The original plan was to have the thumbnail cutout halfway up the straight side, but a sizeable pullout in the radius of that corner meant it moved. I think I like it better in the corner but it still need some refining.Originally Posted by McCreed
I really need a spoon gouge or similar to get in there properly.
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So some additional work got done to recess the jack point.
I set t up in my drill press with a 19mm router cutter and it did a serviceable enough job. I only wanted to get the jack itself flush with the curve of the body rather than protruding so the cut depth was only about 5 mm. I ended up with this.
There was a little bit of smoothing off to do but the final sand will take care of most of the finish detail.
with the Jack in place it looks like this:
There was an existing issue with the pot placement, even with the mini pots provided, I think i can get around this by taking another 3mm in depth into the pot cut outs, but at this point there is direct contact from the jack barrel to the pot casing. at worst I could insulate one from the other but i will see what els could be done.
The next job will be to get the board slotted and attached to the existing neck. I had a couple of crazy ideas for using some brass anchors and cap head screws for the neck attachment, but I also want to pare the end of the fretboard and neck level with the face of the body which would expose the two rear mounting points. I feel it needs to be one or the other, as i don't think both ideas will work aesthetically together.
Still we can review this for a different build idea brewing in the background. Never any shortage of experiments in the Lab!
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Hand crafting guitars, because Death Rays are expensive.
One of the other things I picked up while assessing the neck for the new board was how much of a step exists at the pocket/heel transition.
This is (to me at least) a really aesthetically poor look.
Given the position of the neck studs there isn’t a lot of leeway to graduate the body profile; it is squared off quite abruptly through that area. The pencil line represents the end of the neck pocket, and I feel the neck transition can brought back closer to that line, if not all the way to it.
Obviously this will be better executed after the new board is on and roughed to final shape.
So next take will be slotting the blank and getting it mounted and bonded. Stay tuned!
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Okay so catching up...
Fret slotting
Assembly and clamping
So that was the stupid part done...
Now for the REALLY stupid part!
Having just pulled the neck apart, fabricated a fretboard and fitted it and trued it all up, it is obviously time to hack the heel to bits and reshape the body neck transition area. I mean what’s the point of doing all that and not hacking further into a kit that doesn’t need it right?
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The whole point of the exercise is to get to the below.
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Looks great Frankie, really nice transition.
Cheers mate, Just down to sanding, then some grain highlighting.
FrankenLab
Hand crafting guitars, because Death Rays are expensive.
Very nice man.
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Now that's the way it should be!!! Nice job.
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Gee that's looking good Frankie. Your attention to detail is inspiring. Can't wait to see how this build progresses.
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