What's on your workbench today?

[Billycaster21]

This weekend I finished fretting the neck, leveling, crowning. Still needs string trees, and the nut need some work, but I installed it on a body I built last year and plays and sounds fantastic! I’m trying to figure out what I’m gonna do about finishing this neck. Probably Stew Mac spray can lacquer, but I’ll have to wait until the weather warms up a little bit more in Massachusetts. It seems that there are lots of different ways to go with this. I am very open to suggestions.

 

[Wheelhouse]

Here's my marker for Project #2. More of the Wisconsin poplar I got in summer 2021. Once it warms up a bit outside I'll go back to work on my template and getting the string geometry worked out.

 

[kifla]

Stainless steel plates for two XII string builds around GOTOH 12 bridge.

I've cut these on my CNC. When I built that CNC (V wheels on V slot profiles), didn't really
had SS cutting in mind... but with the right bit and slow and veeery shallow passes...it can be done
Orbital sanded to 10000 grit, somebody else will do the polishing

THIS is the router bit...in case someone else want to tackle this.
2.5 & 3mm...10mm/s speed; 0.05mm depth cut; 10800 spindle rpm
And occasional blow of compressed air and drop of some cutting oil.

 

[Moodivarius]

A friend brought over an H&K ATS-120A amp head.
Crackling & cutting out.

2 - 12AX7 pre-amp tubes & solid state output finals.

Hi input seems good. Low input intermittent.


I think it’s a cold solder joint.

Check it out Tuesday evening.



Scott

 

[RogerC]

I keep saying I'm done building guitars, but of course there's always one more...

Alder Jazzmaster-ish with a curly maple/wenge neck. Going to paint it the same color as the gold used on mid '60s Ford Mustangs and will have a white pearl pickguard with GFS white pearl-topped P90s and a Bigsby.

Here's a mockup:

And coupled with that, is this one:

I've got a good friend who's always wanted to learn to build guitars, so I told him I'd let him use my tools and would mentor him as he builds this one. He loves non-standard, oddball guitars, so this one is koa/walnut and will have 3 lipstick pickups. He's going with all black hardware, with a jazzmaster trem/bridge and tele controls with a strat switch.

 

[bobio]

Been having problems with the wireless unit that I share between the BOSS Nextone Special and the Positive Grid Spark via a JHS A/B switch. For some reason the amp sounds like crap and the signal cuts out. Fortunately, the same setup that I have on the Katana Artist works fine. I started troubleshooting by swapping out the transmitter, same problem. Then I swapped out the receiver, same problem Next step was to swap the amps, again, same problem. I even checked ALL of the cables in the chain, all good. Finally came down to power. The Katana and its wireless receiver are plugged into an APC UPS. The Nextone, the Spark, the wireless receiver and the A/B switch were plugged into one of those wall wart APC Surge protectors. It worked fine when I hooked all this up, years later it seems to be failing. I had another APC UPS and hooked it up and ALL is good again in my world.

 

[Travis1972]

A little refinishing before the build

 

[RiversQC]

A little refinishing before the build

Um, whoa! Would love to see some more pictures.

 

[crazydave911]

I always wondered what the people who got the last three Stradivarius felt like. I caught Rich Rice on his last three Dewdrops. I even sent the wood I wanted it made from. Except for the fretboard it was all from Tennessee. And the fretboard even was from a place I've been. On one of dad's 30 day leaves we spent it on Corsica. Every night especially you could smell the sweetest wood slowly smoking. Native to Corsica (and I don't even remember the name) you could smell the wood of the local flooring house (no kidding, that was the name). They cut, slowly smoked in their kiln, then cut miles of flooring. Mostly for Germany where I lived at the time. I remember dad floored our bungalow in exchange for the rent. The fresh smoked smell is still in my nose.
Anyway, I got one of the last three of Stradivari instruments. It arrived today setup exactly like I wanted/asked.
When there's some Martin's and even Gibson flatops listed for 10 grand or more and you wonder WTF? It wasn't that much but would have been a bargain at twice the price

 

[crazydave911]

Oops

 

[crazydave911]

My lousy playing lol

 

[Zepfan]

Finally got the pics on my computer of the CBG style guitar that I made for my Grandson for Christmas.

 

[Moodivarius]

Not on the bench, but in the sky at my house.

A shot over the sauna & the lake.

The phone exposure shows better than you can see with the naked eye.

The beauties of the north.



Scott

 

[kifla]

ABS WRHB rings...

...and some new design:

Not mine, though!

 

[hopdybob]

I keep saying I'm done building guitars, but of course there's always one more...

well, i could give you something that i haven't seen in DIY land
a short scale gibson nighthawk.
i just don't like the gibson bridges on the normal LP/SG.
and if, than i would want to try to build that guitar

 

[hopdybob]

A little refinishing before the build

just beautiful

 

[Jim_in_PA]

'Wish I could get to my bench, but darling older daughter had knee replacement surgery on Tuesday with some additional complications and there really hasn't been any opportunity. We keep having to run to her apartment. Hopefully, this will abate over the next few days because I'm flippin' exhausted.

 

[hopdybob]

'Wish I could get to my bench, but darling older daughter had knee replacement surgery on Tuesday with some additional complications and there really hasn't been any opportunity. We keep having to run to her apartment. Hopefully, this will abate over the next few days because I'm flippin' exhausted.

well, good for her she can have a new knee, in the Netherlands you have to be old to get one when it s hurting bad. (ore you have to have a lot of $$$$ to pay it yourself).
get well soon, and you stay okay to.
grand, dad's and mom's that are there for their kids

 

[Jim_in_PA]

well, good for her she can have a new knee, in the Netherlands you have to be old to get one when it s hurting bad. (ore you have to have a lot of $$$$ to pay it yourself).
get well soon, and you stay okay to.
grand, dad's and mom's that are there for their kids

It's rare for someone as young as her (27) to get a knee replacement, but it was either that or not be able to walk and go back to work. She's a disabled American and has good benefits, but cannot afford to live independently unless she can get back to working. Her knee was pretty much without any cartilage (bone on bone) and also crooked from injuries from abuse in the country she was born in and from a subsequent injury as a young teen. It had deteriorated so badly over the past year that she had to stop working last September due to the pain...and to her credit, she abhors pain medications beyond ibuprofen, etc.

 

[crazydave911]

Not on the bench, but in the sky at my house.
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A shot over the sauna & the lake.
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The phone exposure shows better than you can see with the naked eye.

The beauties of the north.



Scott

Yeah was expecting that, I follow Space Weather News