I've been meaning to comment on the last 4 posts or so. I'm very impressed. The guitar looks great.
Questions: - From the pictures you took it looks like you cut and drilled all the holes after gluing the top on right? How did you faithfully translate all the holes from the body onto the top of the veneer so that you knew where to cut and so that they lined up with the original holes? - How thick is the veneer? Does the bridge have enough adjustment to get you back to the original string height? Are you going to have to shim the neck to compensate?
Maybe make a post here http://www.reddit.com/r/luthier ?
Thanks homie, I should have known there was a r/luthier... Maybe I will post something there.
-Since the top was bookmatched, I was only doing half at a time. So it was pretty easy to tell where I needed to remove. I went through a lot of exacto blades.
-Starting thickness of the veneer was about 1/42", so after sanding we are talking less than a millimeter. I had thought about the bridge, and I should be able to compensate with the saddles. However, now that you mention it, shimming the neck might be the easiest option.
Overall, this has been pretty easy, just time consuming. The only real hard part was getting the veneer to lay flat once there was some glue on it (and the sanding, good God the sanding...). I had to do the first section twice because my original glue up was pretty bad. But knowing what I did wrong made the rest easier. The final coat of oil went on last night and I am going to start putting it back together soon.
I've been meaning to comment on the last 4 posts or so. I'm very impressed. The guitar looks great.
ReplyDeleteQuestions:
- From the pictures you took it looks like you cut and drilled all the holes after gluing the top on right? How did you faithfully translate all the holes from the body onto the top of the veneer so that you knew where to cut and so that they lined up with the original holes?
- How thick is the veneer? Does the bridge have enough adjustment to get you back to the original string height? Are you going to have to shim the neck to compensate?
Maybe make a post here http://www.reddit.com/r/luthier ?
Thanks homie, I should have known there was a r/luthier... Maybe I will post something there.
ReplyDelete-Since the top was bookmatched, I was only doing half at a time. So it was pretty easy to tell where I needed to remove. I went through a lot of exacto blades.
-Starting thickness of the veneer was about 1/42", so after sanding we are talking less than a millimeter. I had thought about the bridge, and I should be able to compensate with the saddles. However, now that you mention it, shimming the neck might be the easiest option.
Overall, this has been pretty easy, just time consuming. The only real hard part was getting the veneer to lay flat once there was some glue on it (and the sanding, good God the sanding...). I had to do the first section twice because my original glue up was pretty bad. But knowing what I did wrong made the rest easier. The final coat of oil went on last night and I am going to start putting it back together soon.