Building comes on ... ;=] Guitar based on JP6

[Macck]

So yeah , i did it today and now it will go for sanding and rounding edges process ... then im starting with neck from mahogany. This stuff is maple.

 

[Jack FFR1846]

You're doing a solid maple body? I'd expect it'll weigh 20 pounds.....unless this is the cap and something light is going underneath. Building your own neck......impressive. It's on my list of things to learn to do, but finishing a couple builds using stock components and just painting and putting together is all I'm up to so far. I do have an old pine beam that'll become a guitar body sometime soon. If I use the tools that I own, the initial cut will have to be by chainsaw. And I'm not even kidding.

 

[Macck]

Nah it's like 6 pounds (usnig bathroom scale)

This is my first guitar ever, and probably first serious woodwork ever ;-)

 

[Warg Master]

If you could just keep updated with pics along the way, I'm sure we'd all appreciate it...... Looks like fun!

 

[Macck]

If you could just keep updated with pics along the way, I'm sure we'd all appreciate it...... Looks like fun!

Sure! Topic will be updated as i do something. Now im waiting (i dont know for what, maybe for more free time) then i have to order fixed bridge and truss rod then i have to route rod channel in mahogany. Maybe this week I'll go with body for edges sanding.

And band saw owner badly needed in my neighbourhood...

Keep it up!

 

[Spudmurphy]

I'm building one too - but it's not an EB style guitar so can't really post it here - gonna be made for slide and I'm making it out of a "Brains Beer Drip Tray" (similar to this) which will cap a chambered piece of tone wood.

 

[Macck]

Yeah, I didn't expect that i can do this but ... yeah i did the edges!

 

[Warg Master]

frickin sweet!!!

 

[Macck]

Im glad that you like it ;p

 

[Macck]

Im done with truss rod for the neck

 

[Macck]

Neck comes up. Still a lot of sanding etc to do

 

[Macck]

Im kinda pissed of. In place where neck touches body i have kinda 0.7mm free space and this makes me mad. Fingerboard will hide it but bad taste lefts ... hand router isn't really good idea for work like this.

But... overall here