Hi everyone! I put together the Explorer-like in mock up ….

 Nothing is bolted down in the mock up, but I’ve subsequently checked and drilled most things. I’m planning on a dark green stain for the body, and…   Read more»

@nsj yeah, I’m not sure what happened. I was planning to do exactly that, but then didn’t 🙄 🤔

So, finally mocked up the Floyd Rose rout (note tactical use of screwdriver as there is no string tension to keep the bridge level. I’ll try to get the spring claw a bit better centered, but on the whole I’m…   Read more»

[quote data-userid=”49000″ data-postid=”24465″] @steveh musiclily do a decent routing template, only thing missing is the recess for the floyd but that’s not to hard to knock up.   I’d recommend grabbing a gotoh floyd, 150 ish but fantastic units. Even…   Read more»

[quote data-userid=”34366″ data-postid=”24453″] @steveh Planning and drawing is a useful start. Maybe you could try out the necessary routing for the trem on a cheap piece of wood, to confirm. How is samba wood to work with? I have only…   Read more»

@russ thank you – that’s all the encouragement I need 😋

Explorer bodies take a lot of wood! Given that I’ve never made a body with rout for a trem system, FR or otherwise, I guessed that the chances of me making a horlicks of it are quite high, so I…   Read more»

let’s see how this turns out …..