Rodman

cool int

always nice

oh yes, ftl

couldn´t resist to have a peek of preview sort of

let´s do irreversible stuff

and mount the fretboard - such a nice piece of wood

testing the rod - you see it can move well

i like to protect the rod from the glue with masking tape

and the carbonfibre shall be absolutely stopped from moving (and creating noise) by the glue!

thats a lot of glue

after cleaning the exxess good as long as it´s wet clamps clamps clamps

and put away to dry

on to dangerous things

make sure you are in the right spot..

start straight from top...

then go with a slight angle...

... and finish 90° to your starting position

done that. now for some detailing

that will do

reinforcements are arriving

let´s start with the very custom headstock

good thing....

... the surface to glue is the already quite flat one

like that

some plane action

and sanding

and that looks fine

why didn´t i route those together with the trussrodcavity?
because i want the carbonfibre rods to follow the edge of the neck for stability.

that worked ok

on to routing of the HB cavities

happy with that - nothing is destroyed .... so far

bringing the carbonfibre to the right lenght

and making them fit with handtools - so that ther is no tension created in any direction

a lot of sanding by hand...

to even the face perfectly flat

that did work

also the sides are flatsanded by hand

and machine

and here we goi

on to the neck

hmmmmmmmmm... doesn´t that look like it holds 2 necks?

i think it does

after a lot of measuring and drawing on to rough sawing

... and

and creating a trussrodspace

that´s good

fine sawing

and sanding of course

straight forward

what i´ve learned from my 2 builds is 1) do things ONCE and 2) do things when they can be done easily, and not too late...

so i did the humbuckerpockets and holes right there

some drilling

here and

there

and a test if the back cavity is gonna work

on to first sanding

i especially like those mini horns

happy so far

Well... possibly i did it again

@ kayteck helps me so much with coding stuff, won´t take no money - so i decided to build him a full custom guitar or bass from scratch.

Guitar was his call - shall be a Metal axe, shall be red and black, and it must be well usable sitting while playing....

I´ll leave the planning out and start right after the fun and long development of a bodyshape a few months ago....

..... and METAL it shall be

seaching for the right grainpatterns on that lovely piece of wood.

small corrections by hand

have a quick peek ... all seems ok

i love my new bandsaw

that´s a shape i´ve never seen - which is cool.

13 hours ago, Mikson said:

I reviewed week 503 topic and entered missing scores by hand. @ jellisjenius  or @ Rodman , please update the winners list (lead and rhythm advanced class) in the first post of this topic. 

Done that. thx for updating!

+ bass

+ bass

and a good run

+ lead

better

a ton of misregistrations due to sloppyness (6)

90s shall be easy

+1

i was expecting nothing less on the guitarside, phhh (9)

better

comeon, let´s get 98

sightread bass mc (8) - prog in the morning