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Clicky Linky
Or Firebirdbox.
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Chickenbone John does loads of specific parts for CBG’s
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Are you 3 or 4 string?
Spent the afternoon in the workshop, and now have a large pile of sawdust. Whilst in the workshop, I also made an opportunity for a creative solution.
The neck will run through the body, so body cut out for the neck
And then I measured once, marked out and cut.
Always measure twice TTony, *always* measure twice!
And that gap is my opportunity for a creative solution. I could just find an offcut and pack the gap, or maybe I can think of something else. The strings will be running through the body there, so it probably needs something to support the tension.
On the upside, it fits nicely.
The top of the thru neck was about 2mm proud of the top of the body, so that's now cut away so that the cap fits properly on top. The back of the box is 11mm thick. I'm going to glue the neck in, but add a couple of screws too for added rigidity.
Ended the afternoon with a quick bit of neck shaping
To do
- drill the tuner holes and finish sanding the headstock.
- fret the neck
- clamp the cap in place temporarily, rout out the pickup position in the cap and the neck (decided to use a P90) and vol control.
- decide whether to cut a control cavity into it, or do everything via the jack socket hole (mini-pot will fit through!)
- make the nut and bridge. Work out how to ground the bridge
- wire it up
- glue the cap in place
- fit nut and bridge
- drill string-thru holes
- decide what finish to use.
Reading that list back, there's another day / day-and-a-half of work to add to the day-and-a-half that I've already done.
Not bad?
Looks great.
I think some of the woodwork is up down to Gibson’s QC standards
guitargeek62 said: TTony said: Firebox.
Or Firebirdbox.
Tinderbox, surely?! Are you politely suggesting that I should set fire to it @guitargeek62 ??
TBH, this was deliberately a bit of a mad build.
No plans other than what I showed in the first post (an A4 size outline of a Firebird body and the headstock), no templates, and just using offcuts and other waste bits lying around, and trying to get it done in a couple of days of workshop time.
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I cut too much away there, as well as at the end. I’m going to screw through from the back of the box into the neck, at both ends of the box, so that should take the strain.
I thought I’d either recess the screws into the back (11mm thick, so enough material), or I might leave them proud as strap buttons.
It’s an opportunity for a creative solution ...
I've got the timber, I've got the time, so I'm going to do it properly! I am going to try to avoid remaking the fretboard though, so time to experiment on how to remove a fretboard from a neck.
There are no frets in it, so the usual soften the glue via heating the frets approach probably won’t work.
The neck is waste anyway, so I think I’m going to bandsaw the fretboard off the neck, and then use a router to tidy up the back of the fretboard.
Every mistake is an opportunity!
Double sided tape fixed to the back of the neck and then stuck to a long piece of old offcut so that the bottom of the fretboard would stay parallel to the bandsaw fence. Lined up and read to cut ...
Neck on the left, bottom of the fretboard on the right. There's still a tiny bit of Ash from the neck left on the fretboard in a couple of places, so I think that's probably as close a cut as I was realistically going to get.
After sanding the back of the board smooth, it's still ~5.5mm thick, so thick enough. Result! That was a lot quicker than cutting, fret-slotting and radiusing another fretboard!
Change of wood for the neck, new blank planed and thicknessed ready to go.
Fretboard now dotted
And neck fitted into the box.
The neck is sitting slightly proud of the box in the photo above - but its now sanded level and ready for the cap to be fitted.
Once I've done all the other things that I had to do about this time yesterday before I realised my silly mistake!!
For a very similar reason, I have a very odd shaped heel on the first through neck bass I ever made. I realised that - as I had envisaged it - I was going to basically inadvertently reduce the neck thickness at the heel to about 4mm!
Luckily I realised before gluing and stringing it up!
Fabulous work @TTony