A different kind of Texas Longhorn

Sometime last year I was going through the "Printable Guitar Templates" thread (better known as the Big Boys Candy Store ) and found this little number LINK . This set my juices flowing so I fired up "Big Print" and printed some templates







Now don't get me wrong, the last thing I need is a bass, but wicked thoughts of a Bass VI invaded my dreams




Well, things were going along just fine when a friend gave me these Grovers from a Yamaha acoustic, nearly new (he wanted black ones)









Well, things went on apace and then I received this bridge by mistake from GFS (It was cheap, so I just reordered the chrome one)







I must admit, these things had me really torqued up, but here came the 2012 Challenge. I was busy as a cat with diarrhea trying to get my shelves built AND get new tight-grained red oak for my bed slats (I have heard you can make necks of red oak :idea. When I was getting my slats cut at Home Depot I saw these three vermin in the cut-off bin (to the left of my high-tech joiner of course )










Sigh .................what's a man to do? The die was cast, there was to be a Longhorn in my future

Here is that blank glued up and planed.........................









And........................................the cedar top









Probably a month or two down the road, I cut them out

 

Shown here in a family portrait









Then being glued up











Here it is with the........................red oak neck blank










And the maple fretboard









Yeh, I know, I'm thinking it too. He's unemployed and NOW he gets ambitious . What can I say, as long as I'm not buying anything it keeps my hands (and mind, such as it is) busy



Later, Dave

 

No worries

I look forward to it

Thanks John, glad you came by

You know me, not only do I march to the beat of a different drummer, he only has one stick

That's ok , I hope it does too

Ohhhhhh YEHHHHH!

I wish, my Dad has called me that since I was 5

 

Well, it didn't count as much of an update, so I hadn't. But I got my spindle sander fixed and got the bodies shaped. I've still got to do the roundover's but I'm going to do the neck/pup routes on the Longhorn and just do them both together













On this one, I'll rout for the neck reinforcement/truss rod when I do my Swinger neck then I can glue the fretboards and fret them both (nope, no thread on the Swinger yet..................don't have the body blank prepped yet ). Things should speed up then

 

Call it creative license

 

Thanks! , here's hopin'

 

Thanks!

Got between 5 to 10 hanging around in one shape or another....................but to be fair, these were first. Just couldn't work them without my spindle sander