I have so many ideas, I am having a hard time choosing which route to go. Most ideas revolve around neck construction. I have received carbon tube samples that would allow for a very stiff and light neck, but haven’t had time to put them to the test yet. I have also talked to a carbon fiber expert and am confident I could pull creating a mould for vacuum bagging a carbon fiber neck off. But I would have to find reasonable amounts of materials at a reasonable cost first. I have handed my bridge pieces over to a local shop that will help me with the oval holes in the tuners, for consistency. My router simply isn’t good enough to get any precision over a series of 15. I have also been in touch with a finishing company who can do pretty cool things with aluminum. More about this later – I am waiting for some samples to arrive. Lastly, I am making slow progress nonetheless. Above is an acrylic router template for the body shape. I should have some swamp ash lying around my day-job’s US subsidiary by now… Just have to wait for someone with some space in their suitcase to make the trip over....
Learn MoreI’ve done the easy part. 15 of them. Next step is putting them in the router (or is it called mill?) and do the tricky parts....
Learn MoreI have created a gallery of old (15-20 years that is) pictures of my works to date. I am sad to say that there’s no photographic evidence of a lot of what I have done, but am happy over what there is. Particularly about the 80’s pictures of myself in shorts and the ones with huge...
Learn MoreI have been spending my lunch hours at the lathe the past couple of days and have done the first few operations on the tuner pieces. I am making 15 of them to allow for some scrap and two complete...
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