THE BUILD:
I have moved away from F and G style headstocks, so I scrapped the classic G style “open book” headstock for a style that I have used before.
New Headstoke shape
As with all my scratch built bodies she will be a laminate of pine (cheap) and Marine plywood (strength). During the build I will be using hand tools only.
The 3 layers of the body. Pine top and bottom and a marine ply centre core for structural strength. I have already cut a control cavity in the bottom 2 layers of the body and drilled the holes for the pot shafts in the top layer.
Internal routing has to be organised before I glue the body together. Being only single pickup it was easy this time and all I needed was a channel cut in the centre plywood layer to take pickup wiring from cavity to pup.
I learnt the hard way that trying to glue 3 layers of wood is a nightmare. So I make small locating dowels between each layer so that when gluing, all the pieces remain locked together. These are just bamboo kabob skewers.
Next glueing. Underneath this forest of clamps is the body.
Next step will be shaping the body.
Cheers
rob
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