Non-PBG Mockingbird. From Scratch.

[Andy40]

A friend of mine owns the Brisbane franchise of the 'Australian Guitar Making School'.

Its just that little bit too far away for me to take advantage of his great workshop.

I'm thinking of doing a scratch build one day, but the thought of making a neck is a reality check, so I'll be following this one closely too.


Thats almost identical to the headstock I designed for my build, but only 6 holes. I THOUGHT I'd come up with a unique design, an amalgam of Maton, PRS and Ovation, but there ya go...

Its just down the road from me! I'm gonna sign up maybe next year to build an acoustic.

[B'Lark]

Its just down the road from me! I'm gonna sign up maybe next year to build an acoustic.

Do it man!! I've been really enjoying my build so far. And no worries FrankenWashie!! I know it's nice to see stuff like this, so I'm glad I can help

Unfortunately no pictures from today, phone issues. I'll make sure to go crazy with them next week.

Today's events: Plane off all the gack from the top and bottom of the Mahogany. It came up very nicely, one side was fairly free of figure, but the other had some nice ribbon figuring, and some flame, and some nice looking knots too. I won't be able to get the knots in to the body unfortunately, because of the shape, but the flame is going to be in there, which I'm really happy with.

Second: Attach a Jarrah veneer to the headstock. I actually attached 2 veneers, a very thin maple one in between the headstock and Jarrah. Why? Because it looks cool. No reason more honestly. The Jarrah veneer was very very cooperative, by some stroke of luck, we ran it through the Thicknesser, only expecting to take a little bit off it, then have to sand it down, but it cut extremely cleanly so we didn't have to sand it down

Finally, cleaning up the Jarrah top. This was basically just running it through the Drum Sander a bunch of times, levelling out the rips from being cut and so on, and getting rid of all of the glue. I looked at it after that had been done and was a little disappointed because it looked like the figure was going to be much tamer in the centre, but we popped some Metho on it to bring out the figure and it's DEFINITELY there, and definitely heavily figured. Will make sure I get photos of that next week.

Between then and now I have to plan the F-holes on to my template, and the chambers. But yea sorry about the lack of photos today, I'll make up for it next time!!