newbuilder
snoochie boochies
Looking classy!
I found that new project I was looking for...
- Thread starter Elias Graves
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Flatspotter
What?
Sweet!
Elias Graves
Common misfit
Got some primer on the neck. Man, the V profile sure looks sexy, if nothing else.
Getting the neck/headstock transition reshaped was kind of a bitch. Lotta work.
Why does this thing keep rotating pics? I think it does it every time I load one that's in portrait format and not landscape.
Getting the neck/headstock transition reshaped was kind of a bitch. Lotta work.
Why does this thing keep rotating pics? I think it does it every time I load one that's in portrait format and not landscape.
Elias Graves
Common misfit
Elias Graves
Common misfit
I got the paint on. Gotta let it dry a few days before I can polish and clean up all the binding and fretboard.
There it goes flipping my pics again.
There it goes flipping my pics again.
newbuilder
snoochie boochies
I really like your beefed up area at the back of the headstock were the volute would normally be.
Tig
Fucktangular
Elias Graves
Common misfit
Mega volute meets ultra neck! This week on syfy!
The Vee neck is wicked. I cut it way thinner at the shoulders than on my old Silvertone. My kid says it's a great shredder neck. Lol.
It does seem to play really fast. It feels like a Wizard neck on the edges but the fat center really gives it som substance.
Thanks. The clear is really pushing it into awesome territory. I can't wait to get it polished.
Guitar Heel
Demented Trick
Dude, just amazing. You're going to be a full-on luthier pretty soon. Fantastic work.
CBHScott
How did I get here?
Elias Graves
Common misfit
Volutenado
That's some big fretwire. Nice work.
No, it's quite a but smaller than what I had on there before. Jescar names theirs by size...this is 47095, or .047"x.095". Classified as a medium.
The Fender jumbo that was there before was like 55x106 or something. Way too big for my taste.
Thanks. I'm definitely improving. A guy I know here offered me $1,500 to build one just like it for his daughter. I'm thinking about it. Now I've done all the design work on this one and I have the templates made, I think I could make one a lot quicker than this one went. And mahogany or spanish cedar would be a lot easier to work than this friggin walnut was.
Guitar Heel
Demented Trick
Elias Graves
Common misfit
Today, I'm working on frets. This is tedious and it's hot but these will be some polished mofos when I'm finished.
Hehe. I like the blue fretboard. Is richlite available in colors?
Hehe. I like the blue fretboard. Is richlite available in colors?
Elias Graves
Common misfit
Wouldn't it? That tape isn't so blue any more, though.
These babies are starting to shine. After sanding level then crowning with a file, I used 400 then 600 grit sand paper to get rid of file gouges, scrapes and chatter. From there, I used 0000 steel wool, then a felt polishing wheel on the Dremel with compound on it. Finally, a hand rub with Meguiar's "Mirror Glaze" product. Makes em really glossy, that stuff does.
Right now, I have all of them polished with the Dremel and five polished with Mirror Glaze. So 18-22 are finished and I have 17 more to go in this tedious job.
These babies are starting to shine. After sanding level then crowning with a file, I used 400 then 600 grit sand paper to get rid of file gouges, scrapes and chatter. From there, I used 0000 steel wool, then a felt polishing wheel on the Dremel with compound on it. Finally, a hand rub with Meguiar's "Mirror Glaze" product. Makes em really glossy, that stuff does.
Right now, I have all of them polished with the Dremel and five polished with Mirror Glaze. So 18-22 are finished and I have 17 more to go in this tedious job.
Guitar Heel
Demented Trick
I can see my face in those.
