Post by davewhite on Apr 11, 2012 10:18:51 GMT
Thought I'd put it here as well.
I'm going to have a go at doing my take on a "Modified Dread" that hopefully I'll take with me to the East Anglia Guitar Festival on Sunday 6th May. As it may well be a "fools errand" I thought that 1st April would be a good day to start the project
Also there seems to be an appetite again for build threads so I'll post progress here. The guitar will be called Buachaill Mhór - "Big Boy" :
Cunning Plan:
Bending the Bubinga sides in the Fox-Style bender:
The sides needed final shaping on the hot-pipe. I tried many designs for the cutaway but couldn't find anything I liked until I tried a version of the Steve Tilston/Martin Cole 12/14. This one will be a 14/16 and the waist bend is asymmetric on the bass and treble sides. Here are the sides rough trimmed in the mould:
Here's a top view that hopefully shows the cutaway and asymmetry better:
Drawing the cutaway on a piece of paper is one thing but making it work in wood is a little more tricky. The mahogany neck-block is made and the holes for the 6mm carbon-fibre buttress braces drilled and then the cutaway side has to be shaped to the curve of the side:
nearly there with the shape just a little fine tuning to do:
Then given the slight end grain nature of the neck block face I use one of my least favourite glues - epoxy - to glue the cutaway side to the neck-block in this improvised jig:
The slot for the fingerboard extension support is cut in the neck-block and the support glued in using hot hide glue:
Then the rest of the sides are glued onto the neck and tail blocks - the tail block has already had a Maccasar Ebony end-graft glued in together with black/white/black purflings:
A piece of the Maccasar ebony binding together with b/w/b purfling is glued into the treble side cutaway where it meets the neck-block after a slot for it has been cut:
Here's the joined rim-set in the mould:
The scarfe joint for the mahogany neck is cut,shaped and glued. The neck is reclaimed from an old window frame:
Next the truss-rod slot is routed together with the twin carbon-fibre bar slots. I'm leaving the neck blank full length at this stage as I will cut of two strips that will become linings:
After the lining strips have been cut the neck is cut to size and the carbon-fible bars glued in together with the truss-rod covered by an English walnut cap:
The European spruce top is joined using hot hide glue and the "tent" method as is the bubinga back:
Now it's time to shape the initial "wedge" on the rim where the back joins - this will be refined when the back is braced to follow it's curvature. The bass side is about an inch shorter than the treble side:
I'm going to have a go at doing my take on a "Modified Dread" that hopefully I'll take with me to the East Anglia Guitar Festival on Sunday 6th May. As it may well be a "fools errand" I thought that 1st April would be a good day to start the project
Also there seems to be an appetite again for build threads so I'll post progress here. The guitar will be called Buachaill Mhór - "Big Boy" :Cunning Plan:
Bending the Bubinga sides in the Fox-Style bender:
The sides needed final shaping on the hot-pipe. I tried many designs for the cutaway but couldn't find anything I liked until I tried a version of the Steve Tilston/Martin Cole 12/14. This one will be a 14/16 and the waist bend is asymmetric on the bass and treble sides. Here are the sides rough trimmed in the mould:
Here's a top view that hopefully shows the cutaway and asymmetry better:
Drawing the cutaway on a piece of paper is one thing but making it work in wood is a little more tricky. The mahogany neck-block is made and the holes for the 6mm carbon-fibre buttress braces drilled and then the cutaway side has to be shaped to the curve of the side:
nearly there with the shape just a little fine tuning to do:
Then given the slight end grain nature of the neck block face I use one of my least favourite glues - epoxy - to glue the cutaway side to the neck-block in this improvised jig:
The slot for the fingerboard extension support is cut in the neck-block and the support glued in using hot hide glue:
Then the rest of the sides are glued onto the neck and tail blocks - the tail block has already had a Maccasar Ebony end-graft glued in together with black/white/black purflings:
A piece of the Maccasar ebony binding together with b/w/b purfling is glued into the treble side cutaway where it meets the neck-block after a slot for it has been cut:
Here's the joined rim-set in the mould:
The scarfe joint for the mahogany neck is cut,shaped and glued. The neck is reclaimed from an old window frame:
Next the truss-rod slot is routed together with the twin carbon-fibre bar slots. I'm leaving the neck blank full length at this stage as I will cut of two strips that will become linings:
After the lining strips have been cut the neck is cut to size and the carbon-fible bars glued in together with the truss-rod covered by an English walnut cap:
The European spruce top is joined using hot hide glue and the "tent" method as is the bubinga back:
Now it's time to shape the initial "wedge" on the rim where the back joins - this will be refined when the back is braced to follow it's curvature. The bass side is about an inch shorter than the treble side:
Jo whoever he is.
