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I decided to focus on the neck today. I radiused the fretboard (16 in radius), slotted thru the inlays pressed the frets in and filed the edges. I'm taping the fretboard off after this and finishing the shaping - padouk dust on the fretboard now would defintely not be good.
Here's the board radiused to 120 grit. I've got two 16 inch blocks so i can quickly tradeoff grits. I finished at 1200. ![]() Slotted thru the inlays ![]() Now for fretting. The big cutters go thru the fret material a lot easier than most other wire snips. The wood block has 24 numbered slots for the frets and the pink handled thing is a fret tang nipper. ![]() You need to radius the fretwire to make things a lot easier when you're pressing the frets in and making sure the ends don't pop up. ![]() Here are all frets done and hte first few that i cut without radiusing them. The thin file there is run along the frets to roundove the slots. It helps the frets sit snuggly against the board. I've got the fret press set up in the other photo. ![]() ![]() Here's the neck to date - board is sanded to 1200 and the frets are pressed.
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hates womanizers.
Join Date: Jun 2007
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so, you want to build me a guitar?
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Shred from the North
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hates womanizers.
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holy doublepost batman!
build me a guitar!
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Join Date: Apr 2006
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Yea geez. You definately could make a quick load of money off me, Without money even crossing the border.
In all seriousness though, about my project bass Im considering going with a Carvin neck.. so can you PM me how much you could get me a bodyblank big enough for a Kelly body.. in Alder.. Maybe also a trace of your modified kelly from the old project kelly 7 string, would be wonderful. Im sure you have better wood suppliers than I do. |
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ROTER CUSTOM GUITARS
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nice job
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hates womanizers.
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now build me one!
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666? It's 777!!!
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bolt it on and make a picture
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sell me a s 7420. now. always looking for ibz (pre-) prestige necks and bodies, sixxers oder sevenstrings... recent setup: rg 2077 xl + 5150 (diezel kt66 mod) + sonic stomp @ loop + ts 808 + jackson 412 cab w/ stock speakers = kick ass undress |
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hates womanizers.
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Managed to get up to the shop again today for a few hours and got a lot of work done!
Here's the neck pocket cut out... ![]() And here's the neck bolted on. I didn't take a pic of hte recessed bolt on the back, but they'll be seen later. (thats not my arm) ![]() Now that I've got the neck pocket done, onto shaping the neck. I took off a slice with the bandsaw ![]() Took rasps, a spokeshave and a microplane to it... ![]() Sanded up to 200 ![]() I mixed up some super fine padouk dust with clear epoxy for the position indicator. I did the same with my 8 string using purpleheart - turned out pretty good. ![]() Hopefully next weekend I'll complete a full body template for the pickups, bridge and bridge recess. If i get that done, it'll be onto doing the carved top. |
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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looks awesome so far! please make even more pictures of your progress of each step that you make
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ROTER CUSTOM GUITARS
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Great progress, keep us updated
nice job
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Ping-Chan <3s Pie
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Where did you get that?
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Join Date: Apr 2006
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so will it be like another year til you would build commission jobs??
Either way, PM me with where you get your wood, I might need some for this summer (some Alder probably) Might attempt a body. |
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Oh my.. it looks great!
I agree, post more pics
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Brian, that guitar is fucking awesome
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Back to da 'hood (sevenstring.org)
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hates womanizers.
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now build me one!
![]() but seriously, though, great job. its going to look incredible.
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Foolish Mortal
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Lovin the headstock shape. Looks to be an amazing instrument.
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Numatic International Ltd - Home Page
George comes from these guys who make other equally odd looking vacuums. They've got some obsession with happy faces on almost everything they make... We bought the vacuum from a detailing company - works really well. Thanks again guys for checkin it out! I carved the headstock more (dont' have a shot) and it turned out quite good too. |
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Hard-On For Freedom™
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Golderak is King
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Now thats going to be bitchin lookin
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Hey guys, I managed to get up to my shop again this weekend. Focusing the body this time and one of the most critical stages - the bridge position.
It took me a long time to get this template just right before I etched it. The hipshot 7 trem has this monstrous tone block on it - i put it beside a wilkinson for comparion. ![]() Here's the final etch with the etchings highligted with perm marker. ![]() So 4 hours into starting tonight, I'm finally 100% on the bridge placement. Measure as many times as you want - you only get to cut once! I drilled out the area first with a forstner bit so there's not a lot of routing to do. ![]() Now the router clean up - template fastened on with this heavy duty carpet tape. ![]() Finished the cavity up ![]() Here's the neck joint - super tight. I can pick the guitar up by the neck without putting the bolts in. ![]() My buddy gave me this Charvel a while ago. Hadn't even touched it in over a year. I was considering taking the dimarzios out of it and throwing in an EMG 81/H combo that I've got around. I'm definitely going to scallop 12 and up on this. ![]() Thanks for checkin out the build! |
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Vescere bracis meis.
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Holy crap that trem block is big.
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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thank you for providing me with some good morning orgasm to start my day
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