Feck Up. Ideas/Suggestions please ...

M1ck · October 2022

dchwhite said:

Recess the jack socket hole back to match the notch? It does look very neat.

Came here to suggest that! Beaten to it but that would be my solution

TTony · October 2022

A black walnut jack socket!

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Thanks to all who helped restore calm yesterday. I think that should be OK once it's all sanded and polished. It should contrast nicely with the white and the natural edge and the blue top. An odd design feature, but no longer the complete feck up that I was fearing yesterday!

digitalscream · October 2022

TTony said:

monquixote said:

When I looked at the picture I assumed it was intentional.

Make a feature of it.

If I can make it work, this thread will disappear

Nope. If anything, it's gonna get stickied

WezV · October 2022

That looks like a good fix so far.

I wonder if it's worth tying it in with another feature elsewhere.

Ideas:
Notched walnut knobs to act as a pointer

Edge inlays on the fretboard face in the same shape

A notch at the top of the headstock., or aligned with each tuner post... then add walnut buttons

TTony · October 2022

WezV said:

I wonder if it's worth tying it in with another feature elsewhere.

Hmmmm - I'd thought about the walnut knobs (IIRC, you did a "how to" on making wooden knobs a while ago?), but you've just given me some other ideas too. Time for some more playing ...

normula1 · October 2022

Good save

TTony · October 2022

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Looks like I can make some of these. Just need to get some small alu tube and set screws to make the internals.

I'm thinking a small walnut inlay in the top of the guitar (think 2mm wide, 20mm long strip) which will lead to the closest knob, which will look as above.

I might then also inlay some 4mm walnut dots into the top of the guitar to represent the "10" position for each knob - ie when the pointer bit is at the inlaid dot, that's the "10" position.

Got some thoughts re the headstock too.

Thanks @Wez!!

TTony · October 2022

Imagine if that knob ^^^ was outlined by an inlay in the body that was the same shape, but about 150% bigger.

Hmmmmm ...

(Ruler added for scale)

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The inlay is 1.5mm thick. The channel it's sitting in is 1.7mm wide. Although there looks like there's a gap between inlay and channel, that's more because the channel is deeper than the inlay is thick, so it's recessed by about 1mm.

Just messing about and trying things out at this stage, but this has some interesting potential for future builds!

impmann · October 2022

Well, at least the guitar now has a name… “Notch”

Good save, mate. I actually like the ‘feature’

enjo · October 2022

Nice save.
I was going to suggest having a flat spot on the rounded shape like where the socket is on a tele.

tanihhiavlt · October 2022

Every side jacked guitar is a pita for finding the jack... higher lower left a bit, down a little... you've created a clear marker means you can plug in and play sooner on stage.

You could even recess the walnut a bit so the jack is ballpark in place from the top sighted by eye... and still allow angle Jack's to work...

Haptic navigation mate.. ergonomic design

TTony · October 2022

The Gods of design were clearly controlling the router at the time

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