Welp, I'm waiting on paint to dry and parts to arrive on the Firebird-ette. Boredom has set in and, rather than actually practice guitar, I thought I'd plan making a great big pile of sawdust with the hope a guitar emerges after a while.
I already have a lovely piece of walnut for a neck which is 2'' thick, plus some carbon for the 'truss', and 2 fingerboard blanks - one walnut, one figured ebony. I also have some planks of an unknown (as yet) wood which were found in our barn.... so basically there's a free guitar in there somewhere, right?
Here's the aesthetics I have created in my head:
Pinched waist Zemaitis LP style body
Reverse FB headstock as per my other builds (but will use a roundover bit to create a chamfer)
Tele bridge, no neck pickup
Vintage-y white (or shell pink even) with matching headstock. I may bind the body in tortoishell too.
I want to glue the neck from the back of the body, if that make sense... Then I can make a nice smooth heel transition.
Anyway, squint your eyes - this is the rough silhouette:
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Next project - Starway replica!
Really searching for inspiration for colour schemes and hardware choices, just when I thin I've settled on something anoth thought pops into my head! At least I have the luxury of time.
Pfnar.
The cherry I ordered arrived today, looks good. There's some mild figuring and an interesting bit on the body too:
I also managed to ruin (I think - will look again tomorrow) a lovely bit of Ebony today - bollocks. I won't go into details but it involved a router, a thicknessing jig and a sustained loss of attention. Ah well. Here's a before pic:
Cherry is a bit lively when routing - there a few catches on the initial template pass but they'll get lost in the roundover.
Hopefully.
I also scarfed and glued the neck blank up.
So, with the above in mind - lets do a relic 'black over 2TSB'! I will then erase the paint job above from my memory and pretend that this has been my plan all along.
Should have some decent progress on both current builds over the next week as parts arrive.
Cheers.
What build are you planning?
Reid Timber was the supplier btw, I recommend him.
Maybe I need new router cutters, but I've had a bit of (thankfully salvageable) tear out on this - first build using cherry so not sure if thats typical or not? I'm sure others will chime in...
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What I'm trying to avoid is something like this:
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By the time you have done 4 guitars with spray cans you have paid enough for a basic spraying set-up.
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