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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Very stylish,

Yes But I left the band due to Artistic differences...:D

Well Maybe I can just cut out the braces from the straight piece I have with a saw, and split the other one- it may be a bit off.

I plan...

Thanks Martin


Yes I have read that the preferred way is to split it along the grain line to keep the fibers as long as possible.
I was trying it with some WRC scrap this weekend, the wood split...

Hi Wondering


Welcome to the forum

However not too sure about the smell....


:q

I'm wondering if there is a preferred method of cutting up the brace stock into the braces? Ive read or heard about a couple of ways, but not sure which to use.

Thanks guys

Welcome to the forum Ball Peen I like the basses.



Heres some pics from the last few days. Its OM size 25.4 scale length

The sides ...

so heres a piccy or 2 of the Rosette I made over the xmas break.

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/4467/pinning3small.th.jpg

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/6800/channelcleaningsmall.th.jpg
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Thanks Andy and Sebastiaan, where theres no cash theres always a way..


My jointing effort with sandpaper didnt work cause I couldn't hold the stock at perfect right angles to the paper, so I got...

I ended up making a jointing plane, although I didn't try an electric, one, or a table jointer.


Heres an early pic

http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/9859/jointingplanesmall.jpg

I also...

Hi Wayne

I am 20% into my first build. I have cut out the top, back and sides from stock with a panel saw, sanded it down to thickness by hand and plane, cut out the neck from a 8x2x72 inch blank...

Hey peeples!

I dont have the buckeroons at the moment to buy a professional side bending tool ala the one on several popular luthier supply shops.

I have been trying to make on on the cheap...

Oh It will be worth it



When I"M playin it....



:D

Thanks mate

Yeah the bits are coming together.

Still plugging away.

Turns out you got to do all the steps in order :)

Bugger.

Pretty good thanks Andy



Pic links fixed now:doh:

Oww jeepers :)


That was quick Andy

Hows it going?



Yeah I missed some of the markup stuff some where...

I hope everyone here on the forums had a great Christmas and New year.

I have been working on a couple of areas of my guitar over the holidays. Getting close to finishing some

of them too! ...

Hi, you don't say what you are using the timber for... but Im assuming more than construction grade pine.

There's Matthews Timber in Vermont,

Australian furniture timbers in Plummer st port...

Bump..

I am still plugging away at this git, so over the xmas holidays I should have some progress to show.

Tharts not a chisel- its a spade!


Merry Christmas

OK so next week turned into a couple of weeks:)


I have tried a couple of jigs to glue the heel back on and the fret board at the same time. I realised there was a radius to the fretboard that...

Cool

Thanks guys- no offence taken. Thanks for the advice

:2tsup:

Replacing the top does sound pretty involved.

Will see how I go with the heel next week. It should be easy to clamp...

Thanks Jeff

Not having to get the neck off is good. The heel break is quite clean, althought the finish on this guitar is quite thick, so its a bit rough round the edges.


I'm planning to...

Here are the pics

I am also doing it for experience, I reckon its probably a pretty hard repair. If I can pull it off to a playable extent that's enough for me at the moment.

if I can amke it...

Hi all

Thanks for the replys

I will stick some pics in the next post for you viewing pleasure :)


Oddly enough the guitar does have some sentamental value.

Back when I was in my teens...

Hi all

I have been given a 12 string Kiso Suzuki from about 1978, that has a badly broken neck.

Ok .. well its broken off.. the heel is broken across where it joins the neck, and the dowels...

Nice Tele!

Are you wanting to do drop tops or solid bodies?

Some of each?

Allow a bit oversize on the cutting to allow for the wood to settle a bit when its cut.

What type of glue is recommended for gluing in the rosette?

Cheers


Matt

I just checked the baking paper, it doesn't say on the box if its silicone or not. It doesnt look like the greased paper tho, so it could be silicone.

:oo:

Hopefully it hasn't come off on the...

Hi tbkmagic


Thanks for the comments, I spent a few hours sanding that block of mahogany :)

Its come up pretty well, the finish is a number of wiped-on coats of shellac, with some sanding up...

A few weekends ago I went to Matthews Timber in Vermont for a look, and ended up buying a piece of mahogany.

I cut a peice out of it for a neck, and let it rest for about 6 weeks so far. I spent...

hi all

Thanks for all the replies.

I will be driving up in my car, so won't have much room for wood once LOML fills the car up with wool :D


Tools OK though.

Brennans and the...

You know its serious when you're buying fret wire buy the pound...

bit like buying back and side sets by the tree...:D

About 11- 4 feet per guitar i think.

Martin

Thanks Mate! :U

Yeah I'm quite pleased so far. I have some more finish sanding to do- its not very even...

But hey -see how I go.

I did find the method worked very easily, thanks...

A quick update- some photos of the top so far.

I joined it OK, but it was quite hard to scrape the small amount of excess glue off the joint

I waxed the cross peices where the glue jopint...

Hey Fred

thanks for the reply

Yeah it seemed like there maybe wouldn't be any, except for the building type suppliers like bunnies. Cool, I'm up there for the wool show anyway so there's...

I will be in Bendigo for a few days soon, I've looked a bit in Yellowpages and on the net for gormet timber suppliers, but none have shown up.

Can anyone let me know of any timber yards I could...

One thing I have found is the quality of the sound from speakers is in the ear of the beholder. 4 years of running a music rehearsal studio for rock bands proves it. Guitar stacks or keyboard amps...

Thanks Martin

Spent most of the time I had on the weekend doing odds and ends. Sharpening a plane blade for the small wooden block plane I made a couple of weeks ago, tidying the shed, didn't...

What about bamboo skewers for side dots, not exactly Tassie Oak.:D

It would sand one down a little easy enough to make it smooth. Put it in a cordless dril and use some fine sand paper.

Some easy to get side dot material is old plastic knitting needles.

Pick em up by the dozen from op shops, for like 20 cents. All types of colors and sizes too.

Hot Hot Hot:)(

And a tele too

:D




I need a router stat....

Re the internal stresses in wood, I recently ripped a 3x4"x28" redgum fencepost into a 1.5"x2'x 24"peice for a plane I made. It was an old piece of wood. I flattened one side up to a steel rule and...

Well another weekend is here, time to freeze in the shed again, but its worth it.:D

Martin,
I got hold of some suitable battens to use for the jig, but I has one more question - does the rope...

Well another weekend is here, time to freeze in the shed again, but its worth it.:D

Martin,
I got hold of some suitable battens to use for the jig, but I has one more question - does the rope...

Don't you love the way sawdust gets EVERYWHERE....:p


Oh and the neck looks awesome,:2tsup: are you going to inlay around the 12th fret? seems you left a gap in the dots.

Ahh I would need to grow a funny voice for that one...


I just realised in the pic above I put the neck on the jig the wrong way round, the topwwod is where the back would be:doh: ( mental...

Many many thanks Kiwigeo

:2tsup:

Those pics really do help me out, and I'm sure a few others too. It looks like the bottom set of battens are fixed to the two flat rails that run lengthways? ...

Really looking good.

Hey guys thanks for the comments.

Thanks Wal.

Yeah I looked at the thin wood I created and suddenly wondered how I was going to keep the edges lined up to glue the joint on the soundboard....