Hello World! My first guitar project

[McCreed]

I second the comfort contours. I have them on 2 of my 3 teles and I really like how they feel. Especially when playing sat down.

I contoured my ash tele (a PBG TL-1) both for comfort and weight relief.

[ross.pearson]

Alright, I don't hear any objections so I'm doing it!

[McCreed]

Alright, I don't hear any objections so I'm doing it!

Remember the old rule: If you don't post pics, it didn't happen!

[dozymuppet]

Remember the old rule: If you don't post pics, it didn't happen!

Facts ^

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[ross.pearson]

My kingdom for a shinto rasp

[dozymuppet]

Worthy investment. Timbecon have them, and I know there is a guy on marketplace around Applecross that sells them.

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[ross.pearson]

Alright.

Step 1. Be super aggressive with your size and location so you can make sure you inlude that terrible blowout you fixed really poorly when routing the body.



Step 2. Start by using a pissy little spoon gouge, then a crappy bowl gouge, then try some cheap BGS rasps, then just get the largest chisel and hammer you have and go absolutely ham bevel down. Finish shaping crudely with rasps to ensure you'll be hand sanding for the rest of your life.



Step 3, 4, 5. Sand.

[ross.pearson]

I've done the black "wash" over the blue. In reality, the black acrylic KraftenPaent reactivated the blue and essentially replaced it on contact. It took several, several, many, many tries and retries rubbing back, adding blue, adding black, adding blue, spotting mistakes, making them worse, etc ad nauseam before settling on something that looks amazing and photographs terribly.



It's a blue/grey finish that I think will look really really nice so long as the wipe on poly doesn't destroy it. I might buy some spray laquer actually.

I really need to start testing on cut-offs.

[McCreed]

Step 2. Start by using a pissy little spoon gouge, then a crappy bowl gouge, then try some cheap BGS rasps, then just get the largest chisel and hammer you have and go absolutely ham bevel down.

I've mentioned this in other threads, but I'm a 4" angle grinder and and an 80 grit flap-disc guy. Knocks it out in about 2 minutes!

I see you didn't go for the forearm contour on the front. Not a fan?

edit: Contours on the back came out nice though. Nice transition.

[ross.pearson]

I've mentioned this in other threads, but I'm a 4" angle grinder and and an 80 grit flap-disc guy. Knocks it out in about 2 minutes!

I see you didn't go for the forearm contour on the front. Not a fan?

edit: Contours on the back came out nice though. Nice transition.

Oh, I have many grinders, and many flappy bits (discs included). But I'm currently living with an old German guy who is ridiculously vocal about "dust" in his shed, so I have to keep my footprint minimal.

I was considering the forearm contour, but had already started painting the front so figured I'd let it go. After the giant headache that is working with KraftenPaent I should have just gone for it. Maybe that will be a job for next weekend. It's been completely bloody miserable here for weeks, hard to get motivated and moving.

Thanks for the props re: transition! I tried really hard to make it look as organic as possible, smoothing the transitions so there are no hard facets. It actually makes it hard to take photos of because you can't tell from the images what is a contour and what isn't.

EDIT: Considering how anal the old guy is about dust, you'd think he'd at least have his tools stored instead of just f*cking laying about everywhere. I do almost all my work on a corner of his table saw because literally every surface in this 8x9m shed is covered in crap. Can't wait to get out of here.