Silent Guitar Scratch build ideas

[Hobastard]

Lagarostrobos franklinii is a species of conifer native to the wet southwestern corner of Tasmania, Australia. It is often known as the Huon pine or Macquarie pine, although it is actually a podocarp, not a true pine. Wikipedia
Phyllocladus aspleniifolius, commonly known as the celerytop pine, is an endemic gymnosperm of Tasmania, Australia. It is widespread and common in Tasmania, with the most abundance in the western highlands

Aside, my window and door frames are Celerytop...

[dingobass]

I was fortunate to get my sweaty hands on a massive chunk of Celerytop a few years back.
Managed to get enough out of it to build a Baritone Jaguar style from it.
The rest will slowly get used for making boxes and stuff.
It is an amazing timber, for a relatively hard wood it works beautifully.
No wonder if was a highly prized timber for cabinet makers and I believe boat builders as well.
I have a pet timber miller in Tasweigia who is on the lookout for me, my wish list is for Huon, Celery top and King Billy.....

[Hobastard]

There are a couple of places around my way that still sell odd bits of it, but they're not cheap.....

[Zandit75]

Hmmm, already hit my first stumbling block. I must have misread the dimensions of my bridge, or just measured it incorrectly, but the width of timber needed is not going to be enough. I'll need a minimum of 100mm to be able to use this bridge.
I've roughed out the design on some cardboard using the outline of my neck, and my LP laid down as an outline. What the final outline looks like will change no doubt, this is just an idea for scale etc.
I've run a couple of faint lines for my two E strings, and at first I was thinking the string spacing would be too close for the ferrules on the back, but they will be fine. At this stage, I have the top mount ferrules sitting about 30mm behind the bridge.


I'll do some templates of the head stock today so I can work out a design, as well as spacing for the tuning machines so I can get as straight string pull as I can.
More to come!! It's great to be back in the saddle again!!

[Zandit75]

Alrighty, I have my timber, some 65x30mm Pine. I'll cut four lengths to give me a 120mm x 65mm wide body. Slightly wider than I wanted, but they didn't have the 65mm x 25mm Tassie Oak that they advertised on their website.
So, the next question is glue choice. I have this Selley's Aquadhere, is that suitable, or is there something else that I should be using like Liquid nails etc?

[Zandit75]

Any advice on the glue suggestion guys?
Thanks in advance!

[stan]

i dont see why the glue wouldn't work, you wont want to ever steam it apart again so no need for titebond. The only concern i'd have would be strength over time - dont know if this is good enough or there is something better, like titebond 2 or 3
Gibson use titebond 50 to glue bits together...

[pablopepper]

Titebond bro. Accept no substitutes.

Also, happy birthday!

[Zandit75]

Titebond bro. Accept no substitutes.

Also, happy birthday!

Thanks Pabs, most appreciated!! Sucks to be at work though!!

[Zandit75]

i dont see why the glue wouldn't work, you wont want to ever steam it apart again so no need for titebond. The only concern i'd have would be strength over time - dont know if this is good enough or there is something better, like titebond 2 or 3
Gibson use titebond 50 to glue bits together...

Ok, so Titebond 50 is the preferred one to use then?