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| 2012 TDPRI Tele Build Challenge 2012 Build Challenge Forum -- check out all the build threads for this year's Challenge. |
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March 14th, 2012, 04:24 AM
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mmoncur's 2012 Challenge Build Thread -- COMPLETED
I'm going to do this!
I will be in the "Best Beginner" competition. I've never made a body or neck, my closest experience is assembling a not-yet-finished partscaster. I had planned on picking up a nice router, a new drill press, and a ROSS before I got started, but I don't think finances are going to allow that. So this is going to be a weird build using few tools, lots of work, and some slightly unconventional wood. Wish me luck! |
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March 14th, 2012, 09:07 AM
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Welcome, and good luck to ya'!
 Dave
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March 18th, 2012, 01:34 AM
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Good luck with your build and just remember everyone who's in the competition either is or started out just where you are. Try your best and be safe.
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March 31st, 2012, 05:01 AM
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OK, I'm back. Let's get started.
Inspired by some of the comments on my "Hardware Store Wood" thread, and by a thread on "how many pieces can a body be before it loses tone" a while back, I thought I'd try a crazy extreme. So I now present 40 or so 69-cent yardsticks. |
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March 31st, 2012, 05:16 AM
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To make this seem slightly less crazy, here are some of them looking a bit more like a body blank.
These yardsticks are very flat but not very consistent. You can see the variation in wood color (which I plan on making visible in the end) but unfortunately they vary up to 1/8" in width, so I'll have to spend some time thicknessing the body... They're 1.5" in width, so my guitar will be 1.5" thick. I could add a layer of yardsticks on top to make it 1.75" but I like slightly thinner guitars. |
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April 6th, 2012, 05:08 AM
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Argh, I shouldn't have started a new job during this project. Or I shouldn't have started this project during a new job...
Anyway, I'm planning to make major progress on the body this weekend. Stay tuned. |
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April 9th, 2012, 01:05 AM
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Progress!
I printed out the lovely Terry Downs blueprint using a Mac program called Splitprint - highly recommended. Then I taped it to the back of the plastic cover from a poster frame, traced with a sharpie, then attacked it with some scissors and a dremel tool until I had a crude transparent template - it's less than 1mm thick, certainly not for routing, but good enough to trace an outline from. Meanwhile, I picked out the widest 26 yardsticks (to minimize the amount of sanding later), lined them up in a vaguely pleasing pattern, and cut them in half at the 18" mark with my cheap bandsaw. I put the halves together in a "bookmatched" fashion so that the pattern is symmetrical and so the guitar will have a consistent weight (and maybe tone) on both sides. I numbered the yardsticks on both ends pre-cutting so that I could put them back in the proper order in case I dropped them all over the floor, which I of course did. Here's the body blank (not yet glued) with the template showing what the guitar body will look like. |
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April 9th, 2012, 07:03 AM
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You might want a few more clamps
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April 9th, 2012, 09:05 AM
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Just glue that nice plexi template on the top and have a "Son of Scatterkwerkrulescaster" Which is German for "we're all freakin' nuts around here"
Loving it Entertainment factor 10+
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April 9th, 2012, 12:58 PM
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Just don't let the Nuns @ Catholic School get their hands on this thing. I'd say a whack
from it could break a bone.
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