Junk Telecaster

[crazydoc]

Frets glued in with 5 min epoxy.

 

[crazydoc]

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

More later.

 

[moresound]

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

 

[crazydoc]

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

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.

 

[purerad]

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........

 

[crazydoc]

Here's a shot at the 3rd fret of the finished guitar.

 

[crazydoc]

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

It was a Konica.

 

[crazydoc]

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.

 

[crazydoc]

Reinforcements all around.

 

[crazydoc]

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

 

[crazydoc]

Installed in the headstock.

 

[crazydoc]

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

 

[crazydoc]

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.

 

[crazydoc]

From the bottom.

 

[crazydoc]

In the finished guitar.

 

[LDS]

Outstanding!!!!!

 

[michaelSHK]

more finished product pics!

 

[purerad]

really cool ideas and your really thinking outside the box! awesome!

 

[Richard Monroe]

I love projects like this! A less focused man would've cannibalized some old dead axe for the tuners. Keep it coming.-Richie

 

[crazydoc]

more finished product pics!

Sorry, you're going to have to wait till the end.

Here's a pic of the finished guitar, in case you missed it:

https://homerecording.com/bbs/showpost.php?p=3394589&postcount=2