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Winter build off 2019 – Red
- Thread starter Scoops
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I've done it pretty aggressively before, more like this:
really digging the cavities of the body. interested if you are going to make the mahogany neck, i'll be making one neck of a really hardwood later on next year.
I like this. My plan is to use similar layout/cut-out on the center block for my ES335/EB2-type build.
Possibly, but I think I'll approach it a little differently. I put some holes in, and got about a .15lb weight reduction. If I put in the rest of the holes, hog out the neck pocket, hog out the pup cavities, and trim the interior walls a bit, I could probably get this to @5lbs, or maybe even less. I need to get a new .75" Forstner. The one I have is a bit dull, and working on this wood, well it's not really wood working...closer to wood burning.
I have a softer African mahogany neck that I was planing on using. I also have a nice piece of figured mahogany I'll be using for the fingerboard
I have an urge to build this with a maple neck. I need to resist that urge
Cheers
No, I haven't.
Looking at the wood database, it look to have almost the same characteristics as African Mahogany.
Ive never made a neck and am far from ya’lls skill set but there is something about cherry that I love. Its a good solid wood that is (by many) a hard enough wood for a neck. Thought I would ask if it had been considered, maybe on another build.
Actually, I have considered it for a body.
A buddy of mine was harvesting some trees. He gave me some green cuttings of cherry
Got em mid week. They had cracked before I had a chance to seal the ends that weekend.
So now I have a couple billets that I'll probably use for book matched tops, if I can salvage that much out of them.
Update
Hogged out the neck pocket
Got the weight down to 5.5lbs
Little more red in the swimming pools
Cheers
Hogged out the neck pocket
Got the weight down to 5.5lbs
Little more red in the swimming pools
Cheers
Update:
Put in the rest of the weight relief.......errrrr......Tone Holes. Yeah, that's it....Tone holes!
Also thinned the walls by a smidgen. It's now down to 5.1Lbs
I was thinking of going with a maple neck, but to keep weight down, I'm going with mahogany
The section with the pencil scribbling will get removed. I need to figure out how deep I want to go. I intend on mounting the pup in a manner similar to mini hums. I'm looking for threaded inserts and long screws to do the job, so I still need to do my math with this.
Thanks for looking
Put in the rest of the weight relief.......errrrr......Tone Holes. Yeah, that's it....Tone holes!
Also thinned the walls by a smidgen. It's now down to 5.1Lbs
I was thinking of going with a maple neck, but to keep weight down, I'm going with mahogany
The section with the pencil scribbling will get removed. I need to figure out how deep I want to go. I intend on mounting the pup in a manner similar to mini hums. I'm looking for threaded inserts and long screws to do the job, so I still need to do my math with this.
Thanks for looking
Update:
Routed the truss rod, cut out the neck, and made the finger board.
I was originally planning on using the plain mahogany finger board in the background. It was cut from the neck, but I kinda sucked at the bandsaw, and it ended up thinner than I can use for what I'm looking to do. So the next option is to use this piece of quilted mahogany.
Thanks for looking
Routed the truss rod, cut out the neck, and made the finger board.
I was originally planning on using the plain mahogany finger board in the background. It was cut from the neck, but I kinda sucked at the bandsaw, and it ended up thinner than I can use for what I'm looking to do. So the next option is to use this piece of quilted mahogany.
Thanks for looking
Update:
Got my clamps out in action where I glued on the fingerboard to the neck, and glued the top together, then roughed out the neck, and stained the top.
Cheers and Thanks for looking
Got my clamps out in action where I glued on the fingerboard to the neck, and glued the top together, then roughed out the neck, and stained the top.
Cheers and Thanks for looking
FYI,
ALL mahogany on this build will get stained red, including the fingerboard.
ALL mahogany on this build will get stained red, including the fingerboard.
Whoa, that board looks nuts with that stain!
Thanks! It does pop nicely
So I'm thinking I'll be taking this up a step
The fingerboard will be adorned with crushed MOP shark fin position markers.
The crushed MOP is the same I used on Hollybacker, which is close to white in color.
Decision point: The accenting color on this will be in the binding. What color for binding - white or creme?
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Creme, definitely. I think white would look too stark.
Creme. I think creme looks better with wood, white is better with certain paints. I would look though at which works better with the crushed MOP since the binding will be butting up to the inlays.
Your comment is in alignment with what my design coordinator (wife) said. My desire was to go with the creme. When looking at my red Gibson ES330, she indicated that the white MOP blocks worked with the creme binding because there was a portion of the FB between the position market and the binding.
My intent is to butt the marker up to the binding.
I could get some creme colored crushed MOP
