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I checked a few of your pics....they were 1.8 Mb... a quarter of that is ample for good detail. There are free apps that automatically resize your photos. Anyways keep on posting however you like. I will just keep on knitting my socks while things are loading :lolno:
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I literally halved the images for the last post.
Maybe it’s throttled in your area - I don’t know.
Imgur are slow to load at the best of times.
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I have managed to lose 8,000 pictures - Obviously lots of progress shots went with that bunch.

I will piss around with everything and see what I can recover. If not, I'll dump some "all done" shots and that'll be that til I get bored again.

Watch this space.
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Ok.

Here we go.

It's time.

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This stuff might be useful.

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James makes a template . . . . .

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. . . . . And promptly fucks it up somehow.

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beavis_and_butthead_laughing.wav

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What on earth might I be doing here?

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Yeah - ok. Not often how one uses polish.

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So, where the polish is, is where it's high. Where there's no polish, it's about where I want it. This is how I levelled it.
Crude, but functional.

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This carried on for a while.

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Not sure what's going on here - Think I'm showing the buggerring in the finish. All the cracks around the pots - How the hell does this even happen? They were there long before I got to it.

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Oh. Ok. Guess that's ... Not the one.

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... In which case, I shall have a clamp orgy.

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The extra bits of wood are there cuz they're flat. This is me gluing its new ears on. The stuff I used looked real good, except, I didn't actually notice it was ply until I started doing the final carve. :problem: Ahh well, least it'll be strong.
I couldn't leave it there, though - I was just getting started.

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Let's do something about the body... Again.

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I think I had a[nother] go at it with the scouring pad and the palm sander.

.... Aaaaaand I think This is the end of this particular day, so I'll break the post here.
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Makes more sense to me to have separate posts so here we are.

Also, yes - This must've been another day cuz it had glue.

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Clamp orgy in full effect.

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Ears: Featuring bits of paper strings came in so the clampy wood doesn't get too involved

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They're just long enough. Wasting less!

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You can also see they're too chunky - Brilliant. I can bring them down to an acceptable thickness.

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And... Yeah. That's the truss adjust. So I'd best sort that out.
How bout a veneer kinda... Thing. 3 piece, like the 70s les pauls.

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Hold on ... Don't want to glue the truss.

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Sanded the ... Back thingy to fit snug.

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But, what to do about that little ... Divoty skate ramp thing?

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Why, a volute of course!
I made a good go of it. Didn't quite work.

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Then I thought ... Ok, hold on. Why not make a mould of it with dick shaped blu tack?

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... Nearly.

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Here. That's better.

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In we go.

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... Yip, everyone ...

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This volute ended up being a bit shit, but I'll come back to it properly shortly.
In the meantime, new template cuz I fuggered the old one right proper good like.
I was also having a go at the pickguard in the background - I'll detail this later on too.

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Stepdad brought home the scroll saw again. 8) Foolishly let slip to a colleague why he was borrowing it - Said colleague is going to give me a guitar to look at and attempt repair on if it's within my bounds at his earliest convenience.

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Ok, but ...

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... Yeah, there we go.

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... Zing!

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Now, I'm going to break the post there cuz the next photos have daylight and these were all taken with the lights on.
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What's James got here?

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Nah, not drugs.
It's a bone nut, pre cut to suit les paul style stuff. :D

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Enough of that, let's get ugly.

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Quite surprised how accurate this thing is. It was tricky holding it right but I got there.
Also here is a nutjob. It needed a shim.

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Burgers, shitty warm beer, sonic youth, all wrapped up in the shed.

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How's the volute going?

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... Hmm. Ok.
Let's just line it all up for the tricky bit.

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lol, my old template with the holes in the wrong place and is also about 3% too small

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The state of it all!

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Then I had a real good idea... You'll love this.

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Template I made after the one I buggered was about 70% size of the jvpp spec fuckhuge image I scaled down on the scanner - As you can see, it's a tad smaller, but it's about bang on the size I want (oh, my!). Now I have more meat to play with (Oh, my!)

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Another post break as dictated by amount of not sunlight in pictures.
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Annoyingly, a whole bunch of pictures are missing. It is with a facepalm of biblical proportions that I skip ahead heaps in terms of missing progress and skipping bits to just fuckin finish posting and go to bed :lol: :clap:

The missing pictures include me flipping off the old volute, improvising a new one (which is heaps less pretty but loads more functional), playing with the jigsaw, doing a fuckload of sanding, and ... some other shit that sort of adds comic effect.

Anyway, on we plod:

The wood I made the new template out of (made it, stuck it on, drilled holes, sanded it properly) looked really cool. Yes, it is solid. The ears are ply.
It was a bit of a shame to paint it, but it left a pretty cool texture (trans black anyone? Reow)

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No time for pissing around today.

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TRUSS COVER ON
NEW HOLES DRILLED
NEW SCREWS BUGGERED UP TO LOOK LIKE THE OLD ONES YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAH

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Open book looking loads better.

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Yes, I masked off the truss properly this time.

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... Along with the sides, and back, which I ended up sanding nicely.

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Yip, that beehive looking scrotum type deal is the improvised volute. Shortly thereafter, I realised there was no way I was getting the fuckery out of the neck, so I went right ahead and lopped most of the finish off. Feels pretty good really.

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Neck heel proved tricky. I did tidy it up.

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Ohoho, and there was a tin of stain in the shed too! :mental:

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It blended surprisingly well.

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I gently cut the nut (oh, my!) and got rid of the overspray on it.

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Ferrules...!

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... Pickguard!!

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Fuck yeah, go listen to camel

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Tuners...!... Oh.

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The splitting didn't continue, and a code brown was not had.

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They're all in line this time, and none of them are on the piss. I found a way to keep them straight.

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Thickness not bad either.

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Open book looking real good now.

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Oh, yeah - The nut.

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Literally cut and polished. :lol:

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This is as finished as she's going to get until the decals arrive and I give her a proper setup what with the new frets and all.

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I think I've done pretty well with attempt two. The shape and size are right (Oh, my!), the spray job is shitloads better; everything's far more consistent.

When the decals arrive, I will whack them on (dur) super carefully, and probably spray poly over to keep them all in one place.

I had a good go at the body with the palm sander and a careful whack of thinners - I think the gold looks alot more ... Authentic? Instead of the sort of plastic looking gold it was before.

Hopefully the following pictures and eventual "reveal" video shock in a good way. For now, that'll do.
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Even better

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woah woah man what's goin on here???
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When I see the mismatched screws my eyes bleed

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-snort-
Ok, I guess that’s fair. :mrgreen:
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What in God's name possessed you to do this ? :wtf: :lol:
I mean I love a good clamping as much as the next guy but...

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Excellent toil though. And image rich (poor Jvpp)

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Which bit?

They are about 33% the original size. If they take ages to load, it’s his end that’s not playing the game.
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