Corvus Guitar Works - builds, paint, mods/servicing, Cambs

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digitalkettle said:

Corvus said:

I'm hoping to get a build done or at least anything needing much machinery, before we move house and I lose workshops for a time. When we move I'll be limited to setups & mods and praps minor routing etc etc for a bit, till the new workshop gets sorted out...

Not moving too far I hope!

Just up the road apiece only about 3-4 miles or something. Should be easier for some people, it's closer to the A10 and still nearish the A14.

@ttony as ever welcome any time. As the plague took over I never did get to pop over to yours.

Teyeplayer

That black limba looks lovely, what’s the plan for it? 

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Cheers Jay, I'm making another of my offset shape, except a posh woods version. More of a modernish sleekish approach on this one, style & parts wise.
A bit slow as it on gets done at weekends or the odd evening, customer work takes up the days.

Teyeplayer

Corvus said:

Cheers Jay, I'm making another of my offset shape, except a posh woods version. More of a modernish sleekish approach on this one, style & parts wise.
A bit slow as it on gets done at weekends or the odd evening, customer work takes up the days.

Sounds like I best get gear selling and saving! Bet that is going to look incredible, I look forward to hearing how it unfolds.

Teyeplayer

Oh and don’t go too sleek and modern, it’s a design that would look killer with a bigsby (maybe one of the goldo b5 style ones so it is a little more sleek and modern than the originals). 

guitargeek62

Corvus said:

And the top, also more by accident than design - some Redwood, 3000 years I think (2-3000 anyway)-

Woah, stunning! Where did you find that beauty?

Corvus

That came from luthierwood.com, John Ambler - he generally has more interesting things than the usual suspects, not cheap but good stuff and dangerously nice to look at

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A quick vid of the redwood, jointed & ready to glue. Plane & shooting board makes quick work of it.

edit - youtube shorts don't embed but if you use the ID and the normal YT link it seems ok ..

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As seen in Guitars, this walnut/maple older build got repainted & aged -

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And also seen in Guitars, the '62 Epi Crestwood restoration -






Before:

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A quick post or two, Si's Hamer in the sun; pink nitro with various pearls laid over the topL

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Refretted with 6000, dry built to check fit, holes etc after paint -

grappagreen

Corvus said:

Refretted with 6000, dry built to check fit, holes etc after paint -

It looks so much nicer in the flesh!

Plays great now so thanks for sorting this out for me Bill.

Si

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Update: we were supposed to be moving house but it fell through at last minute, so still here and back open. Been quiet on here with all the prep and getting work done, but here's a few random things, just because:


The Firebird, as seen in Guitars - 7lb 5oz, Mojotone P90s, ally plates.

I want to etch a logo/motif on the front plate, but here it is for how -

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And in a similar shape-ish vein, this RD Artist bass came in for a bit of work and light ageing. The onboard Moog electrics work fine, the expander is ... weird...

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Customer service: the RD owner also owns this Alembic which I restored a bit ago. Since then the onboard gear started playing up - some components on the main board disentegrated. Our man has a pal who's a dab hand with electronics and they contacted Alembic, who sent them a copy of the original hand-drawn diagram & schematic.. Repairs got done - and were declared nice work by the original designer

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I don't normally like quilt much but this thing was nice to play, CS LP in for a jumbo refret. It lost nothing for being weight-relieved. Sorry for the blurry pics ..

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My 2nd prototype Thing out on tour-

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It looks like a move is on the cards again. Earlier in the year a move fell apart at the last minute, we'd dismantled my spray room and my other half's workshop, some of my main workshop too. I'm not able or wanting to do strip & refin jobs, I can spray via a combo of being prepared to redo + borrowing somewhere a bit inconvenient. But not worth it for refins at the moment.

As that happened things got busy with general setup, repair etc and the last while has been mad. Good mad, but busy.

I'm taking things on until at least end of January, so shout if you need something..

Some random-ish pics coming.. This is a build for me that's been delayed for months due to other work: more to come when it finally gets moving properly -





Teaser-ish pic till the whole thing's more ready -

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Something a bit out of the ordinary; a Hamer with Floyd studs & bushes in sizes that aren't available anywhere.
One post was partially broken, and both were very well seized into their bushes. Made a puller to lift them out complete, then penetrating oil plus blowtorch got them separated.



 We wanted to avoid ugly plugs, so the bush peeking out here is a hybrid. The original large bushes were drilled through, and smaller modern FR bushes turned down and inserted, so they can use modern FR posts. Cosmetically tidied at the top so no trace shows and it looks original as poss