Thread: what are you working on this weekend??

Hopefully this thing will annoy the neigbours by tommorow night,

Today -frett, install pickup,

tommorow- Install bridge and wire it up.

That's turned out stunningly. Did you do your own neck on this one?

Originally Posted by old_picker

post a pic
show us where your at:

just finished the wiring on this hotrod tele
now to oil the board, put some strings on and do the final setup
try it out at reheasal mon nite whoo hoo

its a warmoth neck
when i built this body, making necks was about as feasible as walkin on mars
things are changing
i have a neck i built ready for frets for another project

Shaping braces in between getting the house ready for guests tonight. Pics will be in my usual update.

Binding fingerboards for these babies. Aussie timbers, naturally
Excuse the crap mobile phone pic.

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Noice looking geetar OP.

Where's the strings but?

Originally Posted by craigb

Noice looking geetar OP.

Where's the strings but?

heheh
gettin there - final string up and bridge tweak and i can put it away in about a half an hour

Spline graft to shorten double bass neck by 2.5".

This is roughly trimmed after glueing with HIDE GLUE .

I need to flatten the neck again and fit new graphite rod and fingerboard before finishing the back of the neck properly.

The last photo is a lovely piece of blackheart sassafras roughed out for my next bass neck/scroll.

Its a good weekend!

My friend and I just resawed sitka spruce for 5 archtop guitar tops on my 14" grizzly bandsaw with riser block. Before he brought the wood around I thought "I must take a picture of this"... then we got talking and I forgot about it completely!

Originally Posted by sundancewfs

My friend and I just resawed sitka spruce for 5 archtop guitar tops on my 14" grizzly bandsaw with riser block. Before he brought the wood around I thought "I must take a picture of this"... then we got talking and I forgot about it completely!

So you sawed to 3/8ths for the tops? This is Benedetto's starting point isn't it?

Originally Posted by contrebasse

This is roughly trimmed after glueing with HIDE GLUE .

I need to flatten the neck again and fit new graphite rod and fingerboard before finishing the back of the neck properly.

The last photo is a lovely piece of blackheart sassafras roughed out for my next bass neck/scroll.

Its a good weekend!

Nice remedial job on that bass Matthew!

Achievements so far this weekend:

1. Shaped cross braces on the 12 string and glued in the Upper Transverse Brace.

2. Picked up Japanese Geologist from airport and delivered him safely back to my place.

3. Consumed one bottle each of Dog Point Pinot Noir, Balnaves Cab Sav and Geoff Hardy K1 Shiraz. Tomorrow we're off to a "wine tasting" at another Geologist's house. Will be taking along Bowen Estate shiraz 1998 through 2003 for a vertical tasting...after which Ill be horizontal.

I dont think there'll be much more progress on the 12 string this weekend.

Well better late than never... Here is some of what we cut yesterday.
It starts off as 1.5" thick we cut it on a diagonal, spin it and flip it, glue it up, cut out the waist (not waste) and glue the ears on the lower bouts.
Remember these are for hand carved archtops, not press molded ones.
The thick end of the wedge comes out at about 1" and the thin edge, just under 1/2". I know, by doing it this way it isn't book matched etc but for the most part the grain on this is so tight and straight its hard to tell when its finished. It also saves A LOT of wood.