Friday, February 26, 2010

Cutaway Jumbo.....

neck carved, fretted, and nuts for bolt on system fitted to the tenon

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and as Nathan has specified Tru-oil as the finish, I try out a coat or two, just to see......

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the pic does NOT show the bearclaw to it's full here, it's eyepopping in real life!!

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then the neck and body are brought together and the finishing gets under way properly.....

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00 zouk, VERY nearly done.....

the nut is sorted, the frets are NEARLY set though there is a rattle on about #18.... a little wet & dry will sort that.....

still to do?

saddle intonation and that's about it.

the ebony truss rod cover is on

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the screws are in the tuners

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and it SOUNDS like a zouk!!

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

00 zouk

pin holes reamed and under saddle piezo in place....

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the strings are on!!

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for the volume control, we mark......

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drill

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fit the pot and put on the lovely wooden knob I got....

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round the other end the jack socket hole is drilled

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and the combined jack socket/strap button is fitted.

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I'll leave it a few days to get used to the tension before I do a final set up.

no pics, but i've been sanding the jumbo.

a lot!!

so much that I went too deep on one binding strip and had to remove it, re stout the slot and fit a new one.

ah well, no BIG disaster!!

the guy who I making this for has asked for a tru-oil finish.

I've used other oil finishes before, but he asks for tru-oil, so he GETS tru-oil...

I found a gun shop high in the hills between my home & work so yeaterday I set off to get some.

in the snow

LOTS of fun, slithering all over the place in a front wheel drive people carrier, but when I got there they had none!!

Ah well, as usual eBay will provide......

Thursday, February 11, 2010

cherry OM, back braced and glued onto the sides.

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jumbo, neck shaped some more, and neck body join partially done.

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fretboard radius done and fretboard dyed black.

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and the OO zouk.....

tuners in

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bridge made

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set to the right place using my handy dandy bridger placer jig

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cut around

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varnish removed

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and glued into place

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Tuesday, February 09, 2010

so, where are we?

the 00 zouk is hanging letting the finish cure. another couple of days and I'll give it a rub down with some fine wet & dry and then another few coats.

the jumbo had a bit more neck shaping done today but nothing worth showing up in a pic....

the cherry OM got a little attention today.....

neck & tail blocks shaped & glued in

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then the neck which I glued up a few days ago...

headplate sanded flat....

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500mm scale worked out & marked

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then cut

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and the tenon cut and the fingerboard extension glued in

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Monday, February 08, 2010

a new start on a cherry/sitka Octave mandolin.

sides bent

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back joined.

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Glen's Les Paul....

headstock face sanded flat, trussrod slot cut and fretboard glued on.

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Wednesday, February 03, 2010

jumbo progress.... a couple of days added together.....

ears onto the headstock

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headstock face sanded flat

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faceplace (surplus from back) glued on, truss rod slot cut

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fretboard glued on

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soundport marked

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and cut

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then bound

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and sanded out

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neck rough cut & headstock shaped

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Monday, February 01, 2010

jumbo fretboard marked out....

and yes, 647.7mm is 25 1/2"

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and then sawed.....

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Glen's Les Paul body got sanded and shaped today.

One of the jobs he's not allowed do as use the router, so I did that for him and rounded the edge top & bottom, then he sanded away all the oxidised outer layers of the wood to leave it looking GORGEOUS!!

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