Lyn #14 - Solid-body Acoustic

[robin]

Mate, I'm sure it will turn out fine. Building your own neck is a level up from what I am capable of, so good on you for giving it a try.

I intend to try a neck some day, but its pretty daunting. The only way to find out is by doing I suppose. Good luck.

[FrankenWashie]

Mate, I'm sure it will turn out fine. Building your own neck is a level up from what I am capable of, so good on you for giving it a try.

I intend to try a neck some day, but its pretty daunting. The only way to find out is by doing I suppose. Good luck.

I've a test neck blank underway at the moment, but I am having some issues with squareness. There's something not quite right with my plane technique it seems. I will get it fixed up and see if I can salvage it to do the tricky bit, the scarf joint for the head stock.

[wokkaboy]

good work Frankie, also on a scratch neck helps to route the truss rod channel early before you cut the tapered sides of the neck. You need a square edge to run the router for the truss rod channel

Sorry Westy for thread jacking - you seem to attract them mate haha

[FrankenWashie]

good work Frankie, also on a scratch neck helps to route the truss rod channel early before you cut the tapered sides of the neck. You need a square edge to run the router for the truss rod channel

Sorry Westy for thread jacking - you seem to attract them mate haha

Its currently a (Mostly) square 75mm x 25mm x 600mm long three slice blank Wokks. Won't be trying to rout/cut or anything until I'm satisfied that its actually fully square. Might need to find a mate with a Jointer.

[Ghaynas]

Ey Robin, the result is awesome, it's a stunning guitar. The next I think it would be listening to her, sure it sounds great too and the intonations problema that you refer, I'm sure that will not be appreciated.

Good job!

[robin]

Sorry Westy for thread jacking - you seem to attract them mate haha

Hey, no probs Warren, you were sharing tips and knowledge about making a neck. That's not thread jacking, that's research!!

[robin]

Hi Antonio, thank you very much for the complement. I did a quick demo recording here

http://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au...light=acoustic

As it turns out the intonation problems aren't quite solved yet, but before I do any more work I will leave it for a week or two so she can settle in a bit. No point making changes now if there will be further movement in the next few weeks.

Cheers mate
rob

[stan]

Beyond cool, for a test bed it makes an awesome guitar.
Nice work with the saddle.
Did you use acoustic or electric strings on it?

[robin]

Thanks Stan. But I think I might have screwed up the saddle a bit as the intonation has gone a bit off. It WAS nearly perfect but now not so much. I'lll use her for the next week or so and let her settle in a bit and see how she goes, but I think I might have made bearing surface a bit thin and the strings might have cut in a bit. But now I know a bit more about what I'm doing it should be no problem to cut another saddle. I have a spare.

Talking about strings, I used regular D'Addario Super Light electric strings. Wound EAD and plain GBe.

[stan]

I've noticed that a lot of acoustic saddles often have little or no compensation, or just a small compensated part. Not sure how that ties in with what you have.

Interesting about the strings, they sound quite good.

I like the way you've put the logo on the body, in fact a few ideas I want to steal, nice job