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I draw my lines on it and over to the bandsaw.
https://i.imgur.com/cPTo8uu.jpg
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And then as I was only there for a few hours I just roughly cut the body
https://i.imgur.com/YARuZkI.jpg
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And thats all for today.. Have another session booked on Friday. So will report back then
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The wood shop I used to work in specialises in English hardwoods. Apparently 5000 trees a year are taken down just in London alone.. And the councils, being councils had no idea what to do with them so they used to all get chipped and burned... Which is really sad since something like 90% of the wood available to buy over here is imported.. So he now gets the trees off the council and mills and seasons them and sells them to various types of makers..
This wood specifically is from the trees that used to be outside Euston Station (yes I know HS2 boooooo). But again, if he had not taken them all of this amazing looking wood, would have been chipped... So as sad as HS2 is and what they are doing, at least the wood can be used for something else now.
And out of interest. When you see the lacewood on the top that means its quarter sawn...
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Wow - that's some impressive cutting!!
HOWEVER I do have to say.. When you do this, how ever good you are its never going to be quite flat. So after you have to stick it through the thicknesser to flatten it again (if nothing else but to get rid of the saw marks). The problem with this is if you have to take too much off you will loose the bookmatching effect as most of it goes diagonally through the wood. In this case I did do it so well that I only needed to take 1mm of the tops to flatten them again. If you look carefully at the picture of the bookmatched top, there are two. One is before I re-flattened and one after. You can see it lost a little of the bookmatching. Still amazing though.
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I surprised myself just how quickly I can do this now. A very simple method.. Clamp it in the workbench. Get a straight bit of wood I have and line it up. The router has a flat edge at the back of the base so will run along it. Then I just make sure its in line, clamp the wood, set the depth stop at 9mm and go for it.
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I also realised last night I dont have a bridge yet for this build and decided to go all out and am getting a schaller 3D 6 bridge that looks like this if you dont know
I was just a bit bored of TOMs, wraparounds and the standard hardtail (like a non trem strat or tele)... They arent cheap but I wanted this build to be special.... Got some Gotoh tuners on the way too. Used to use Schaller tuners but the last few years the quality of them has seemed to have slipped and they have got more expensive too (probably due to brexit)... Gotoh are kind of what Schaller were a few years ago.
Started with the two ebony boards. Got them to the right size (43-56mm)..
https://i.imgur.com/7BfeecY.jpg
Marked them all up, so they are ready for their inlays.
https://i.imgur.com/purbKvY.jpg
Also prepared and glued some wings on the headstock to make it wide enough.
https://i.imgur.com/4EMDnS5.jpg
You can also see here next to the clamped neck a mahogany neck which I cut to shape. I do actually have three builds going on.. The others I will report on some other time
https://i.imgur.com/eP6FGha.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/gl9X0Qj.jpg
Then I also had the mahogany body with me which I needed to get down to 40mm (from 45) as it is going to have a flamed maple cap. Man the tear out on this one..
https://i.imgur.com/njMIKip.jpg
Cleaned that up
https://i.imgur.com/DUiCXm4.jpg
And then lastly I started working on how to do these odd oval shaped inlays I have (not sure which build will get them yet).. I didnt have all my bits on me and the ones at the workshop are a bit rubbish so I will do those maybe Monday at home.. Tried to do it freehand with my dremel tool but it didnt really work that well.
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And that was it really for today. As said, just one of those nothingy days where you only get bits done. But it happens.. Also I kind of need the bridge for the next stages anyway which should arrive Tuesday. So hopefully one day on the weekend I will glue a fretboard and then get back to it next week when the hardware arrives.
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As has been mentioned (and seen in some pics above) I am also doing what will be an all black walnut DC... I did these mock ups ages ago and cant decide if I want to use an Ebony or Rosewood board.. It will be getting black hardware too (but a wrap around bridge)..
Which do you think looks better?
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https://i.imgur.com/4EMDnS5.jpg
This is a finished example from the same batch
https://i.imgur.com/EvIXDgz.jpg
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Love the Walnut!