Scratch Dreaming

[dozymuppet]

When I realised I could use double-sided tape to keep them in place instead of clamping, they were great!

The neck one was interestingly very tight on the sheoak for a PB neck heel, but almost loose with the paulownia on the St Vincent.

I also accidentally took a chunk out of the neck template acrylic, because I didn't let the router stop spinning before lifting it out. Fortunately, it's at the top of the template, so no harm done, other than cosmetic.

[Bakersdozen]

Nice work. Plenty of love bites filled in my templates mate. Either dust and superglue or timber mate and superglue does the trick. And then sand back or scraped flush accordingly.

[Simon Barden]

Nice work. Removing wood with a drill saves a bit of routing effort, but if you want a nice flat bottom (and who doesn't?), then doing the last bit with the router is one of the few ways you are going to do it.

[McCreed]

That's looking great Dozy! I'm a almost bit jealous as I still haven't taken the scratch build plunge yet.
TBH, I'm currently lack the motivation and confidence to jump in, and I've taken a vow of abstinence from building anything new.

For now I'm focusing on revisions of previous builds, plus I just don't need any more guitars (he said after buying that Squier Tele and modding the crap out of it!).

[dozymuppet]

Not much progress this week, but I did get some new toys



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[GregLane]

Love the Shinto etc.
I am looking at my old Surform plane to do my SG edges.
Maybe nobody remembers them. It has been on my shadow board for 50 years.

[Simon Barden]

I remember them. They're still around. I've got a small rounded edge one.

[Stuart D]

I used a Shinto rasp for the body carve and also the neck carving as well as a Surform. The Surform is definitely more comfortable to hold but doesn't take as much material off. It worked well for levelling.

The Shinto rasp makes your fingers/hands a bit sore if you hold the non handle end for any length of time, so I found using gardening gloves worked well. Super piece of kit though and the fine side smooths it out surprisingly well.

What was the other thing in the photo? Looks like an industrial flick knife!

[dozymuppet]

It's a kataba pull saw. Comes in non-folding version, but there was a sale and I thought this one looked too cool.

It's also a 0.6mm cutting edge, and has 17 tpi, the same as a fret saw.

[robin]

Hey Dozy the guitar is coming on well, looks great.

Love the Kataba. Been on my wish list for a while now, but I'll have to make do with my el-cheapo dovetail pull saw for the time being.

rob