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| S. Heslop:
Tidied the fingerboard up a bit more. And started working on the neck proper. There's alot of things to do with it to turn it into a neck, of course, but i'm fussing over what order to do it all in. It's alot to keep track of. First I need to get that angled face looking a bit better, and that's going to require getting ahold of some MDF I figure to make a thing to sand it. I'm mostly following what the guy is doing in these videos. |
| micktoon:
Hi Simon , the joins look really neat , just had a look at the sanding jig, simple but effective :thumbup: Keep up the good work . Cheers Mick |
| S. Heslop:
--- Quote from: micktoon on June 28, 2015, 06:52:34 PM ---Hi Simon , the joins look really neat , just had a look at the sanding jig, simple but effective :thumbup: Keep up the good work . Cheers Mick --- End quote --- Thanks! The joints seemed real bad on the surface, but look alot better planed down a bit. Still some gaps though. Haven't gotten alot done the last couple days since i've caught yet another lung infection. Just in time for the hottest damn day. Got that thing made up though and the angle sanded. |
| AdeV:
There's some really great work here, I am in awe of woodworkers, I don't know how you can cope with the damn stuff. Floppy as anything, won't hold an edge, splinters if you so much as look at it funny.... ugh, give me a nice piece of ali or steel any day of the week... Regarding the 40mm overshoot on the fingerboard - is it too late to turn it into a banjo bass? Or maybe a tenor if bass is a bit too much of a stretch :D |
| S. Heslop:
--- Quote from: AdeV on June 30, 2015, 08:43:03 PM ---There's some really great work here, I am in awe of woodworkers, I don't know how you can cope with the damn stuff. Floppy as anything, won't hold an edge, splinters if you so much as look at it funny.... ugh, give me a nice piece of ali or steel any day of the week... Regarding the 40mm overshoot on the fingerboard - is it too late to turn it into a banjo bass? Or maybe a tenor if bass is a bit too much of a stretch :D --- End quote --- I used to hate the stuff too. Plywoods and other engineered woods helped ease me in since they're much easier to work with. I guess the big boon is that it's easy to cut and fairly light. Cheap too! A few days ago I thought i'd go nuts and spend some intense time working on this. But I tidied the garage up and then had a rough evening with the bronchitis from the dust I disturbed just moving things about. I can get in with the respirator but it's not particularly pleasant to wear for long periods of time. Anyways I did a bit playing with shellac today. Trying a few things on filling the grain. For this bit I used a slurry of sanding dust and shellac to try push into the grain. And for this I just put some real thick coats on. Both were sanded after every few layers, and I've got about 12 layers in total. Neither seemed to work ideally, but the slurry worked best. I'm not entirely fussed about how it looks, but I figure on the back of the neck the grain will need to be filled so it doesn't fill up with dead skin and grease from my disgusting hands. I think it'd probably be easiest to just buy some paste wood filler and fill the grain that way, instead of trying to do anything clever. |
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