Junk Telecaster

Frets were dressed, and sanded with the 12" radius board to level them.

More later.
 

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moresound said:
Is that a crack I see forming at the 3rd fret crazydoc?



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It's a pore in the grain. The wood, which I was told was lyptus (a hybrid eucalyptus grown in Brazil), although dense, hard and heavy, has these large pores running through it, maybe because it is very fast growing.

Here is a shot of the end grain. There is a large pore on the surface in the upper left, forming a large groove also.
 

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hmmmm
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Was that copier an old Ricoh?
used to fix them for a living.......

frets look like that old martin bar frets..........interesting........
 
The tuners. Since I can't make gears, I had to do with tuning pins (metal tuning pegs.) I was afraid the headstock would split from the pressure, so I reinforced it with pegs made from skewers (bamboo I think), and an extra piece of wood on the back to increase the bearing surface.
 

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I made the pins out of a copier roller shaft, before drilling and smoothing, and squaring the ends.
 

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The bottoms are squared and tapered so they can be turned with a wrench.
 

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I thought I would need some fine tuners. I drilled a hole just under the head of a machine screw for the string to go through. When the nut is tightened, it puls the string down, increasing the tension.

It turns out they were unnecessary, but they also work as string trees.
 

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