OK, what's happened since my last update.
Well I added mass to that floating bridge by cutting some 2mm veneer to shape and filled in the underneath of the bridge, it's a lot more solid know.
I put some sandpaper on the top of the guitar and shaped the underneath of the bridge so it followed the contour of the guitars top.
While I was doing this filly stuff, and cutting the pearl inlay for the neck, I decided to tryout making some wood string trees for the Gibson style Tune o matic bridge.
It worked out quite well, problem was as I found out later, that the kit supplied tune o matic had different mounting hole diameter and spacing to the floating bridge, so I had to replace that for the proper type, a Gotoh one, which upon trying to remove the screws to put the wood string trees on, I found I couldn't remove as Gotoh has put some for of Loctite on the nuts, not wanting to ruin the bridge I've left it standard.
Here's a photo of the neck in it's original Rosewood, but with the standard plastic inlays now replaced with mother of pearl.
As reported earlier, my body had developed some veneer cracking on the top bout of the body where it meets the neck.
I tried gluing this down, with limited success, so I made a small peice of wood to cover this craking, which would also cover the gap left when gluing the neck to body at that point.....unfortunately, when I glued this small bit on, it must of moved slightly when clamping, it wasn't perceptible at the time, and I continued on and started to put the Blonde shellac finish over it, thankfully only one coat before I discovered it out of whack when seeing what the build was looking like with the neck on.
Anyway, having used Titebond, I just hit it with a heat gun to remove it and re glue it....MISTAKE
Shellac doesn't like heat guns, and burns.....it turn the small bit of wood dark brown and burn part of the top......to cut a long story short, I had to make a large piece to cover [checking fit with neck on first ], this is what you see in the photo below.
I sanded the whole body back, and re did the finish, which was easy to do, and turned out well in the end.
only 3 photos per post allowed...to be continued
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