What's on your workbench today?
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Freeman Keller
Doctor of Teleocity
The blue darner dragon fly is my daughter's spirit animal. When I built a little parlor guitar for her I had to inlay it in the headProbably my favourite bug! Dangerously beautiful, and dang it if they don't eat up a lot of skeeters too!
Clearcoat process, trying to protect the golden wings and iridescent bodies
Laren
Tele-Holic
Back to the poly. This time I'm wiping on very thinly, til it's almost dry. Might take a lot of coats and time but I think it'll give a better result.
Billycaster21
Tele-Meister
I love this guitar. Looking forward to have it turns out with the poly.
Trying out a shellac finish on this Tele neck.
Using a very light yellow de-waxed shellac which I mixed from flakes.
French polishing using walnut oil is turning out nicely, its already very shiny about 5 sessions in with no sanding or pumicing yet.
I will probably use the "British Method" and sand it with fine grit occasionally if I need to rather than fiddle with the pumice, maple doesn't need any grain filling.
Using a very light yellow de-waxed shellac which I mixed from flakes.
French polishing using walnut oil is turning out nicely, its already very shiny about 5 sessions in with no sanding or pumicing yet.
I will probably use the "British Method" and sand it with fine grit occasionally if I need to rather than fiddle with the pumice, maple doesn't need any grain filling.
hopdybob
Friend of Leo's
that is very beautiful, i almost thought you did this on wood.Probably my favourite bug! Dangerously beautiful, and dang it if they don't eat up a lot of skeeters too! Just gettin' that TruCoat now (they put it on at the factory, don'tcha know?), to protect the golden wings and iridescent bodies
i can see it in my mind on a guitar with that background colour
Laren
Tele-Holic
Seems to be starting to build now and I'm managing to keep it pretty smooth although I'll start to fine sand every so often I think.
Jim_in_PA
Friend of Leo's
Finished up sanding the joints in the drywall yesterday and most of the cleanup in the new shop building project. After I pick up some supplies, I'll be masking and preparing for paint. Finally.
hd09
Tele-Holic
Thanks for all the likes, added some accessories and think she'll love it.
eallen
Friend of Leo's
Prebuff sanding on some bodies up to 2000 and buffing some necks.
Eric
Eric
Jim_in_PA
Friend of Leo's
Pretty much ready for spraying paint in the new shop building project...nice milestone!
I made a guitar pick.
A giant guitar pick about 14" long.
This is cut from a solid slab of Madagascar mahogany, 1.5" thick. I inlaid an ebony birdy fingerboard into it and installed three 14" steel hairpin legs on it. It is going to a guitar player pal of mine who is a PRS freak.
A giant guitar pick about 14" long.
This is cut from a solid slab of Madagascar mahogany, 1.5" thick. I inlaid an ebony birdy fingerboard into it and installed three 14" steel hairpin legs on it. It is going to a guitar player pal of mine who is a PRS freak.
Swapped out a 300k Gibson pot from a shrill sounding single bridge pickup guitar assembly.
Two 250k pots with the longer 3/8" mount through wood, not real close to the same. Different cases too.
The Gibson pot I tookmout read 308k and I used the 230k from the 250k options. Tamed the shrills pretty well.
Two 250k pots with the longer 3/8" mount through wood, not real close to the same. Different cases too.
The Gibson pot I tookmout read 308k and I used the 230k from the 250k options. Tamed the shrills pretty well.
This think has been a PITA but is reasonably successful, big motivator was weight I can actually play standing without (too much) pain. Prepping another Warmoth neck and test assembled with an old clunker then took that pink neck off and installed a neck off my #2 Strat, out of frustration. Too much going on this fall to keep up on projects.
betocool
Tele-Meister
Man, I love the look of a rough guitar! Nicely done! Nothing like a good palletcaster!
Cheers,
Alberto
Jef
Tele-Holic
I'm building a Harmony H44 inspired neck through guitar and a 12-string telecaster. I'm using ayous for the H44 and for the 12-string body.
hopdybob
Friend of Leo's
wider bridge and it would be perfect in my view
i believe the toronado bridge could work
but that is my weirdness i think
Jsil13
Tele-Afflicted
Carved the 7 string neck I've been working on. It's definitely the widest neck I've made so far, but it's still thin so I'll get used to it.
I also had to make router templates for the 7 string humbuckers. Here's a little mockup.
I also treated myself to this curly claro walnut top. I couldn't resist the 25% off and I've never worked with walnut before and also wanted to. Not sure what I'll build with it yet. The only body blank that I have is another Explorer sized black limba one.
I made these earlier today for my co-workers. We're chefs and all have out own knives, water stones, and all that. None of us have ever tried strops. So I made us some. I didn't make them the same and was just kind of winging it. Both are birdseye maple/roasted maple with one having a black limba handle and the other having a bocote/purpleheart/bocote handle. Right now I have two coats of tru-oil on them and tomorrow I'll probably glue the leather on there.
I also had to make router templates for the 7 string humbuckers. Here's a little mockup.
I also treated myself to this curly claro walnut top. I couldn't resist the 25% off and I've never worked with walnut before and also wanted to. Not sure what I'll build with it yet. The only body blank that I have is another Explorer sized black limba one.
I made these earlier today for my co-workers. We're chefs and all have out own knives, water stones, and all that. None of us have ever tried strops. So I made us some. I didn't make them the same and was just kind of winging it. Both are birdseye maple/roasted maple with one having a black limba handle and the other having a bocote/purpleheart/bocote handle. Right now I have two coats of tru-oil on them and tomorrow I'll probably glue the leather on there.
