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Its some flatsawn Afromosia. It's most often used as a substitute for teak, but is less oily and a bit easier to work. Not used it for a guitar before, so that should be interesting. Teak is usually avoided for guitars, but Warmoth have used Afromosia for necks before i think
marked up, along with the poplar that will be used for the body
and roughly cut into grain matched blanks for the main parts
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I have a Warmoth Afromosia Strat neck, though it looks more like a darker maple than the plank that you have.
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I need
Body outline
Plate outline
Plate recess
pickup outline
Pickup Bobbin
Tailpiece outline
Tailpiece recess
control cavity
Control cavity recess
Control cavity cover
This is where a CNC would come in handy, but I don't have one so its all going to be done by hand
I have just made plate outline, pickup outline and pickup bobbin outline - slight change of shape on the plate from the initial drawing
a few other unusual design decision have been made too.
The tailpiece will be decorative, with string through holes going right through the body It will also be partially recessed, and hide a small cavity so I can use an end pin jack
I'm also planning on adding a radius to the front and back of the guitar, after all these other routes are done
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The solid body is just me playing around. Won't decide what to do with it till its done
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A bit like this (again, feel free to tell me to piss off or entirely ignore me
My plan is to carve and bevel it into a more flowing 3D shape, imagine a peak in the carve not far from your yellow line
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Poplar body is cut out and neck has been trimmed to size
Neck has been routed for truss rod and trimmed to size
Plate has been routed to size and had the p90 routes front and back.... 8 can hand carve it to shape from there.
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The neck is a Charlie Christian, bridge is a PA Bigbsy style, both in matching nickel dogear bezels. Marc at mojo pickups really rose to the challenge here, I think they look awesome!!
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Also routed some ledges in the top and smoothed them out to guvve a subtle radius
The back is marked up for the same, just need to make a wooden cavity cover first so it can all be radiused at the same time.
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It will also have a recessed string block and cavity cover round back. Along with recessed wooden knobs on the front.
With a block colour for the body it should make the afromosia really pop. Likely plain white or plain black I think, I might try a milk paint finish too.
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I used a basic holesaw like this
I started with the drill bit in the holesaw and went half way through, then removed the drill bit to cut all the way through. I left them tall at first, then cut down to size after double checking the depth of the center hole to make sure I didn't drill all the way through.
once that was done I drilled them out for some knob inserts, and a recess for the washer and nut (slightly off center, not on purpose) mounted them on the wrong end of a drill, put it back in the drill press upside down. Then i could turn them to shape with a file and various grits of sandpaper and finally a bit of boiled linseed oil
simple, but i think they will suit the guitar. They feel great so I'm really hopeful the neck will be similar
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