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Hi,

I'm building my third electric guitar, perso design :

The specs :
Body :Sipo mahogony
Top : Burl maple
Neck : 5 parts maple/paduk with wenge and maple sheets...
Headplate : ebony, MOP inlay (Imago et Dragonfly),
Ebony fretboard 24 cases, with LP Standard style MOP inlays
Snakewood bindings fot the body and the fretboard...
Piclups : P90 style made by a french luthier : Franck Chérubin

Some pics :

Top gluing :




Planing the ebony headplate :


Gluing the neck blanks :


The planed neck :


Body template and rough band sawing of the body and top :



Pearl cutting saw and vacuum for the MOP dust :



Result after needle file :


Then, the dragonfly, white and black MOP :




I didn't work for 3 weeks on the guitar because I built a drum sander :




It works great and helps a lot for thicknessing (???) the snakewood bindings...

To be continued... (I'm gluing the peghead ears)...

See ya,

Jojo

Hi,

Work of the day :

Head angle with a ryoba saw :


Then, trueing the glueing faces with a plane and glueing the ears :

Planing and drum sanding !!!


I used two little "pins" to avoid slipping (??) during the clamping cession :



And thickness drum sanding fot the snakewood bindings, the ebony fretboard and headplate :


I'll continue the job on the neck these weeck...

Comments and critics are welcomme of course...

Have a nice evening,

Jojo

P.S. : sorry for my bad english...

By the way, I realise I didnt post the plan : http://membres.lutherie-amateur.com/joj ... ago_A0.pdf

Your advices are welcome...

Jojo, that looks great! Nice job on the inlay. I really like the neck laminations as well. My one bit of advice would be that I don't think the neck tenon needs to extend past the neck pickup. In fact, I don't think it even needs to go under the neck pickup, unless I'm looking at things incorrectly.

Anyway, awesome job. I look forward to seeing the finished product.

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Mike

"The Dude abides. I don't know about you but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners. Shoosh." The Stranger

Thanks for the comments Mike

For the neck tenon, I just wanted to try the "long tenon set neck" after a neck trough construction with the explorer and a classical set neck with the second guitar...

But in fact, my laminated neck blanck is ti short, it will only extend to neck neck pickup cavity...

Have a nice day,

Regards,

Jojo

Hi,

I can't edit my posts... is it normal ?

Hi there !

Work of the last two evenings...

Gluing the headplate lamination (wenge, maple, ebony) :


The angle for the headplate :


truss-rod canal (ugly but with some wenge sheets, the rod wont move) :


Gluing the headplate :


Have a nice evening,

Comments are always welcome...

Jojo

Beautiful work!

Thanks James !

Hi everybody !

I didn't work for a long time, but the last two days, I find the time for...

So, fretboard, head and neck...

Slots :



And a beautiful newbie mistake with the router...

I'll fill the gap with epoxy and ebony dust...

Then, I glued the fingerboard bindings :


Cavities for the LP standard style inlays and glueing :


Then I glued the fingerboard on the "square" neck :


Head templates, and routing the neck and head :


And a template for the pickups 8) :


Comments and advices are welcome as usual...

Have a nice day !!!

Jojo

P.S. : still sorry for my bad english...

Great pictures, keep 'em coming!

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Jordan Aceto
Ithaca, NY

Thanks Jordan...

Jojobilou thanks for posting this in process build. This sure helps those of us that are a little afraid to take the jump.

I love the design of the guitar. Is it your design or??

Would it be permissable to make a few design changes?

Mike

You're welcome, that's what the forum is made for...

I'm a beginner, and forums help me a lot, so I try to share my little experience too...

Thanks a lot Mike, and yes, it's a design of mine...

I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean...

If you want to use it and change it, no problem... I you want me to change it, too late...

Thanks again...

Jojo

Hi JoJo,

No, I sure don't want you to change it. I wanted to make a double cut away out of it, but I have not found anything that looks as good as the original. I did tweak the head stock a little but it is very minor.

I will be watching this thread.

Mike

Hello Jojo, lookin good, can't wait to see it finished.
Do you have info on building the drum sander? Or know where I can find some?
Thanks alot, keep up the good work
Daniel

P.S. Your english isn't nearly as bad as my french would be. So no worries.
Anyways I'm an American, so I'm used to bad english.

Hi Daniel, thanks for the nice comments...



Sorry, I only have the link to the subject in the french forum where I discover lutherie, but there is a lot of pictures :

http://www.lutherie-amateur.com/Forum/v ... 44#p278944

My "plan" :
http://membres.lutherie-amateur.com/joj ... e_jojo.pdf

Hope, it can help...

Thanks alot Jojo, I'm a member there too, just not a "supporting" member, yet.
I use http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ to translate. It helps alot, but not 100%
Merci pour toute votre aide. Je suis sûr que j'obtiendrai beaucoup d'utilisation hors de la ponceuse de tambour.

Beautiful work! Good photography too. Can't wait to see the rest of your progress and the finished project!

Ummmm ..... uh oh. I've been building acoustics up until now... I think I'm in trouble...

Thanks a lot guys!!!

Don't really got time for lutherie these WE, but I've radiused the fretboard these morning...





Excellent...

I always like the "bot" translations...
You're right, drum sander is "mega" useful...

Have a nice WE everyone,

See ya...

Jojo

That's funny, I've always wondered what it looks like on the other end. I'm sure I have made a fool of myself a time or two.

The fretboard looks great, I really like the snakewood

Jojo, that's really beautiful, and well documented too!

Thanks!

Dennis

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Dennis Leahy
Duluth, MN, USA
7th Sense Multimedia

Thanks Dennis and Dan

The funniest in the translation above is "la ponceuse de tambour" for drum sander... in french, you call it "ponceuse calibreuse"... "la ponceuse de tambour" sounds like "the snare drum sanding machine" something like that...

These afternoon, I made the cavities for the Imago white pearl inlay :



And a 1/2" roundover for the sipo mahagony body :


That's all for today...

Jojo

Hi there !

I wasn't at home these WE, but I found some time for working today...

Here is the "Imago" inlay sanded, there is still little holes to fill with epoxy :



Then, the cavities for the dragonfly white and black MOP inlay...



That's all for today...

Comments are welcome of course...

Regards,

Jojo