Scratch body experiments

[Bakersdozen]

Ooooooo some figure coming through. Are you going set neck on this or bolt on?

Oh yesss

Going to go set neck on this one. DC junior single P90, wraparound bridge. I have an LP style neck, which is going to be a little hard to marry up the whole natural finish thing given that is hog. But we will see where and how things progress to. Could just keep the face el naturalo and tv yellow (with grain highlight) the back and neck, dunno

[FrankenWashie]

Oh yesss

Going to go set neck on this one. DC junior single P90, wraparound bridge. I have an LP style neck, which is going to be a little hard to marry up the whole natural finish thing given that is hog. But we will see where and how things progress to. Could just keep the face el naturalo and tv yellow (with grain highlight) the back and neck, dunno

you could do a faux(or real) binding top edge and then colour the back of neck and body a covering shade. Perhaps a similar timber headstock veneer?

[Bakersdozen]

you could do a faux(or real) binding top edge and then colour the back of neck and body a covering shade. Perhaps a similar timber headstock veneer?

Yes great thinking. I considered binding and then got lost in figuring out how to route for it with what I have. Will have to look into the faux method. I like the headstock veneer idea to match the front of the body.

[FrankenWashie]

Yes great thinking. I considered binding and then got lost in figuring out how to route for it with what I have. Will have to look into the faux method. I like the headstock veneer idea to match the front of the body.

Yes, I am looking at this for the Bargain bin ES-V. I have a whole bunch of rebate bits, but they don’t give me the right spacing to do a binding channel, or at least the right depth binding channel. I have access to a machine shop at work, so I was thinking I could machine some brass bushes in varying widths to compensate

[DarkMark]

Yes great thinking. I considered binding and then got lost in figuring out how to route for it with what I have. Will have to look into the faux method. I like the headstock veneer idea to match the front of the body.

Like what you’re up too BD.
I’ve used a dremel to route out a channel (roughly I’ll admit) for binding and glued a veneer on top. Took a lot more care shaping and sanding the veneer to hide the work underneath. I guess I want to say is you might want to consider the smaller tools as well. If I had make a template I think it would be a perfectly acceptable way of doing it. You obviously have router experience though and I’m sure you know what you are doing, but I thought I’d just put it out there.