What's on your workbench today?

[Davecam48]

[RogerC]

^ That's a beauty, Dave. I really like the styling

[whodatpat]

Originally Posted by LocustPlague

I've made a few Robert Smith style buzzstops for some members on offsetguitars.com. This one went to the post office today.

I like this design a lot. Nice job.

[Davecam48]

Originally Posted by RogerC

^ That's a beauty, Dave. I really like the styling

Thanks Roger.
It is my version of a Maton G240 model made in Aus in the 60's only about 300 made and a straight copy of a Tele of course. Maton used to do that as a lot of US instruments were hard to get here in those days.

This one is acoustic type construction and essentially hollow (more details when finished) where the original G240's were solid body with no F hole.

Here is a pix of an original.

[crazydave911]

Originally Posted by Davecam48

It is my version of a Maton G240 model made in Aus in the 60's only about 300 made and a straight copy of a Tele of course. Maton used to do that as a lot of US instruments were hard to get here in those days

Have always liked Matons, esp the old ones . Do believe I'm going to like yours better

Dave

[Crawfish]

Here's what's on mine.

[LocustPlague]

Originally Posted by Crawfish

Where's the other half of the neck?

[Crawfish]

Originally Posted by LocustPlague

Where's the other half of the neck?

Well, that's why it's on the bench!

[guitarbuilder]

Today's adventure was to thickness sand some quartersawn walnut for an acoustic and a thinline top.

[jkingma]

My workbench is still buried under a bunch of junk that I need to take to the dump. I can barely move in my shop and until I get it sorted there won't be much happening in there.

Finding the energy and motivation to do all the clean up is the hard part.

[crazydave911]

Originally Posted by guitarbuilder

Today's adventure was to thickness sand some quartersawn walnut for an acoustic and a thinline top.

The sweetest sound acoustic I ever played was a walnut, small-bodied Alvarez Yairi. Bar none, best fingerpicking guitar I ever saw or played. If you build this, please post it

[guitarbuilder]

Originally Posted by crazydave911

The sweetest sound acoustic I ever played was a walnut, small-bodied Alvarez Yairi. Bar none, best fingerpicking guitar I ever saw or played. If you build this, please post it

The hard part for me is the side bending. I wish I had a heating blanket but alas just the old school fox light bulb bender. I'm thinking about making an actual mold for this one but laziness will probably just win out and I'll use my " universal" adjustable mold system.

[henderson is go]

Originally Posted by guitarbuilder

The hard part for me is the side bending. I wish I had a heating blanket but alas just the old school fox light bulb bender. I'm thinking about making an actual mold for this one but laziness will probably just win out and I'll use my " universal" adjustable mold system.

Really? I use an Ibex bending iron an find bending to be one of the most relaxing and easiest parts of the build. I build without molds, so my shapes have to be perfectly accurate.

[guitarbuilder]

Obviously there is a learning curve to using a side bending iron. Making 1 acoustic guitar every 2 years isn't that helpful in moving along on the curve :-) and the semi perfectionist in me doesn't like the bumps that result from my inexperience using it.

My point , I guess it didn't come out that clearly, was that for me the side bending was the hard part of making an acoustic. Hard being a relative term. The rest of it is pretty simple woodworking once you've done it a few times. Everything is pretty much butt joints and it's just a matter of doing the correct things in the right order I guess. I've never used a dovetail, but have made the spanish heel on about half of them and used bolt on/mortise and tenon on the other half.

[dave4567]

This is what I am playing with at the moment. From left to right, poplar body ( will put maple cap on it) maple body ( thinline with maple cap), Ash thinline with top and back ash caps and four maple necks ( with have maple fretboards).

[mgdesigns]

Just finished this on Monday. Not Guitar Related - but should buy me some shop time later next week.

BTW - This was scrap silver melted down & poured into an ingot mold, rolled out to sheet, and hand fabricated, and engraved - the stones were cut by me over 20 years ago. Roadside find in AZ was the Chrysacolla, and topaz was bought rough at the 1996 Syracuse Gem & Mineral Show, and I faceted it that next year.

[guitarbuilder]

Very nice....You should be doing some engraved teles.

[mgdesigns]

Good Idea - maybe someday some one would desire my services? Oh, wait a minute - I did a couple of pieces on that Cooperative Project Guitar last year. :-)

[guitarbuilder]

Don't get me started :-) I was thinking Zemeitis (sp) inpired inlayed tops.

[mgdesigns]

Originally Posted by guitarbuilder

Don't get me started :-) I was thinking Zemeitis (sp) inpired inlayed tops.

TEE HEE - I'd love to do an exotic top - I have Zemaitus photos posted all around my cubical at work. I want to do a Dragon Tele someday. Starting small, though. I need to make a small truss rod cover for my Xaviere XV-900 (ES-335 wannabee) that has the same (but reversed) headstock & diamond shaped logo plate, and truss rod cover.