Going to make some meteoras!

[Elias Graves]

We have side dots!

 

[Elias Graves]

I thinned the headstock face with the router, which left an abrupt transition lol.
The tuners are all in a line though. So there’s that.

 

[Elias Graves]

I used a die grinder to rough in the transition shape then some 80 grit paper to fine tune.

 

[dodgechargerfan]

Nice work!

 

[Elias Graves]

Alright we have a carved neck! 9.5” radius.
.82 at the first fret and .88 at the 12th. I’d call it a medium C. No shoulders to speak of.
I did an ever-so-slight roll over of the sharp fretboard edge.
The dots are ebony.
Truss rod is an aluminum U channel type made by Hosco of Japan.
Right now I have shellac on there as a sealer and I think maybe I’ll just add more and call it. It really feels nice.

 

[Flatspotter]

Alright we have a carved neck! 9.5” radius.
.82 at the first fret and .88 at the 12th. I’d call it a medium C. No shoulders to speak of.
I did an ever-so-slight roll over of the sharp fretboard edge.
The dots are ebony.
Truss rod is an aluminum U channel type made by Hosco of Japan.
Right now I have shellac on there as a sealer and I think maybe I’ll just add more and call it. It really feels nice.
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How do you roll the fretboard edges?

 

[Elias Graves]

How do you roll the fretboard edges?

400 grit sandpaper. Just enough to take the sharp edge off.

 

[Elias Graves]

I have to make a new pickguard template for the telecaster bridge and neck pickup.
I don’t have any template at all for a tele neck pup so I’m doing it the old fashioned way…measure, measure, mark, drill and cut.

 

[Elias Graves]

I’d say we have a template that passes QC. Everything fits. Everything lines up.

 

[Elias Graves]

Hey this is moving right along. I’ll cut plastic tomorrow!

 

[Elias Graves]

It fits yay!!!!!

 

[Elias Graves]

 

[Elias Graves]

It’s looking like a guitar!!!!

 

[Elias Graves]

Woo hoo paint is done!!!

 

[Elias Graves]

Mmmmmm me likey

 

[Elias Graves]

It’s alive!!!!! Still some fine tuning setup work to be done.

 

[Elias Graves]

I added a chrome pickup mount to the neck. My rout was kinda deep and the mounting screws would reach. I don’t want it connected to the pickguard so the chrome mount was the solution.

 

[Elias Graves]

The TV Jones Starwood pickups are wild. Not sure how to describe them.
The bridge pickup is more or less telecaster but maybe with more bass.
The neck pickup is something else altogether. Huge fat bass but nice clear highs too without the ice picks in the ear.
The Hipshot bridge has sustain for days.
The one change I think I will make is the tuner buttons. These are too big for my taste so I think I’ll switch to the small round knurled industrial Hipshot style.
I got 7.5 pounds total even with the damn brass knobs lol.
A have a couple of high frets to clean up yet but otherwise she’s done. I shall call it The Red Sled.

 

[Elias Graves]

So do I get to post a new guitar day thread?

 

[Elias Graves]

Next project is identified. who remembers my old Gretsch AstroJet guitar?
In some ways it’s my favorite guitar…the neck and pickups especially are aces but the body is a Frankenstein beast.
It’s getting a meteora body now.