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Alternative Guitar Design: August 2011
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Was: The Aluminium T-beam Guitar. A couple of years ago, I got into my head to build a guitar with an aluminium T-beam as the main structural component. Back then, I imagined that it'd be pretty easy to build. I'm not quite there yet. Not at all, actually. But I've improved as a craftsman and tried a number of things with guitars until now. This is the continuing story of the many interesting detours I take on my way to making the T-beam guitar. Saturday, 27 August 2011. The pickups are wider than the T-...
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Alternative Guitar Design: November 2011
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Was: The Aluminium T-beam Guitar. A couple of years ago, I got into my head to build a guitar with an aluminium T-beam as the main structural component. Back then, I imagined that it'd be pretty easy to build. I'm not quite there yet. Not at all, actually. But I've improved as a craftsman and tried a number of things with guitars until now. This is the continuing story of the many interesting detours I take on my way to making the T-beam guitar. Sunday, 6 November 2011. Coarse tuners part 5. Interesting ...
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Alternative Guitar Design: March 2012
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Was: The Aluminium T-beam Guitar. A couple of years ago, I got into my head to build a guitar with an aluminium T-beam as the main structural component. Back then, I imagined that it'd be pretty easy to build. I'm not quite there yet. Not at all, actually. But I've improved as a craftsman and tried a number of things with guitars until now. This is the continuing story of the many interesting detours I take on my way to making the T-beam guitar. Sunday, 25 March 2012. Progress with the two-layer neck.
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Alternative Guitar Design: Two-layer aluminium neck
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Was: The Aluminium T-beam Guitar. A couple of years ago, I got into my head to build a guitar with an aluminium T-beam as the main structural component. Back then, I imagined that it'd be pretty easy to build. I'm not quite there yet. Not at all, actually. But I've improved as a craftsman and tried a number of things with guitars until now. This is the continuing story of the many interesting detours I take on my way to making the T-beam guitar. Sunday, 18 March 2012. On the bridge end, I plan to mount a...
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Alternative Guitar Design: Mahogany sides for the T-beam
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Was: The Aluminium T-beam Guitar. A couple of years ago, I got into my head to build a guitar with an aluminium T-beam as the main structural component. Back then, I imagined that it'd be pretty easy to build. I'm not quite there yet. Not at all, actually. But I've improved as a craftsman and tried a number of things with guitars until now. This is the continuing story of the many interesting detours I take on my way to making the T-beam guitar. Sunday, 25 July 2010. Mahogany sides for the T-beam. Sandin...
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workshop-diary – Crimson Guitars
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Account & Log In. Fripp Build Day 6. Fripp Build Day 7. What’s on the Bench? 12 hour Custom Guitar. Cigar Box Build-Off – series 1. How To Build your First Cigar Box Guitar. LUTHIERS TOOLS AND SUPPLY. NUT & FRET SLOTTING. CIGAR BOX GUITAR KITS. LUTHIERS TOOLS AND SUPPLY. NUT & FRET SLOTTING. CIGAR BOX GUITAR KITS. August 16, 2016. August 16, 2016. The Workshop Diary – 16.08.16. A variety of shots from around the Crimson HQ, enjoy. April 6, 2016. August 16, 2016. And finally Premier Guitar. The web is vas...
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Scott's Amateur WoodShop: File handles from a bare-bones lathe
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014. File handles from a bare-bones lathe. These are a couple of file handles I turned from cocobolo scraps the other day. I needed some for a set of saw files and wanted something smaller than typical so they could fit in the tool roll. Also, if you have a lathe, it seems silly to buy something this simple. While I've got saw filing on the brain, I'll just mention that my first impression of the gramercy saw vise that just arrived is very positive. The only two previous occas...
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Scott's Amateur WoodShop: April 2014
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Friday, April 4, 2014. Splitting oak, day 2. Last night I showed up with another friend to help, and some additonal tools. We got it down to a science, finally. Warning, one of these photos is intentionally misleading. Splitting something this thick is quite different that splitting firewood, I think mostly because it cannot deflect away from the wedge nearly as much. Here's the recipe that worked for us:. 1 score the line with a machete, lightly tapped with a dead-blow mallet. 5 add more wedges. My cous...
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Scott's Amateur WoodShop: extrapolating myself into unknown territory
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Saturday, June 20, 2015. Extrapolating myself into unknown territory. Today I'm drawboring some breadboard ends on a bar top. I've drawbored before (once), and I know I need slots to allow the wood to move, so the logical conclusion is a slot that is offset from a hole. See how the hole doesn't quite line up? That's the key to drawboring. I think it's going to work, but I've never actually seen these two combined. I'm going with a very small offset just to be safe. June 21, 2015 at 1:17 PM. This experime...
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Scott's Amateur WoodShop: I am coming around to purpleheart.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015. I am coming around to purpleheart. I've been working with purpleheart lately for this bar. I'm building with some friends, and I have to admit I haven't cared for the stuff much up until now. It's heavy, eats steel, and it really likes to stab me with brittle needle-y splinters. It looks like the finish is already starting to dry in this photo I took 1 minute after wiping it on. That's probably a good sign. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I am coming around to purpleheart.
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