The Deluxester Prototype - Sonic's foray into repeatable scratch builds

[Sonic Mountain]

Camphor is good to work with. Little heavy but really nice and the bonus is your guitar will never have silverfish

Excellent, good to know. This hunk of wood is heavy as! There is a lot still to take off it though.

[FrankenWashie]

So here's what I did to try and thin it down.

I found it was really hard to see where I was going, so I just added some 'sight' holes either side and its a lot better. I think I'm just being impatient and if I slow down and do shallower passes it should work. Going to stop now and revisit when I'm fresh and thinking clearly.

I think there is probably a better bit to use as well... rushing really gets you nowhere









Still plenty of wood to play with so hopefully this will still work. I really like the grain pattern, I think it should stain up and look great.

The rails are the right idea, I’d modify your mounting plate to a sled arrangement so that you can move the router along the sled between your rails, and the sled itself down along your rails. That way you are not having to move the whole mass off the router and the mounting plate

[FrankenWashie]

You just need to cut a slot lengthwise down your mounting board to the router to run along. A couple of straight guide rails that are just wider than Your router base and you’re sweet.

[Sonic Mountain]

Yeah I saw a similar setup online using sliding door runners, but what I really need is to be able to lock one axis.

So I did this, I drilled a bunch of holes and put movable stops in them to let me do more even passes. Worked quite well, but because the other side of the wood isn't flat it rocks around a bit making consistent depth difficult. Anyway, it was enough to remove 5-10 mm from each side and then I hit it with a cheap electric planer. It's getting pretty good. A few more passes and I think it's be right to move onto power sanding.





Sprayed it black so I could see what I was doing a bit better









Still some small cracks here and there that I'm not sure I'll get out, so there will be a bit of filling required here and there. Should be OK I think - a little way off doing that yet anyway.

[FrankenWashie]

What width bit are you using?

I have it in my head to set up something similar on the bench i'm building, but the rails will be steel box section milled true on two sides.

The sled will have wheel mounts to glide along the tops of the runners and hold it in place on the faces. Just got to finish the bench!

[Sonic Mountain]

A really small one..15mm? Totally the wrong tool for the job, but its what I have already. That setup sounds similar to the one with there sliding door fixings. There are some great bits of channel with wheels to suit at the BGS in the castors section.

Some more hack and slash. Had enough noise and dust for the day I think.

[king casey]

Camphor is good to work with. Little heavy but really nice and the bonus is your guitar will never have silverfish

Sorry, but I can't get past the Red Dwarf episode ( Marooned) where Lister cuts a guitar shape out of Rimmer's camphorwood Javanese chest.

cheers, Mark.

[king casey]

edit double post

[blinddrew]

Dammit! I knew I was remembering something about a camphorwood guitar!

[FrankenWashie]

A really small one..15mm? Totally the wrong tool for the job, but its what I have already. That setup sounds similar to the one with there sliding door fixings. There are some great bits of channel with wheels to suit at the BGS in the castors section.

Some more hack and slash. Had enough noise and dust for the day I think.

I really want to send you some Zebrano topped Mahogany to build one of these.