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(formerly miserneil)
This is an Edwards TV Yellow Junior that has 2 breaks in the past and another luthier had written it off as junk. But, seeing as I like a challenge I took it on:
You can probably see why....
At the edges of that large truss rod block/washer, there's less than 1mm of wood...
First job is to glue up the remnants, while carefully plotting where that massive 'washer' is. The tape is my 'stop' line:
There was a small void where some wood had gone missing between the initial break and sending to me so I mix up a 'filler' consisting of titebond and sawdust which dries solid and helps solidify everything. There's also no depth at all for me to be able to put a backstop on this so I carefully route for the biggest splines I can get away with.
Into the jig:
And after a rather nerve-wracking 20 minutes, I have the channels routed:
Next I find a nice, straight grained piece of Honduran mahogany for the splines and shape these by hand to fit:
They are glued up and left overnight, then the following day I par them down with a chisel and then shape with various scrapers and abrasives to give us this:
Then into the booth for filler, sealer, colour coats and clear and we've now arrived here:
I'll be sending it back to the customer this week
(formerly miserneil)
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(formerly miserneil)
Too Many Strats, A few Les Pauls, A couple of PRS and a Brian May Red Special, Oh, I nearly forgot an Ivison 58 Double Cut
@PeteC Thanks Pete, It's a pleasure to bring these guitars back into service!
Next Hurricane off the bench and @DougCoda was right, it does work as a Goldtop too!
(formerly miserneil)
Beautiful.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
So pleased with how well you're doing mate. Inspirational.
By the way, you ought to video yourself playing; I recall you had some great chops !!
More chops than Jackie Chan.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
I tend to get red light fever when i'm in front of a camera so I leave it to the more confident guys but here's a video with me playing filmed by the chaps at @ATB_Guitars
(formerly miserneil)