[Chuck]

Yep, so glad i bought a thicknesser, can't begin to tell you how much time that thing has saved me already.

I'd love to get one but it seems to get anything decent costs a fair bit - which model do you have?

And how did you do yours Andy?

In the past I've got the guys at Anagote - my favourite purveyor of wood stuff - to do it when I purchased timber. Now I've got a couple of pine blanks that I wish I could do easily.

[FrankenWashie]

I'd love to get one but it seems to get anything decent costs a fair bit - which model do you have?

And how did you do yours Andy?

In the past I've got the guys at Anagote - my favourite purveyor of wood stuff - to do it when I purchased timber. Now I've got a couple of pine blanks that I wish I could do easily.

AH Anagote. All of my Maple stock (Sadly depleted) and the Wenge and Beech I am working with came from them. Though the mahogany i got from Crescent Timber and Hardware.

The Thicknesser i bought is the 13" Carbatec Spiral head unit. It wasn't cheap, but i feel it was worth the money.

It goes really well It whizzed through Rock Maple, Wenge and some African Mahogany, it won't notice Pine. I still actually have to set up a separate bench for it but its compact enough that it can be man handled up onto my existing workbench.

If you are around the Inner west then admission to the FrankenLab can be negotiated just PM me.

[Chuck]

If you are around the Inner west then admission to the FrankenLab can be negotiated just PM me.

That's a very generous offer that I would be very excited to take you up on! It'll make getting back in the saddle for the I'll PM shortly. Gotta dig this community.

EDIT: that sentence should read: It'll make getting back in the saddle for the scratch build that died much easier!