C18Q1. TTony goes mad.

paulnb57

Very nice! I particularly like the recessed pickup surrounds....

TTony

Cheers @andyjr1515 - your post made me go look to see what you'd been building recently.  

I reckon you could have built something far nicer than that ropey old thing you just bought.  Disappointed in you.


@paulnb57 - those are made by GraingerGuitars and are very nice (along with the bridge and knobs on the guitar, which they also make).  Of course, it's another template to make ...

MLten80

making the templates is 1/2 the fun isn't it?

 looking tidy, very classy & minimal too
 hope it plays as nice as it looks!

Andyjr1515

TTony said:

Cheers @andyjr1515 - your post made me go look to see what you'd been building recently.  

I reckon you could have built something far nicer than that ropey old thing you just bought.  Disappointed in you.

   

Sarge

That's just beautiful, congrats on a job well done 
Also, your belt sander - heel issue is why I'm happy with the shims, just don't trust myself  

TTony

TTony said:

And done.

And easily in time for the end of the Q1 Challenge!






There was a last minute Tony-up (aka cock-up) with this one.  Put it all together and decided that it was playing a bit too high.  Rather than cheaty-shim the back of the neck pocket, and rather than doing the sensible thing of getting the router out to deepen the neck pocket, I decided to just take the heel of the neck to the  belt sander to take a couple of mm off.

Which ended in tears and a rather uneven (ie not flat and parallel) heel.

All sorted now though - thanks to the neighbour's CNC machine.  And it plays really nicely too.

I used one of StewMacs "megaswitches", so I've got;

• Bridge
• Bridge + Middle
• Bridge + Neck
• Middle + Neck
• Neck

The p'ups are a set of slightly special Oil Cities.  

I like this one.

@jaymenon ;;

Sarge

That's nearly very lovely indeed!
Not sold on the pickup surrounds but viewers can't be choosers  

Some shorter grub screws may be beneficial to not tearing the skin off your palm/heel  

Really nice work fella! Love the rounded pickup poles too, nice touch!