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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2021 16:57:17 GMT -6
OK... I did a few things today. It was raining pretty hard this morning, but it stopped around noon. So I went out and did some things.
I have been wanting to make me a table for my drill press. I bought the wood for it the other day. It uses two bolts with a round head and two wing nuts so I can take it off easy. I cut a 2X4 to use as supports To help the table from bowing. I screwed and glues the supports on.
I also did some work on the peg head. Cleaning things up.
I was thinking of doing a back veneer. But I think I'll see what it looks like once I dry test the tuners.
I also made a template for the neck routing. I am also going to add the humbucker template to this.
Well, that is it for today. I am having one of my bad days with numbers today. I had to remeasure thing at least 20 times. So, I quit for the day. When I get like that nothing makes any since to me. LOL!
Oh hey you know what else?
This is what else... If you have a belt sander or drum sander you need to get one of these things. It works super good om taking off the junk that get on sanding belts, and other kinds of sanders as well. It made my table belt sanders belt look like new again. I know some of you may use one of these, but I just now talked myself into buying one. LOL! I was surprised at how well it works.
EB
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Post by dnic on Apr 16, 2021 23:43:36 GMT -6
Eddie I have two of the sander paper rubber thingys. I don't remember when I got them I've had them so long. But they are the greatest things to gave around.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2021 11:16:18 GMT -6
Looks like the rain has decided to give us a brake today. Going to spend the day doing some clean up in the little shop.
I may try and do some work on one of the two guitars.
EB
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Post by dnic on Apr 18, 2021 23:53:42 GMT -6
12 hours since you posted this, hope you got to do some work. It's so amazing when the sun is out. Had an amazing weekend here in Mt Shasta.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2021 16:09:50 GMT -6
Super nice weather today!!! Got a lot done on this build.
I started off by making the template or finishing the template. I used my other humbucker template to make the routing holes for the humbuckers. In the picture you can see I am hogging out so I can start the routing.
The routing begins. I pre measure everything for the depths I need to go. I also route it out in 3 to 4 passes.
This little router sure does make the wood dust fly.
This is the front of me.LOL! I took my apron off right after this picture and I had a hug amount of wood dust between the apron and my shirt. To funny.
getting ready to set the neck. This time I used some tape around the neck pocket. I am trying not to have to do a lot of clean up around the neck and the body. Most times I don't worry about it. But on the other project I had a heck of time trying to clean up around the neck and body.
Here is the neck all clamped up.
Something I thought of while routing the neck pocket...
The small router I use has a small base on it. make it hard to finish routing out things like a neck pocket. Once you get the neck pocket routed using the template you have to tale it off so you can finish the rout depth. So in the picture I am showing what I did to over come tipping the router. The base of the router is to little to go all the way across from one side to the other. So You need to make a wider plate or do what I did. I used part of the spacing gauge for the router. I used the part you see in the picture. To get it to be flat across, I set it on the body and lined it up. It Worked out great!
I thought I would share this in case someone else runs into the problem.
Well, I did jump the gun a little. I forgot to drill the holes for the wires before setting the neck. I also forgot to drill the tuner holes. LOL! I was so excited to get this far today. But it's not the fist time I have done this.
Tomorrow, I'll be doing the control cavity and drilling for the pots, and drill for the wires. Also need to drill for the input jack. Trying out an input jack I have done before, so that should be interesting. Once all of that is done, then it will be on to.... MORE SANDING!
Here is something too. On set necks, I see people making them to fit (dry) super tight. I like mine to fit sung. If you make them to tight there is no room for the glue to do it's job. You can get away with a super tight fit on bolt on necks. But not on set necks. Plus if you have a little bit of give you can make sure the the neck is straight before clamping it up. It it's to tight you have to live with what you got.
See ya all tomorrow. EB
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Post by dnic on Apr 19, 2021 17:40:06 GMT -6
good idea on the router base stretcher. I agree most of these guys showing off how they can swing their guitars around by the neck. They will be very sorry when they have to hammer the neck in when it's glued.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2021 18:13:37 GMT -6
good idea on the router base stretcher. I agree most of these guys showing off how they can swing their guitars around by the neck. They will be very sorry when they have to hammer the neck in when it's glued. That is something I forgot to say. Once the glue is on and when I went to put the neck in place. It was a pretty tight fit. Took a little bit of elbow grease to get it in place. That also happened on my other build. The wood does swell up plus the thickness of the glue.
EB
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Post by antares on Apr 20, 2021 1:11:34 GMT -6
I redularly do things out of sync these days Eddie, it seems to be implicit with advancing years!
You're spot-on about making allowance for the adhesive too. We had to do that at work. The extrusions (edge cappings) had a number of tiny parallel milled channels running along inside them to build in an adhesive allowance, and we had to use scrim cloth (a thin mesh like women's tights!) between flat plane surfaces to achieve the same. Dane and I have exchanged ideas about this subject. We had to do weekly pull tests on the various adhesives on a Hounsfield Tensometer to verify the bonding procedure. As I finished up in Quality Assurance, I regularly saw the result of slap-dash bonding.
e&oe ...
