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- body shape "refined" (it was rough cut to a vaguely-Tele shape previously)
- round overs front & back (and then sand out all the burns - after this photo)
- marked centre line and then all the other positions
- cut the neck pocket (also after this photo)
TomorrowI love DC's!! here's one I did from a cheapo kit last year. Complete with terrible sanding mess up i decided to pass off as a relicing effect
Not sure what colours I'm doing any of them yet. I might do the DC in Amber? Don't know.
Just finished a couple of workshop hours, and got all of that done, apart from routing out the control cavity. Mainly because I couldn't find a template that I'm sure I've got somewhere and didn't want to make another one.
Did a bit of cut away on the rear of the heel too, so a standard oblong neck plate won't fit on this one.
Amber sounds great, Looking forward to seeing it!
Yes, I realise that the pickup cavity looks odd, but that's *really* where the pickup legs go!
The third hole in the top is for the ground connection from the underside of the bridge. In a piece of precision drilling, that hole meets a horizontal hole drilled from the bridge-side of the p'up cavity,
Next will be several days of sanding, during which I can think about finishing options. I might just try some white-tinted oil.
But before I clear all the bits of ash off the workshop floor, I thought I'd make some Korina mess by starting on #2.
Just a quick bit of marking out so far, I want to triple check things like neck angles before I start cutting anything.
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But I did submit the print files for my book, approve the proofs, and authorise the printing. Unfortunately, nowhere near as exciting as making sawdust.
I want to get all the messy stuff done, and all the mess cleaned up, before I start the finishing work on any of them. That seemed like a sensible approach.
So, neck pocket, p'up cavity (the bridge) and control cavity, plus connecting wiring holes all done today. rounded over the body front and back, and checked that it all fits together.
I'm going to change the bridge from the lightweight Wilkinson in the photos to a more substantial Gotoh wrapover. The Gotoh has better intonation adjustment and is heavier. This guitar is lightweight and needs added weight!
Nice tight fit
There's no angle on the neck pocket yet, so it's only cut to size, not to depth.
The hardware will change - bridge and control knobs will be silver rather than black.
I'll rout the cavity for the neck p'up once I've cut the angle on the neck pocket accurately, but before I nail the neck in place. Now I've decided on the bridge, I can get that done tomorrow.
Not sure whether the control layout should be switch - vol- tone, or vol - tone - switch. Any thoughts?
I had a load of Abranet sanding sheets arrive yesterday, so used some of those to sand the rough cuts out of the side of the body. Don't know whether it's because Korina is much easier to work than the Ash I've been using, or whether it's the effectiveness of the Abranet, but that stuff really works well!
Except there's been no progress.
Not everyone
But I hadn't seen the above pic till just now so it was still worth the visit as that looks great ..
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But it's in more of a backwards, rather than forwards, direction.
I needed to work out the angle to put on the neck/body join, so drew it all out full size so I could measure the angle rather than calculate it. Drawing it out, and then transposing the measurements on to the neck heel made a couple of things clear ...
The first clear thing was that there was going to be a fairly thin piece of the neck underneath the pickup cavity ... leaving a relatively small amount of neck left in the pocket. And the second clear thing was that there'd be quite a lot of neck heel protruding beyond the end of the body - so much so that I thought I'd extend the neck carve a bit further - as sketched.
Just time for quick shower before time to eat.
And in the shower, I realised why these problems were arising. I started with the fact that it's a GSP neck, and he doesn't make mistakes. But he does make very good LP necks. Which is what I asked him for when he made this neck for me. And very good LP necks really don't fit into DC Jr bodies very well!
My cock-up. But at least I realised it before gluing the neck into the body.
Unfortunately, not before I'd routed out the neck pocket though!
So, I now need to make a LP style body that will fit this neck better, and/or make a neck to fit the DC Jr body and the neck pocket that I've already routed. Making necks isn't my preferred part of making guitars, and I generally swerve it (hence having a GSP ready-made neck or two), but there's no swerving it this time.
Need to check what wood I've got that I could make a LP body from, and a replacement neck ...
I'd pretty much decided *not* to do one with a GK kit in it too!