Thread: recent progress- post yours

Originally Posted by Deano

I cut the angle out of the heel, using trigenometry I work out the amount that needs to be taken off the back of the heel. I roughly cut it out, and then used a belt sander to make it all square.

Black_lab: How do you cut the angle out of a template?

Ok, do you angle the top so that the fretboard appears flush with the body?

Heres what some people do:


But then i noticed Perry Ormsby planes the neck angle into the top before routing the neck pocket, so the first neck pickup is angled.

http://www.ormsbyguitars.com/galleries/ausguitar/

Speaking of carved top electric guitars - when you look at a real Les Paul, there are two angles.

First (and steepest) is the pitch under the fingerboard extension. It starts from the nominal binding top edge and runs out exactly at the fingerboard end. Then the angle flattens out appreciably, leaving a greater height between underside of strings and guitar top. It's why the back pickup's plastic surround is noticeably taller on a Les Paul - compared to many PRS style carved top guitars (as evidenced in the previous posts's picture).

You can apply this to most guitar designs, and fake the transitions where they don't quite blend with horns or cutaways.

Note well: The pickups need to be routed in at the prescribed angle - while it's easier to rout them into a flat blank the "cant" applied by then conforming to the neck pitch will call for an excessively sized pickup rout. This is fun in guitars with a through neck, or where the tenon's already glued in.

Cheers, Adam.

I angle for flush bodied fretboard. It's worth the extra effort.
And I angle the body mortice not the neck tenon.

Originally Posted by oz tradie

I angle for flush bodied fretboard. It's worth the extra effort.
And I angle the body mortice not the neck tenon.

Hey Stu,

Would it be too much to ask for you to grab a piccy of your QLD maple build from the side view, such as the PRS above?

Cheers,
Nick.

Here you go.
If you look at the relation of the fingerboard angle to the upper horn, you'll see the difference in how much angle was taken out of the neck mount area of the top. ( Does that make sense ?!???)

cheers ,Stu

Exactly as i thought (I'm a bit tired so pictures make more sense to me at the moment).

Thanks for your troubles Stu!

Also is there anywhere locally i can purchase top string ferrules?

Here is the other option.
This is a pick of my Belman DC. I personally think it doesn't look that bad.
I have some pics of their old workshop I took when I was gettin' this one made.
Ill try find them, and make a new topic.



Hope this helps.

Dean

"Also is there anywhere locally i can purchase top string ferrules?"

Not really, your best bet is stewmac, they are cheap and look better than most stuff local shops can get in.

i use the jig in this thread. i angle the template by putting a piece of plywood/malamine under it at the right spot (use trig to find where) and then thickness it as described in the thread

Originally Posted by Deano

"Also is there anywhere locally i can purchase top string ferrules?"

Not really, your best bet is stewmac, they are cheap and look better than most stuff local shops can get in.

Damn! I have absolutely nothing else i need to order from Stew-Mac

Oh well, I'll be patient and something will come up.

Oh, and thanks for your pic of your Belman, Dean. I love Belman's, they are so simple but yet so nice.

Originally Posted by RGM

Damn! I have absolutely nothing else i need to order from Stew-Mac

Oh well, I'll be patient and something will come up.

Oh, and thanks for your pic of your Belman, Dean. I love Belman's, they are so simple but yet so nice.

i can get you decent ferrules for a around $1.00 ea + postage
pm me if you want some

Originally Posted by old_picker

i can get you decent ferrules for a around $1.00 ea + postage
pm me if you want some

Thanks for the offer Ray, PM sent

Originally Posted by RGM

Also is there anywhere locally i can purchase top string ferrules?

Fretco in the CBD have them in stock pretty much all the time.

Or down south as you are (ish) Southern Music have been handy for me for quite a few things but it's handy to ring first and ask.

Hope that helps,