Project Plaid Hammer

[dougk]

LOL Air Rachet for changing saw blades on the CNC.

Part 4 of our #projectplaidhammer series is up now on our blog. Watch Dave bumble his way thru fret slotting and fretting his Arcturus neck. Part 4 is where we also admit we screw up from time to time!

Part 4!

 

[baimun]

I want to see a picture of the "Fret f*cker 4000".

 

[dougk]

I want to see a picture of the "Fret f*cker 4000".

Long since destroyed lol.

Dave has limited mechanical ability and gets frustrated easily. He tried nipping frets once. Once.

 

[Modern Saint]

Congrats on Dave for doing this. Looking forward to the rest of his saga towards completion.

 

[irishstu]

That was a fun read.

 

[dougk]

The latest installment of ‪#‎projectplaidhammer‬ just hit our website. In this installment Dave makes something go from square to round, visits his fathers estate in Transylvania and attempts to resurect the dead. Enjoy!

Welcome Herr Frankenstein

 

[dougk]

In this installment of #projectplaidhammer Dave huffs paint, gets attacked by a spider and does his best Subway impression with a spray gun!

http://www.kauerguitars.com/updates/2015/7/27/operation-plaid-hammer-huffing-paint

 

[GilmourD]

In this installment of #projectplaidhammer Dave huffs paint, gets attacked by a spider and does his best Subway impression with a spray gun!

http://www.kauerguitars.com/updates/2015/7/27/operation-plaid-hammer-huffing-paint

 

[dougk]

That's exactly what happened !

 

[irishstu]

Awesome. That's a nice colour!

 

[Jbird]

It needs a little spider graphic now, somewhere. Maybe on the truss rod cover?

 

[baimun]

It needs a little spider graphic now, somewhere. Maybe on the truss rod cover?

On the inside of the control cavity cover, of course.

 

[dougk]

It needs a little spider graphic now, somewhere. Maybe on the truss rod cover?

Yes. Yes it does.

 

[dougk]

Dave finally took a day off from corrupting the mind of America's youth (Yes, Freddie King blues riffs some how can be taught in an English class) to update the blog on #projectplaidhammer . In this installment, Dave and Ben attack the fretwork on his neck, level, crown, polish and play with each others nuts. http://www.kauerguitars.com/updates/2015/9/28/neckin-4-ben-and-daves-excellent-adventure

 

[Denverdave]

Dang the frets take a lot of hand work to get right. I assume once you have a few dozen fret jobs done it goes relatively quickly. And loved all the custom tools needed.

 

[Flatspotter]

How do you tell where to cut the nut slots? I've seen gauges from Stew-Mac for this, but it wasn't clear from the blog how the spacing was determined.

 

[dougk]

How do you tell where to cut the nut slots? I've seen gauges from Stew-Mac for this, but it wasn't clear from the blog how the spacing was determined.

I'll snap a couple pictures of that. I have a little piece of wood I made that sets the two E strings from the sides of the neck and then we use the stewmac string spacing ruler for the inside four.

 

[dougk]

Dang the frets take a lot of hand work to get right. I assume once you have a few dozen fret jobs done it goes relatively quickly. And loved all the custom tools needed.

Honestly level and crown is fast but dressing the ends of frets, rolling the edge of the neck and general clean up take the longest part.

 

[dougk]

Dave finally finished the last blog post!! Huzzah! http://www.kauerguitars.com/updates/2015/11/11/operation-plaid-hammer-buffing-one-out

In this installment Dave buffs wood till he reaches a climax then promptly falls asleep.

 

[Flatspotter]

Wow, that came out great!