A Box of things and stuff.

[scherzo1928]

As Promised. I've been restless this past week. I knew I'd get a bit of a break, so I planned the whole week to advance the build as much as possible. In fact I'm going 100% as planned so far.

It begins the way it always begins with me... A hand saw. (ok, it always begins with a sketch)

Cutting granadillo boards such as this is friggin HARD! Also, I should mention that I know I won't saw it straight because it's so hard, so I give my self a margin of error and make sure I saw sideways in the direction that won't affect me so much

Ok, this will be the neck. As with my previous build, 1 piece granadillo neck + scarf joint and flamed maple accent at the joint.

After cutting them, I planed them down.

I'm using the same headstock I used on my walnut axe (and the redwood one) again. I've started to grow fond of it. It's unobtrusive, and has straight string pull. UNFORTUNATELY, the granadillo board isn't wide enough to fit it, so I had to get creative.

I cut off the excess from the headstock, split it in half, machined it's sides and glued them as ears

The grain ended up matching rather well.

Ok, I also cut and planed the headstock cap from the quilted maple top.

And Glueueuded it to the granadillo piece.

I then ERECTED the super jig

Machined the 15° angle on the neck.

And then did the same for the headstock and maple accent.

Before clamping them up, I drilled a couple of holes to put some nails and keep the pieces from creeping under preassure. Also sanded lightly with 80 grit and cleaned them up.

Glued them all up.

Cleaned it all up

And this is where I'm currently at... more or less.

Tomorrow I'll cut the fingerboard, rout the edges and glue the binding on it.

 

[KarlMagnusRobin]

Your builds are sooooo gooooood!

 

[BlackMastodon]

Are you going to add a bit more of the quilted maple to the headstock where you glued the ears or is that tiny bit going to be covered with the binding? Excellent work as always.

 

[scherzo1928]

The quilted maple cap covers the ears. Well, it covers the entire headstock area. Only needed a tiiiiny bit of extra material around those ears, about 2-3 mm per side.

 

[scherzo1928]

%!#$FTR#RT spent a long time writing this update and the window shut down!

Ok, here's the update, it contains wins and fails.

Cut the fingerboard taper, routed it's edges and forgot to take pics, so I made up with a dramatic pic of the binding getting glued on

I then cut the board after the 22nd fret and again routed it to glue binding there, but had some tearout on the binding... lesson learned.

Ok, here's the cool part... fitting a spoke nut.

Here you can see the tearout on the right side. At this stage I had already glued a splinter back in place and was looking for the other

Anyways, the rig worked.

As I said, lesson learned. Next time I routed binding (to make a recces for the nut) I placed something next to it to prevent it from splintering.

Worked like a charm.

Next I cut and routed a bunch of wood where the neck pickup will go since this is a longish tenon set neck axe. Also ook out material where the spoke nut goes.

Set up my trussrod channel rig

Recently I saw someone asking how to know when to stop when you rout a truss rod channel... well, this is one way.

That line passes through the center of the bit. Draw a line on your neck blank where the truss rod should end (on the side of the neck that will get glued to the fingerboard) then pass that line on to the sides of the neck (use a square) and finally pass that line to the back (again with a square). when you rout the channel, just stop when both lines (the one on the router table/guide and the one on the neck) line up.

Anywho, came out like this.

AAAAaand finally, glued the neck to the fingerboard with an epoxy glue.

To stop it from moving around under preassure I used 3 nails which you can't quite see

So there you go. 1 restless week, and fortunately I was able to finish everything I planned on time, minus that binding setup which will be getting fixed easily.

From now on though, it's all going to be done in random bits of free time I get

 

[Levi79]

Wow coming along nicely! I really wish I had a winter shop space :/

 

[scherzo1928]

Wow coming along nicely! I really wish I had a winter shop space :/

Fortunately the climate is behaving nicely. Granadillo is stupidly stable anyways so no worries there.

From now on though, it's all going to be done in random bits of free time I get

Fuck it, I'll sleep when I die (again)

 

[scherzo1928]

Awesome! Wan't even expecting them yet.

 

[72xmulch]

I then ERECTED the super jig

Can you give some details on this setup? What is it, where'd you get it. How'd you set it up to carve angles ect.. thanks

 

[KarlMagnusRobin]

PIC*

Can you give some details on this setup? What is it, where'd you get it. How'd you set it up to carve angles ect.. thanks

Search for Scherzo's other build-threads and you will find some answer's!

 

[scherzo1928]

Bah, change of plans. Turns out I just don't have as much free time as I'd like to, and I need to get this guitar finished... The radius gig will have to wait for a good while.

Now that the bad news is out of the way, this is where the build is at.

Neck is already radiused, drilled for tuners and side dots, side dots are installed, and I'm sure I've done something more to it, because I've spent many hours on it.

And... uh...

I did something bad.

 

[patata]

Where did you got the woods from?
I bet your brother would be amazed...at least!

 

[JaeSwift]

You have got to be the only person I know that uses a ukelele as a neckrest

 

[scherzo1928]

Where did you got the woods from?
I bet your brother would be amazed...at least!

I bought the maple from lmii. The rest is from a local supplier.

You have got to be the only person I know that uses a ukelele as a neckrest

:ROFL: WELL, it has the same thickness... so it works!

 

[scherzo1928]

People of SSO! I come to you with news! And CAKE!

I keep working on this build on and off. I've also started 2 more axes... already have all the woods and hardware... I'll post pics of those later in the week hopefully.

Pics of the back, which is heavily carved

The idea is that you can throw yourself on a couch with this axe and jam till the end of times. It's an ergo design for non ergo positions

They still need a lot of work, but the general idea is there, just need to clean them up.

Neck:

Remember those little ears I glued on? try finding them

Ah yes, I also promised cake!

I shall return!

 

[OfArtAndArsenal]

Damn, I had forgotten about this build. Welcome back!

 

[skisgaar]

Scherzo, your threads are the best. Awesome wood porn, plenty of pics, cake. It's got it all!

 

[Mattmc74]

Looks super bad ass! Nice work man!

 

[Gregori]

I like your couch cutaways. I've often thought about building a guitar that's made for kicking back and playing.

 

[Coreysaur]

Dat cake!