Ok I think I have decided what I'm building next, prs body style with carve, 24 fret neck with 6 inline tuners and a gotoh floyd rose and it'll be a neck through! All Brazillian mahogany with ebony board. Currently watching some gouges on ebay for the carve.
Very nice Neil. Did you draw it out by hand. Very neat lines and curves. I'm trying to do some designs but I'm using compasses and french curves. My freehand drawing skills are not the best.
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@russ cheers but no buddy, I couldn't draw that. I downloaded a free template from the electric herald templates
Then printed using adobe reader, select poster mode and tick the cut lines check box, then it puts little marks at the corners so you can cut and stick the pieces together. From there you can modify the shape or whatever.
I often use plates, bowls, spray cans etc to get all my curves lol
A tip for drawing curves freehand … rest your hand on the surface on the inside of the curve you want to draw, and sort-of-pivot your hand as you draw the curve. And do it in one flowing motion rather than a cm at a time.
A-level Technical Drawing, seems like just yesterday 40 years ago.
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Then printed using adobe reader, select poster mode and tick the cut lines check box, then it puts little marks at the corners so you can cut and stick the pieces together. From there you can modify the shape or whatever.
Cheers Neil.
If I wasn't so Techstupid I could give it a go. 🤣😂
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@russ if I can do it you can do it! Lol
Open with adobe reader, it's free. Select print and when the box comes up just select poster and you'll see a little box to check for cut lines. Then hit print and it'll print it in sections onto standard A4 paper.
Today I actually did something, got the truss rod slot routed and cut out for the spoke wheel. (Did all the neck blank etc last year and it's up on my youtube, NSJGuitars.)
Anyway now I need to do a cut out at the end of the fretboard for access, not sure how I'm doing it yet. Might try a forstner bit on the edge then files, got some spare ebony to test on.
And my new radius beam arrived from guitars and woods in Europe, can't afford the stewmac version lol. Seems really tidy and straight though.
After a bit of measuring and decision making I decided to shift the truss rod a bit further forward to allow more room for the body. Also going to modify the curve where the neck joins to get full access to the dusty end. Moving the rod is fine as the neck pickup rout will be right at the end of the board anyway so that'll all be removed.
Being 24 fret and a 25.5 scale I don't want the neck sticking way out where it's not comfortable to play cowboy chords lol
Also going to modify the curve where the neck joins to get full access to the dusty end.
I'd be a little wary of modifying that design too much if it will affect (reduce) the gluing area - particularly if you've got a longer neck which will add more force/stress to the joint too?
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@tv101 neck through lad, big gluing area lol
Cut out the template today, laid it all out. I'm going to print another copy of the body and establish the centre line next.
Also won a set of vintage gouges, need to look up how to sharpen them. Maybe sandpaper on a brush handle lol
@koendb yeh I've seen his comments on the live streams, such a liar ain't he 🤣
I was *very* young when those livestreams went out. I'm much more sensible now I've grown up.
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