Elias Graves
Common misfit
Continued sorta from
http://markweinguitarlessons.com/forums/showthread.php?40868-Walnut-Hollowbody-Build
This next phase mostly finishes detail work. Some things I put off til I made sure the guitar worked. It does, so I'm going to add the finishing touches to it.
First up, the bridge. What with the distinctive looking Honduran rosewood on the fretboard, the Indian rosewood bridge looks out of place. Mismatched.
It's not that big a deal obviously and has no bearing on performance as far as I know, but from an aesthetic point of view, I'd prefer that they match. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a ready made Honduran rosewood bridge anywhere. Indian Roosewood or ebony are all I can find.
Making an adjustable bridge like that looks like a bitch with my tools, so I stole a different design I'm going to use. Out on the web, I found this.
So, I found a suitable piece of Honduran rosewood to make one like it that matches my fretboard. I like the idea of the custom cut bridge. Production guitars have to have adjustable to account for variances in everything. Once it is set up, though, how often does it get changed? For me, pretty much never. I reason that if I cut this one and tweak it til everything is good, I should be ok.
I started cutting on the rosewood block I bought. Here is the bridge blank.
That stuff is hard. I mean really really hard. As in hard maple and ebony ain't so bad in comparison.
It's hard. A flat surface burnishes to a mirror glaze with a sharp scraper and it feels like Teflon. Damn, it's hard.
Anyway, with my leftover scraps, we cut these. I say "we," because I enlisted some help. The last band Foo played in had a drummer named Rodney and he works in a cabinet shop.
I took the block the shop and we used the band saw to slice it up. The "these" I was referring to are these theseses.
They will be trim binding for the sound hole.
I reason that adding binding to the future sound hole will tie it all together.
Foo suggested I go ahead and make a matching pickguard. Yes or no? That could look killer but it might be too much. Opinions?
I also need to give it a name. My suggestion is "13" since that's the year I made it.
Foo recommends the "Owl." It's like a white falcon but it only comes out at night.
Please feel free to offer legitimate, humorous, humorously legitimate or ligemately humorous ideas.
http://markweinguitarlessons.com/forums/showthread.php?40868-Walnut-Hollowbody-Build
This next phase mostly finishes detail work. Some things I put off til I made sure the guitar worked. It does, so I'm going to add the finishing touches to it.
First up, the bridge. What with the distinctive looking Honduran rosewood on the fretboard, the Indian rosewood bridge looks out of place. Mismatched.
It's not that big a deal obviously and has no bearing on performance as far as I know, but from an aesthetic point of view, I'd prefer that they match. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a ready made Honduran rosewood bridge anywhere. Indian Roosewood or ebony are all I can find.
Making an adjustable bridge like that looks like a bitch with my tools, so I stole a different design I'm going to use. Out on the web, I found this.
So, I found a suitable piece of Honduran rosewood to make one like it that matches my fretboard. I like the idea of the custom cut bridge. Production guitars have to have adjustable to account for variances in everything. Once it is set up, though, how often does it get changed? For me, pretty much never. I reason that if I cut this one and tweak it til everything is good, I should be ok.
I started cutting on the rosewood block I bought. Here is the bridge blank.
That stuff is hard. I mean really really hard. As in hard maple and ebony ain't so bad in comparison.
It's hard. A flat surface burnishes to a mirror glaze with a sharp scraper and it feels like Teflon. Damn, it's hard.
Anyway, with my leftover scraps, we cut these. I say "we," because I enlisted some help. The last band Foo played in had a drummer named Rodney and he works in a cabinet shop.
I took the block the shop and we used the band saw to slice it up. The "these" I was referring to are these theseses.
They will be trim binding for the sound hole.
I reason that adding binding to the future sound hole will tie it all together.
Foo suggested I go ahead and make a matching pickguard. Yes or no? That could look killer but it might be too much. Opinions?
I also need to give it a name. My suggestion is "13" since that's the year I made it.
Foo recommends the "Owl." It's like a white falcon but it only comes out at night.
Please feel free to offer legitimate, humorous, humorously legitimate or ligemately humorous ideas.
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Never!
