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Post by Martin on Apr 22, 2015 20:01:10 GMT
Beautiful! Enjoy your bow shopping  |
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Post by leoroberts on Apr 22, 2015 20:08:08 GMT
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Post by colins on Apr 28, 2015 10:21:02 GMT
Just to keep you guys up to date, no not the guitars but the riser, I bought a new Win & Win Wiawis riser, a snip at £550 and I couldn't resist the new W&W Wiawis carbon/foam limbs (38lb) at a bargain £480. So I'd better get this claro guitar finished and sold!
Colin
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Post by colins on May 5, 2015 11:42:26 GMT
I've put my new toys down and got on with the guitars (When you die the man with the most toys is the winner). The bodies are all done so it's time to start on the necks. The Claro guitar is to have a mahogany neck with black and claro laminates, and the English walnut guitar is to have a English cherry neck with pear and black laminates. After gluing together the sub assemblies of the laminates the lay ups are glued together with fish glue on a flat surface.    The lay ups are left overnight to dry and then run through the sander to clean up the faces.    Here they are with their respective bodies.   Next I'll cut the scarfs. Colin |
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Post by leoroberts on May 5, 2015 15:44:50 GMT
Cut the scarfs, colins? My mum used to knit me mine... |
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Post by Martin on May 5, 2015 15:59:36 GMT
Wonderful, Colin! Any pics of the new bow?  |
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Post by colins on May 11, 2015 18:49:31 GMT
The scarfs have been cut on the bandsaw and then the sections stacked and planed level  When the glue has dried the faces are checked and leveled with my old pre-war Record #4.   I then install the two carbon rods and the truss rods. Final step for the moment is to glue on the front headplates and three layers of veneer onto each head. The face of the headplate that the nut will sit against is the cut to the correct angle, and cleaned up with a file, I run the safe edge of the file on the neck surface (protected by an old scraper) this ensures that the face of the headplate and the surface of the neck are 90deg to each other.   I check the fit with an old nut, that I cocked up in a previous life. Before I move on to neck shaping I like to get my fingerboards made, so that'll be the next step. Colin |
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Post by R the F on May 11, 2015 19:02:26 GMT
You make it all look so straightforward. It's not. Loverly job.
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Post by colins on May 15, 2015 15:51:34 GMT
I had a spare hour so I thought I'd break out 'the jig' and cut the slots in the English walnut head. The head is cut to outline on the bandsaw and then fitted in 'the jig' carefully lining up the tuner position, and the tuner holes drilled through the guides.  I then cut the slots in increments, here I have just started to expose the tuner holes.  Gradually increasing the depth of cut until I've cut right through, I then change from an 11mm guide bush to a 10mm one and do a clean-up rout.   The top was then shaped and the tuners check fitted, these are three on a plate Rubner, with cherry buttons to match the neck.  Slot ramps still to cut. Colin |
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Post by leoroberts on May 15, 2015 15:57:21 GMT
I am deeply in love with the classic lines of that there headstock, colins... |
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Post by colins on May 15, 2015 16:02:16 GMT
Leo, I've got a spare one from some years ago where I buggered up the neck shaping, I can cut it off and mount it on a base so you can put it on your mantelpiece!  Colin |
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Post by colins on May 16, 2015 10:47:53 GMT
While waiting for the washing machine cycle to finish I decided to cut the string ramps on the all English guitar. On classicals I always do square ramps ala Torres, but on steel strings I do the usual rounded ramps. Well I was feeling rebellious so this steel string has square ramps.   (Yes I know the tuners are on the wrong sides!) Colin |
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Post by colins on May 17, 2015 12:25:49 GMT
Just a quick half hour job done, the two fingerboards have been slotted. I just use one of the old Stew Mac jigs for this, this jig has cut something like 90 fingerboards so far, I know a lot of people have table saw jigs for this, but there would be no point in me making one as I have no table saw. Anyway this is such a quick job that by the time I'd changed a blade and set the jig up I could have cut them by hand.  Bog Oak for the all English guitar  Madagascan Rosewood for the Claro.  Colin |
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Post by leoroberts on May 17, 2015 13:39:01 GMT
I'm sure there's a complicated mathematical formula to follow to work out the distance between frets... I don't want to know it, I'm just glad you loofiers do  |
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