{"id":1022,"date":"2010-07-23T09:05:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T08:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2010-11-03T13:19:37","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T12:19:37","slug":"5-6-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/2010\/07\/23\/5-6-7\/","title":{"rendered":"5, 6, 7, &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have finally decided what to make of #6. As I am building it along with #5 (custom order by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisletchford.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Letchford<\/a>), I will make this also a fanned fret 7-string, 25.75 &#8211; 25&#8243; scales. But, it will have a trapezoidal neck profile (contact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ricktoone.com\/\">Rick Toone<\/a> for more information about this neck profile) and the cavities in the body will be made differently. #5 will have cavities routed from above and a top glued onto it like my other EGS guitars. #6 will have cavities routed from the inside edges of the sides. I have never tried this in practice, so it somewhat of an experiment.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the neck blank along with the sides for #5 roughly cut:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1023\" title=\"IMG_3005\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/IMG_3005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/IMG_3005.jpg 400w, http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/IMG_3005-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the future #6:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1024\" title=\"IMG_3007\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/IMG_3007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/IMG_3007.jpg 400w, http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/IMG_3007-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1025\" title=\"IMG_3008\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/IMG_3008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/IMG_3008.jpg 400w, http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/IMG_3008-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some routing templates for these and future neck-through builds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1026\" title=\"IMG_3014\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/IMG_3014.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/IMG_3014.jpg 300w, http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/IMG_3014-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A swatch for #5 of: rosewood fretboard (that looked a little too purple at first, but better when oiled), wenge for the top, mahogany for the back, maple for the neck blank, custom colored blue hardware and Lundgren M7 pickups.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1027\" title=\"IMG_3016\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/IMG_3016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/IMG_3016.jpg 400w, http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/IMG_3016-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, Chris has requested position markers placed off-center, so here is a suggestion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have finally decided what to make of #6. As I am building it along with #5 (custom order by Chris Letchford), I will make this also a fanned fret 7-string, 25.75 &#8211; 25&#8243; scales. But, it will have a trapezoidal neck profile (contact Rick Toone for more information about this neck profile) and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1259,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}