Igor gets the Blues, The FrankenLab Reso Project.

[dave.king1]

I know the router is the weapon of choice but in a situation where it has to be fine I use a multitool with a narrow cutting blade.

Disasters happen in slow motion and can be caught.

Just a thought for next time

[FrankenWashie]

Ouch frankie

Yep, better the body and the template than my fingers. We’ll get around it, just means it will have to be a solid finish now.

[kuanjb]

Yes the Center section is solid, but I am not sure of the wood species, I think it’s Pawlonia, it’s very stringy and fibrous. I have found it difficult to work with when cutting. You need to sharpen the hell out of any edged tools before you work with it. It seems to machine pretty easily with power tools though.

Well I'm sorry for your current predicament. I hope you were planning on doing a solid colour on the edges....

Certainly good to know for when I start my build. I was also thinking of putting in a preamp which will need routing for the battery. Seems that the wood handles routing perpendicular to the grain better than from the ends. Maybe safer to drill and chisel.

Perhaps the fibrous nature of the wood might explain the odd shaped 'sound' holes too? Though the centre hole seems to be fairly round.

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[FrankenWashie]

I know the router is the weapon of choice but in a situation where it has to be fine I use a multitool with a narrow cutting blade.

Disasters happen in slow motion and can be caught.

Just a thought for next time

A dremel type of thing you mean Dave?

[FrankenWashie]

Well I'm sorry for your current predicament. I hope you were planning on doing a solid colour on the edges....

Certainly good to know for when I start my build. I was also thinking of putting in a preamp which will need routing for the battery. Seems that the wood handles routing perpendicular to the grain better than from the ends. Maybe safer to drill and chisel.

Perhaps the fibrous nature of the wood might explain the odd shaped 'sound' holes too? Though the centre hole seems to be fairly round.

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well I’m doing a solid colour now

The router went okay on the end grain, it’s just that it caught a fibrous section and whipped as I was using a long cutter bit due to the depth I needed. I hogged out fairly extensively before hand, it was just one of those bad luck issues.

[dave.king1]

A dremel type of thing you mean Dave?

No one of these fairly harmless weapons

2nd pic in the first post in this thread http://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au...ead.php?t=3085

[FrankenWashie]

Ah! A little recip/vibra saw thingamy gotcha

[FrankenWashie]

Well I don’t like working with builders bog. But it appears to have done the trick.



Some careful work with files and sand paper and I may yet get away with it.


So a wee bit of fettling and some work on the faceplate for the preamp to go. Then a wiring loom build and test, and a shaping of the headstock.
This will give me a chance to test out my circuit and see what the balance between piezo and mag pup is like.

So stay tuned folks more FrankenLab madness to follow!



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[FrankenWashie]

Okay so Igor got loose in the shop this afternoon and got slightly medieval with the existing pre amp face plate.


While this is not going to make the final cut, it does now become a fairly handy template for making a final one. It all fits up as it should with barely any room to spare.



The next job is to wire all of that electrickery together and see if it all works the way I want it to.
Athen we shall set about checking neck angle to saddle etc.


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[Andy40]

Hats off for trying that pup mate