Spaztikko

No, they're building Barettas

Looking forward to seeing this come a long though

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Well I thought it was going to be difficult to source more wood. Luckily my dad saved some wood from an old school that I could use though

Here's some maple from the gym floor of said school, and a piece of.. Well I don't actually know :/



I split one piece of maple, and a sliver of the unknown wood for a centre stripe. Cut and planed:

Glued and clamped, with some walnut veneer between the laminates:

How much do you reckon I should say the walnut veneer cost? £2 do?

whoomit

I fine-tuned my neck and body templates. Should be accurate enough that I can rout necks and bodies, and drill bridge position straight from templates. No lining up the bridge with the neck with a couple pieces of string! Means I should be able to rattle-off a good few Teles to sell We'll find out whether or not it works with this build. Fingers crossed guys

After that I drilled out all my body cavities and neck pocket, then I got to routing! Didn't get my neck pocket done though as my tea was ready, yum



More to come tomorrow I'm sure

PsiGuy60

Looking forward to seeing/hearing the end result.

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von Layzonfon

Oooh! Router bit twins! Wait. Yours is shorter than mine. Although I'm thinking I'm going to need one of those too.

Looking good.

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whoomit

Me too! Everything's gone really smooth so far


I need the shorter one to do the neck pocket. That's the first thing I'm going to do tomorrow. Then thickness my neck blank I guess!

K'Nuckles

Nothing you post from now on will beat that bacon butty... unless you post a bigger bacon butty. Do it.

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whoomit

From this pic you can see that I did the neck pocket in two parts. I first used the template to take off the first layer. Then I took off the template and the bit just followed the cut I'd already made. I clamped some plywood to the bench with paper inbetween to get it to the same height as the body for extra stability on the router:

Lovely neat neck pocket

Neck unclamped, and the back of it planed. It's ready to go through the thicknesser now:

As per request, lunch:

That's a four sausage butt joint, held together with hot sauce for strength. I've veneered the top with a couple of slices of bacon and left it clamped between to slices of bread. Next to it is a cup of tea.

Spaztikko

TBH I only look at this for the pictures of your lunch.

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Dead_Feet

Wow! Looks like it's gonna be a sweet build, very interested in how it's gonna turn out. *stickied* Oh, but by the way, your sandwich looks absolutely delicious and I hate you cause I'd want one. Totally kidding about the hate thing, but I'd love to have your sandwich

leony03

Build looks sweet! Definitely be following this

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K'Nuckles

Next time, throw some black pudding or an egg in there. Yeeeeeeeeeeeee boooooi

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whoomit

thx 4 kind w3rdz


Egg maybe

Blank squared off and thicknessed, centreline and outline marked on:

Being at the wrong end of a thicknesser is very messy business!

Truss rod cavity and acces routed, headstock veneers glued and clamped:

Now, I need opinions!!
I've decided I'm keeping a natural finish on the body, 'cause I really like it. I even like the small gaps between the strips of teak on the fron. Heck, even the plywood Question for you guys though is this:

Oil or lacquer?

Here are some lovely pics to admire and help you decide what I should do:

K'Nuckles

Lacquer.



Yeeeeeeeeeee boooooooooooi

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von Layzonfon

I think laquer, simply to protect the soft pine sandwich filling.

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Ippon

Create some faux binding,

Then, get the inexpensive veneer from those bigbox DIY stores. Maple, dyed Transparent Black.

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whoomit

By faux binding you mean painting it on right? Where are you suggesting I put this maple veneer?

I did already toy with the idea of binding it, I decided against it though. I have strips of plastic binding, and real wood veneer that I got sent free from the lovely Ben Crowe at the beautiful Crimson Guitars.

Looks like lacquer's winning so far! I should point out that it's acrylic I shall be using

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Well it doesn't look like I'll get anything done today. Got to go and cut grass which'll take 2-3 hours and it's already 2 o'clock! We'll see though. Here are a couple pictures to tide you over.

Curry for breakfast:

Wilkinson tuners and abalone dots that arrived:

Robbgnarly

the build looks great, but that plate of food


Great job so far

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macgregger

why did you let a baby poop on your plate?

killer build though. lookin' real nice.

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