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yes - I'm planning to. I am packing up my main workshop and tools at the moment as I'm moving house in February to a new place with a decent workshop. So I'll probably be starting some builds "to order" in Spring next year, and finishing the current carved top DC builds in and amongst the move.
I've done a few 59 style DC juniors which have turned out very nicely, and definitely plan to do more next year, as well as some Teles and carved top double cuts.
At the moment I don't have any spraying facilities, but will have in the new place. In the meantime I have to send raw finished guitars out to be sprayed.
Control plate routed from a spare pickguard offcut
managed to get time to get a 3 piece body thicknessed too. Productive afternoon
Some pics of progress , very pleased with recent these pieces of Idigbo
This will make neck carving a lot easier and was definitely worth the effort and the £2 contribution to the builders merchants Xmas kitty for the 8x2 offcut.
One minor adaptation of the neck holding jig that ive seen is to include a hinged segment to support headstocks of a differing angle.
Lovely craftsmanship on this build.
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tbh it was quite a quick and dirty version using an 8x2" offcut. Took about an hour cutting and shaping on the bandsaw and gluing up.
I was frustrated by having to clamp the headstock to the bench last time I shaped a neck - so this is a better solution, the neck is rock solid once its clamped at both ends and its easily accessible all the way round for shaping.
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That's how I do it to, and there's a fair amount of support!
I had to smile though...after reading the Benedetto book and being amazed how much of his process was hand tools and jigs I was looking online for his video and came across a workshop tour he was doing ....with Jimmy Bruno asking lots of questions about the build process.....time after time his CNC is mentioned. Seems the neck shaping is largely CNC now and the finishing is by hand. I guess if you're producing significant numbers professionally then you need to move to CNC at some stage. I like my amateur jigs though.