What's On Your Workbench?

[HaMMerHeD]

Bee-Tee-Dubs,

Here's a PDF of my 4-inline head design, with relevant dimensions and center lines for layup, for anyone who wants it
Dropbox - 4inlineHeadstock-Heretic.pdf

 

[Means2nEnd]

Just started the finishing on a few necks. One is for Anthony Corley I am building a custom 5 string lefty for him and my supplier in Ohio got me some outstanding maple I have to call him tomorrow and get some more of it. It's getting harder and harder to get and getting so expensive.

Anyway i am finishing Anthony's neck with Crimson Guitars finishing oil from Ben Crow in the UK. It's supposed to be reversed engineered Tru-Oil that is thinner and and dries faster but can still build up the finish as well. Went on great I just applied first coat heavy and wiped it down. Next coat I will apply with 1200 wet/dry paper and sand it in then wipe again and repeat a few times. It stinks more than Tru-Oil and is much thinner we shall see how it does..

 

[miziomix]

Wow... it's been quite a while since my last post on TB..... nice to find familiar faces. Hope you guys are well.
Here's what my workbench looks like today...
A Über-Jay 5 being sprayed. Clear gloss.
Buckeye top and matching headstock. Fossilized wood void filler. Gabon ebony board with custom markets. Maple and Wenge neck. Black limba body.

A MüB Über-Groove 6 at set up stage.
Redwood top. Flamed Asian mahogany body with Wenge bottom insert. Gabon ebony board. Maple Wenge neck.

Ü-G Airborne 5 at woodwork stage.
Pistachio top. Padauk body with padauk neck and maple stringers. Maple board.

Über-Groove 5. Padauk top. Ash body. Padauk maple neck and birdseye maple board.

Plus one Über Jay 4 that just came out of the spraying booth.

And I d really like to make time for a thread or two....

Cheers!

 

[Rodent]

more pickup goodness - here is several split-coil sets freshly cut on the laser. all of these are commissioned, and most of these will be leaving the shop for other builders for use in their builds.

 

[charlie monroe]

My brother and I built ourselves a cantilevered wood rack this morning.

It's 5 feet tall, 2 deep and 6 long.

Lumber rack

• charlie monroe
• Oct 22, 2016

It will look better loaded up. Maybe on Monday

 

[DaanW]

Although this is not a bass, I think this will be a cool guitar (white falcon strat):

Binding preview + glow in the dark inlay


edit:

better picture of the glow in the dark inlay:

 

[BurnOut]

Those look great, MrArose! Here's the headstock for the above guitar, being scraped smooth.

Man that is beautiful work, love it. Got any pictures of the rough glue up? Curious to see what that looked like before you got to this. Impressive!

 

[Scoops]

It will either be a Rocket Ship bass with accompanying 6 string fighter, or 2 bread boards for Christmas presents

 

[Will_White]

Although this is not a bass, I think this will be a cool guitar (white falcon strat):

Binding preview + glow in the dark inlay


edit:

better picture of the glow in the dark inlay:

How'd you do that inlay?

 

[DaanW]

How'd you do that inlay?

I had someone CNC the logo I wanted. After that I used epoxy + glow in the dark powder.

Did a few glow in the dark powder tests, and GlowInc's V10 is the best by far.

 

[Five String]

Sub'd

 

[HaMMerHeD]

Man that is beautiful work, love it. Got any pictures of the rough glue up? Curious to see what that looked like before you got to this. Impressive!

Sure.

It began like this, with all the layers ready to be glued:

(Wenge, maple veneer, purpleheart stringer, maple veneer, wenge stringer, maple veneer, bloodwood core, maple veneer, wenge stringer, maple veneer, purpleheart stringer, maple veneer, wenge.)

Then I glued them together and planed them flat:

Then I cut off a section of the neck blank and glued an ebony/maple-veneer lamination to it:

Scarfed the neck:

And the headstock:

Did some pre-cutting on the headstock to make it a bit easier on me later:

And set them in my scarf-gluing jig:

Then glued them together:

Then I needed to glue some ears on:

(I took a lot of care to grain-match the ears, to the point that I can no longer find the glue joint.)

Then I used another jig to remove some waste wood from the back of the headstock:

Then I cut the neck out, trued the lines up to the design, and started shaping:

It came out nice in the end:

The whole build log is available here.

 

[pilotjones]

Beautiful, clean work.

What kind of finish?

 

[HaMMerHeD]

Beautiful, clean work.

What kind of finish?

Black timbermate in the Ash pores, and danish oil over the whole thing.

 

[BurnOut]

That is way super classy sweet, the black and it's shape makes it pop, you do well thought out beautiful work Mr HaMMerHeD

 

[wraub]

HaMMerHed- that is truly beautiful. Can't stop looking at it.
Damn.

Crazy well done.

 

[Five String]

HaMMerHeD Wow. Just wow.

 

[HaMMerHeD]

Thanks everyone. Your compliments mean a lot to me.

Also I feel I would be remiss if I didn't mention that a bit part of the reason that the wood and grain on that guitar pops is that instead of doing an extensive amount of fine-grit finish sanding with progressively higher grits, I instead sanded to 220 and then used scrapers to get a smooth, slick surface.

I did this primarily because scraping gives a nicer surface finish, but also because it's faster and I really hate sanding.

 

[HaMMerHeD]

I made a little tote to benefit United Way via a silent auction at work.

The tote is basically a gift basket with the theme of Ronald Ulysses Swanson.

So it will have some cigars, a nice bottle of tequila (Hornitos black), some soapstone shot glasses, and a gift card to a local meat market. I'll dress it up with some multicolored plane shavings.

 

[tbrannon]

I made a little tote to benefit United Way via a silent auction at work.

The tote is basically a gift basket with the theme of Ronald Ulysses Swanson.

So it will have some cigars, a nice bottle of tequila (Hornitos black), some soapstone shot glasses, and a gift card to a local meat market. I'll dress it up with some multicolored plane shavings.

Nicely done. should put some single malt whiskey in there instead. Lagavulin preferably .