Did you bind the bodies as well?
What's on your work bench?
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I wish I'd thought to at the time!!
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Re: What's on your work bench?
Rewarewa is supposed to be very unstable, but I have some that is perfectly quartersawn and I've made a fretboard and a neck with no issues, neck has a U channel truss rod which is epoxied in
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Re: What's on your work bench?
45 hrs is pretty good going. Are you organised enough that you don't spend 1/2 your time looking for tools, parts etc in your workshop? I seem to spend so much time looking for things - but i do have a tendency to procrastinate as well........ Did you prebend the f-hole binding in a template?
There's a guy on Trademe in the Cambridge area that had some rewarewa in widths that could be used for a top - might only be 150mm so might need to have some small add on pieces to make the bouts work.
Be good to see the kohekohe.
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Kerry, do you use carbon fiber rods in any of your necks - for your 7 string fan fret models?
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Did some reading on F holes and how they came to be. Very interesting.
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My workshop is an absolute mess, so yes, there is lost time in cleaning up sections, reorganising stuff, finding tools, etc. Those hours are not included. What I do include though is setup times of different pieces of equipment. I am documenting this build on my website but it is lagging quite a bit to actual progress.Lostininverness wrote: ↑Sat Aug 08, 2020 11:06 am45 hrs is pretty good going. Are you organised enough that you don't spend 1/2 your time looking for tools, parts etc in your workshop? I seem to spend so much time looking for things - but i do have a tendency to procrastinate as well........ Did you prebend the f-hole binding in a template?
There's a guy on Trademe in the Cambridge area that had some rewarewa in widths that could be used for a top - might only be 150mm so might need to have some small add on pieces to make the bouts work.
Be good to see the kohekohe.
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Is this the first time you've kept a time log? Its a good idea.Jay wrote: ↑Sat Aug 08, 2020 11:58 am
My workshop is an absolute mess, so yes, there is lost time in cleaning up sections, reorganising stuff, finding tools, etc. Those hours are not included. What I do include though is setup times of different pieces of equipment. I am documenting this build on my website but it is lagging quite a bit to actual progress.
Re: What's on your work bench?
Not usually, but making an 8 string multiscale with carbon fibre rods ATMLostininverness wrote: ↑Sat Aug 08, 2020 11:08 am Kerry, do you use carbon fiber rods in any of your necks - for your 7 string fan fret models?
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A few days ago, I thought I had stuffed up making the kohekohe neck. It is a sinking feeling when you are facing having to scrap quite a few hours of work as well as timber that is not easy to get. I managed to save it though at the expense of a slightly funny neck/headstock transition. Here is what happened...
The headstock needed a veneer so I made some from rewarewa. The thinnest I could get to was 3mm with my sled thicknesser:

After routing it became this:

I thought yay, this is looking good...

But then the tuners did not fit anymore as the added 3mm veneer made the headstock too 'thick'. So I either could reduce the veneer but could not do that with the sled router, or, take 3mm off the back of the headstock. It was the latter...

The transition will be a bit funny but who would have noticed anyway? So now the tuners fit

The headstock needed a veneer so I made some from rewarewa. The thinnest I could get to was 3mm with my sled thicknesser:

After routing it became this:

I thought yay, this is looking good...

But then the tuners did not fit anymore as the added 3mm veneer made the headstock too 'thick'. So I either could reduce the veneer but could not do that with the sled router, or, take 3mm off the back of the headstock. It was the latter...

The transition will be a bit funny but who would have noticed anyway? So now the tuners fit


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So you've seen BG's penis too then!
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Ben! welcome back, so good to see posts from you again. And yes, that headstock was 'stolen' from a Gretsch Corvette which I re-designed to fit 3x3 side by side tuners. I am building something that (hopefully) sort of resembles a flat top early Gretsch.
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Disappointed it's not a corvette...

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In the last 37 years many people have been excited by my headstock.
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