I planed some cherry for a porch bench today and found some interesting grain. I glued up some scrap and beveled a little relief to see what it might look like if I used a cherry core and walnut front and back. Too many possibilities.
Second Thoughts on Walnut Body
- Thread starter StoneH
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After a coat of sealer on my bench slats, I've decided the cherry is too red/orange for my taste. I might look for a core wood that I can match to the neck.
trapdoor2
Friend of Leo's
I have some huge planks of Walnut 8/4 X 12" wide X 8'. One is 14" X 14'...damned heavy!
I plan on a few all-walnut builds...but they'll almost certainly be thinlines!
Cherry used to be a favorite neck wood. I have banjos from as early as 1889 and their cherry necks are like new.
I plan on a few all-walnut builds...but they'll almost certainly be thinlines!
Cherry used to be a favorite neck wood. I have banjos from as early as 1889 and their cherry necks are like new.
Speaking of walnut, I cut and planed a plank for a shelf in my "studio". It has some defects that I am going to practice fill with colored (iridescent?) epoxy.
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give me the toan
Tele-Meister
I just glued up a walnut body blank today, but now I'm thinking if I should've made it a thinline... maybe planing it down to 1.5" with arm and belly cuts should help with weight, right?
This CV50s was 9lbs before the arm and rib relief, now it's . . . 9lbs. I'm leaning toward routing out a pound of material, then adding back a quarter inch thick book-matched top. I'm estimating 7 1/2 lbs complete.
The epoxy filler came out as expected. I left the epoxy a little proud and planed it down. I rubbed some mineral spirits on for the picture. No one will see this shelf, but I'm going to use green on the other side for the heck of it. The voids below the surface are much larger than I thought. I used triple the epoxy I thought I needed. Maybe I should start with wood glue.
give me the toan
Tele-Meister
hm... I guess a swimming pool rout will probably also help? maybe making the cavities a little deeper than normal?
MAS Tequila
Tele-Meister
Something like this?
I did a swimming pool route then extended over to within 1/2 inch from the pg screw holes.
She’s a one piece walnut body, and the slab was heavy.
I haven’t weighed the body, no scale big enough.
But it’s a good bit lighter with the small route.
Yes it’s a Strat route in a Tele body.
I did a swimming pool route then extended over to within 1/2 inch from the pg screw holes.
She’s a one piece walnut body, and the slab was heavy.
I haven’t weighed the body, no scale big enough.
But it’s a good bit lighter with the small route.
Yes it’s a Strat route in a Tele body.
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Almost done. It's just a shelf, but it helped me learn a few things about filling with colored epoxy.
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