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| HS93:
--- Quote from: saw on June 22, 2011, 04:44:13 PM ---It's nice built, but why change the guitar? Was it not good enough?? :doh: --- End quote --- are you deliberatley trying to be funny? read the sign on the door, it says MAD MODDERS, we would be running around in model T Fords still if we went by your way of thinking. Peter |
| dsquire:
--- Quote from: saw on June 22, 2011, 04:44:13 PM ---It's nice built, but why change the guitar? Was it not good enough?? :doh: --- End quote --- Saw I can see why you would ask this question. I can also see that you didn't bother to go back and read any of the earlier posts in this thread. If you would have than you would not have had to ask "why change the guitar" I could very well tell you why but I am not going to. If you are interested in learning why then go back and start reading this thread from the beginning. You won't have to read very far before you have your answer. :D :D Cheers :beer: Don |
| Bogstandard:
Nice one Marv, your humour is getting almost as good as us UK members. :lol: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Everything else on this mod revolves around what I am about to do, that is the folding bit. As mentioned by Spud when I first showed this build, this neck was held on with just four wood screws. If this project was going to be successful, ALL wood to wood joints needed to be got rid of and replaced with metal to metal joints, they would be a lot more stable. I could have made a very complicated hinge system, but it was decided by my man that he would be much happier making it as simple as possible, so he bought me some screw in toggle clamps to play with. So now started the exercise in making things strong enough. Wherever something needed to be screwed into the wood, I made inserts that were screwed and epoxied into the wood for the machine screws to be screwed into. A bit like the Helicoil system, but larger. Once the glue had dried, the heads were very carefully machined off to exactly level with the wood face. This is how the screws then fitted. Rough first trial front Rough first trial back Now came the time to beef up the body mounting. Where the bolts went thru the body, and where the brass inserts sat against, ali top hat sections were epoxied into the body and machined flush. When the neck and body screw together, they are metal to metal contacts. Some locating spigots were also fitted in the body that also went into holes drilled in the neck. That ensured that the neck always went back in the same position, with no side to side play. A large spreader plate was then made, to spread the load from the toggle clamps over a larger area, especially when the guitar is in playing mode, as shown in the last picture, where the load is spread over the back of the guitar. The recesses in this plate are to take the shaped thrust washers that came with the screw toggle clamps. The plate also fits on the other side when the neck is folded. The neck firmly clamped in position. It only takes about a minute to go from playing to folded. Now that the guitar was rigid, it was time to see what could be done with the strings. It was now that things started to get very technical and critical. Bogs |
| dsquire:
John Very interesting and very nicely executed but then we would expect nothing less from you. Thanks again for taking us along for the ride. :D :D Cheers :beer: Don |
| John Stevenson:
--- Quote from: Bogstandard on June 22, 2011, 06:08:36 PM ---Nice one Marv, your humour is getting almost as good as us UK members. :lol: Bogs --- End quote --- Proves I have trained him well :lol: John S. |
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