First attempt at the neck shaping. Layed all the neck parts out and did some marking up. Neck, fretboard, nut blank, headstock veneer, and truss rod. And, I got a little excited and started cutting t...

Glued the scarf joint today. It may or may not come out good, I'll know tomorrow when I take the clamps off and start checking it. If it's good and tight, then the game is on to measure and see how mu...

Couldn't find good quality 4 pole bobbins and the 8$ 4 pole pickups for cigar box guitars do not fill me with confidence. I cut out the center two strings from a repro set of PAF bobbins, and glued t...

First fretboard tapered and fret slots cut. Gonna make truss rods this week, fret board is 11.5" and so I'm looking at an 8 3/4" truss rod.

Cut out the first two fretboards today. Seemingly silly mistake to taper them first but they fit into a slide in the fret miter box, to keep them square. The board stock was not wide enough to not cut...

Getting some work done. Plans are important to a quality finished product! Attachment : Body Neck Pickups.png

Fret saw got here today. It's a Zona brand, so nothing too flash but it's the right size for my fret wire. Ran into some issues with the neck design, but it'll be OK I'll just have to make the neck jo...

Got my fretboard material in today, and set up the bandsaw for resawing down to the right thickness. It's Macassar Ebony, and it was very inexpensive for the board I bought. (MUCH less than any rosewo...

More work happened today. Might have screwed up as I cut the start of the scarf joint today, but the back (glue side) of my neck wasn't planed and so I had to run it through the drum sander to get it ...

Did some doodling on the bridge assembly. The plan is to make a few from aluminum to get the size and shape correct, and get the saddles to adjust properly. Then, I'll machine them from something hard...

Boo had to invoke the curse of the CNC machinist, too. "if you are going to make one, might as well make two, right?" Started with the rock maple board, tonight. it was almost perfectly flatsawn, so I...

Again, I find that I may be a bit behind on my vocabulary lessons. I intend to do a gibson-style 5-string build, where the G string (the topmost string in playing position) is a double-course string. ...

The quartersawn board turned out to be extremely soft and powdery. Pretty as that is, it's not useful so back in the student bin and I have hunted up a flatsawn hard maple board, 2+ inches thick, 5" w...

After scaling the drawing to produce a 17" scale, the body can be cut from a 15"x12" blank with a little room to maneuver. The piece I have is 18"x18", so I have room to adjust where I need to to get ...

Dug through the wood bin at the school today. Got the OK before I started to "pull out anything you find in there that you might want, I've got enough shit to last a lifetime and these kids don't know...

Building a 17" scale length electric 5-string guitar (it's a tenor ukelele,.) I intend to start by scaling down a 1958 Gibson Explorer drawing so that the scale length is 17", and making adjustments f...

Thanks guys. I just dropped off the CAD model at the print shop, so that I can have full-size prints made. I just finished up teaching Blueprint Reading so my students have "A" size prints in hand now...

Hello, folks. New builder from the USA, about an hour's drive north of the Gibson factory. This is the first forum I've found that actually approves registrations in less than a week (so far...) I am ...