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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2022 17:04:49 GMT -6
Turned out to be a nice day out today. So, here I go...
I know this picture is a little hard to see. BUt, I got my joiner/plane up and going and put it back on the flip top. That's it underneath.
Because the full range pickup is so much bigger then a reg. humbucker I had to make a template for it. So, I reused a template I had made for the Teak wood guitar. that was easier than making a whole new one. Still took some time. I drew it out then used my jig saw to cut the opening bigger. Then used a lot of sandpaper, and a file to get it so I can use it to rout out the the pickup cavity to size.
I used two sided tape to hold the jig in place.
here it is after routing it bigger. The pickup fit kind of sung so, I may have to still enlarge a little bit more. I'll figure that out before I put the leather top on it.
This sander has become my number one tool in the shop for sanding. I use the heck out of it. this is what I use to true up the sides of the guitar body. So glad I get this when I did.
Here is the sander again after changing it over to a spindle sander. This is the first time I used this feature. It was nice to able to quick change the spindles out as needed. Made sanding around the neck a lot easier and better than I ever done. And it is safer than using a router, like I see so many do. But foe me it only took the one time I got hurt and almost lost two of my fingers. Not fun! So I now don't mind that it may take me a few minutes longer to get the job done. I never again use a router for this job. Better safe than sorry.
The next few pictures will be of the side of the guitar after sanding. I still need to finish up a couple of spots. I ran out of sunlight and had to stop for the day. If tomorrow is as nice out as it was today, I may able to finish truing up the side.
The horns of the guitar came out great! This is the part of the guitars I don't like to do so much. The end grain is always hard to work with. I still think that this wood is harder than steal. My band saw does not this wood at all.
OK, that is it for today. Time to go relax and watch one of TV shows. LOL! So, until next time... EB out!
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Post by dnic on Jan 13, 2022 18:52:12 GMT -6
Got a lot done. Nice to have the weather on your side.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2022 16:36:00 GMT -6
Here is what I got done today. I didn't get as far as I wanted to. They needed some help at my church setting up some stuff of an event we are doing. So, I stopped working on the guitar to go help out.
But here is what I did get done.
To start of with. I needed to locate the control cavity onto the back of the guitar. I Usually drill the holes first. But I had to keep the leather top in mind. I do not want my volume controls on top of the eagle. I would up drawing the control box on top. Once I was satisfied that is were It need to be, then I had to transfer that info onto the back. A simple way to do that is the use of some paper and some carbon paper. I pressed the paper around the sides to get the shape of the body. I then drew out the shape on on the paper for the control cavity. Once I had that I then flipped the body over put the carbon paper down and placed the drawing on the back of the body and lined up were I pressed on the paper to the body. Carbon paper is a good tool to have in the work shop. I use to use it back when I was doing cars. You can get it at Office depot of Office max.
Here is the control cavity routed out. It's the same template I made for the Teak wood guitar. Again I used two sided tape to hold the template in place. I hogged out the wood using my drill press. I then routed this out. It took a longer time to rout because of how hard this wood is. Took a lot of passes to rout. I tried one time to rout out as deep as the router bit is long. But it was not having it. It was jumping and acting all kinds of scary stuff. So, I stopped and cut down in smaller passes. Once I did that things went pretty good.
Still need to do some cleaning up to get things looking a little smoother. But the cavity will get covered up at some point. I had to keep routing until the long shaft pot would go through to clear the 3/16" leather top. I did get it there. At least I think so. LOL!
I also got the round over done on the back of the body.
Today mad have been the last day I get to work on the guitar for a while. The weather here has decided to get nasty. Lots of rain and the temps for a high are going to be in the 40's after that. So, It's hard telling when I can get back on this. But, the last two days have been a lot of fun working on this in great weather. I only wish I can have another 2 days of it. LOL...
Once I can get back on it, I''l be making a control cover, doing the belly cut, doing the routing for the bindings and drilling the holes on top for weight relief. I also still need to drill the wire channels and drill for the input or out put jack. Some say input and some say out out. Guess it's all in the way you look at it. Yes I has someone get on tome about it just the other day. LOL! Some people. I call it input jack. I have called it that ever since my first electric guitar I had ever owned. So, what ever anyone wants to call it. I really don't care.
So, until next time boys and girls... EB out!
