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06-29-2006, 10:08 AM
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OK, so, here's how a Roscoe neck is born, first a couple shots of one of our standard neck block (which yield ~5-6 neck blanks per block) just coming out of the gluing clamps:
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06-29-2006, 10:09 AM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | | A standard neck block "cleaned up", rough ends cut off, leveled out (joiner & planer):
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06-29-2006, 10:19 AM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | | Wedge neck blocks, on left 4/5 string block, maple/chechen/purpleheart/chechen/maple; on right 6 string block, maple/african tulipwood/purpleheart/african tulipwood/maple:
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06-29-2006, 10:21 AM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | | Wedge closeups, maple/chechen/purpleheart on left; maple/african tulipwood/purpleheart on right:
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06-29-2006, 10:24 AM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | | Wenge wedge neck blocks - top/left side 4-5 string block, wenge/chechen/maple/chechen/wenge; bottom/right side 6 string block, wenge/yellowheart/maple/yellowheart/wenge:
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06-29-2006, 10:25 AM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | | Wenge wedge closeups - left photo, wenge/chechen/maple; right photo, wenge/yellowheart/maple:
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06-29-2006, 10:53 AM
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I'm loving your "photodocumentaries" of how a Roscoe bass comes to life! Not helping the GAS issue though. |
06-29-2006, 01:13 PM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | | OK, so, how do they go from blocks to blanks??? Like this -
Here's Sanders squaring up and leveling a block:
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06-29-2006, 01:15 PM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | | Here's the ubiqutious Sanders, starting to cut a neck blank out of the wenge wedge block:
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06-29-2006, 01:16 PM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | | And once more, Sanders cutting a blank from a block, different angle, and these are standard necks:
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06-29-2006, 01:17 PM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | | One each wedge blanks, and then the blocks they came from.
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06-29-2006, 01:20 PM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | | Here are three "standard" blocks, with pencil lines to deliniate where the blanks will be cut. As you can see, these can be cut with the headstocks at either end, allowing a greater yield from each block, while the wedge necks all must be cut with the headstocks at the same end of the block.
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07-19-2006, 12:46 PM
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07-19-2006, 01:15 PM
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07-24-2006, 04:33 PM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | JT, thanks! 
OK, new pics, this time, two views of 6 necks in our headstock jig (for gluing up matching headstocks):
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08-08-2006, 01:39 PM
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08-08-2006, 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by jimb213 this is some cool stuff, gard! very educational! looks like fun work, too. | I'll make sure to tell the guys in the shop it "looks like fun" according to the TBers! 
That means that since they're having fun and not working, we shouldn't pay them? 
...wait, don't most people PAY to have fun???   |
08-08-2006, 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Gard I'll make sure to tell the guys in the shop it "looks like fun" according to the TBers!
That means that since they're having fun and not working, we shouldn't pay them?
...wait, don't most people PAY to have fun??? |
Man, I knew it, you are a Master Genius
What if you guys pay us to have fun with your basses ???
.....  ... sorry!  ... I promise, I'll shut up!
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08-08-2006, 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Gard I'll make sure to tell the guys in the shop it "looks like fun" according to the TBers!
That means that since they're having fun and not working, we shouldn't pay them?
...wait, don't most people PAY to have fun??? | dude, if you make those guys quit before my bass gets done, I can't be held responsible for what might happen...  (most likely it'll be me crying in a corner)
and who in the world ever said work couldn't be fun?!
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08-08-2006, 02:56 PM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | ...and here's a new to some of you face, Jason, he's routing for the graphite rods in a neck blank, two views (2nd one you can see sawdust flying!  ):
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