sorry missed that
@frocesterbill No worries, I did not mention this before 😀
Busy busy busy.. A couple of days ago, I installed side dots , cut the fretslots to proper depth and glued the fretboard to the neck.
Routed the body yesterday, A bit nervous about the sharp horns, but to mi delight! I managed to pull it off without any tear out at all. Woohoo!
I decided to also route out the control cavity while I was on a roll.. But then disaster struck..
Everything went great, until I switched to my largest bit to get the last few mm out. I used the wrong size collar for my router bit and I did not notice that the router bit slowly moved downwards.
So I ended up with a small hole through the front of the body.
A large part of the front of the bodyis now way too weak, so I quickly decided I will inlay a top on the wings.
So this is how it now looks.
Yesterday ,I installed the frets, fret leveling , crowning and fret end dressing.
I will do the polishing afterwards. For now , I just want to get the guitar in a playable shape to get an idea of what I need to fine tune ir adjust.
Hardware is installed, nut is cut nicely and , for now, I have installed vintage overwound ceramic Wilkinson pickups.
I had some issues with the zebra pickups, 2 volume pots ( both push pulls for coil splitting purposes ) and one master tone pot .
Sounds really good for such a cheap pickups. The reason I dont use Iron Gear pickups, is that they currently stopped delivering to European main land 😕
now I need to take it all apart again and start shaping the body and prepping for finish
BTW: In your opinion, does the guitar look better with black or zebra pickups?
Another vote for zebras. What kind of finish are you going to put on it ?
Darn! and I preferred the black ones. thats 2 against 1 already 🙂
Anyway.. @Robin Oil finish (Penetrating oil and finishing oil from Crimson ( perhaps ending with wipe on poly? Not sure yet)
And the build is finished!
I am still not sure about the pickups, but for now, these Wilkinsons will do. Both volume knobs are push pulls and I want to see what the resistor trick does to keep the volume a bit better in split mode.
Prachtig!
Thank you (Dank je wel) Marcel! 😊
Nice work !! Thanks for sharing the pics 😎
Measure twice, cut once...