Interesting
Filling up the holes is the challenge. I could just effectively fill them with superglue.
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Interesting
Would they need filled?
my last 24 hours - using the router sled last night and today to flatten the oak; now the question is do i finalise the outline of the guitar on the top layer, before gluing it to the base; or do it anyway and finalise after? it'll be easier to finesse the shape before gluing i think, but i don't have one of those router bits with the bearing at the top which will allow me to 'trace the shape out below (in fact, the one i have is the reverse, the bearing is at the bottom)
i've sanded the oak rather than planing it; it just tears too easily with the plane, and it's not as if i have consistent grain direction anyway, the way it's been laminated.
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Do they turn things upside down east of the shannon?but i don't have one of those router bits with the bearing at the top which will allow me to 'trace the shape out below (in fact, the one i have is the reverse, the bearing is at the bottom)
the top is only rough cut, about 5mm+ too big all the way round. together, they'll be thicker than the original (currently at 44mm, original is 42mm) but i'll take more away once i've glued up.
the top is 14mm, oak section is 30mm. i think a thinner top may be more aesthetically pleasing, but i may be better advised thinning the oak instead as that will take more weight off.
was also thinking that could be wise...
mulling over what do do with it now. i just weighed it - needs to be thinned a little, and i'll lose a little bit of weight with the belly cut and arm relief, but it's currently weighing in at 4kg. half wondering should i do without a scratchplate and rout out a cavity from the back and install the controls that way.
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yep, i've decided to go down the chambering route; will give my wife the chance to buy me that scheppach pillar drill lidl had on weds for €100, as a birthday present. though i suspect it's gone now. have marked out on the oak where i'll carve it out. left 12cm down the middle for pickups and the bridge. not expected, but the two pickups supplied aren't identical; one is 9cm and the other 9.4cm.
i hand planed the wood to do that join, that japanese whetstone is great, but that wood does plane well as you mention. the oak,
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