First time making a guitar...
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… only bit big enough… and light to boot…
Using his prototype for a template, marked out the blank and then went to the band saw to rough out the shape.
Smoothed the curves on the Disc sander and the Spindle sander…NOTE that is a pencil mark for the centre line not a glue line… it is one solid piece of Hoop Pine..
Routered all edges top and bottom with a 1/2 inch round over bit and off to the ROS to smooth the blank all over…
I figured that Jonathan would like to be able to say he made it….... so I did a little and then he did the rest..
Back to Johnathan's house and a little grain filler to smooth out some small defects…
This Guitar is going to be sprayed Cherry…so we need to make sure it is a smooth as a bowling ball…
As this is almost pro bono, I figure he can do most of the work…
Once each week for a few hours… next week it is the Neck… better watch some videos to see what I have to teach him next… learning curve for both of us… I may even learn to play the guitar when it is finished…
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… only bit big enough… and light to boot…
Using his prototype for a template, marked out the blank and then went to the band saw to rough out the shape.
Smoothed the curves on the Disc sander and the Spindle sander…NOTE that is a pencil mark for the centre line not a glue line… it is one solid piece of Hoop Pine..
Routered all edges top and bottom with a 1/2 inch round over bit and off to the ROS to smooth the blank all over…
I figured that Jonathan would like to be able to say he made it….... so I did a little and then he did the rest..
Back to Johnathan's house and a little grain filler to smooth out some small defects…
This Guitar is going to be sprayed Cherry…so we need to make sure it is a smooth as a bowling ball…
As this is almost pro bono, I figure he can do most of the work…
Once each week for a few hours… next week it is the Neck… better watch some videos to see what I have to teach him next… learning curve for both of us… I may even learn to play the guitar when it is finished…