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Post by dnic on Jan 14, 2022 19:41:50 GMT -6
Good progress Eddie. I call it output cause it's leaving the guitar going to the amp. The amp end would be input. Just like any speaker wires from the amp are output. But even so if you call it an "input jack on my guitar" people should know what you're talking about. Some people just half to correct others. Whatever cranks their amps.
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Post by antares on Jan 15, 2022 6:39:40 GMT -6
Another example of crossed wires (no pun!) is male and female connectors. Sometimes folk will call a connector male because in use it is inserted, but inside the connector there may be one or a number of female sockets, so it's female even though it's inserted in use. Just check out SMA RF connectors for a good example. As you say, call it whatever because we generally understand, but some eBay and Amazon sellers don't seem to grasp the concept. They will also insist that the images are generalised and you can end up with an incorrect polarity connector. It's happened to me! For guitars, it's an output socket, it's female and you insert a male TS connector. That said, I generally say "input socket" too Eddie so although I know I'm wrong, I still do it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2022 10:44:15 GMT -6
It really bugs me in now so many these days get hung up on how someone says something. I am not good with words nor do I want to be. But posting things on line in medias I have learned that not all read the same way nor do we understand the same way. I am all the time miss reading what someone has written.
Then when I ask them what they meant they get all out of joint with me. And now with what my brain is going through it's even harder for me to understand some thing that people rite.
I know I have a hard time trying to explain things and I go into writing a book because I want people to understand me. But to get into it over in out put in put kind of thing is just wrong. To many today all they do is find things to put someone else down to make them selves look like they know more than the next person.
Oh well... getting off subject.... Going to maybe try and do some work on the Guitar. But I think because because it's cold, and I think I need a brake from it. I am thinking making another video of my Peavey Delta Blues amp. Had a person or two ask me to do another video of it and show more about the controls of it. So might do that today. I may even cover the Eagle Blues guitar build a little.
EB
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Post by antares on Jan 16, 2022 13:19:39 GMT -6
I realise where you're coming from Eddie. I recognise it too ...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2022 16:22:33 GMT -6
Well, we had a high of 55 today. So, I decided to get some work done on this build. The Sun was out and I wanted to get out of the house.
So here I go;
While waiting on the temperature to come up a little this morning. I decided to stat on a template to help cut the leather. My son suggested it to me as way for me to cut the leather for the top of this guitar. I was telling him how much trouble I have been having with my hands at late. So he thought this might help me out. I'll be making an out line temple so I can position it on the leather for one it will help to center it up, and two it will help in cutting off the excess leather. I made it a little over sized.
OK the weather is getting to where I can go work outside. Warming up some that is. But before I can do anything I needed to make my template for routing the control cavity a little bit bigger. An easy way to do the is tape a pencil to the side of something. I use an X-Acto knife. I placed the pencil on top of the template stuck the knife on the side a taped the two together. Then I drew the line. Works out great.
OK, After some sanding on the template I was able to use it to make the opening to the control cavity some bigger. I had to make it bigger because I had some router jump that messed up the edges of where the cover was to go. To help make thing look good and to give the cover to have enough lip to rest on I had to make it bigger. Here you see the finished birds eye maple cover I made for it. This was the second try for the cover.
Here is a photo of the two covers. The one sitting on the body is the first try.
Don't know if it will show up or not, but this is a side view of the first cover. I wound up over sanding it. It wound up way to thin. I had to remake it. But this time I thinned it down in the guitar. The first time I did it, I tried to thin it down off of the guitar using a belt sander. I thought it was good to go. But no, lets do again!!!
Got the tummy cut done as well. This went pretty fast. I used my angle sander (not a grinder) So, it did the job fast and easy.
I used my electric sander and some hand sanding. I use a sanding sponge with some 80 grit sandpaper wrapped around it. Work out well for making the round over edge again.
I was lucky that when I made the cover that the wood was thick enough so I could get 3 covers out it by resawing it on my band saw. I used my spindle sander to shape up the cover to fit. I sure do like that spindle sander.
I was wanting to get the routing for the binding done today. But that didn't happen because I had to remake the control cover. By the time it got to 55 today I only had a few hours to work with. So did all I could do. I ope tomorrow I can get the routing for the binding done and start on drilling holes.
I'll see how it goes. EB
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Post by dnic on Jan 18, 2022 8:29:03 GMT -6
Nice progress Eddie! When you catch a break you get things done.
