What's on your workbench today?

[Laren]

It was just getting worse, maybe not being fully cured didn't help so, I've sanded it all off and am now re-spraying, only a couple of coats then let it dry then a couple more etc. I'll get on with the next build mean time. I've got two early builds that could do with new necks and bodies

I'll keep them posted.

 

[Drak]

Blackbursted the edges, top, and back today, with a few more clearcoats.
This is 90% hollow and weighs about a pound.

It has a neckblock, tailblock, and a bridgeblock to support a TOM and tailpiece, which you can see through the rear cavity shot.
It has a central connecting 'beam' that connects those three, which you can see through the bridge pickup cavity too.

 

[hopdybob]

My first and last attempt at pinstriping. Damn, it’s difficult. I’ll leave artistry to the artists and stick with craft work.
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somehow i don't like the white pick guard.
the fine lining and than that big chunck of white does not doe the lining credit.
maybe use a black one would boost the lining even more.
but that is my personal opinion ;-)

 

[Laren]

Respray on the go and worked on a top for the next build,

 

[gasouthpaw]

Blackbursted the edges, top, and back today, with a few more clearcoats.
This is 90% hollow and weighs about a pound.

It has a neckblock, tailblock, and a bridgeblock to support a TOM and tailpiece, which you can see through the rear cavity shot.
It has a central connecting 'beam' that connects those three, which you can see through the bridge pickup cavity too.

Blackbursted the edges, top, and back today, with a few more clearcoats.
This is 90% hollow and weighs about a pound.

It has a neckblock, tailblock, and a bridgeblock to support a TOM and tailpiece, which you can see through the rear cavity shot.
It has a central connecting 'beam' that connects those three, which you can see through the bridge pickup cavity too.

Love the color and that flame...

 

[intensely calm]

Learning how to make a gretsch-ish kinda guitar, kinda.

 

[Laren]

Glue up day,

 

[kifla]

Not on my workbench anymore...but I've made the body, pickups and neck plate..

My friend did the finish, abalone inlays and polished the neck plate and have it chrome plated.
I am happy how our collaboration turned out.

 

[kifla]

2K acryl finish on thinline cherry tele and travel guitar is almost cured.

Wet sanding and polishing next week.
I've also wet sanded and polished old parchment pickguard.

 

[horseman308]

Getting close. Decided to leave it one tone (no burst) and a satin finish. I sanded in 3 progressively finer coats of tung oil. Now drying/curing and will be ready for assembly in time for my gig Friday.

 

[Jim_in_PA]

"On my bench" was a day of working on cleaning out the upstairs of the "old" shop...it was kinda sad as I am disposing of quite a few years worth of "shorts" and related that I doing generally throw out. 'Never know when a small piece of something will help with a project. But I don't have the space in my storage locker to handle that kind of stuff and there's certainly no room in the "temporary" shop for much of that either. So a few sticks of exotic or highly figured stuff do get to move and the rest is heading to the recycling center. While this is a holiday weekend, the weather being extremely cool made this the perfect couple of days to do this work as the upstairs of that building is unconditioned and gets like a sauna on a warm or hot day. Most of the stuff left up there is either moving to storage, to the new house (additional music equipment in that category) or moving to a donation center in the next couple of days.

 

[bullfrogblues]

Mine was more like what was keeping me from my workbench! I had to replace the rotted ramp to my 12 x 16 shed. I went with Trex composite decking this time instead of PT decking. I had to replace the joists as well. the ramp is 6' wide and 8' long.

 

[Laren]

That worked out better than I expected, no gaps Not sure where I'm going with it yet, the black just for the grain I'll probably sand the rest off but then again. It'll have a couple of humbuckers in it from another build, I'm just changing the body and neck

 

[Ripthorn]

I've got a few necks. FIrst is kingwood on wenge with abalone J birds:





Next up is ebony with maple binding on roasted maple with abalone inlay:





And finally, macassar ebony on pau ferro with maple burl inlay and SS frets:

 

[hopdybob]

I've got a few necks. FIrst is kingwood on wenge with abalone J birds:





Next up is ebony with maple binding on roasted maple with abalone inlay:





And finally, macassar ebony on pau ferro with maple burl inlay and SS frets:

your an artist, respect!

 

[Laren]

Not sure where this is going yet but it seems to be going there pretty well so far

 

[Laren]

and printed a humbucker routing template

 

[horseman308]

...and done. It needs another black knob; only had one in the spare parts bin. Plays well, sounds great. Has a bit of neck dive, but I'm really happy with it overall. I built it with the idea of it being a dedicated Open G guitar, but my wife is already asking how much I can sell it for!

 

[Bugeater281]

Havnt had time to work on guitars lately. Hopefully I get some time soon. In the meantime this is what I did over the last year. Cut all the cedar by the roof by hand . I guess my Japanese pull saw isn’t just for guitars.

 

[bullfrogblues]

I posted before of the Music Man style Cabronita I'm building, and I went by my friends' house that gave me the wood. It's from the 1790s. He borrowed one of my Strelecasters and loved it and wanted to build one for him and one for his brother because the wood came from their family's old homestead in NH. Snapped a couple pics. He's going to leave most of the dark color that he can, the only lighter colored would will be where routing has taken place.