You got there in the end though, you have learned how.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rotary John
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You got there in the end though, you have learned how.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rotary John
Good God Rich what did you expect "THE DUKE OF EDINBOROUGH"?.Quote:
Originally Posted by T2x
Attachment 293684Attachment 293685Attachment 293686Attachment 293687Been rubbing and spokeshaving most of the day,the contours all have to run sweetly from one to another without any lumps or bumps 'cos sure as God makes little green apples, if you miss one, that's the jigger that's seen, front ,rear ,sides and all points between have to flow.
Next job is grain filling, made easier these days with "thixotropic", when you can't feel anything is when it's ready to polish
Attachment 293688Attachment 293689Just experimenting with the advanced reply, want to see if it works, that's one of last weeks doodling.you do not want to know how much that is going to be.
Ya that's some cool stuff. Always liked working with wood. Gotta neighbor that whittles birds outa blocks of wood. You'd be amazed at the attention to detail in the feathers, etc. Purty amazing
Attachment 293730Attachment 293729My friend BillMouland is into birds, mainly ducks of one sort or another, he does pyroghraphy and burns the feathers in, then gives 'em a coat of many colours.Put it in the garden and it's hard to tell it from the real thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by 71V153
Had an escoptomy today, that's a barrel of laughs I can tell you, don't want another one this week.
Result is ----I am in magnificent fettle, will be boring the pants of you all for the next twenty years.
went for it without sedation so I could get back into the shop today----with sedation, I would have been dormant for 24 hours, haven't got enough days left to give one away.
Guy in the middle is WILLABEE, long time friend, but he won't admit it.
Place is Torriggia on lake Como, Italy
Twenty more years ..... can't begin to imagine what the Neverending Story will sound like in 20 years time!Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
I posted a little blurb about that photo on Hot Singles ..... didn't want racing history to interfere with the artistic minds at work on this thread. :rolleyes:
Bill, you will always be welcome on this site, even if it's only to tout the most successful thread of all time hot singles.Quote:
Originally Posted by willabee
Just so good to see what other people are doing with their spare time.
Would like anyone who has the urge to comment or display what they concoct, feel free to do
Been a stone bitch of a day, so I need some shut eye, be more affable tomorrow.
Told you it's been a bad day.
that's the tribute to American Airmen who flew from the airfields around here during the war.
Boxgrove Priory------beautiful little church----next village to me, popped in there last Sunday.
First American Airmen to be killed in WW 2 is buried there Major Fisk I believe.
you look wore out jack!rest up! no rush on the body, just do it when you feel like it! I'll be here!Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
Hell's teeth Don, that's what dodging the "reaper" does for you, I've always looked like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by donmac
First heart attack at 44 and the game was on.
First wife managed 38 years-----2nd damn near20 and not even out of breath, have always burned three ends of the candle -----but I'm still on fire and loving it, only thing that shows are the wrinkles.
I do try to stay away from cameras, but they're everywhere these days, kids will soon be born with them.
Attachment 293784Attachment 293785Attachment 293786Piece left over from the guitar ,tried Rawlplugs light oak grain filler for the first and last time--it's bloody rubbish, it's grey out of the tube and it's still grey after sanding and polishing.
done another try out with Briwax light oak grain filler, will post results tomorrow, can't be as bad as Rawlplugs old tosh..Attachment 293787
That's where the meerkat, or grebe, or whatever your imagination thinks it is, comes from / port side of the guitar base.
Attachment 293830Attachment 293831Attachment 293833Ok Don, we have a problem, because I deep chamfered the edges all round, it reduced the surface area and the guitar looks much smaller.
there is some serious router work to be done here, it looks like it has been custom cut to suit the hardware.
a. Is all hardware the same?
b. Do you want me to use this hardware as a pattern?
have totally dismantled the Fender and it is solid but fabricated out of three pieces.
wood is characterless and ginger and very soft but has been covered in epoxy to give it a shine.
will pull another plank and start again if you like, can use the first effort to cobble something up, if not there's a good two hours burning to be had from it.
Put it down to experience.
Attachment 293841 Tried the new Brywax light oak grain filler----was like using dark chocolate---filled the grain alright but left it stained dark brown. Will use clear filler.
Jackie, measure the body thickness on that Squire Strat you used for reference. Some of them are thinner than real Stratocasters. A standard Strat is 1-3/4" or 44mm thick. Difference being that a genuine strat tremolo block (the bridge piece) is too deep for one of the thin bodies. Most older Squires like that are Basswood, Alder, or Ash, and given your description wild ass guess says it's ash... But you are the woodsmith. Yes, all strat hardware will fit the way that guitar is routed, that one has the generic bigger pickup cutouts at the neck and bridge so that it can also accept double coil "humbucker" style rectangular pickups. If you want a picture of how a standard "real" Strat is routed on top, I can take you a picture or even send you a 1 to 1 outline as a file. Beautiful work by the way, I like it.