DIY Guitar Messing About (2 Viewers)

[pete]

I gave it a quick sand and polish with steel wool, and a dart of linseed oil on the wooden bits this morning. Came up well
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They don't make them like they used to. Well they might, but that’s just nice.

 

[pete]

Actually I suggest looking up w.marples & sons boat level on that eBay….

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Actually I suggest looking up w.marples & sons boat level on that eBay….

yeah - mines not in as good nick, but I'd probably get a few bob for it if it. I will definitely have use for it, so I'll be holding onto it though.

 

[magicbastarder]

i have at least one marples bailey plane in the shed. doubt it's worth a lot though.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

i have at least one marples bailey plane in the shed. doubt it's worth a lot though.

if you want to loose a few mins/hours/days

Spirit Levels – William Marples and Sons, Ltd.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Stocked back up

 

[magicbastarder]

More from your father in law?

 

[JohnnyRaz]

More from your father in law?

Yep - the remains of an old gramaphone, and pitch pine planks from a bench - both from the eye and ear hospital

 

[magicbastarder]

Is that the same pigott as in McCullough pigott?

 

[ann post]

both from the eye and ear hospital

chances are it'll look and sound better when you are done

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Is that the same pigott as in McCullough pigott?

I presume so. Google tells me the gramaphone dates from 1910s… would have been a high end piece in its day

 

[JohnnyRaz]

The clean up begins..


I’ve a back and two sides of planks which were jointed to make panels. I think I’ll stack them to make a body, which is chambered like a thinline..

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Ongoing cleaning and prepping - I’ve jointed 2 pieces of the pitch pine together, and it will have a mahogany top, and use a neck I had originally made for a hollow body (I’ll have to remake the tenon on this). Will be thinline style also (will have to be- the pine weighs a ton)
Really interesting (I.e difficult) timber to work with. It’s so full of sap (after 100+ years, about 15 of which were outdoors) that it practically seals itself after ever cut/stroke with plane. Also doesn’t seem to mind being planed in either direction.

 

[magicbastarder]

oh - i was talking to someone who had a bandsaw that can take wood to about 12 or 14 inches thick but he warned that resawing wood cleanly can take a lot of fettling. he does have access to a drum sander too, but that's going to turn most of the wood into dust, it's not a very efficient way of thinning it.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

oh - i was talking to someone who had a bandsaw that can take wood to about 12 or 14 inches thick but he warned that resawing wood cleanly can take a lot of fettling. he does have access to a drum sander too, but that's going to turn most of the wood into dust, it's not a very efficient way of thinning it.

I've another piece held over - pending a potential custom build, and potentially access to some more!
I think a drum sander is probably the way to go from what I've researched... waste notwithstanding. might chat to you at some point about that...

 

[ann post]

I'd hold off on the drum sanding with something that old. you want it to look as old as it is IMHO.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

I'd hold off on the drum sanding with something that old. you want it to look as old as it is IMHO.

side conversation - I want potentially to get a piece of it down to 4mm for another project!