Water ingress? You weren't affected by the Sydney floods were you, or was it 'just' a roof leak or something?
Water ingress? You weren't affected by the Sydney floods were you, or was it 'just' a roof leak or something?
A faulty sump pump in the basement, created a small flooding issue through the labOriginally Posted by Simon Barden
FrankenLab
Hand crafting guitars, because Death Rays are expensive.
Could have been worse I suppose, but still, commiserations.
Did Igor mishear your instructions and fixed the stump pump (obviously used when cutting off arms and legs) instead?
Yes, on the plus side it did highlight a couple of areas of concern I’d not noted before. More things to fix!
FrankenLab
Hand crafting guitars, because Death Rays are expensive.
So I decided that the headstock face needed to reflect the burl.
So with some judicious bandsaw, ryoba saw and thickness planer work we ended up with a 2mm slice of red gum burl for that.
The burl cap still has some flattening work required as there are some band saw marks and furrows in it.
I’d roughly mapped out the neck tenon on the neck blank, I need to adjust this and finalise it so that I can add the material to build up the neck heel.
Once the neck heel blank is in place, I can start to map out the heel and the tenon properly on the neck.
Once the burl cap is flattened, I can prep it for epoxy fill. Then fix it to the back. Then I can trim and rout the edge of the cap to match the back, map out the mortise neck pocket and the carve profiles for the taper to hide the 3 degree neck angle etc etc.
Nearly finished eh!?
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FrankenLab
Hand crafting guitars, because Death Rays are expensive.
You're just one step away from stringing it up!
Sounds like a plan!
You gots skills mate!
Making the world a better place; one guitar at a time...
Good to see ya givin it a burl!
Giving it multiple burls Rabbit😉
FrankenLab
Hand crafting guitars, because Death Rays are expensive.
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