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The Rickenbarner - my first fully scratch-build!

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RaniBrandt said:
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That looks really nice! Neck carving is one of the most rewarding steps. That's when it takes the leap from a rectangular chunk of lumber to something resembling a musical instrument. Well done!
 
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It's not too bad, Gilmourisgod, once you get started. Just take away the wood that isn't a guitar neck, and you've got it. I actually found it to be a fairly meditative process, and not as tough as I thought it would be.

I got a good bit done today as well, starting with finishing the back of the neck carve. Since that won't really look much different from the photos in my last post, I didn't bother to take pictures of that. Then I moved on to the fret installation:

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Carved the nut:

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Drilled tuner holes:

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And glued on the left side of the body:

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#112
RaniBrandt said:
And it looks like we've got another bleeder! I'm not even sure how this happened, I just found it when I came in the house:

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You call that a bleeder??

I got this one Saturday night from a hand grinder with a metal stone... Just proof that I have thick skin. Yes I was doing something stupid and yes I knew better and yes now I know even more better. :D Amazing how quickly something happens, even more amazing that I have all my fingers.
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All kidding aside the bass is looking sharp, the neck looks comfortable, love the worm holes in the wood.. You're a natural.
 
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I can't remember what the finish will be if you mentioned it, Tru-Oil maybe? Watco Danish? I suppose you could leave it natural, but I think Tru-Oil would pop all the laminations. Your project is really making me want to build a 4003W walnut clone next, might as well since I have all the templates now.

scottyd said:
You call that a bleeder??

I got this one Saturday night from a hand grinder with a metal stone... Just proof that I have thick skin. Yes I was doing something stupid and yes I knew better and yes now I know even more better. :D Amazing how quickly something happens, even more amazing that I have all my fingers.
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All kidding aside the bass is looking sharp, the neck looks comfortable, love the worm holes in the wood.. You're a natural.
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That is nasty looking. Did something similar to my thigh with a grinder doing auto body work (badly) grinding down bondo. The angle grinder disk caught and spun it down into my thigh, nice divot taken out, and a scar to remember it by. I tried to stay just a little scared, particularly of my table saw.
 
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Gilmourisgod said:
I can't remember what the finish will be if you mentioned it, Tru-Oil maybe? Watco Danish? I suppose you could leave it natural, but I think Tru-Oil would pop all the laminations. Your project is really making me want to build a 4003W walnut clone next, might as well since I have all the templates now.
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Yeah, I'm going with Watco Danish. I like how it looked on my previous two builds, so I'm sticking with it!

scottyd said:
You call that a bleeder??

I got this one Saturday night from a hand grinder with a metal stone... Just proof that I have thick skin. Yes I was doing something stupid and yes I knew better and yes now I know even more better. :D Amazing how quickly something happens, even more amazing that I have all my fingers.
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Actually, it was quite a little nick, I admit. This thread is mirrored on the TDPRI build challenge forum as well, and there had been a number of participants who had bled, so I was just trying to not be left out! I did end up sanding off a good bit of knuckle skin on the other hand a few days later, while using the ROSS. That one was a few weeks ago, and is just now at the point where I'm not re-opening it every time I blink.
 
#116
Has anyone tried dried blood (their own, of course) as a finish......? Never mind. Stick with Watco, stupid easy, looks great, easily re-applied down the line. I've used it in one bass and three of four furniture projects. Love that stuff, though lots of people on TB like Tru-oil. Never tried it, how is it different from Watco?
 
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Gilmourisgod said:
Has anyone tried dried blood (their own, of course) as a finish......? Never mind. Stick with Watco, stupid easy, looks great, easily re-applied down the line. I've used it in one bass and three of four furniture projects. Love that stuff, though lots of people on TB like Tru-oil. Never tried it, how is it different from Watco?
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I recall someone trying to use it as a stain on the Project Guitar forum years ago. I assume it would just turn brown.
 
#118
I hope I was actually kidding about the blood.... Anybody see "The Red Violin"? Great movie, violin maker loses his wife and adds her blood to the varnish, which makes it sing like a Strad. Sad and a little haunting. I've bled enough to ruin a piece of wood, hoping not to ever do that again.
 
#120
I don't have a picture, but I sliced into the meat on my palm at the base of my thumb the other day doing something equally stupid. I was using a Denatured Alcohol soaked rag to clean the rubber rollers on my planer. Instead of walking around to the other side, I just reached under and started cleaning the other roller and raked my meat hook across one of the knives. Holding an alcohol soaked rag at the time added insult it injury
 

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