Fretboard is maple. Neck is oak. Body is pine.That body shape is awesome, and your workflow is interesting and fun to watch. I look forward to seeing this thing come to fruition.
Did I read it right that your fretboard is pine?
My bad. I actually have really wanted to try making something with oak, it seems like it would be very stable (albeit heavy). I'm interested to hear if it is particularly difficult to work with given its hardness.Fretboard is maple. Neck is oak. Body is pine.
Also thanks!
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It seems fine so far. Supposed to be about as stiff as hard maple. Carves okay. Tearout can get really ugly on oak though.My bad. I actually have really wanted to try making something with oak, it seems like it would be very stable (albeit heavy). I'm interested to hear if it is particularly difficult to work with given its hardness.
Yeah. In retrospect maybe not the best idea, since clamping it down would be easier without. But i think it will work fine.Dig the style. Are you carving the neck after doing the glue up?
Such a sick build! How is the straightness of the neck since it has been worked and had time to rest? Any movement that will be worrisome since your not using a truss rod?
Got all this stuff from Menard's (like Home Depot or Lowes). Body is 2x10 construction lumber. Dirt cheap. The oak and maple in this small an amount were very cheap too. At this thickness the oak is about half the price of maple even.The figure in that wood so good that i would have never thought it would be so cheap! Any secret wood buying techniques?
Grabbed a 4 footer out of the cutoff bin. Getting a full 8 foot would work too. Then I jointed it into a 24"x19" blank. A lot of wasted wood actually, but scrap is always useful.For the 2x10 (I'm assuming pine) did you have them cut it down from an 8ft board or did you buy the whole thing and now you have 2-3 blanks worth?
Check out the dragon rasp, it's killer, I got rid of all my other rasps besides the shinto rasp because it's so damn good.well, MOSTLY used chisels. A bit of scraping and a bit of sanding block. And just a touch of a rasp but the blades have worked better than that so far.
I have something like the dragon rasp. Rasps work fine, I just prefer blades because they make chips instead of dust, which bothers my perpetually sweaty hands less. Cut damn fast too. And I get to sharpen them and other such woodworky things.Check out the dragon rasp, it's killer, I got rid of all my other rasps besides the shinto rasp because it's so damn good.