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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on Apr 20, 2021 13:47:06 GMT -6
Great job, Eddie. I feel like a slacker because I haven’t built anything from scratch lately. Your work - and pace - are both admirable.
Thanks for sharing this thread with all of us.
John
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2021 16:13:31 GMT -6
Today I didn't get anywhere close to doing all I wanted to do today. Today the pain in my body decided to make a visit.
I wound up some things, like making more templates. I found an old template the other day for the back control cover and cavity. It was in rough shape so, I did some work on it and now looks usable again.
Here is a teaser of how I am laying things out. I do have a 3 way LP switch for this that matches the Ivory knobs.
In this picture is the input jack I'll be using. I have never used one of these. Should be alright.
I did get the hole drilled for the 3 way switch and for the volume and tone pots. I also got one of the templates made for the control cover. Still trying to decided what I going to do for the 3 way switch cove. I don't know if I want to make it round or not. I may try and do a small one that looks like the Tone and volume cover.
Thanks so much for al of great comments and encouragement!
Oh I have to figure out how I am going to cut my control cover in half. It's to tall to fit through my band saw. So I think I have it figured out. So, there will be more on that sometime tomorrow.
EB
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2021 16:38:55 GMT -6
I didn't much done today. We went to Hobby Lobby, bought some fabric, went to Low's,got some stuff to try out on fabric, went to Harbor Freight and bought a vice.
By the time I got home I really didn't feel like doing much. But I did get the back cover for this build cut...
This is the vice I bought. It is perfect for my little shop. It has a clamp on it so that it can be clamped to other places around my Lil shop.
I used that new clamp to hold the wood I am using for the control cover. I have forgotten how much work it is to saw something like this in half. I use a miter saw to help out with this. I think I did pretty good keeping things close to the right thickness.
After a little sanding everything is right on thickness wise.
Here the control cover sitting on the template for routing.
I still have enough left over wood for 2 more covers.
It took me about an hour to cut and sand the cover. I had to hand cut because my band saw just is not big enough. OK... enough for now... EB
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2021 15:32:01 GMT -6
Well, did get the control cavity routed today.
I use two sided tape and attached the template onto the body. I then routed out the depth for the cover.
I hogged out the wood then I free hand routed out the control cavity. It looks a little rough now, but with a little sanding it should clean up.
here it is with the cover on. I am again going to use magnets to hold the cover on.
Here is the input jack all drilled. So nice to have a bit that fit this jack. Again, this is the first time I used one of these. (look at the other pictures in the post) So far I think I like it. I may start using these more in other builds.
Worked at a slower pace today. I decided to buy a hole saw to make the template for the 3 way switch cavity. So, I'll be getting that tomorrow. I tried to make a perfect circle, But that ain't happening. The old hands have gotten just, OLD!
I hope tomorrow that I will get to finish up the neck join and get the cavity done for the 3 way switch.
So until then boys and girls, Keep on keeping on! EB
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Post by dnic on Apr 22, 2021 17:41:53 GMT -6
The electro sockets are a nice touch. Plus I think they are a direct t fit, except for the screw holes, for the spring clip tele socket that always seem to wiggle loose.
I now see a vise as a must have. After years of just clamping things down to the bench I got a parrot vise and that has been the handiest tool to have at hand.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2021 17:57:50 GMT -6
The electro sockets are a nice touch. Plus I think they are a direct t fit, except for the screw holes, for the spring clip tele socket that always seem to wiggle loose. I now see a vise as a must have. After years of just clamping things down to the bench I got a parrot vise and that has been the handiest tool to have at hand. yep, I told my wife today, I have already gotten my moneys work out the vice. I used it today to hold the guitar so I could drill the hole for the input jack. It was so nice to drill form over the top of it and not have it clamped to the table like you said.
I had a bigger one that attached to my work bench when I had my shop in AZ. But the one I have is big enough to do the things I want it to. Boy, do I ever miss some of my tools I once had. Oh well, I am still having fun.
EB
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Post by antares on Apr 23, 2021 1:15:41 GMT -6
I have used these on my Telecasters. A 7/8" spade bit and a soft faced mallet. They never wiggle loose and are early 1950s Blackguard correct. Mine were hand milled and plated at a consumate price but I see they're easier to get off the shelf now. Solid as a rock provided you drill a suitable hole first ... I have one left that I intend to fit to my Gordon Smith Gypsy 1 double cut- the one I did the hummer to P90 conversion on. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/323791918357I once bought an Electrosocket in satin finish, but I fitted it to my Freddie Freeloader neighbour's Tele with "the wiggle". Same guy who was always borrowing my Peterson strobe tuner. He's a great guy though- don't get me wrong! e&oe ...
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