diablo175 Posted August 13, 2015 Author Posted August 13, 2015 One small step closer to being completed.
coolfeel Posted August 13, 2015 Posted August 13, 2015 How is he planning to do the bevel/fusion cuts on the cutaways?
Meatbomb Posted August 13, 2015 Posted August 13, 2015 How is he planning to do the bevel/fusion cuts on the cutaways? I'll remove the bulk of the material with wood rasps and smooth the bevel on the spindle sander...
Ting Ho Dung Posted August 13, 2015 Posted August 13, 2015 One small step closer to being completed. Wow! Somehow I have missed this thread. I had a guitar once that looked quite a bit like that one. Very nice. ETA: Has anyone told you your dots are off center? lol.
randelli Posted August 14, 2015 Posted August 14, 2015 That looks amazing, the quilt is like staring into a campfire, nicely done.
diablo175 Posted August 14, 2015 Author Posted August 14, 2015 Awesome Jim. Keep the photos coming! As you wish :
DBraz Posted August 14, 2015 Posted August 14, 2015 ^^ Lovely. I cannot wait to see how this unfolds in the coming weeks with final shaping.
Meatbomb Posted August 14, 2015 Posted August 14, 2015 I've got my chainsaw and sledge hammer ready... :-)
diablo175 Posted August 14, 2015 Author Posted August 14, 2015 I've got my chainsaw and sledge hammer ready... :-)If it's all the same, as the customer, I'd like to request you finish carving it with a rusty butter knife and log splitter.
coolfeel Posted August 14, 2015 Posted August 14, 2015 This is gonna be killer! Nice wood btw! Do my eyes deceive me or is the body a tad thicker than the Hamer Californian?
diablo175 Posted August 14, 2015 Author Posted August 14, 2015 This is gonna be killer! Nice wood btw! Do my eyes deceive me or is the body a tad thicker than the Hamer Californian? It might be currently. Still needs to be carved and sanded.
Meatbomb Posted August 14, 2015 Posted August 14, 2015 Do my eyes deceive me or is the body a tad thicker than the Hamer Californian?Actually your eyes do decieve you. The body is exactly 1 3/4" thick which is the exact measurement I took off of one of Jims existing Cali's.The reason it looks thicker is because I have yet to round over the edges, nor have I done the belly carve yet.It doesnt seem that taking just the corner off can make such a difference in the "appearance" of thickness, but it does.
Meatbomb Posted August 14, 2015 Posted August 14, 2015 This is gonna be killer! Nice wood btw! Dare I say it? Thats what she said
diablo175 Posted August 15, 2015 Author Posted August 15, 2015 Really moving along now! Body and neck carves and some rounding on the body done. Some fine tuning of the neck carve and the body rounding and the cutaway bevels left then, hardware fitting and finishing!
Brentrocks Posted August 15, 2015 Posted August 15, 2015 This is really turining out to be a spectacular build!!!I would give my left nut to have the skills to build a guitar like that.EDIT...I'd give both nuts....im not using them anyway
diablo175 Posted August 15, 2015 Author Posted August 15, 2015 Apologies for the ridiculous number of posts this week but these really need to be seen. Just need the cutaway bevels and then....
DBraz Posted August 15, 2015 Posted August 15, 2015 That looks absolutely incredible. I have a good feeling about this one.
Meatbomb Posted August 16, 2015 Posted August 16, 2015 Looks like caramel. I like caramel.That's the natural amber of that piece of maple accentuated by the naphtha I use to pop the grain for the pix.That's not what color it will be when I finish it. I'm going to bleach the Amber out of the top, pop the grain by dying it black and then sanding it off, and then shoot tinted clear nitro.I won't spill what color it will be. i won't ruin it for Jim :-)
Meatbomb Posted August 16, 2015 Posted August 16, 2015 I expect Jim will get tired of it in 3 weeks and start modding it :-)
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