
I LOVE IT! The "snake" F-holes are a great touch, as are the inlays. The binding is also gorgeous.
They will fit as soon as I cut a notch in the side of the brace that will allow the tabs on the bottom for the pickup to pass through.I LOVE IT! The "snake" F-holes are a great touch, as are the inlays. The binding is also gorgeous.
I gotta ask though. With the "V" bracing how are you gonna get a pickup in there? Or do you have another plan?
Gorgeous piece of work.
GOP’s was a weird reinterpretation of the word ‘for’ caused by my fat fingers and dumb predictive text.Sorry, I don't know what "GOPs" are. Looks like it's routed for P90 Dog Ears.
Your 335 looks like a mid 70s?
Also, I have an Epi that looks just like yours, an AJ 100. Relatively new.
Nice pieces of work. One of these days I'll get back to my bench and finish the 2 projects have have going.
Funny how life gets in the way.
The table with the roof is called a ‘Go-Bar’ deck and the sticks are called ‘Go-Bar Sticks’. The table is flat and the sticks hold the bracing down while the glue dries. These sticks allow you to glue in a bunch of bracing at once. This method also lets me flatten out a warped top.I'm digging your posts immensely!
The vertical slats that are under tension, are they to hold the bracing in place as the bracing glue dries?
You can but their table and then pay the tune of several hundred dollars to get enough sticks…..or make one. I use redwood for the sticks and one 2x6x8’ board will make enough sticks to last a couple of years.I remember looking that up to buy one when I first considered making a guitar and finding StewMac selling a setup for something stupid like a grand.
That sent me straight over to the scrap timber pile.![]()
The only thing more satisfying that making something is making the tools to make something.
Spool clamps are the worst. The first luthier ‘tools’ I made included a batch of spool clamps. I hate them.Lovely stuff.
Mine was just a one-job affair so not ideal scale or materials and, as you can see, I had to use little shims here and there to get things right,
but the job got done and that's the main thing.
I had the same experience with spool clamps. How much??...Where are my hole cutters?![]()
We start our students out working on 3/4 all birch Stella type guitars which we get for under $50.I'm not either but that's the way to do it ^.
Learn on things you don't mind wrecking.
I did the same learning to neck reset - I think I mentioned it recently.
I bought an FG-180 in really bad shape for very cheap. If I'd made a mess of it, well, nothing was really lost.
Thankfully, though, I didn't!
Feel free to start up a thread for your projects in DIY section, if you want,
even if you're not sure where you plan to start.![]()