DIY Guitar Messing About (2 Viewers)

[JohnnyRaz]

Neck made and fretboard made, just have to make a body to fit it on now.

 

[magicbastarder]

spotted this in town the other day - might be an idea for a handy way of using up the 'not enough mahogany for a full sized guitar' bit of wood i have.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

spotted this in town the other day - might be an idea for a handy way of using up the 'not enough mahogany for a full sized guitar' bit of wood i have.

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Yeah, you’d have plenty in that for a tenor guitar. Only needs to be about 300x400mm at the most. Below is a 23” tenor

 

[JohnnyRaz]

A lad who bought the latest tenor guitar off me was asking about the possibility of me making an acoustic instrument tuned eadg with sympathetic strings running under the fretboard. I’m thinking a single course octave mandola with 4 sympathetic strings. Also thinking of departing from curves.. meaning I’ve more flexibility in terms of a number of other parameters

 

[dudley]

Proper DIY

 

[magicbastarder]

sympathetic strings running under the fretboard.

how would you manage this?

 

[JohnnyRaz]

how would you manage this?

With difficulty

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[JohnnyRaz]

As mentioned in the minor complaints thread - I finally have my first maple scarf joint completed bar a bit of planing.
Now all I have to do is cut a 150mm long, 15mm thick chunk off the back of the headstock. I may be gone some time…

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Gathering up instruments around the school I work in,we found a few violins falling apart. No doubt cheap beginner ones of course. Some are missing parts and some won't even hold tension on the strings.

Anyone know much about violins would possibly just be a waste of time?

( Take it to the violins thread etc)

 

[magicbastarder]

are you considering having a go yourself or do you think you'll be outsourcing it to someone?

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

No idea. One of them is missing a bridge.
Can't imagine a lot of interest in playing them to be honest. So would be hoping to not be going asking for much money.

And as I say I'm sure they are beginners violins at best.

 

[magicbastarder]

there's a lad i know who would know several instrument makers/repairers. i could ask him for recommendations, but (based on me knowing nothing about this) i'd say you're looking at a couple of hundred quid, they'd probably regard several as a day's work.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Yeah,that's pretty much what I'm thinking

 

[Anthony]

probably more than the things are worth.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Found out about a fix for the tension on the strings,so if that works we will have a better idea.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

A tale of two routers.. while I got a grown up router over Xmas, I’ve tended to still use my girly trim router for accurate work as I get to grips with how to use the big un. The trim router is underpowered, but with a bit of patience will work, but absolutely shat itself when faced with cutting a channel in the maple, and bucked all over the shop. I then set up the big router and it sailed through the remainder. Lesson learned. It looks like shit, but rod is well centered and fairly snug, so while I’ll have to pack it it won’t cause any functional problems

 

[magicbastarder]

Yeah, there's nothing like an 'oh shit' moment like an 'oh shit' router moment. You're so close to disaster so much of the time. I've had several near misses with them.

 

[ann post]

I nealy always use them with guiding of some sort now but yes the 1200w one does want to walk sometimes. I have not seen my calipers for a few weeks and this did slow down the spice rack project slightly.

Been starting to look at the smaller ones with curiousty now but i'm only going in on one if it's a second hand get lucky on adverts type deal. I'd prefer if the one i have had height that isn't adjusted largely by fighting with an industrial spring mechanism. Other ones have a screw like 'volume control' for that.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

I nealy always use them with guiding of some sort now but yes the 1200w one does want to walk sometimes. I have not seen my calipers for a few weeks and this did slow down the spice rack project slightly.

Been starting to look at the smaller ones with curiousty now but i'm only going in on one if it's a second hand get lucky on adverts type deal. I'd prefer if the one i have had height that isn't adjusted largely by fighting with an industrial spring mechanism. Other ones have a screw like 'volume control' for that.

I used both with a guide, but the guide on the trim router is a bit flimsy, hence the jumping. The guide it has for trimming/cutting an edge channel works great - but it's not designed for horsing out channels or cavities in hardwood in particular.

 

[magicbastarder]

Mine has that big spring thing going on. The depth stop is the best way to finesse the depth of the cut.