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Finished Pics! Andyjr1515 meets his Nemesis?


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OK - after spraying the underside of the back with water, to simulate and counteract what the glue will have tried to do when it was originally clamped, it has spent all night heavily clamped to a completely flat surface.  This morning, took the clamps off and it sprung back to exactly the same radius as if nothing had happened.

Clearly, it has been influenced by the modern approach of 'I am what I am!  This is my shape and I'm proud of it!'

So I'll be flattening it off with a Stanley plane. :)

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I decided that if the back wasn't going to respond to a stern talking to, it was likely to put two fingers up to a mere handplane.

So I got the big router out.  No more Mr Nice Guy!

 

Last year I took the time building a simple router sled that I could use for things that were too wide for my thicknesser.  So out it came:

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It doesn't matter about the back - a slight curve actually will enhance it - but I had to take the hump off the top.  Took about 3mm off the peak to get the relevant area flat.

While the rig was set up, I decided to flatten the joining face of the walnut too.  This one was just a 0.25mm skim:

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And we are left with a good close fit which will now clamp properly and without internal stresses and strains.  Even dry fit there's no gap:

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So next job is to rout the pickup to control chamber cable routing, and then dry fit - held in position with a couple of wood dowels in the bridge and pickup positions so that I can start the carve of the the neck access with the ability to take the top off to use scroll saws, etc. before I glue it and do post-glue the 'final fitting'.  During the gluing of the top, the same dowels will be used to ensure the positioning is held.

Andy 

 

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And to the second - and most important - neck socket carve.

First, I had to line up the top and know that it wouldn't move around and that I would be able to replicate that position when I glued it finally to the back.

I lined up everything from the top and from the back and put a couple of woodscrews in places that will be under the bridge and in the pickup chamber.  I will use the same screws to stop the top sliding around on the wood glue when I come to glue it:

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This is broadly the shape:

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Started with chisels to hog it out:

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Then moved onto goose-neck scraper and files:

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And finally 'crept up on it' with sandpaper wrapped round a circular stick.

 

I have to just do some fine-sanding so it sits fully seated and in place by itself, but it's pretty much there:

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And - admittedly to my surprise - it looks like the back stripe might even line up with the skunk stripe of the neck!

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Still a lot to do - but starting to look like a bass!  :)

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