Originally Posted by FrankenWashie
Cheers Doc, I'll check out the Hotrod build shortly.
I did do a rough set up on it, and I know that it fits under the trem cover, but yes I probably will ask 20 questions once I get there. I have yet to drill the anchor holes as I want to get it to pre-finish on the body, attach the neck and then drill the anchors in. They are marked for position, but I just don't have the accuracy in my drill rig to do it here at home. It may have to be on the CNC Mill at work!
Aside from that, its been a busy dusty old weekend in the FrankenLab. Just spent a couple of hours turning Big wood (singular) into little wood (plural) and piles of disjointed wood, and then reassembling the little wood (plural) into slightly larger wood (Singular). The disjointed piles of wood stay disjointed but were swept into a more tidy but disjointed pile.
The result was this:
Got the first two undercoats on the SV-1 and wet sanded the EXA-1 as well as filling the jack point on the FrankenWashie and playing with resin. I thinks its beer O'clock!
Well after some maturation, and a wee bit (read, "this bastard is so far from square that its a good thing that it was oversized in every possible dimension as i'm going to develop arms like Arnie planing it) of molestation with a jack plane, we ended up with this:
The eagle eyed among you will spot the couple of obvious flaws, The slightly more than "slight" whoopsie with the line of the rip cut on one section (Japanese back saw, VERY hard maple, Meh, what do you do eh?) and also the fact that the grain patterns are 90 degrees out on the right hand slice.
Its about testing the concept, I have discovered that I need to pay more attention to the fiddly measuring, and the prep work, and the selection of wood. Simon Tan i Ain't (Yet). These are things that can be worked on. The purpose of this neck blank is to discover how to do it badly, so that i can learn to do it well.
The intent is to work this to finality, as an alternative to mount to the FrankenWashie, if it doesn't work out then no harm done and lessons learned. If it goes really well, then it may be the star of it's own thread as the basis for a separate scratch build. The existence of the FrankenWashie after all was purely to repurpose a wonderfully slick playing neck from an otherwise dog of a Washburn MG42. Where this all will go, i don't know but i suspect i'll have fun along the way.
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