Here’s the Board; Who Has the Water?
December 15th, 2010Simple Woodworking Project Threatens to Penetrate 2011
With the good Lord’s help, this will be a Telecaster soon. The bookmatching is not all that great, but I think once the bridge, neck, electronics panel, vibrato, and pickguard are on the guitar, the lack of perfect symmetry will not matter much.
It looks bent, and it looks like the joint is big and sloppy. Those are illusions due to the shapes of the slabs I joined and the mysterious effects of digital photography. It’s like flat glass, and the joint is as tight as a liberal’s purse during a charity drive.
Don’t even ask how hard it was to get this far.
I decided to cancel the jointer/planer I ordered. I have to think about that decision, now that I have a relatively easy way to edge-joint boards.
Some day I’ll have a drum sander. But I have not gone that crazy just yet.
December 16th, 2010 at 12:32 AM
Would you then describe this a ‘wooden piece of cake’?
Cheers
December 16th, 2010 at 8:36 AM
What kind of a neck are you going to use / make ?
December 16th, 2010 at 11:02 AM
Requesting Prayer for my mother (Penny) we had to call ambulance today and take her to the emergency room. She’s not doing well…. Thanks in advance.
December 16th, 2010 at 11:52 AM
Steve sent you a prayer request, had to put my mom in the hospital this morning.
December 18th, 2010 at 10:38 PM
First things first, my prayers are with Heather and her family.
It looks like a nice slab.
There are two ways of doing this: you can route it from behind so you do not have to use a pickguard.
Or you can use a clear pickguard, because now that you have that beautiful wood you might want to show it. Any way you do it, it will be a great looking guitar. Congratulations.
December 18th, 2010 at 10:50 PM
Another thing, time ago, due to professional reasons I met a great ebaniste, and one thing caught my attention…. if you looked at his beatiful pieces, all of them had a little mark, an almost undetectable asymmetry, or a little imperfection. I refused to believe that any of those had escaped his keen eye or his very skilled hands. One day I mentioned it to him, and he said that the only hand and the only eye that produced perfect pieces were those of the Creator. So he as a man was not allowed to even dream of producing perfection. He taught me a valuable lesson, I have to say. He also reminded me a lot of the man who put together my first electric guitar, a hand crafted body, similar to a fender mustang, and a Telecaster neck and fingerboard, with a nice Japanese made electronic kit. His name was Manuel Olveira, and he was a great artisan. He told me that he had made a free version of a fender body, just because he felt that he didn’t have to copy one. Another lesson learnt, one should not copy, one should leave creativity flow….
December 20th, 2010 at 7:12 PM
Interesting piece of wood — which end are you going to put the neck on? The grain pattern around that burl in the middle is pretty cool; hope you are able to cut the body out so as best to show that off.
December 22nd, 2010 at 12:19 PM
I don’t care who ya are — that’s just beautiful.