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First job; new Bandsaw blade. I'm going to be working on some heavy and thick wood, so here's a blade made for working on heavy and thick wood.
Apply blade to wood
Apply same blade to a different offcut of the same wood and I've now got a body and neck blank.
Neck is planed and thicknessed.
And here's the next stage
And the next stage just about done ...
Body needs a top cover, so find some nice old bi-colour Ash, and prep that
And neck needs a fretboard
I cut that from a block of beautiful maple that I've had lying around for 10+ years. Originally bought from the US (when the exchange rate was better!). In some ways it's a bit daft using it for this build, but then why not.
More sanding to be done, but getting there;
Not a bad day's work
Inspired to see just how far in the opposite direction I could go!
I'd originally wanted to have a go at doing it start-to-finish in a day, but I had various delays along the way, so that's not going to be possible. I reckon it's do-able in two days though.
*You* @MattNovak are building a (proper) Firebird ... and it's looking like a fine job too.
Mine is more Firebirdesque.
Or "in the style of a Firebird".
Or perhaps "influenced by a Firebird".
Or possibly, just "vaguely reminiscent of a Firebird".
I wouldn't have needed them all @paulnb57
Also, prompted to get on and do this after a conversation involving @Roland at the GuitarShow yesterday.
TTony said:
Can you see what it is yet?
OMG its a UKE!....?
Surely no-one needs more than one bass?
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Even after quite a lot of a bit more sanding, there was still a mark left from the bandsawing. Quite a deep blade mark in the middle of the board. Bugger. Of course, to get rid of that tiny mark, I'd have to sand the *whole* board down to the level of the mark.
Unless ... the position of the saw blade mark just happened to co-incide with the location of a fret slot
(In the photo above, the saw blade mark is where the pencil line is, about 0.5mm to the left of the where the fret saw will cut).
Well, that was lucky .... or precisely measured
Board slotted
Headstock roughly cut to shape now, and the cap is also roughly cut to shape.
I've got an old Gibson P100 that no-one seems to want, so I'm tempted to use it here.
It does - just about - fit.
And more nul points awarded
I'm just "resting".
@Roland - if you think back to our conversation on Sunday, and who that conversation involved at one point, you should be able to guess!
This build isn't quite true to the original ethos, but it *is* built from scrap, leftovers and (the P100) unwanted bits that were lying around ...