430 days ago
by degoose |
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As you will see from the following pics the back of the body of the guitar blank has been scarfed out with the bandsaw.. this is for comfort when the guitar is tilted out from the guitarist
When played the contour would be at the back of the guitar and to the top… I know I am preaching to the choir but some of my readers are even less knowledgeable than me…
Using a ROS and 80 grit the contour is smoothed and shaped for comfort… Sanding willcontinue through to 220 grit....
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442 days ago
by degoose |
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Late last year, the boys at the local hardware sent a young bloke over to buy some timber so he could build a Guitar… Electric Bass that is…
It even has a name
CHERRY DEMON….cool hey
And so does he… Johnathan…
He had never built one but was going to give it a try…
Today we finally got together to build it… you got it… He and I are going to build our first electric bass guitar.. together….
Found a nice piece of Hoop Pine&#...
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528 days ago
by degoose |
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In my last post In the round the second pic shows a single stripe .. double chevron [second gen] ..This blog will show in part how this was done…
To start make two grooves on both faces of a board… in this case virgin hoop pine…[virgin meaning naturally grown… not plantation timber]
Inlay two different timbers… in this case purple heart
And narra [new guinea rosewood]This is instead of one strip of timber between two others…Shown end on…
I...
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1019 days ago
by degoose |
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Well I have been busy with a new project that was commissioned a few years ago… I have been putting it off because of the sheer immensity of the project…even though it is small in size the amount of production work is daunting…
The new project is a 35 drawer Apothecary Cabinet... I am thinking that the main carcass will be New Guinea Rosewood.. as will the drawer fronts…. the sides and backs of the drawers will be Hoop Pine....
To give you and idea I have taken...
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