Home Build: "eco" Strandberg Boden 7 clone

[pondman]

For some reason the holes look ridiculously awesome.

I know exactly what you mean .

 

[Darkanus]

Amazingly clean work, interesting wood choices, great job!
Do you have finished projects?

 

[Alberto7]

Definitely following this build. Neat and tidy work there, man!

 

[Walterson]

@all: thanks!

Impeccable as always , I'm getting right into this fruity stuff and loving that figured Apple top.

I was sceptical at the beninning of this build, but now I really start to dig it....

Do you have finished projects?

Shure, follow the flickr link in my signature or have a look here:

http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/se...uild-gd-ergonomic-multiscale-sevenstring.html

http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/st...omebuild-no-frills-metall-axe-56k-no-way.html

http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/st...-ergonomic-6-string-multiscale-many-pics.html

 

[Vinchester]

Wow extremely creamy wood, the fretboard reminds me of hot chocolate

Awesomely neat craftsmanship AND photography skills as well! You win at life and I look forward to the finished guitar.

Also, THAI rosewood??? Wow I should grow my own tree farm one day

 

[Daf57]

Excellent! You, sir, are a master!

 

[flo]

Well, I think that you should not even want to import those woods.

But thats only my opinion.....

That's not only your opinion. I hate it when rainforests are cut down. Even when the species aren't endangered, I'm only ok with cutting down trees when the forestation is sustainable. That's why all guitars I've built for myself where made from either domestic woods (German ash, maple, walnut etc) or the newer ones from recycled wood (thrown away pallets, packing material etc). I think we as guitar builders and players can at least show that it's not necessary to use exotic woods, that you can make an equally great guitar with materials from responsible sources.


Now to your guitar: apart from the fact that I love ergo guitars and strandbergs in particular, the craftsmanship looks spot on! Very nice. The woods look great too. I'll follow this one

 

[quoenusz]

Where did you get that arborpress?
And what's it called in german?

Your work is as always very neat and clean!

 

[vinniemallet]

your work is really good, every guitar you build is always sick

 

[SavM]

Nice work! Can't wait to see more pics of the progress

 

[Walterson]

You guys make me blush again.... thanks for you kind words!

Where did you get that arborpress?
And what's it called in german?

Horst zu Jeddeloh GmbH | Werkzeuge ; Maschinen ; Goldschmiedebedarf ; Halbzeuge ; Verbindungselemente ; Goldschmiedewerkzeuge ; Schmuckfurnituren ; Halbfabrikate ; Schmuckketten | Onlineshop

It's the 1000kg version that I got. The fret press insert is from Stewmac.

 

[quoenusz]

Aight! Thanks man! The arborpress stewmac has is way overpriced.

 

[Walterson]

Bend wood.... sounds easy first, but needed some tries until I got it right. I used some cutoffs from the apple tree top to practise and found a way that worked quite well for me.

Lesson learnt: Let the heat and steam do the work for you!

On to the pics, the "bendmaster 3000 sl":

pre slotted top:

the top had a crack that I did not notice first, I'll have to glue/fill it once the top is glued and set. To glue it before the bending action did not work. The crack opened again later....

Thats where we are now and where we have to go... the aluminum foil keeps the body dry.

No pics during the procedure, but this is how it ended:

I took some time to plan the fretboard again, the neck developed a slight front bow, but that quite normal when you remove so much material on the back. I'll let it set for a few more days.

 

[lawizeg]

Amazing work, I'm learning! Looks so good, I never knew apple was used for guitars or that it'd look so good

Can't wait for more!

 

[Jacobine]

Aight! Thanks man! The arborpress stewmac has is way overpriced.

In my opinion it isn't just the arborpress....

 

[Walterson]

Slowly moving forwards, glued the top:

enough clamps?

and fine sanded and fretted the neck, the fretboard feels almost like silk, no pores and grain texture, like very nice ebony... or "Richlite".

I went over the frets with the fret rocker twice and can't find any high or low frets. I think I'm not going to dress those frets at all.

 

[Pezshreds]

.... dude, that fretboard looks incredible

 

[MikeK]

Looks soo nice man!

 

[MetalBuddah]

Walterson you are definitely now in my top 3 builders on SSO. Your work is impeccable.

Never knew that plum wood was so beautiful until I saw that fretboard

 

[ejendres]

Gorgeous work man