Recent content by BigRyg

When you screw up and it turns out to be a good thing... Since I made the scarf joint cut I decided to go ahead and finish shaping and finishing the head before I made the joint since it would be so much easier to work with a small and flat piece. I had 2 designs that I templated with the...

What I did was to glue some pine to the edges of the blank along the angle I needed to square up and used some 90 degree aluminum on that pine to create a sanding berrier. The rails didn't need to be this long. I just didn't want to cut them down in case I needed them in the future. Using my...

Thanks! I'll definitely have to go that route (see what I did there?) next time. I've already completed this joint which I'll go into on a future post. But long story short, I screwed some aluminum rails on the edges in parallel and sanded and scraped down to a smooth face.

I'm interested to hear everyone's best practices for executing their scarf joints on your necks. I've never had much trust in my band saws or miter saws (much less had one that can cut a sharp enough angle) so I go strictly hand saw. But inevitably it is never perfectly executed. How do you...

Well that about covers every possible way to pronounce it.

Here’s the plan for putting the neck blank together. I used the flame maple that I got from CurlyMapleWood.com for the outside parts and of course the wenge strips. I opted for a cheaper nonfigured maple center strip. Dimensioned it down to the widths I wanted with the thickness sander and...

Yeah! I was sure it was wen-gay before I bought it from the guy at Woodcraft but he called it wenj so I figured he HAS to know what he's talking about. So it threw me off and shook my confidence.

Materials acquired! Anyone else ever use curlymaplewood.com? Great selection and really good service!

I've been working this project for about 5 weeks now. I'm capturing this build on my channel and trying to make it interesting. I'd love to have some fellow luthiers follow along and maybe add to the convo. Here's the first of the 5 completed episodes.

I recently picked up a commission to do a fretless 5 string for a talented musician in an all-girl (mostly) Philippians based band. This is my first bass build after 8 or so strats and teles. It's also my first neck-through. Here's the concept based off an Ibanez which is what she wanted. I...

Hi guys, Introduction. I'm Chad and I'm a government employee. I've built 8 or so Strats and Teles from parts casters to full builds with detailed inlay and bindings. I'm CptRyg on the tdpri forum for telecasters where I pretty much learned everything I know. I recently picked up a job for a 5...