I love reading work-in-progress threads, so here's my contribution:
I stumbled upon an laminate top archtop body on ebay for cheap - a factory 2nd perhaps (no brand), and decided to buy it and add a 7 string neck (cos how else can you get a 7 string archtop without a mortgage??). It had a partially routed neck pocket that I filled in with Vic Ash.
The plan is to make it look similar to Gibsons of era's gone by, borrowing features from guitars like L7s, L5s, ES125, ES175 etc. in a tobacco sunburst. I'm also working on fabricating my own trapeze tailpiece out of brass because I couldn't find any to buy, and didn' want to go with the modern carved ebony style...
The neck is Queensland Maple and Jarrah laminates, with an ebony headplate. I was even so bold as to try a hand cut dovetail - the router bits and Stew Mac template jigs were going to be way too expensive, and where's the fun and danger in doing it that way?
In general I've been using plenty of hand tools - handplanes to flatten the neck ready for the fingerboard, and to flatten the headstock after cutting on the bandsaw etc.
Early mockup with the body + dog:
I didn't however trust my joinery skills enough to do the fingerboard extension by hand, so I made this quick jig to allow me to run it against the fence on the Triton router table setup:
Success:
Not perfectly aligned, but everything's oversized at this stage, so it'll be fine when cut back
I stumbled upon an laminate top archtop body on ebay for cheap - a factory 2nd perhaps (no brand), and decided to buy it and add a 7 string neck (cos how else can you get a 7 string archtop without a mortgage??). It had a partially routed neck pocket that I filled in with Vic Ash.
The plan is to make it look similar to Gibsons of era's gone by, borrowing features from guitars like L7s, L5s, ES125, ES175 etc. in a tobacco sunburst. I'm also working on fabricating my own trapeze tailpiece out of brass because I couldn't find any to buy, and didn' want to go with the modern carved ebony style...
The neck is Queensland Maple and Jarrah laminates, with an ebony headplate. I was even so bold as to try a hand cut dovetail - the router bits and Stew Mac template jigs were going to be way too expensive, and where's the fun and danger in doing it that way?
In general I've been using plenty of hand tools - handplanes to flatten the neck ready for the fingerboard, and to flatten the headstock after cutting on the bandsaw etc.
Early mockup with the body + dog:
I didn't however trust my joinery skills enough to do the fingerboard extension by hand, so I made this quick jig to allow me to run it against the fence on the Triton router table setup:
Success:
Not perfectly aligned, but everything's oversized at this stage, so it'll be fine when cut back
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