Thread: New Design - Single Cutaway

Thanks for the kind comments,

Glen I use rustins danish oil. The best oil I have come across for finishing. I apply the first coat liberally with a cloth (preped with sanding up to 320) and then I apply subsequent coats whilst rubbing 400 wet and dry. The oil acts as the perfect lubricant whist apply an additional coat, then wip off the excess. Depending on the sheen, I sometimes go to finer grits for the final coat.

Cheers,

Peter

I'll have to try some of that Peter. It looks great on the wenge neck.
Looking great mate

Originally Posted by oz tradie

I'll have to try some of that Peter. It looks great on the wenge neck.
Looking great mate

Thanks Stu. I should have pointed out before that the back of the headstock is sprayed up to the lip of the volute, and the rest oil. I got that idea from one of Perry Ormsby's build threads. Should give credit where its due.

Cheers,

Peter

Hi,

Been a while since posting progress pics, so I thought I'd post some of the zebrawood build. The block inlays are done, which is washboard muscle shell. Sits very nicely against the striped ebony. I've tried stainless frets for this one, and the medium jumbo frets are a challenge to cut to say the least. I was wishing I had popeye's fore arms or a hydraulic shear cutter or something.




Cheers,

Peter

lovely work Peter

i use a dremel + cutting wheel to cut frets both to size before fretting and also the ends once fretted (before the filing stage to bevel the fret ends)

perhaps something similar might help with the stainless steel frets ...

speaking of which

i simply have to try em at least once ...about the only type of fret i have yet to experience

i like stainless frets, they sexy

about time you updated

the inlays are very strange looking lol

Hmm stainless.

I like the mediums too ,Peter.

Looking good Peter
Another SS user , the last four have been SS from Allied Luth their large one .

Cheers Mark

any of you blokes know who makes the largest fretwire?

Thanks fellas,

yep, the SS is hard work, but will obviously be more durable, will wait till I play the gat before I choose my preference. I don't know who the largest supplier is, but I got mine from LMI. I tried trimming them with a demel, but the wire was heating up too much and I canned that idea. I just filed them down. I recon that the SS files pretty much as easily as nickle, and filing was alot easier than cutting.

I have some pics of routing the neck pocket. I got some acrylic templates laser cut, and one of them was a matching male and female routing templates of the neck taper. The method I used was to slot the neck into the template nice and tight. line up the centreline, which was etched in with the laser cutter. Clamp down and rout away (once I pulled the neck out of coarse)



With the guide routed in, I set up my neck angle jig over the body. I just made a new one out of left over acrylic, however needs some additional bracing. Shown is some temporary bracing. First I rout the face of the body approx 20mm either side of the pocket, such that the body is angles the same as the neck. The rest of the body material will be carved with the body carving and blended in. After that I rout out the pocket at the same angle to the desired depth.


And testing the fit. Nice and snug. I set the depth such that the fretboard sits slightly proud of the body by about 1.5mm, exposing the maple, which provides some nice definition (not very clear in the photo sorry. Binding channel is also cut.



Cheers,

Peter

When you buy from LMII and some others (not Dunlop wire though), it pretty much comes from here.

http://www.jescar.com/fretwire.html

This is where I've gotten Stainless from in the past. They have EVO as well.

Thanks for the source Stu. Will definately add that to my list of suppliers.

Cheers,

Peter

Thanks also for the link Stu

Peter, Your single cutaways are looking really good - great work.

cheers, Jason

i had a look at the jescar link stu,
i dont think i see anything bigger than the dunlop stuff on there....

actually.... i might email both companys and see who has the biggest

cheers...


peter thats a neat idea with the wingnuts and the slots in the templates....