Nice progress!
Nice progress!
We’re getting there Corksniffer! It’ll be finished any year now!Originally Posted by cork sniffer
FrankenLab
Hand crafting guitars, because Death Rays are expensive.
So the battery box rout was next on the agenda.
I jigged up for this, made a tight fit template as below
The battery box needed a 1 1/4” deep cavity, so I started by hogging out with brad points to roughly the right depth. Then I went in with a 3/8” short follow bit. This got me about 3/4” in to where I needed to be
To get to the right depth I had to then change to a longer bit, so the first cut went fine, but then utter disaster!
The longer bit grabbed, and due to the very fibrous nature of the timber it ripped up both the body and my template.
Thankfully the template prevented the bit from ripping through the side of the body but it is going to need some serious bogging and filling to put to rights. The but that bugs me most is that I was only taking another 2mm out when it happened, and I still need to get that 2mm out!
So it’s back new template time, bondo up and try again.
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FrankenLab
Hand crafting guitars, because Death Rays are expensive.
Nothing but a speed bump on a rough road.
This build will be something special, only hope I live long enough to see the end of it. Come on, consider we the older members :-)
All focus is in resolving this build Cork. I have written a priority list for my existing projects and the Reso is at the top. And ROFLMAO to your last sentence!
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FrankenLab
Hand crafting guitars, because Death Rays are expensive.
So does it look like the body is solid then except for the cavity formed by the ply back?
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Yes the Center section is solid, but I am not sure of the wood species, I think it’s Pawlonia, it’s very stringy and fibrous. I have found it difficult to work with when cutting. You need to sharpen the hell out of any edged tools before you work with it. It seems to machine pretty easily with power tools though.
FrankenLab
Hand crafting guitars, because Death Rays are expensive.
Well I'm sorry for your current predicament. I hope you were planning on doing a solid colour on the edges....
Certainly good to know for when I start my build. I was also thinking of putting in a preamp which will need routing for the battery. Seems that the wood handles routing perpendicular to the grain better than from the ends. Maybe safer to drill and chisel.
Perhaps the fibrous nature of the wood might explain the odd shaped 'sound' holes too? Though the centre hole seems to be fairly round.
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well I’m doing a solid colour now
The router went okay on the end grain, it’s just that it caught a fibrous section and whipped as I was using a long cutter bit due to the depth I needed. I hogged out fairly extensively before hand, it was just one of those bad luck issues.
FrankenLab
Hand crafting guitars, because Death Rays are expensive.
That's how mine was. The timber is VERY fibrous, much better than but think coconut husk.
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