DIY Guitar Messing About (1 Viewer)

[magicbastarder]

i was wondering would the grain on the plane take well to stain. or would that be insane.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

i was wondering would the grain on the plane take well to stain. or would that be insane.

on the main, stain on the plane, would be totally sane.

 

[Space]

Just be careful with the membrane.

 

[magicbastarder]

using a hand plane in this weather is quite sweltery.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

using a hand plane in this weather is quite sweltery.

I was mixing some shellac in the shed earlier.
nice heady fumes in this weather..

 

[magicbastarder]

rough cut the tele body on the bandsaw. it's somewhere between 44 and 45mm thick, and feels about twice the weight of the squier body i'm using as a template. not too late to make a left handed guitar, were i to be perverse about it.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Let the shellac flow!
This is just the first ‘horse it on with a rag coat’. But I’ve changed my sealing/sanding/grain filling process to good effect, so it’s already pretty shiny

 

[magicbastarder]

ooh, i might try that on the one i'm building.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

ooh, i might try that on the one i'm building.

Hit me up.. it’s taken me two years to work out the best technique for these sort of things. Also working out of a fresh batch of ruby shellac which I probably won’t use all of….

 

[magicbastarder]

did you use a grain filler on that? i think i won't need one with the london plane. it's very tight grained.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

did you use a grain filler on that? i think i won't need one with the london plane. it's very tight grained.

On the back and sides I used water based grain filler, but before that I used pumice/shellac in a sealing/filling step.

You’d not need the filler for the plane or maple - but the mahogany would be opened pored (which might be a nice contrast).

I would Recommend the pumicing step though.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Done. I will probably look at this tomorrow and only see the mistakes, but fairly chuffed with the finished this evening!

 

[magicbastarder]

looks class. that's some nice grain on the back.

posting this here because it's rare enough to find a video where they actually lay out starting dimensions, and teach you how to do it rather than simply record the process:

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[magicbastarder]

though - 'i prefer a 5/16" fretboard though ultimately i'll come down to about 7mm on this'

MAKE UP YOUR FUCKING MIND

 

[JohnnyRaz]

though - 'i prefer a 5/16" fretboard though ultimately i'll come down to about 7mm on this'

MAKE UP YOUR FUCKING MIND

what's .9mm between friends.

 

[Space]

what's .9mm between friends.

0.035 of an inch or thereabouts.

 

[magicbastarder]

neck blank and fretboard blank cut and planed. not easy planing the fretboard blank; it flexes so much because it's so thin.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

neck blank and fretboard blank cut and planed. not easy planing the fretboard blank; it flexes so much because it's so thin.

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Nice -how thin did you go?

 

[magicbastarder]

about 9mm for now. i'm debating whether to take it down further before or after i glue it to the neck.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Finito. Regretting I didn’t build a pickup into it while it was going together as it’s a lovely sounding/playing yoke. (Then again - wasn’t sure it would work at all).