Going to do a solid neck through black limba build for ggbo community. Going with a gibby scale, floyd rose, cream binding with zebra pickups. Carvetop again but possibly a bit deeper like a prs this time. Maybe a 12th fret inlay and maybe even a logo on the headstock.
Finally made a decision and today I've been sorting out a couple of templates.
Looking forward to this one @nsj.
You've been very productive over the past few months Neil. Can I ask if you've had any changes in the guitars structure since you built them or have they all remained quite stable?
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Little bit more work today, did the slot for the pickup wiring so when I rout out the pickup cavities the channel will appear. I cut a lot of excess off the neck to make it easier to deal with. And I used superglue and masking tape to secure the fretboard, removed the pins then used the router to trim up both sides. Now I can pull the board, plane it down for binding, glue it back on then radius etc before adding the binding.
Due to taking the lady shopping today I didn't get a lot done. My binding showed up though and looks a pretty good match to my pickups. Also my new binding router kit from radian tools arrived for doing the body.
Anyway today I just got the little bit of binding in the access for the spoke wheel. Need to think of all the little things I can't do once the fretboard is glued on.
Turns out the binding is to yelllow when you get it in good light but I have more browny coloured cream binding on the way which should match the pickups better, it's more yellow than it looks in the pic.
I got the binding rout done in the upper horn, channel is 16mm deep, binding will be 6mm and carve 10mm or so.
Also clamped everything together and planed it all level, then sand paper on a block.
New bindind arrived today, it's to white, so now I have two that don't match the pickups lol. Anyway ordered another, 3rd time lucky hopefully.
In the meantime I got the headstock all shaped, thicknessed and tuner holes drilled
Also made a couple of dummy posts so I can position the floyd nicely to line up the recess template spot on.
Ok so I got new binding, going with an ivory as I think it'll look great with the black limba. I'll choose some other pickups.
Did my first ever 12th fret inlay, bought a jewellers saw and some fancy blades and made myself one of those thingymagigs.Cut out the inlay from 2mm aluminium then used files to neaten things up.
Also did my usual fret markers and redid the spoke wheel access with the new binding.