Lyn #14 - Solid-body Acoustic

[robin]

Next job was to drill the string-through holes. I am finding that although I am using good quality bits I am getting a fair amount of tear out. I think that using a hand drill tends to tear the wood rather than cut it. But I am not too concerned as the tear outs on the top will be covered by the bridge and at the back the string ferrules will cover most of the mess.


Then on to drilling out the recesses for the neck screw ferrules.


The last job I did was to glue in some Neodymium magnets for the pre-amp cover. Just a note of caution to anybody doing the same. CHECK THE POLARITY OF THE MAGNETS before you glue them in place. This is what could happen if you don’t…. the cover is literally balancing on the magnets repelling each other, and it is impossible to close.

Luckily I did one final check of the magnets before super-gluing them in place. Whew!! Lol.

I am now almost at the stage where I will start the final sanding. Several hours of joy ahead of me.

Cheers
rob

[dingobass]

Next job was to drill the string-through holes. I am finding that although I am using good quality bits I am getting a fair amount of tear out. I think that using a hand drill tends to tear the wood rather than cut it. But I am not too concerned as the tear outs on the top will be covered by the bridge and at the back the string ferrules will cover most of the mess.


Then on to drilling out the recesses for the neck screw ferrules.


The last job I did was to glue in some Neodymium magnets for the pre-amp cover. Just a note of caution to anybody doing the same. CHECK THE POLARITY OF THE MAGNETS before you glue them in place. This is what could happen if you don’t…. the cover is literally balancing on the magnets repelling each other, and it is impossible to close.

Luckily I did one final check of the magnets before super-gluing them in place. Whew!! Lol.

I am now almost at the stage where I will start the final sanding. Several hours of joy ahead of me.

Cheers
rob

Now theres a neat trick.... levitating control covers!
Must add that to my list of ideas stolen from Robin

[FrankenWashie]

Next job was to drill the string-through holes. I am finding that although I am using good quality bits I am getting a fair amount of tear out. I think that using a hand drill tends to tear the wood rather than cut it. But I am not too concerned as the tear outs on the top will be covered by the bridge and at the back the string ferrules will cover most of the mess.


Then on to drilling out the recesses for the neck screw ferrules.


The last job I did was to glue in some Neodymium magnets for the pre-amp cover. Just a note of caution to anybody doing the same. CHECK THE POLARITY OF THE MAGNETS before you glue them in place. This is what could happen if you don’t…. the cover is literally balancing on the magnets repelling each other, and it is impossible to close.

Luckily I did one final check of the magnets before super-gluing them in place. Whew!! Lol.

I am now almost at the stage where I will start the final sanding. Several hours of joy ahead of me.

Cheers
rob

I'm curious now, do you suppose that using Neodymium RE magnets near standard pickups would screw up the PUP's own magnetic fields? I was contemplating your cover closure idea for a trem cover, but any way i would mount it, the magnets would be directly behind a PUP in my current configuration. Time for some Mad Scientist action me thinks.....