It's been a while, and I'm still going. The guys at the shed have had the router tied up with a Go board, so I haven't had a chance to cut the sides for the 10in radius carriage. In the meantime I've been working on some non_guitar related projects, as well as some current build related stuff.

I was never happy with the adjustability of the fret cutting jig, so I ditched the other two (I had one for an already marked fretboard and another for a blank on a 6mm perspex template). I came up with this:



The idea was there was enough range of ajustability to replace both jigs with a single one. It wasn't till I had already cut all the parts that I realised that I only needed to be able to accommodate the template version. To deepen the slots in an already marked board just needs a 6mm base underneath the marked blank. Yeh.. my brain hurts!

The elegant way of dealing with the bearing section of the bearing blocks would be to use a mill, but since I'm not yet assessed on the mill, I had to get ...creative:



The piece of extrusion was held to the push board via the t-slots of the extrusion:



Since I had no idea how this was going to go I did the first slot in 4 cuts wearing thick welding gloves, a thick padded welding jacket and a face shield. The multi-material blade I used cut like a knife through butter and I was able to do the other 7 slots at the 20mm depth required in a single cut.

Since the bearings have an 8mm hole and the 2000 series extrusion uses M5 screws I had to machine some sleeves for the bearings.

The other guitar related thing was laying out the paper templates on the pearloid squares for the cliffenbacker fretboard inlays:



I was expecting to need more pearloid so I had extra . Good thing since I will need it to determin how deep I need to inlay them so I don't loose the edges of the 7th and 8th inlay when the board is radiused.

Inspiration is prooving to be a curse. I have these 4 builds, plus the adventure time axe happening. i don't need another biuld in the works! An anime series I was watching a while ago had some of the character in the opening or closing playing in a band. The guitar and drums were played in the convention rock fashion, but the bass player was playing in a traditional kneeling position. This poped the idea into my head to do a short scale bass inspired by a shamisen. I'm still gunna blame dozymuppet for too many projects!