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this other thread, I've been slowly putting together a Q4 challenge guitar.
You'd think I'd have learned by now, given the number of times that this has got me into trouble before, not to think "ahhh, I've got a spare half-hour, I'll just nip out to the workshop and do XXX".
Because that generally leads to me doing something quickly, which generally leads to fecks-right-up.
Putting a roundover on the top of the body to create a natural binding effect when I add the top coats.
So far, so good ...
And then ...
Yup, numpty error, etc.
I swore. Quite loudly.
Trying to fill that, or cut in another piece that matches - can't see that working. Best idea I've had so far is to try to make some sort of contrasting piece of metal that slots into the top and folds over to be the jack socket cover - a one piece thing that looks like a fancy jack socket.
But I'm very open to other suggestions ....
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Older Fretboarders may remember El Maya guitars from the late Seventies and early Eighties. To avoid litigation, they cut a few semi-circular notches in their bodies and/or headstocks.
I think Sporky's idea of a metal tube will look fun, but need to match it to the jack socket
or make a wooden plug to do the same thing, maybe hollowed out to act as a circular jack socket... like an oversized electrosocket
An L shaped piece of metal will also work. I had a lapsteel with a jack socket mounted like that. Im just not sure how you tie it in visually with the rest of the guitar
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Incidentally, I've done that either two or three times with my 6 instrument builds! It's bloody annoying!
As for "when am I ready?" You'll never be ready. It works in reverse, you become ready by doing it. - pmbomb
I've stopped swearing now.
I think you're (all) right in that I've got to make it into a feature. Hiding it isn't going to work.
I could use a piece of aluminium tube, matching the outer diameter of the jack socket hole (which is 25mm, helpfully). Then a piece of contrasting wooden dowelling on the inside of that, drilled out to fit an eletrosocket.
So, in that respect, the experiment was a success!!
(I might have stopped swearing, but I'll be kicking myself for a while longer yet).
It made great kindling, but thats because I couldn't think of a way to fix it….
(I do like having a workshop full of that'll-come-in-handy-one-day bits).
Option1;
Don't need the alu tube - I could use this (25mm dia) Walnut dowel, with a jack socket hole drilled through the middle.
Bit of glue around the outside, and it's already a tight fit, so that would work.
I've had these on a shelf for years. Made by a friend who's had a CNC machine a lot longer than me
Slightly oversize, so sand to fit, ready drilled for the jack socket (Walnut again, but I've also got the same in Maple and Sapele).
[edit] these are only *just* thick enough to cover the wandering roundover mis-cut, so maybe not ideal.
Make my own versions of the above, out of these come-in-handy-one-day pieces of vintage rosewood (old parquet flooring)
Those pieces, with a bit of oil, would make a nice matching contrast to both the white sides and the blue top.
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