DIY Guitar Messing About (13 Viewers)

[JohnnyRaz]

it's a fucking disease is what it is. i've bits half the size of my phone i hold on to.

but that time once every few months where you need a shim or a repair piece, or a small sanding block, you feel truely justified.

during a guitar build I typically hold onto some of the thicker planing shavings for crack filling purposes. these then migrate to the corners, under larger offcuts...

 

[magicbastarder]

i bought one of those outdoor storage boxes to store some of the stuff i got after eowyn.
but some of the nice maple i got is splitting. which was inevitable, i'll just have to work with it.

 

[ann post]

this leg is a piece i've stashed since lockdown (i built all the perspex sheilding stuff at work) so it's all COMPLTELY justified.

 

[magicbastarder]

i was recently given a piece of mystery wood the donor had in storage over 50 years. i don't know what it is, it's the densest, hardest wood i've ever worked with. very pale and slightly burry.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

i was recently given a piece of mystery wood the donor had in storage over 50 years. i don't know what it is, it's the densest, hardest wood i've ever worked with. very pale and slightly burry.

some class of walnut?

 

[magicbastarder]

no - too pale and too heavy. i just calculated the density at about 0.88kg/m^3 which is very dense.
i was given a length maybe 1m long and about 85mm square - i cut 300mm off and rounded it on the lathe.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

no - too pale and too heavy. i just calculated the density at about 0.88kg/m^3 which is very dense.
i was given a length maybe 1m long and about 85mm square - i cut 300mm off and rounded it on the lathe.

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really interesting grain..

 

[magicbastarder]

i got it home a couple of months back and ran a plane over it - it was filthy when i got it. it immediately started chipping the plane blade - on closer inspection it looked like the heads of loads of tiny pins in it, which would have made it unworkable. but i realised it was loads of tiny balls of metal - i spent ages picking them out with a pin. i suspect someone had been welding above it or near it.

 

[pete]

i was recently given a piece of mystery wood the donor had in storage over 50 years. i don't know what it is, it's the densest, hardest wood i've ever worked with. very pale and slightly burry.

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[JohnnyRaz]

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that'd fairly blunt your chisels.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Putting it back together

 

[magicbastarder]

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[JohnnyRaz]

Fully dressed

 

[JohnnyRaz]

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[magicbastarder]

What's the plan for it? Keep or sell?

 

[JohnnyRaz]

What's the plan for it? Keep or sell?

sell probably.
it's fun to mess about with, and actually is very playable as a 'regular' guitar, but I kinda built it more as a project than as something I wanted. (and I like the idea that there is a growing number of my unusual instruments out there in the hands of weirdos/musos in Ireland and beyond)

 

[magicbastarder]

Reason I asked was that I sent it to a guitar nerd I know, he's going to browse through your YouTube channel later. Not saying he's interested in buying, mind.

He's more the classical guitar type generally.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Reason I asked was that I sent it to a guitar nerd I know, he's going to browse through your YouTube channel later. Not saying he's interested in buying, mind.

He's more the classical guitar type generally.

hope the decidely non-classical guitar standard playing doesn't put him off ;-)

I've a slight bit of final fret leveling to do (possibly this evening), and then I might throw it up on adverts over the w/end. from experience will either go in a matter of days.... or still be up there in time for xmas..

 

[ann post]

Part of me is tempted.
Me who is just about squeezing 30 minutes practice in a week.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Part of me is tempted.
Me who is just about squeezing 30 minutes practice in a week.

You would make good use of this I’d reckon..