Firebird with wings!

I got up my courage and glued the wings on today – removed the clamps and I am pleased with it – need to clean up the joins and then decide the size of the chamfer round wings.

Cigar box Firebird looks good!
I have been thinking about sneaking in a solid Uke – possibly Explorer or Flying V shaped…..

Cheers!

What dimensions approx?
 

That’s all looking very good!

Lovely part of the world!

Started my neck carve – ends need sorting but middle bit feels OK – need to compare it to my other guitars…

I did make sure that I was wearing my mask – went in after the shoe shine…   Read more»

Welcome Ewan – we are all friendly and some of us are addicts – guitar building gets you that way!
What part of the world are you from?

What model of the Earlex HVLP did you go for Mike?

Looks stunning!

You’ve been busy – lovely lot of guitars……
Been on two Baileys workshop courses and hope to do another next year.  Agree about the friendliness of the whole experience.

I finally got up courage to cut the pickup holes.  The pickups are from Mr Fabulous in Australia.

Also added control cavities – a channel is routed in the Walnut layer to connect the one for the switch and…   Read more»

Firebird Tuners – the Steinberger Gearless Tuners are not in production and fetch a hefty price –

found these – Riot Tuners by Alpaca Guitars – seemed to have some good…[Read more]

Answering one of my own questions now…. Just tried cutting both sides of a line with a fresh scalpel blade then running the Dremel between the cuts gives a much better result – it will take a while to do…   Read more»

The Wonky Phoenix….. Follwing Darren King’s idea of using Milliput to do a Phoenix logo I printed a logo, stuck it on with Titebond to a piece of scrap and tried to cut it with a tiny (StewMac) router bit…   Read more»

I am also favouring chamfer…. So I mark the target line on the top and side of the wing and then carve it the same way that you use to put the first chamfer on a neck carve (do it…   Read more»

The wings are Padauk and Walnut ….

Do I leave the edges like this or do a roundover

or carve (more neatly) a chamfer

Any advice?

Suggestion for livestream workshop – you said that you enjoyed doing inlays…….

Mark is passionate about building guitars – the one he builds and the ones that we build either at the workshop or on line.  He gets a real buzz out of seeing people realise that they really can build a…   Read more»

Really brilliant session – well done Mark! The new widget does open up some options – like you did today you could run a video and add commentary live. Thanks for the through neck stuff – clearest explanation and I…   Read more»