Andrews Projects (bass + guitar/s)

**Andrew_B** · 17th March 2009, 07:06 PM

cheers ladies

dont be making fun of my fretwire holder.... lol
i say if you got scrap wood, you gotta do something with it.... so i did....
and as a bonus i got a chance to play around and reset the depth gauge on my drill press (has been playing up for a while)
and re arange my drill bit drawer....

so it was win win

all the holes are the exact same depth,
so if you cant tell longest to shortest/left to right,
then you have issues

oh and it looks kool... lol

i was freaking out when i the router bit got to the first horn point....
then it went around it fine lol....
had me sweating

aussie, you didnt come on yahoo today, lazy bugger lol
cheers for the encouragement

**R3R** · 17th March 2009, 07:22 PM

....hmmn tht body is now lookin pretty good...

...i think i am starting to see a pair of hammerhead sharks in the waters

...but then i been a lil ill lately ...

...good stuff Andrew espc with the sawing of tht tassie oak...the thought of me doing something like it would ruin my day frankly....

**dadovfor** · 17th March 2009, 07:26 PM

To quote Gaylord Fokker:

I'm a-lookin' ... and I'm a-likin'

It's looking great ... a very fluid design.

**floody_85** · 17th March 2009, 10:08 PM

hahaha...fokker!! i still laugh everytime i hear it. i love it when the little kid keeps saying asshole!!!!

I was hoping i could just flip it and use the routered part of the body as a template. great minds think alike. ill be using my router table too. First time using it. I still gotta rout the top to accept the plate. ill do it this weekend.

Cant wait to see the progress you make. Looks sick so far. I think I will become friends with you then maybe ill get an awesome guitar for free!!

**Andrew_B** · 17th March 2009, 10:22 PM

thanks guys

sorry to hear your sick R3R
get better and build some geetars

that sawing was a pain in the butt lol

but looking at the body now... it was well worth it.....

and as a bonus, as i look around the body at the top/bottom glue joint...
there is not a gap to be seen...
so i did a fair job at flattening it all by hand,
so im more than happy at this point

cheers dadovfor

i should weigh it and see what it is before i get into routing the cavities,
not sure if you guys are intrested in wieghts... some people are

now i just gotta figure out how to do this neck...

i still havnt decided on set neck or bolt on,
i will be giving neck thru a miss on this one,
just because i want to bet a few necks out of these slabs of maple.

oh i see how it is floody.... using me for free guitars!

let me try build this neck then ill see how i go lol

**dadovfor** · 18th March 2009, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by Andrew_B

oh i see how it is floody.... using me for free guitars!

let me try build this neck then ill see how i go lol

What the ... ?!?! I've been like a father to you (remember when you called me Daddy??) and Floody-come-lately is first in line for a guitar?!? What's that about???

But then again ... there's no use making me a guitar ... I can't play a freakin' note

**Andrew_B** · 18th March 2009, 11:14 AM

Originally Posted by dadovfor

But then again ... there's no use making me a guitar ... I can't play a freakin' note

exactly!

lol....

if i screw one up you can have it to hang on your wall

lol

anyways... sitting here in my dust mask isnt fun, so i better get back to making templates

**dadovfor** · 18th March 2009, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by Andrew_B

if i screw one up you can have it to hang on your wall

lol

When we were doing our first build I figured that if I stuffed it, at worst it would still make a very flash wall hanging. Fortunately it plays well ... and it hangs on a wall too

Originally Posted by Andrew_B

anyways... sitting here in my dust mask isnt fun, so i better get back to making templates

And I'd better log back into work, which is what I'm supposed to be doing rather than following your progress. I'll call it a tea-break!!

**Andrew_B** · 18th March 2009, 12:01 PM

lol lazy

what do you do for work?

im sure you have already told us, but my memory is no good in my old age

lol

**dadovfor** · 18th March 2009, 03:49 PM

Originally Posted by Andrew_B

lol lazy
what do you do for work?
im sure you have already told us, but my memory is no good in my old age

lol

I haven't said it before but I'm in a policy/advisory role in a large public sector organisation. And if I told you any more than that I'd have to shoot you

. So my job is largely dealing with words (lots and lots of them!) which is what makes guitar building (doing and watching) so appealing. Stuff like this keeps me sane ... relatively speaking.

**Andrew_B** · 18th March 2009, 03:58 PM

ooooo mr important

lol

dealing with words sounds boring

defenetly no guitar for you after that death threat!

**floody_85** · 18th March 2009, 04:43 PM

I see you two have been working hard today!
hows the progress andy? still doing the templates?

**Andrew_B** · 18th March 2009, 05:23 PM

i did a neck/fingerboard template today.....
but im looking at it and i dont know.... it looks a bit crappy.....
hmmm

i made a few tools whilst i thought about how to go about the neck.....

watched everybody loves raymond....

sat around in the shed....

got hot in there so i came back in here lol

**dadovfor** · 18th March 2009, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by Andrew_B

ooooo mr important

lol
dealing with words sounds boring

defenetly no guitar for you after that death threat!

So true ... in fact I'm so important that I can tell you that you definitely spelt defenetly incorrectly

. The truth is that I never knew what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I still don't. So I'll keep doing what I'm doing until I work it out. Hopefully my kids will work it out much earlier than me. But I like words and writing, so it's not all bad ... just a different form of creativity to the things I like doing away from work.

Sounds like there wasn't much progress today?

**Andrew_B** · 18th March 2009, 07:13 PM

i wouldnt say there was no progress today....
there was some, but not as much as i ussually pump out

here the offcuts from the back wood (dont know what it is still lol)
i ripped them to about 1cm thick i think....
might be able to get a few fretboards out of it.....
whether or not the wood is ok for fretboards is another thing...
its hard... it feels nice.... it looks good.... hmm

heres my other creations of today/yesterday lol
(lots of chisel work

)

my room is looking like a timber yard lol

oh and i got a t-o-m, so i will get some more work done on the V soon

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