Carbon fiber needs vacuum bagging in shapes like bass body. It doesn't settle on round , complex shapes without vacuum. You'll also likely to have too much resin in the laminate when hand laminating without vacuum.
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What's On Your Workbench?
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I'm not sure I would ever do full CF parts, like a Steinberger etc. Maybe an internal neck stiffener on a bass or 2, if it needs it.
If I mess with CF eventually, it would most likely be if I got back into archery.
I have an aluminum riser cheap PSE coyote recurve that I think it would be fun to make some new bolt on limbs for.......
Please, don't lead me off in any more directions. I have enough hobbies, interests and unfinished adventures as it is.
If I mess with CF eventually, it would most likely be if I got back into archery.
I have an aluminum riser cheap PSE coyote recurve that I think it would be fun to make some new bolt on limbs for.......
Please, don't lead me off in any more directions. I have enough hobbies, interests and unfinished adventures as it is.
Do it!
...says the guy with too many hobbies, interests and unfinished adventures.
Agreed. After seeing @RichterScale 's foamarleaux I think he can, and therefore should do every hobby, interest and adventure.
I've played with an idea of a foam core cf skin body. If I was to make one, I'd make a cf thru body neck beam, which would be recessed into the body after the body was laminated with cf skin. All the mounting points would need some kind of strengthening, be it plywood, aluminium or composite. Totally doable, maybe some day...
That's on my some day list too. I'd probably use plywood blocks for mounting points since it seems like the path of least resistance. And maybe a bolt on neck to make the development process easier (i.e. you could develop each component separately).
The real cool trick would be an integrated, molded in place bridge...
The real cool trick would be an integrated, molded in place bridge...
Not a ton of time lately with starting a new day job, getting kids back to school, and other life events, but I have pushed the two guitars along a bit. Fretboards are done, bodies are glued up and one of them is rough cut.
"Rescued" this 81 SG from a life of out-of-tune-ness because one of the previous owners thought it needed tremolo technology...
This is your guitar on Kahler:
Reverse puzzle making:
I realize it's not like I'm making it completely look like it didn't happen, but that was the order from the current owner. Fill it in, make it sold, don't have it cost a ton.
Got it fit, filled it with epoxy, found all required parts and...
It's an SG again!
This is your guitar on Kahler:
Reverse puzzle making:
I realize it's not like I'm making it completely look like it didn't happen, but that was the order from the current owner. Fill it in, make it sold, don't have it cost a ton.
Got it fit, filled it with epoxy, found all required parts and...
It's an SG again!
Nice fix! Doesn’t quite look like a Gibson though… does the owner know who made it?
I really need to start trademarking and patenting this stuff.
He got it from Reverb. It seems like its legit from what I can tell, the early 80s is strong with it. Serial has it at August 28, 1981 and a stamp inside confirms that pretty closely. And it has a Gibson neck pickup with a Duncan Distortion in the bridge.
My dad has an 82 Firebird Artist and it also has the painted on logo and is slightly different than what people call "traditional Gibson specs" but it's certainly legit, so I kinda figured this was the same thing. Plus, they both have the exact same knobs.
It could be the "Firebrand" version, as some pics I've seen look closer to this. And he has the truss cover, so I'll see what that says when I see him.
I've also been digging around, now that you mentioned this, and it seems more and more legit as I go. Even Zakk Wylde had a Pelahm Blue one of these and it's spot on for the same logo, side jack, headstock shape with volute, etc.
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Oh, Gibson in the 80s. 
Here's my dad's 82 Firebird. Set neck, bound body with a curly maple top, non-banjo tuners, fine tune bridge, standard sized humbuckers and a Moog active EQ.
It's more RD Artist than Firebird.
Here's my dad's 82 Firebird. Set neck, bound body with a curly maple top, non-banjo tuners, fine tune bridge, standard sized humbuckers and a Moog active EQ.
It's more RD Artist than Firebird.
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Okay, that Norlin FirebiRD Artist is awesome.
The distance of the intervening decades has revealed to me that those Norlin guys had some good ideas happenin'.
The distance of the intervening decades has revealed to me that those Norlin guys had some good ideas happenin'.
I missed this post - dude that Parker Fly needs more love. Yes it was a $2500 guitar new. You know in good shape it's worth well over $3500 now, right? If that were mine, I'd buy that replacement spring while you still can, fix all the bodges that are on it, and have it professionally refinished. You'll get all your money back and more. Cripes, a nitefly goes for 900 on average. You're sitting on some gold there, yo...
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Oh, Gibson in the 80s.
Here's my dad's 82 Firebird. Set neck, bound body with a curly maple top, non-banjo tuners, fine tune bridge, standard sized humbuckers and a Moog active EQ.
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It's more RD Artist than Firebird.
That's awesome! A sibling of the RD Custom.
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I had a MII Parker Hornet with a shelled foam-body. I bought it for cheap as the neck had a separation at the heal. That bass had a chronic issue as every one I've seen for sale has separation-lines there. The neck was nearly a neck-thru with an extended platform section to the bridge inside of the hard foam body. I was able to re-glue it making it playable and it played/sounded really good. (24 fret maple neck w/ebonal fb) Oddly it was heavy considering the body was made of foam but balanced well. I always thought of it like an M&M candy. I did a cool gilded finish on it and sold it years ago.
