El Cuba

[gavinturner]

Wow, looking awesome PK! Really diggin the look of this shape with the neck on. To be honest I wasn't sure about this shape when you started, but you've made a convert out of me!! This is one amazing looking scratchy. I can't wait to see her completed!

cheers,
Gav.

[kells80aus]

Tks Gav, she is inching closer

These pics should give you some idea.

Pickups trial fitted, bridge and tail piece on.

Now I have to do a bit of binding, and maybe re-sand the body and refinish it, it's picked up a few bumps along it's journey. But then maybe you could say they add to it's character

PK

[kells80aus]

I am almost loathe to put a scratch plate on this.
I think it looks damn fine as it is. Minimalist

PK

[stan]

looks great Paul, I agree, no scratch plate

[Nickosaurus]

One hell of a guitar pick :P

[kells80aus]

A little more didgit extraction done. finnaly got around to making up a template for the control cover. Now to figure out which router and bit to use. The shortest bit I have for the Dewalt is 20mm long. So I might have a ferret around to find soemthing that will go in the Dremel. Other wise I may have to attack this with the 40mm Forsner bit and a chisel.

PK

[kells80aus]

PFFFFFTTTTTT. set up my router to do a 5 mm by 2mm deep route around the control cavity. the cavity route should be 40mm wide.
Zip zip zip done... Pfffft. 3mm deep and 43,5 mm wide. Guess I am gunna make a wooden control cover now

PK

[Tim]

Wow nice clean build. looks great

[ponch]

super cool mate, cant wait to hear it.

[kells80aus]

It's been a while since I attacked this little beast. I have had some issues with the control cavity, the cap route finished 5 mm wider than my control cover, so have to make up a new one. The wiring is done with a pair of push pull pots. one pot is tone the other is Vol. the switch part of these pots just takes one of the pick ups out of circuit. So the front switch will disable the neck pup, while the tone switch will disable the bridge pup. Pull both switches out and your in standby.. no pups.

Anyway. I decided to do the binding, which I have been dreading for months. I watched the Vids from Maton on them doing binding on their EA80C acoustics. So I have followed their lead and used masking tape and Tite-bond glue.
Doing the binding on this build was really lesson 101 as it is a simple shape and easy to do. It is just a constant curve.
I applied the glue to the body in three segments. one side, then the back end, followed by the other side.
I taped the binding down starting at the neck slot. once I had half a dozen pieces of tape holding the glued section I rotated the work in the little Stanley Vice I am using to hold it(it has rubber jaws), I then applied glue to the next section. and taped it down. repeat this for the final section. I will leave this to dry for 2-3 days.