Summer Build Off 2024 - Get Ready!

[ctmullins]

Tele and Rick are my two favorite body shapes!

That Tele headstock is atrocious though….

 

[Gervais Cote]

Tele and Rick are my two favorite body shapes!

That Tele headstock is atrocious though….

A tele with a Fender jazz neck made of roasted maple, body contour for the forearm, no pickguard and precision duo pickup is what I'm dreaming of…………..

 

[Max Bogosity]

I have some spalted wood that I might want to use in the SBO, but it is pretty punky. Would I be jumping the gun if I stabilize it with penetrating epoxy before the kick-off?

 

[Reedt2000]

I have some spalted wood that I might want to use in the SBO, but it is pretty punky. Would I be jumping the gun if I stabilize it with penetrating epoxy before the kick-off?

I don't think so, don't see it as any different than having bought a stabilized spalted or burl top. Just my $0.02

 

[Markshan]

I have some spalted wood that I might want to use in the SBO, but it is pretty punky. Would I be jumping the gun if I stabilize it with penetrating epoxy before the kick-off?

The rules say you can dimension your lumber in advance (which I have chosen, perhaps foolishly, to not do) but I don't see why coating it wouldn't fall under the same preparation umbrella. But what do I know?

 

[ardgedee]

I have some spalted wood that I might want to use in the SBO, but it is pretty punky. Would I be jumping the gun if I stabilize it with penetrating epoxy before the kick-off?

From the rulebook...

Scratch Builds
Both the body and neck must be built from scratch during the build off period. To save time, dimensioned lumber may be used, but components must not be Cut or glued up prior to the build off start.

Dimensioned lumber includes: Billets, 1-pce neck blanks, matched tops, stringers, Thin laminates, veneers, fingerboards, pre-slotted/radiused fretboards, etc. This includes items purchased from suppliers or resellers. For example, if you have purchased a two-piece body blank that is pre-glued, that is acceptable. However you cannot purchase a two-piece unglued body and glue it up prior to the build off start date.

There is some time-saving prep work that's allowed (dimensioning the lumber). And there are a couple examples of things you can buy prebuilt, but can't pre-build them yourself (a radiused fretboard, a multi-piece body blank). My intuition is that epoxying fragile wood falls in the latter category. But at the same time I feel like it deserves an exception if it's a necessary step before it can be cut to dimensions, or if the process is particularly time-consuming, like needing weeks to cure or something like that. (I don't really know what the process entails.)

@Beej is the arbiter of course.

 

[Max Bogosity]

(I don't really know what the process entails.)

@Beej is the arbiter of course.

I don't really know either, to be honest. Regardless of Beej's ruling on whether this counts as allowable prep work, I intend to plagiarize shamelessly from his driftwood build.

 

[Markshan]

The first pour will shrink. So it's probably going to be a three-day job to get it where it needs to be in my limited experience.

 

[Beej]

I have some spalted wood that I might want to use in the SBO, but it is pretty punky. Would I be jumping the gun if I stabilize it with penetrating epoxy before the kick-off?

This has come up before and was ruled to be okay. The main reason was that boards are sometimes stabilized after being sawn but long before being used.

I don't really know either, to be honest. Regardless of Beej's ruling on whether this counts as allowable prep work, I intend to plagiarize shamelessly from his driftwood build.

I was also just sifting through driftwood tops today doing some thinking...

 

[Max Bogosity]

This has come up before and was ruled to be okay. The main reason was that boards are sometimes stabilized after being sawn but long before being used.

I was also just sifting through driftwood tops today doing some thinking...

Thanks, makes sense to me that it is somewhere closer to 'producing lumber' than 'building instruments'.

Having made that big fuss, now I need to dig out the moisture meter and see if the pieces I'm thinking of are anywhere near dry enough yet. I think you dubbed this a Lovecraftian horror over in the DIY Lumber thread.

 

[Markshan]

I hope this isn't a rude thing for me to say but it looks like a vagina. On the other hand, perhaps that makes it the ultimate rock and roll instrument.

 

[Max Bogosity]

I hope this isn't a rude thing for me to say but it looks like a vagina. On the other hand, perhaps that makes it the ultimate rock and roll instrument.

I didn't see it before, but I sure do now. And can't think of anything else to say on the subject that won't get me instantly banned.

 

[Markshan]

I didn't see it before, but I sure do now. And can't think of anything else to say on the subject that won't get me instantly banned.

Maybe it's because I've been widowed for a couple months now and my wife was very sick for a couple years before that, but that's literally the first thing I saw. I saw that before I saw lumber.

 

[Matt Liebenau]

I think that was a whole Everybody Loves Raymond episode with a sculpture the mom made.

 

[Markshan]

I think that was a whole Everybody Loves Raymond episode with a sculpture the mom made.

Yes!!! My favorite line was when she finally saw what everyone else saw and asked "Am I a lesbian?" So funny.

 

[ardgedee]

Maybe consider it a counterpart to the symbolic shape inherent to all guitars.

 

[2groggy]

Why am I always late to the build-off get ready threads? This is actually early for me.

 

[Beej]

I've had a sudden epiphany about what to do for the SBO and there's still time to order parts. I don't want to overstate things, but I'm hoping for a spectacular multi-build.

 

[Markshan]

I love sudden epiphanies!

 

[ctmullins]

The crux of the biscuit is the epiphany!