Tickled Pink: Jupiter's Es-335 Build

Nice to have it listed out, thanks! The saddles are already slotted--though I'm wondering now if the spacing is right for the PUs...might end up replacing and re-slotting...

 

Yep, my plan has it slightly canted. I was aware of it, but I've never had to DO one that way before. With the method people have mentioned here, I guess it'll be easy to find the necessary angle.

Good ol Fletch. He's got lots of good simple methods, and like you, next time I built something with a set neck, I'll be watching this series again. I'm itching to make something kinda like these too. I tell ya one thing for sure, though, the next set neck I build is gonna have a flat top and the tenon's gonna the the width of the neck!

The mere thought of drilling holes into the top of a finished guitar makes my nads suck up into my body cavity...

 

Mr. Smith, my middle school photography teacher, once wrote on my report card, "works in spurts". I've really taken that to heart over the years...

 

Running out of things to do before gluing in the neck...

Really hard to get these tuners lined up straight! They aren’t in a straight line, and they don’t have nice straight edges like vintage klusons...


I bought some small bean tuning knobs to switch these funky hipshot knobs out, but looking at this headstock, I kinda like these!


Drilled the holes after testing a screw into some scrap mahogany, but I’m afraid to test fit all the tuners and potentially snap a screw off... lol


A few nights of final sanding and I think there will be gluation next weekend. And then hardly any scary things after that!

 

maybe not but they sure change their mind...

 

RICH CORINTHIAN LEATHER!

 

Welp, here goes nuthin...

 

So there’s that:


A moment of panic when I couldn’t get the neck seated after putting the glue on—it gets tacky so fast! But the first clamp squeezed it down tight. I THINK it’s in there all the way, but hard to tell with the masking tape and rubber cauls in the way. Whatever; it’s not going anywhere now...

Not a lot of progress this weekend, though that was a crucial step. Spent all Saturday building a basketball hoop for the boy... Next weekend: the bridge.

 

About an hour in the clamps was as long as I could stand to wait. Peeled everything off and it looks...


Okay! It’s a hair proud of the body on this side and the back; it’ll take some careful sanding to bring that flush. It’s about twice as cumbersome to work on as before, but on the other hand, it’s definitely a guitar now!