Iamatlas
Atlas
In-progress shot of applying the polycrylic.
Probably should shape the neck before ya stain it dude, youre just gonna sand / carve all that colour back off anyhow!
KnightBrolaire's headless 8 string build
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Probably should shape the neck before ya stain it dude, youre just gonna sand / carve all that colour back off anyhow!
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KnightBrolaire
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it actually is shaped, it's just a bad pic I took late last night. I'll throw some better pics up later :/
KnightBrolaire
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had to get another fretboard, didn't like the way the maple turned out. Now using macassar ebony.
Probably shouldn't have done the finish until I route the cavities, oh well.
Probably shouldn't have done the finish until I route the cavities, oh well.
KnightBrolaire
Meth Detal
Awesome post! Definitely creative color combo for the stain.
Not sure if it's intentional but the body shape sort of reminds me of the In Flames logo. Was that intentional?
Subscribing to the thread.
lol no, it was suppose to be based off a shark fin. I posted the inspiration thread at the top of this one. Basically I watched the Shallows, the end credits inspired the stain, and I started doodling guitars with shark fins. I was originally going to have binding or something to clearly delineate the fin from the rest of the body but realized it would kill the flow of the stain. Maybe for my next build though.
KnightBrolaire
Meth Detal
practicing with the dremel some more. tentative idea is to do shark jaws like these and inlay turquoise.
KnightBrolaire
Meth Detal
Thanks, glad you like it!
it was a scrap fretboard. I had some left over maple and wanted to see how hard it would be to engrave a design and then backfill it with colored woodfiller. Didn't really work out the way I wanted it to but it was good practice. I'll probably try a couple more times on scraps before I do it on the real fretboard for this guitar.
KnightBrolaire
Meth Detal
dicking around with the scrap piece
KnightBrolaire
Meth Detal
yup it's a Dark Souls reference
I used an engraving bit. Works pretty well on maple and walnut, haven't tested it on other woods yet.
KnightBrolaire
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no real progress on this one. school is taking up a lot of time and I keep getting distracted by other builds.
painted the sides black and redid the top, still haven't started the fretboard or decided if I should use the macassar ebony or not
pic quality is garbage but you get the idea.
EDIT: Just remeasured the neck width and it's not wide enough for an 8 string, I'd have to turn this into a 6 or 7 string and I really don't want to build one right now. The only way I can think to salvage this would be to lop off the neck and make it a bolt on, which I don't really want to do. :/ I'm kind of fixated on 8 strings so this body is gonna sit around for a while.
I do plan to make another one with slightly different specs so I'll keep adding it into this thread instead of making a new thread.
painted the sides black and redid the top, still haven't started the fretboard or decided if I should use the macassar ebony or not
pic quality is garbage but you get the idea.
EDIT: Just remeasured the neck width and it's not wide enough for an 8 string, I'd have to turn this into a 6 or 7 string and I really don't want to build one right now. The only way I can think to salvage this would be to lop off the neck and make it a bolt on, which I don't really want to do. :/ I'm kind of fixated on 8 strings so this body is gonna sit around for a while.
I do plan to make another one with slightly different specs so I'll keep adding it into this thread instead of making a new thread.
KnightBrolaire
Meth Detal
Not very long like a year. It's just a hobby.
Hollowway
Extended Ranger
You can buy a router plate for a Dremel. You should do that to have more control (if you're not already).
Also, make a template for the frets and actually saw through it, rather than trying to draw them on the FB and then sawing that. You have to watch out for wonky frets, and that's the best way to get them all in line.
Also, make a template for the frets and actually saw through it, rather than trying to draw them on the FB and then sawing that. You have to watch out for wonky frets, and that's the best way to get them all in line.
KnightBrolaire
Meth Detal
I bought a router plate for the dremel a while ago, just haven't used it on a project yet.
I never drew a template on my fretboard, I taped one from fretfind and sawed through the template. The janky fretboard with the shark inlay was a scrap fretboard that I used to practice inlaying.
