Okay, i must have missed half this thread and i just looked through it... it's like reading a fantastic book in one sitting then finding out somebody has ripped the last page out!
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Originally Posted by CJFearn
In The Old Days I used to route everything by hand with the little router I built myself and cut all the pearl with a jewelers saw. Now that we have a Router on Rails though we let it do all of that. Here you can see the old and new systems.
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What can you tell me about that little router? As in, how does it compare and how much did it cost compared to the RoR? I'm looking for some options for the future for myself here... just a quick sneak, my dad and my brother have consecutive birthdays (20th and 21st of Feb respectively). They both play guitar and are a hell of a lot better at it than me. Thing is though, neither of them have any really good kit. My dad had tons but eventually lending it out to my brother only to have it 'stolen' every other time he went to a gig whittled it down to about three to share for each of us. Now my brother's at uni and i'm not even sure if he has a guitar to play. Anywho, thing is that it just so happens that next year will be my dad's 50th, and also incidentally my brother's 21st. So quite a big occasion, and since i've stumbled across this gold mine i just might have the perfect gift idea
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Originally Posted by CJFearn
I finally found out what the wood was that I made the neck from. I knew I'd seen it once, many years ago, but couldn't for the life of me remember what it was. It turns out it's yew, the wood they used to make the famous British longbows with in days of yore. It also turns out it's pretty poisonous, so I guess I better not eat any! I hadn't actually planned on eating any, but now I won't for sure. But anyway, I reckon if it's good enough for Robin Hood, then it's good enough for me!  <-- (that's me just before I keel over and drop dead...  )
The wood is really nice. It's easy to work and has a nice smooth feel to it.
Here's some info about yew:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxus_baccata
And a couple of pictures of some yew wood: |
Isn't it used in longbows because of it's elasticity? Not sure really but do you really want that in a neck? I much prefer recurve bows though, just so much more efficient. And i know compounds are that much more efficient again but it's just not the same. If you ever fancy a break from guitar making then you might just find a considerable sum of money in your letterbox for something like
this :p
I digress however, get finishing! Can you really not play at all? Seems such a waste... even if you were just to learn the basics so you could truly understand how much of a genius you are:
http://www.justinguitar.com/