Mojotron's 2012 Challenge Build Thread -- COMPLETED

[RogerC]

That grain is mesmerizing. This is going to be a very artsy kind of guitar for sure-- with all that carving and grain structure.

Where did you get that sharpening rig? I've got some chisels that are in dire need of a lot of help.

[jpbturbo]

Dude!

That is freakin awesome.

[anyone]

Wow! Very cool.
I should have seen that one coming (haha).

[guitarbuilder]

That's an interesting router carving jig....

[flatfive]

Mojo, I'm intrigued by your jig and how you're using it,
but am not sure I understand.

If I understand, you can manually adjust "z" via the
router, "y" via your fence, and "x" by moving the body
by hand. Is that right?

Since you're moving the body along the x axis, for
your height calculations you're working out
rectangular regions on the body that are parallel
to the x axis and that are the same height?

Sorry if that wasn't clear!

[Mojotron]

Starting to get busy on the corners now...


I'm now using the non-fence end.



This is going to look pretty grizzly for the next couple of pictures




There - it's starting to get there...




Now we need a control cavity.

[Mojotron]

Now to put corresponding curves across the top. If you notice, the is a totally different way that I did this compared to last year - I like this method much better - same result basically - just one jig to do whatever is needed.





The idea here is to do successive curves to make a tapering effect - I'm just making it up as I go along...









There's a lot of smoothing work to do, but now you can see what I was shooting for. I may just go through the edge on the upper top there - make it more like the bottom... Gota run, more notes later...

[Picton]

If you deliberately chose the grain to go with your contours, then you did an outstanding job. If you didn't, you still did an outstanding job.

This'll be NICE.

[lookslikemeband]

Some seriously cool ideas here....

[Barncaster]

Hey Mojo,

This is a seriously cool build!

Barncaster

[Mojotron]

Originally Posted by RogerC

That grain is mesmerizing. This is going to be a very artsy kind of guitar for sure-- with all that carving and grain structure.

Where did you get that sharpening rig? I've got some chisels that are in dire need of a lot of help.

Thanks! Ya that's just the average 2 sided stone and one of these: http://www.amazon.com/General-Tools-Chisel-Plane-Sharpener/dp/B00004T7PB

That one tool totally changed how I viewed hand tools. I'm going to use chisels and planes a lot more than I have from now on.

[Mojotron]

Originally Posted by jpbturbo

Dude!

That is freakin awesome.

Thanks Dude! I hope I can deliver this one.

[Mojotron]

Originally Posted by anyone

Wow! Very cool.
I should have seen that one coming (haha).

Thanks - Me too

[Mojotron]

Originally Posted by Barncaster

Hey Mojo,

This is a seriously cool build!

Barncaster

It's the Colon Blow my friend!! Thanks!!

[Mojotron]

Originally Posted by Picton

If you deliberately chose the grain to go with your contours, then you did an outstanding job. If you didn't, you still did an outstanding job.

This'll be NICE.

Thanks!! Some of that is a happy accident, but that's what I was hoping for.

[Mojotron]

Originally Posted by lookslikemeband

Some seriously cool ideas here....

Thanks - There is a lot of careful sanding left to do, but I thing it will all smooth out great.

[Muzikp]

Speechless...it's just too cool.

[RogerC]

Originally Posted by Mojotron

Thanks! Ya that's just the average 2 sided stone and one of these: http://www.amazon.com/General-Tools-Chisel-Plane-Sharpener/dp/B00004T7PB

That one tool totally changed how I viewed hand tools. I'm going to use chisels and planes a lot more than I have from now on.

Thanks for the link. I just ordered one. I've vowed to take much better care of the tools than my dad did when he owned them .

Remind me to show you a before/after pic of the stanley plane that I got from him...

[Mojotron]

Originally Posted by Muzikp

Speechless...it's just too cool.

Thanks - I can't wait to get my biz trip finished and get back to smoothing that thing out.

[Mojotron]

Originally Posted by RogerC

Thanks for the link. I just ordered one. I've vowed to take much better care of the tools than my dad did when he owned them .

Remind me to show you a before/after pic of the stanley plane that I got from him...

Yep - there are likely different (maybe better) tools out there for doing this stuff, but I was very impressed with my results. Blown away really. I did not have time to sharpen any of my big planes, but I imagine I'll finally get to utilizing a hand plane where today I would stuff wood back into my thickness planer and then deal with the snipe. So finding a tool that worked for me (BTW following the instructions exactly did not give me the best results, improvising a little with the sharpening angle will give you the best results) was a big break through for me.