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  1. #16
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    Hey again, Pickups have now arrived and my "top" pickup cavities are now cut out. I've now glued and clamped the "top" onto the "inner body". Still want to sort out exactly where my knobs/selector will be before I join the "bottom" on, as I will need to cut out the covers for the bottom. Might even do these in the same queensland maple yet.

    Just wanted to share a little trick I used whilst glueing and clamping so that my top didn't slide all over the inner body and out of alignment when I was tightening up the clamps with the glue in these instance it's hard to prevent this.

    I cut the heads of a couple of small 2mm nails, drilled a 2mm hole into my inner body, put the nail heads in there, pressed the top onto it, then drilled in to the dent it left on the top. Then put a small piece of bamboo meat skewer into the holes, worked perfectly whilst I glued and clamped.

    Paul
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    Hey again,

    Thought I better do a few pics of where I am up to on these two guitars. Top/s and bottom/s now glued on and last couple of days spent cutting out the neck cavities. It's a very tight fit, perfect.

    Next job to cut out some "manhole covers" for the back section, then pretty much into a final sand, maybe do a slight roundover edge around the outside to take that sharp edge of it.

    Very happy with it so far considering I didn't use any plans at all, just the original idea of the middle section from some youtube video clip. And I think the grain in the timber will come up very nice at the end of this.

    Paul
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    Hi all,

    Just a little update here, been working on the holes for the potentiometers, getting the depths right etc, got the holes lined up for my neck/s (both) to be bolted to the neck cavities. Currently doing the finishing, which is my usual finish, 3 coats of danish oil (which I make myself) and then 3 coats of buffed wax, and it's looking good,..!!

    The timber is looking awesome and the finish is as smooth as glass.

    Final coat of wax soon to be ready and then putting it all together.

    All I am still waiting on to arrive now is the bridge for the 6 string, and the jackplug socket/s for the lead.

    Paul

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    If you find a post of mine that is missing a pic that you'd like to see, let me know & I'll see if I can find a copy.

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    Quick update. I am still waiting on my jack plug sockets to arrive and also the bridge for my 6 string guitar, such a pain waiting on things from ebay at times. Anyway, the two guitars are all wired up, potentiometers fitted, neck secured. The 12 string which I have the bridge for is completely finished apart from the jack plug socket being fitted. All tuned up and sounding very nice indeed. The 6 string all wired up but waiting on the bridge and the jack plug socket.

    Yesterday I made a couple of nice little truss rod overs out of some offcuts of the African mahogany timber, looking good.

    Apart from all that another funny thing happened. I have an effects pedal (built in tuner etc), and it died on me about ten days ago. So I found another good looking one on Ebay from the USA, very good price also, brand new and half the price of other identical ones elsewhere. So I bought it. So then I decided to pull my other one apart, gave it a good clean up inside, sprayed a bit of electrical spray here and here, and off it goes again, amazing.

    Now the new one from the USA arrived yesterday, had a bit of a play with it and it seems amazing also. Like about 100 effects, tuner, built in drum machine, built in rhythm machine, all very adjustable and even a built in looper.

    Just need to figure out how everything works on it.

    All this is purely for my own personal enjoyment, I am 64 now and just like to mess about with all this in my lounge room.

    Paul

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    You're a natural Paul, I hope you're able to do a video of them being played later on.

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    HI all,

    Finally finished,..yesssss,...!!. My last couple of parts arrived over the last two days, and my two guitars are now finally finished. Last night I set up the string heights, adjusted the intonation, happy with the neck relief and they sound veryyyyyy good.

    Here are the photos, I hope you enjoy. Just recapping the inner body is african mahogany, (and also the little truss rod cover). The tops and bottoms are queensland maple. The necks which are from that double neck kit guitar I bought from the USA are maple with a rosewood fretboard. For your interest I will do another post after this one and show you the double neck guitar kit, which of course I only kept the two necks. The body has now been tossed out in the bin.

    I think this will do me now, with these two guitars plus the last one I totally made including the neck, (thread on this site somewhere), then prior to that my first kit build of a 1959 Les Paul Gibson, very good kit and a great guitar. Then my first two guitars purchased some years ago, a Fender Strat Squier (bought that new) and a Les Paul Casino (bought that on Gumtree), I think I now have enough to play with.

    Paul
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    and this is (was) the double neck guitar.

    Seemed a novelty at the time when I seen it on ebay and the price was pretty good. When it arrived the necks looked great, the body well,........hmmm. I put it all together, had to do a lot of work on the neck socket, the neck was like a mile to high. Wired it all up but at the end of the day it was just tooo bulky. I just sit on the lounge at nights and play around, and at 64 and wearing specs now, the top neck (12 string neck) was just to close to my face to focus exactly on what I was doing. So I canned the lot.

    This is it anyway, I did get to use some of the parts to it, for these guitars. Necks, neck plates, and a couple of other bits. The potentiometers seemed very cheapish ones, they are all gone now.

    Paul
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