Lyn #14 - Solid-body Acoustic

[robin]

Yep, levitating control covers. Not my finest hour. lol.

I am only using magnets on one end of the cover this time. The problem is, to secure the cover I have doubled up on the magnets and the extra power of the magnets has pulled the one off the cover already. I have re-glued it with super glue again and I'll see how it goes.

[robin]

Well, either by chance or good luck the output jack hole lined up with the routing I had done for the wiring. Yay.


Next was to fill all the cracks around the binding with Timbermate.


Then sand back..............again

[robin]

Then I taped up the binding on the neck and the guitar and applied the stain.


So far so good.

Cheers
rob

[andrewdosborne]

I've just caught up with this thread Rob, looking awesome!

[stan]

Rob, I just reread all of this, epic build regardless of the outcome, but I think you will end up with a great guitar.
You have done it the hard way with hand tools which simply means great skills. Nice build

[FrankenWashie]

Next job was to drill the string-through holes. I am finding that although I am using good quality bits I am getting a fair amount of tear out. I think that using a hand drill tends to tear the wood rather than cut it. But I am not too concerned as the tear outs on the top will be covered by the bridge and at the back the string ferrules will cover most of the mess.
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Then on to drilling out the recesses for the neck screw ferrules.
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The last job I did was to glue in some Neodymium magnets for the pre-amp cover. Just a note of caution to anybody doing the same. CHECK THE POLARITY OF THE MAGNETS before you glue them in place. This is what could happen if you don’t…. the cover is literally balancing on the magnets repelling each other, and it is impossible to close.
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Luckily I did one final check of the magnets before super-gluing them in place. Whew!! Lol.

I am now almost at the stage where I will start the final sanding. Several hours of joy ahead of me.

Cheers
rob

I'm curious now, do you suppose that using Neodymium RE magnets near standard pickups would screw up the PUP's own magnetic fields? I was contemplating your cover closure idea for a trem cover, but any way i would mount it, the magnets would be directly behind a PUP in my current configuration. Time for some Mad Scientist action me thinks.....

[robin]

@Andrew
Thanks mate.

@Stan
Thanks mate, not so much skills as lots of spare time.

@Frankie
Hi Frankie, I used Neodymium magnets in one of my earlier Tele builds and they did not seem to make any difference. I got a Magnetometer App for my phone and tested the pickup cavities and there was no appreciable rise in magneto-stuff happening. But I doubt that it was very accurate.

I also did a Google search, and there are a lot of quality guitar makers now using magnets, so I figured I would give them a try.

Cheers
rob

[FrankenWashie]

Thanks for that Robin, I shall give it a bash on the FrankenWasjie ressurection!

[kimball492]

Great job Rob. Look forward to hearing the combination of pickups

[robin]

Thanks Kim.

But this guitar will only have the piezo pickup as I need to get my head around "blending" magnetic and piezo pickups. I believe that the impedance difference in each design means that "blending" is not as straight forward as it sounds. This is a proof of concept type of deal, so I need to know if the piezo will do what I want before I get too adventurous.

rob