Evil's return

Evil's return

Inlay of the twelve fret, Hand of Metal

This is the inlay of the twelve fret, Hand of Metal.

First of all, I glue the design in the piece of mother of pearl, then drill some hole with a Dremel tool, to make my life easier when cutting the inlay.

To cut the inlay I use a jewelery saw, a table with a central hole, to pass the saw blade, and a air pump to blow away all the dust. With this setting, all you have to do is cut close as possible to the line. The work is finished with little rasps.

Now is time to do the recess in the fingerboard. One way to do it is to spray some white paint, or bursh some tempera paint, and then put the inlay in its place, if you do it fast enough, the paint isn't dry yet and the inlay will be glued in it's place. Now, draw the contour with a sharp tool and you are ready to go.

Take your Dremel and, carefully, recess inside the contour, check the cavity, and fix it if necessary. When the inlay falls inside the recess is time to glue, don't forget to sand all the paint. Prepare a mix of epoxy and wood dust to fill all the cavity, put the inlay, the epoxy mix, let it settle for 24 hours, sand flush, and you are Rocking!!!

Hand of METAL:

Neck fitting

After routing the neck pocket you have to check that everything fits as supposed.

So far, so good.

routing neck pocket

To route the neck pocket, I use a simple template.
Two bars attached to a wood board.

The end of this neck it's a little special, so I have to do another template to route this end:

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Carving A7 top. Part I.

Hi.

This is the first step in carving a guitar top. You have to image how you want to looks like when it is finished, you can use a computer, a paper and pen, or simply, your imagination.

Draw the lines of the differents levels, cut the excess with a router, whith a chisel,by hand or wharever, and you're ready to go.

Next step, a lot of sanding.

A7 some progress

Some pictures of the neck's work

Neck blank:

Neck with the scarft joint

 

And cutting the fret slots

Cutting body and top

After gluing the halves, we draw the shape of the guitar into the body, rough cut it with a hand saw, shape it with a sander. This is not the final size.

We have to shape it to final contour with the router and a ball bearing router bit, but that's for another day.

Gluing the halves.

After cutting the top and the body, the next step is to true up a side for gluing.
This is easy with a jointer, but you can do it with a hand plane or even a router.

Bubinga top:

Sipo body:

Table saw sled

A tablesaw sled it's a very usefull tool for you table saw. It allows you cut wood in a safe and accurately way.

You can hold firmly the piece of wood board, and pass it through the tablesaw, without risk for your hands.

Pass it several times, increasing the cut depth. Turn the wood, and cut the other side in several passes.

If the saw isn't big enough, you have to end the cut with a hand saw, but that's all.

You end with a beautiful bookmatched bubinga top.

My next build

this is going to be my next guitar:

A seven string guitar and just one hummbucker.
Magohany Sipo for body and neck, with a bubinga's top.
The fingerboard, rosewood.

Cleaning up the workshop.

There is sometimes when you have to stop your desire to build and say, "Man, this is a crap, clean up this mess".

This is how it looks right now

And that´s how I would like to look in the future

That's what I am doing right now, and before start a new guitar build I will make a table saw sled, a scarf joint template for the table saw and a lot more templates

Later.