Hello..
So I started working on "Kilmister One" today.. I am now wavering on messing with the binding.. I can still do it on the table router, but I dont know yet..lol. I laid everything out, got the neck and bridge positions measured and marked, and the body marked for carving. I have ideas for a wooden humbucker ring as well as a flush mounted, wooden control cavity cover.
I am past the point of no return! I learned something today.. .. Don't route out the boundaries of your carving areas before you carve.. seemed like a good idea until I slipped across the channel with the dremel and took a few nice chunks out of the side that isnt supposed to have any chunks out! I think I have an idea to fix that though...stay tuned for that. The carving is going fairly well. Im doing a combination of hand gouges and dremel. I started by drawing a pencil outline on the wood and engraving it in with the dremel, then went to town on it. I really wasnt sure until I got going.. now, I'm pretty happy. I still have a ton of shaping and smoothing to do, but it's getting there! I didnt want to do a Lemmy replica, but wanted to tribute HIM as well as his Ric... Enjoy the pics... more work tomorrow!!
Dave
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