Guitar novices 2013 build challenge

[Guitar novice]

Hi all

Great to be back after a year off.

Good luck to all.

This year im doing a build for myself. Plan is for a thinline. Hopefully ill get through the construction a bit quicker so i can spend more time on finishing.

Cheerd

 

[BluesBlooded]

Good Luck!

 

[kwerk]

Hey, someone south of the equator at last! Lower half of the earth represent!

Good luck to you, and uh, stay warm!

 

[Guitar novice]

Hey, someone south of the equator at last! Lower half of the earth represent!

Good luck to you, and uh, stay warm!

Ill try to do it some justice.

Freezing in perth at the moment. I wonder how spraying nitro is going to go later.

Shame your not in the challenge this year. I always like watching your builds.

 

[kwerk]

Haha, your "freezing in Perth" is probably not quite as incondusive to guitarbuilding as "freezing in Wellington" is.

 

[Guitar novice]

Haha, your "freezing in Perth" is probably not quite as incondusive to guitarbuilding as "freezing in Wellington" is.

Haha. Agreed, all relative.

 

[gitlvr]

Good to see you in this year. Good luck!

 

[paulmarr]

Look forward to watching! Good luck!

 

[kissTheApex]

Good luck!

 

[GunsOfBrixton]

Who better to build a guitar for than yourself! And a good choice on the thinline.

Robert

 

[Criss68]

Good luck!

Criss

 

[Guitar novice]

Ok here we go.

Mandatory wood shot.

Body. Queensland maple
Top. Bookmatched lemon mrytle
Neck. Queensland maple
Fingerboard. Rosewood and ebony. Dont know which yet

Cheers

 

[Guitar novice]

Theres a guitar in here somewhere.

Thinking of trying binding. 2 colours to choose from.

Started to get my thoughts on paper. Bit of a list of whats needed. You can probably spot the booklet from mr kirn.

Cheers

 

[kwerk]

Nice looking wood!

 

[Picton]

Try the binding. You'll learn a lot. That lemon myrtle is breathtaking.

 

[clsatt]

Try the binding. You'll learn a lot. That lemon myrtle is breathtaking.

+1 on that myrtle

 

[Guitar novice]

Thanks Phil

Hopefully it wont end up a solid colour

Time to test out my new jointer. I bought this a few months after last years challenge with plans to make some more guitars. Life got busy and a year later im getting to test it.

Set the fence to be square.

I ran front side through and then flipped the other piece so the back was facing the fence. That way if the fence is slightly out it wont matter.

Did the glue up

I think there is a knack for using the planer. Was unsure to press down or against the fence. I think the join is good just not perfect.

Start neck tomorrow

Cheers

 

[tiskit86]

Nice. Now that's an organized looking start!

 

[Guitar novice]

Nice. Now that's an organized looking start!

Thanks. Never been accused of that before.

3 stages of organisation in a build.

Organised
Organised chaos
Then it's just chaos

 

[BluesBlooded]

Nice going!