A new Guitar is born !
I want to play with my big purple rails!
QLD Maple in centre
Purple Heart as Rails
Birds-Eye Rock Maple as body
so centre is done
more pics to follow as we trug along!
A new Guitar is born !
I want to play with my big purple rails!
QLD Maple in centre
Purple Heart as Rails
Birds-Eye Rock Maple as body
so centre is done
more pics to follow as we trug along!
At the risk of appearing like a fikhead, may I ask what "Purple Heart" is?
thanx for this advice Dingobass
Quote "Mmmmmm.. pretty!
I would glue it up and rack it for six months to make sure that the timbers all move together.. some times it takes a while for any variation in shrinkage or expansion to become evident.
It would be a pity for you to find this out after you have built the Guitar... been there..""
no chance of waiting that long ..but i hope you dont tell me "I told you so!" if it does come apart I will dowel and biscuit it and resin glue it...thanx anyway bro im about to walk down that road you have been before so lets see what comes of it
cheers
H
I cant see it coming apart, especially if you used Titebond or any Aliphatic resin type glue.
What may, emphasis on may, happen is that you might find that the timbers move in such a way that when you run your hand over it you might feel a ridge where one timber moved more than its neighbour..
The two timber Tele I built some time back has done just that.. the Celery Top Pine has shrunk about 1mm more than the Blackwood, weird as both timbers were fully cured!
No great drama with this build as I can simply run the body through the drum sander and make it flat... Glad I kept this one though, would have been rather embarressing if it had been sold
There is always a workaround for glitches, mistakes and other Guitar building gremlins.....
Cool love that design!
I think it was down to their density's and not the cured parts, one can absorb more than the other for sure ...so ive got 3 different densitys to look forward to , they are pretty close i rekon the qld maple being the softest right now, the purple heart is pretty hard quite close to the rock maple..so once its sealed it will move less I rekon...well can only hope hehehe...
You may have a good point re density.. I must admit I had not even thought of that.. D'OH! :P
Interestingly, the Celery Top is just as hard as the Blackwood and heavier, but it was the Celery Top that shrank more.
Food for thought and more research!
It was the Maple that had me wondering about differential shrinkage.
This is going to be a great experiment and I reckon regardless of any changes that may happen, this will make a beautiful Guitar.
There is always a workaround for glitches, mistakes and other Guitar building gremlins.....
Cheers
one of my first jobs as a school leaver was working on the government roads department and it was in a lab, our job was to take samples from the roadside they where building and also use this radio active probe that you pushed about a meter into the ground to test density water retention viscosity and shrinkage learned a lot about what water can do to anything porous! I always wondered why the older tecky's sent me out with the probe! and a big radio active sticker on the van with a skull and crossbones! the joys of being a gullable 15 year old!
ok so today will face and shape the wood..
will be curved on both side's and hope to refine my binding channels this time!
This one is going to be very cool.
If that's the rock maple you got from Lazarides, I think I have the other half of that length of maple that I picked up from there a few weeks ago. I plan on getting a couple of necks out of mine. You can see in the pic that I have some Wenge for the finger boards.
They have plenty of nice Purple Heart there, I was very tempted to grab some. Your use of it here will look stunning.
How is the Purple Heart to work with?
yea Dan it is..
very nice collection you have there...eeer where do you live again? and do you have security hehehe?
i needed another grand at least when i went there hey!
the purple heart makes purple saw dust..thats about all i can say..but its definatly hard!
just upgraded my harware on my cnc machine..cooking on gas now 20000mm/m thats rocking and rolling!
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