Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Love your airbrush work, you've obviously done a bit :lol: Nice portfolio of work Allan & Welcome to the forum...again :wink: . Thankyou Actually, no - I haven't airbrushed much at all. I can't draw to save my life. Even if I try and draw a stick figure I'd find a way to screw it up. A couple years...

I sand with 80 grit, then 120 and 320. You can see the aluminium radius block inthis pic: http://i1155.photobucket.com/albums/p541/searlsguitars/023/IMG_2883small.jpg I should also note that before I radius I mark the board, so I can see whan its completely flat. When the greylead is all gone, the b...

http://i1155.photobucket.com/albums/p541/searlsguitars/023/IMG_2838small.jpg Baby steps on this one as I've had another guitar in paint stages, meaning I've had to not do woodwork on those days. http://i1155.photobucket.com/albums/p541/searlsguitars/023/IMG_2856small.jpg I cut the heel back on the ...

Today I decided to route the neck pocket so I could carve more on the actual neck back to the heel area. Should have stayed in bed. Router bit #1 came loose from the collet. Titan Collets are a piece of crap. I've been meaning to buy a new one for ages. Anyway - it made a mess of where the neck was ...

I mark out the profile depth in greylead and a 1m rule and then on the bandsaw cut close to the fretboard from top profile, then cut on the outside of the depth line I ruled: http://i1155.photobucket.com/albums/p541/searlsguitars/023/IMG_2785small.jpg Clamped at the heel or body end I then proceed t...

Then I moved to the body: First pass on the router table: http://i1155.photobucket.com/albums/p541/searlsguitars/023/IMG_2773small.jpg Remove the template and use the first pass as my new template: You can see in this pic how short the router bit is that I'm using. It was a longer bit I had machines...

Now the truss rod channel: I use a block of wood (squared) in between my neck and the guide so as the headstock can clear the guide. I do this in two passes with a upcut spiral bit. http://i1155.photobucket.com/albums/p541/searlsguitars/023/IMG_2763small.jpg I then take the fingerboard, after markin...

I marked the center line and body shape. Even though the timber top is 2 piece, it's really hard to see the join line, so it makes for much quicker lining up if I mark it in greylead http://i1155.photobucket.com/albums/p541/searlsguitars/023/IMG_2754small.jpg While I wss cutting the body I was think...

Binding: http://i1155.photobucket.com/albums/p541/searlsguitars/023/IMG_2743small.jpg Whilst I was waiting for the end strip of binding to get tacky enough to cut, I ran the headstock tang through the bnandsaw and then smoothed it somewhat with a handplane: http://i1155.photobucket.com/albums/p541/s...

Picked out my best Birdseye Maple board and ran it through the drum sander: http://i1155.photobucket.com/albums/p541/searlsguitars/023/IMG_2730small.jpg http://i1155.photobucket.com/albums/p541/searlsguitars/023/IMG_2737small.jpg http://i1155.photobucket.com/albums/p541/searlsguitars/023/IMG_2739sma...

Hi, my name is Allan, I'm a hobby builder from Ballarat Victoria. I build solid body electric guitars in my spare time! - just in case you missed my intro post, I thought I'd add a build thread for a guitar I have on the go at the moment. It's on another Aussie forum I visit occasionally so some of ...

jeffhigh wrote:G'day Allan and welcome, i've seen your work on the woodwork forum.
Love the airbrushing.

Thanks!

I was going to cut/paste my current build thread from over there and post it over here but their format doesnt let me cut the pic links, makes for a pretty boring thread! I'll work it out.

Hi guys. My name is Allan, I'm from Victoria Australia. I stumbleed across this forum whjile searching for Aussie Tonewoods and it looks like you guys have a great little community going on. I'm a hobby builder of Electric Guitars, started off building just for myself and then friends wanted me to b...