What's on your workbench today?

[crazydave911]

Originally Posted by Mojotron

So is that the "belt and suspenders" clamp there Dave?

...........cargo tie downs . Beats the heck out of sisal rope and a spanish windlass

[henderson is go]

Just strung up this guitar

[OpenG Capo4]

Put controls and wiring on this today and played it for a while. Sounds awesome.

Bad news is tomorrow it has to come apart for binding and applying the finish.

[mkgearhead]

I rough cut this body from an old waterbed frame and did a quick mockup.

[Fernder]

Originally Posted by clsatt

Still need to reenigneer the bridge... it's basically thrown together with scraps I had lying around-- washers stacked on the posts so it's playable, need to make thumbwheels and trim the posts.

Nice looking guitar Clsatt! How bout a closeup on those fret markers, I just had this idea the other day and wanted to see if yours go all the way through to the top...fret marker and side dot in one.

[clsatt]

they do go all the way to the top to act as the side dots but I had some blow out on the maple and didn't rout deep enough for them to be clear... but that's what prototype models are for right-- figuring out how to do it right next time.

[Fernder]

VERY nice. I hope you don't mind if I use that ^

[clsatt]

not at all, I'm hoping to put this guitar into production at some point so as long as it's for you, I'd consider it an honor to have aspects imitated.

[guitarbuilder]

For some reason I think one of the bigger guitar companies did something similar with inlay in the 50's and
60's... Gretsch or Rickenbacker maybe? Maybe it was a
European or Japanese brand.... I can't find anything on google, but I know I've seen something similar....well somebody will chime in if I'm not imagining it. Either way it's a cool look. I have often thought a dot from the side to the top where it would come out an oval would be cool.

[Dirty Al]

A little binding scraping today.

[clsatt]

Originally Posted by guitarbuilder

For some reason I think one of the bigger guitar companies did something similar with inlay in the 50's and
60's... Gretsch or Rickenbacker maybe?

I did some looking, if you find it, I'd be greatful. I'm doing my best to avoid copying anything too closely.

[clsatt]

Originally Posted by Dirty Al

A little binding scraping today.

are those ghost stripes I see there? I like!

[guitarbuilder]

http://www.danarmstrong.org/bass3.html

[Dirty Al]

Originally Posted by clsatt

are those ghost stripes I see there? I like!

Thank you, I wanted to do something different with this guitar. Sorry for the bad pictures. These were taken with my phone. Going to shoot the clear this week.



here's a mockup. Still needing the upper area scrape when I took this.
this was taken in the shop. In the light this thing is a lot lighter and really pops. Even with no clear on it or polish. ~ Still have to build the matching neck pickup.

[clsatt]

Originally Posted by guitarbuilder

http://www.danarmstrong.org/bass3.html

hadn't seen those before, very cool though. I was trying for a stretched gretsch fingernail type inlay but without the binding and thinner.

[guitarbuilder]

http://www.jamesbisset.com/blog/guit...london-guitars

This isn't what I was thinking of.... I know I've had Teiscos with this similar inlay, but they were bound... I will check through a few books I have and see if something else pops up.

[Fenderfiend]

Well, I had a NGD the other day...
I wasn't going to 'announce' it until I had something going on it.

The pots were gone on it, and the humbuckers sound like Holy Crap, Batman!, but it seems to play okay.

I stripped out the electronics (switches, wires, what have you) and for a little while had the neck pickup going straight to the jack.
Figured I needed a volume knob for convenience.

The humbucker still sounds like doo-doo, so maybe that'll be an advice thread I'll look up or start later...

Meanwhile, my 'workbench' and the new-to-me axe:

[bullfrogblues]

I finally got some shop time today, so I thought I'd upgrade my templates.
Here's a tele master template in 1/4" lexan.

A tele master template in 1/4" MDF.

A working template in 3/4" MDF.

A tele neck template I decided to incorporate a jig for the ferrule holes. 3/4" MDF.

Here's a pic of my router table and fence, built into the right side of my cabinet table saw.

And a closer shot of the Woodpecker's router table insert. 3 1/2 HP Triton Plunge router under that.

Allan.

[clsatt]

nice table!

[njg12171]

On my bench, my archtop, still, got the board laid out, scraped the binding around the sound holes,







And then this just didn't fit on my bench, actually being built on a pair tables in my wifes Girl Scout meeting room, blasted thing is HEAVY! Its a 6 foot by 6 foot cubby cabinet .