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The fretwire is Jescar FW47095 EVO Gold. I like the colour and hardness. Those red handled cutters were bought specially to cut it, and don’t get used for anything else.
The build is coming in at 3.5kg. That’s allowing for reducing the body thickness from the current 50mm, heavy chamfering, and hollowing out an oversize cavity for the controls
I’ve wanted a Klein since the 90s but it’s just never been feasible with their rarity/cost.
Seeing what you’re achieving does make me wonder whether I could make one
and if I put the switch behind or above the knobs then the control cavity has to be small and cramped, and there’s not a lot of wood around it
With contour lines marked out I assembled the router planing frame and started work. My ancient router doesn’t have any form of chip extraction, so it’s messy work.
But then I realised that most of the M&M builds are different in one way or another!
So it's good to see one of these being made and your approach to solving the different challenges that this design creates.
Tip for the extraction ... just clamp an extraction hose somewhere on your jig - probably towards the front as you've already got the barriers at the side/back, maybe to the underside of your sled. It won't capture all the bits, but it'll grab a lot of them.
It’s difficult to show what’s going on. Do you remember those pictures from the Apollo moon landings where the lighting makes it difficult to see how deep a crater is, and how steep it’s sides. So here’s the current state of play on lunar surface:
This is a shot of the contour lines going in:
Makes me think of some of Rick Toon's more organically shaped ergonomic guitars.
If it's too heavy, keep carving
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Rather than make a pair of templates for each cavity I’m going to cut the first 20mm of the cavities freehand, using a combination of Forstner bits and chisel, then route to depth with a guided bit. Only the recesses for the covers will have templates. Covers need to go in next, before I finish the profiling, because the top surfaces need to be profiled too.
Something else I haven’t decided is the pickup combinations. Each coil has six magnets, so there’s no screw/slug decision. I’m thinking:
1. Neck humbucker
2. Neck outer coil
3. Both inner coils
4. Bridge outer coil
5. Bridge humbucker.
but I know some people use a combination of humbucker and single coil in positions 2 and 4.
Gratuitous picture of the pickups:
Bridge Humbucker
Both partial out of phase
Both in phase
Bridge Humbucker & Neck outer coil (strictly speaking it's a partial split)
Neck Humbucker
Then a push pull to partial split the coils