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Post by Glen DeRusha on Dec 22, 2008 0:40:31 GMT -5
Thanks tonyc!
See, it doesn't take very long to find someone who can hear the intonation being off and tune the guitar to its self. Thanks for chiming in. ;D
I think that these are great things to talk about to make these things more user friendly. ;D
I only got to play the explorer for a little while before it left. I played my mock ups a little bit. I liked the fan frets.
Glen
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Post by Glen DeRusha on Dec 24, 2008 12:20:38 GMT -5
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Post by Glen DeRusha on Dec 24, 2008 12:37:10 GMT -5
I'll be needing my boxes soon. So we started sanding them. ;D Glen
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Post by Rhapsody on Dec 25, 2008 7:37:55 GMT -5
Wow! Just.....wow!
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Post by Glen DeRusha on Dec 26, 2008 19:45:04 GMT -5
Thanks Rhapsody! ;D Up until now has been the easy stuff. The hard part is coming. So far we have just been doing basic cabinet making stuff. The chain saw stage ya' might call it. The last 10% of the build is the hardest. Putting in the frets, putting on and buffing the finish, nut and saddle, set up. That stuff makes the chain saw stage look easy. It does to me anyway. I made these jigs to clamp the neck to the body. Then I can measure the neck pitch and the side to side of the neck, and it tells me where to sand the end of the neck to get it right. Then I sand it with this little jig that I made. Once we have that done, we can mark for our inserts, drill for them, and put them in. Then we can bolt the neck to the body. One down and one to go. ;D Now it looks like we are starting to get somewhere with it. All that we can do with it at this point is play air guitar on it. Never pass up an opportunity to play air guitar on something. ;D Glen
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Post by Rhapsody on Dec 26, 2008 20:18:26 GMT -5
At least the strings on that one won't leave callouses!
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Post by Glen DeRusha on Dec 27, 2008 14:07:15 GMT -5
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Post by Glen DeRusha on Dec 27, 2008 20:20:47 GMT -5
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Post by folkstrum on Dec 28, 2008 8:30:01 GMT -5
Looking GOOD, Glen! I can't wait to see one "strung up" and your "review" of it. Do you use a catalyized nitro-cellulose, or the UV cured finishes? Pretty cool stuff. Keep up the good work!
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Post by Glen DeRusha on Dec 28, 2008 12:19:46 GMT -5
Thanks Norm! ;D I can't wait to see one, and hear one, strung up either. I see your jumping right ahead to the finish. ;D Actually there are a few things that we need to do before we get to that. Patience young man, patience. ;D And we are going to use nitro. Lots of reasons to use it. And lots of reasons not to use it. Probably more reasons not to use it. But that could be another argument. Or thread. ;D I clipped off the ends of the fingerboards. Henry is on vacation. Playing with his new games. I glued in our inserts with epoxy. I added a couple more 1/16" brass registration pins. I've had a couple of fingerboards slip a little bit in the wet glue before. Nothing that we couldn't fix as we carved the neck but, why chance it now. This rosewood fingerboard is very light weight and not as dense as the ebony. Only two pins to hold it might be pushing our luck. We had a discussion on another forum about tops. Can you really hear the difference between a stiff top and a floppy top in a blind fold test? Some one chimed in with, you might be hearing the finger board or the tail block more then how stiff the top was or not. And we glued on a fingerboard. While that is drying, we made some binding for the fingerboard. And this is how we are doing it today. Edge sand some wood. Cut it on the saw with our fret slotting blade. And there it is. ;D Glen
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Post by Glen DeRusha on Dec 28, 2008 20:04:02 GMT -5
Still at it. ;D Glen
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Post by Glen DeRusha on Dec 28, 2008 22:44:53 GMT -5
Got the binding on the other one. It's been a long day. Night everyone. Thanks for watching. ;D Glen
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Post by Glen DeRusha on Dec 29, 2008 13:16:36 GMT -5
Fingerboard radius. ;D This is how we are doing it today. ;D We started out with our little clamped down edge sander. Then moved up to the 16" radius block. Which is homemade by the way. ;D We used the paper and the straight edge to check to keep the fingerboard straight from the nut to the body joint. Then we put the neck on the body and ramped off the fingerboard extension. Some folks call it the 14th fret hump. I call it a drop off. What happens over time is, the neck pitches forward from the string tension making a hinge point at the body joint. Some folks don't like the 14th fret hump. After doing repair work and set up work on older guitars, it seems like it would have been nice if they would have done that way back when. Glen
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Post by Rhapsody on Dec 29, 2008 23:03:55 GMT -5
I never realized how emotional building a guitar is (frets, truss, binding, strung up) or how sexual (inlay, neck, buff, saddle, stiff top, floppy top....). Are most luthiers men? Just wondering....
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Post by Glen DeRusha on Dec 30, 2008 13:51:21 GMT -5
Guitar building emotional? Ah yeah! Burning through the finish with a buffer is a bad one. I've seen that one make a grown man cry! ;D Sexual? Well since a guitar comes with a waist and a butt, and then the conversation pretty much goes South from there real fast. ;D We have lots of girls building guitars. My wife built one. ;D And then we threw in a piece of inlay. Glen
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