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Your life will improve when you realise it’s better to be alone than chase people who do not really care about you. Saying YES to happiness means learning to say NO to things and people that stress you out.
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Your life will improve when you realise it’s better to be alone than chase people who do not really care about you. Saying YES to happiness means learning to say NO to things and people that stress you out.
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Is it too much to hope the LP build we'd talked about could be the second LPC please - assuming the first one comes out fine and this stays "spare"?
This week was more about preparing timber, inserting truss rods gluing on fingerboard, glued on a couple of flame maple caps on Swamp Ash bodies that will be thin line F hole T/C’s. Plus, routed two standard Swamp Ash T/C but not finish them yet. Did manage to finish an all Mahogany Jazzmaster with a Mahogany/Rosewood neck. Also finished two flamed roasted maple necks is a Jazzmaster and a T/C neck. Last job of the week I started a chambered T/C that's going to have a Brazilian Rosewood cap.
Two T/C's with flame maple caps (there are actually Sycamore), these will both be F hole T/C's.
Two standard Swamp Ash T/C's, although the top one I think is going to have a P90 neck pickup.
A chambered Swamp Ash T/C body with its Brazilian Rosewood cap.
4 maple necks with rosewood fingerboard's two will be Jazzmaster's, and two will be Strat's
Jazzmaster neck flame roasted maple, flame roasted maple T/C neck, mahogany/rosewood Jazzmaster neck.
Mahogany Jazzmaster with its Mahogany/Rosewood neck.
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MY tele is down with Rich atm so will be posting NGD pics when its finished
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I mentioned earlier on in this post about some dark Rosewood I found, will I made a couple necks with it now and it really is nice. As a consequence, I decided to go and buy some more. What I did find out about this Rosewood it's 60 to 70 years old most likely a lot older, as the date on the packing case apparently was the late sixties. It was imported into the Liverpool docks, along with several large logs at half a ton each. Not long after this date the original ban on Rosewood come in to affect. This was not like the current problems with Rosewood, this was the banding of importing and exporting logs. I believe this was called the Lucy ruling, which basically meant that in the case of Rosewood it had to be worked in the country where the tree was cut down to add value to the wood, so instead of exporting logs of Rosewood they were cut up into some kind of product, like fingerboard. I believe this is what Gibson got into trouble with a few years ago with a container full of logs instead of fingerboard's.
This Rosewood is nothing like the plantation Rosewood that is available now, this Rosewood is naturally forest grown. It's much denser, much darker and the grain tends to be a bit wiggly wobbly, unlike plantation grown rosewood with tends to be very straight grained. I don't think this rosewood was imported for guitar making, as it's 25mm thick by 66mm wide, and 700mm long.
I purchased 10 of these blocks in the hope I could slice it up to get 3 fingerboard's out of the block, I did in fact manage this, although a few of them are a bit thin, but should still be usable.
The blocks before I slice them up.
I did manage to get 30 fingerboard's out of these blocks, a couple are a bit thin but still over 6mm thick, so still usable.
As you can see really pretty grain patterns, and lovely colour, although this will go much darker in time.
The Jazzmaster neck on the right shows how dark this Rosewood will go.
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*edit* feel free to leave that second neck as chunky as you like btw!
It's been a odd week, I had 3 mahogany Jazzmaster builds to complete by Friday, failed miserably, although I should say not strictly my fault. One mahogany Jazzmaster that was almost finished last week was completed on time and sent out. The other two were disasters, both suffering from cracks in the mahogany. The first one is not too bad. It has some very fine cracks on the edge of the body. It is repairable, I can either inject glue into the cracks, or cut the cracks out and glue it a new piece of wood. The other body has some cracks at the end of the body. I can't see how deep or how far the cracks go into the body, I could inject glue into these cracks and it would be fine. When I've have time I will most likely do these repairs and sell them off as B grade.
I did manage to finish off 4 necks, 2 Strats and 2 T/C’s.
I did get very distracted on a visit out to David Dykes when I purchased the very old rosewood. Anyone who's ever been to David Dykes will know what I mean, even though I go there a couple of times a week. I waste so much time rummaging through his vast stocks of wood. Normally coming away with lots of wood that I haven't got orders for. I also went there to buy Alder for builds that are coming up. Alder seems to be the wood of choice for Jazzmaster's and late 50's and early 60's Stratocaster's.
The old Rosewood I purchased is now is all sliced up ready to use, although this won't be used in the foreseeable future as I already have a lot of Rosewood ready to use.
The Les Paul's I started last week have now had their tops roughly carved, I will try and get the carving finished next week and start the builds.
I'm now off for a short weekend away with my friends at the Chickenshed, we are going to a Joe Collins night at the shed Sunday evening.
This one did go out on time.
You can just see the very small cracks, I'll most likely machine the corner off and glue a piece of mahogany.
One of the cracks on the end of the body, I think injecting glue into them will solve the problem. If not a piece of very expensive firewood.
I forgot to mentioned I've almost completed two TC bodies.
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