Spindle sanders and disc sanders can save a guy a ton of time.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2022 16:27:45 GMT -6
here is some more!
I got the template cut out so I can cut the leather top. Wow! This is going to be so cool!
Also got the drilling as done as I am going to do it. I need to finish up with some sanding tomorrow.
I even got the binding channel cut into the body. Took a little figuring on it. But I think I have it were it needs to be.
Another nice day out today. Supposed to be another one tomorrow. So I should be able to get a lot more done then. I still need to sand the top off from all the drilling. I wound up having to use a drill bit for this. The drill bit I used is made for drilling metal. It went through this wood like it was drilling butter. I drilled the wood as deep as the routs for the pickups. Other then over the tummy cut. There I did not go as deep. I didn't want to drill through. Tomorrow I'll drill the wire channels and drill for the jack. I also need to make the bridge pickup rout yet a little bit bigger. There is not enough give for any side to side adjustments.
Once all that is done then I will be ready to start cutting the leather down and gluing on. Oh, I also need to make the bindings. I have a few ideas in how I am going to pull that off. So, I'll see what one I go with. LOL! EB
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Post by dnic on Jan 18, 2022 21:45:44 GMT -6
That is going to look extremely cool Eddie.
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Post by antares on Jan 19, 2022 12:49:33 GMT -6
That's coming along nicely Eddie. The eagle is going to really set it all off behind the bridge.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2022 12:57:35 GMT -6
been working on the build again today. decided to take a brake. So I thought I would post a few picture so far.
Can you say WOW! LOL!
I out on 3 thin coats of favorite stuff. I don't care how many people don't Tung oil finish. You all know what kind of results I get.
This wood really surprised me in how it looks with a little bit of finish on it. Now I cant hardly wait to get the finish on it all the way! I leaned in using the finish you need to put it on thin. The can says to put the first coat on thick. But I have now used this product so much, I have found what works best is thin coats right from the start. Yes it take a little longer to apply, but over time you can get any look you want. Form a dull to glassy. Been there done it to many times!
alright... I started off today by sanding and knocking out saw dust out of them holes I drilled into the top. LOL. That took forever... This I drilled the wire channels and drill out for the jack insert. (LOL did you see what I did there?) HA! HA! HA! I didn't call it an input or out put jack.
Once I did all that I went ahead and sanded out all of the sanding marks off the back and sides. While I was doing that I was thinking about how to go about putting the top on. With all the glues to do that I don't want squeeze out getting all over the body and getting into the wood. So I went ahead and sanded up 400 grit and got everything looking as good as I could. Then I put the Tung oil finish on. I may put another 1 or 2 coats on before the top goes on. This should help along with taping things off. At this point I don't want to have any problems with the wood or the leather, once the leather top is on.
There is a whole lot more to this and I'll be posting about it as I go along.
While the finish is drying I went ahead and started working on the veneer for the peg head. I started on it. Then felt like I needed a brake. This is my brake. Posting about this build. What can I say... I don't have much else in life to do at the moment.
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Post by antares on Jan 19, 2022 14:28:49 GMT -6
It looks better and better. I like the relief inside the cutaways too- very neatly and evenly done.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2022 16:39:08 GMT -6
I got the veneer done! LOL! What an ordeal that was in making it. But I did old school way.
How many clamps does it take to put on a veneer? This many! Sorry I didn't get any photos of the veneer before I glues it on. I was running out of daylight and I needed get my tools covered up because of another storm is on it's way for tonight. But you all will see it after the clamps come off. I hope it turns out alright.
I did the old CA glue and tape to mount the veneer to some other wood. I then did a resaw thing to it to get it thinner. After that I left it mounted and used my orbital sander to finish up the thickness. I need to get thin enough so it would bend without a lot of problems. Once I was happy of how thin it was I then took it off the other wood and dry tested. I put it on the peg head and used clamps and some water to fit the veneer to the peg head. I let it set until after my dinner.
Once dinner was over I went back to work. I was starting to run out of daylight and wanted to get this glued up before I went in. So that is what I did. I was concerned that the veneer would move on me while gluing up. I did a first time trick for me on this glue up. I seen you You Tube were some use salt in the glue to help hold things in place. It worked like a champ! Think I'll use this again some day.
Well. That's it for this old man. Until next time! EBCG
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