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[syscokid]

Although there is actually no sense in continuing anything, i'll try to proceed:

I don't understand this statement. Sounds "dark" to me...

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Bea, I am glad it was minor.

Hey, what are those 3 wooden looking circles on post 74?

 

[bea]

I don't understand this statement. Sounds "dark" to me...

It is indeed dark. At present i do not see any future for our musical project.

 

[bea]

Hey, what are those 3 wooden looking circles on post 74?

the support holding the screws of the cover of the electrics cavity.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Thank you Bea. Having never built my own guitar like this, I drew a blank as to what they could be. Sure can't wait till you complete it and make it rumble.

 

[SG John]

It is indeed dark. At present i do not see any future for our musical project.

Is that due to all the pandemic stuff? Or, is that due to lack of interest? I know it's tough getting motivated to do stuff lately. When the motivation is there, the focus is usually not.

 

[bea]

First there is lack of interest. Which means that the pandemic stuff will kick us off the field completely.

 

[syscokid]

First there is lack of interest. Which means that the pandemic stuff will kick us off the field completely.

Hang in there, bea! Is your music a source of income for you?

 

[bea]

No, it isn't. But practising over years, get good response from the people who heared us life but "boring" from potential places ist pretty frustrating.

 

[syscokid]

Yup, I can see the frustration.

 

[bea]

And there is more: the public interest seems to go more toward German singing, and of course all female bands have more difficulties to get booked.

 

[bea]

Slow progress: cutting the fingerboard. The neck will get a central rod from the same wood and (hopefully) be stiff enough that i won't need an adjustable truss rod.

 

[syscokid]

The neck will get a central rod from the same wood and (hopefully) be stiff enough that i won't need an adjustable truss rod.

Any advantage to not having an adjustable truss rod installed?

 

[bea]

Easier to make, especially if you don't have a router. With the right choice of wood (for large Young's modulus) and sufficient neck thickness (!!!!!) it'll work perfectly. I actually expect the stiffness of Rick Toone's hollow aluminum trussrod tubes.

In fact I own three other instruments without truss rods - the two old archtops i restored (where the neck is made of birch for obvious reason) and my 5-string V-bass, where i combined a thick Katalox finerboard with a centre of machiche wood. in an otherwise maple neck. And the tow old maple necks i used in my recent builds are so stiff that i simply do not need the truss rod.

 

[bea]

Snow in the background? Mhmm, we had 15° C and are still having 11°...

Anyway: more wood for the neck:

Freed from the dark color:

 

[bea]

Let me pull this up... too much trouble, too many diffenten and more important projects ... well, and another five years are gone!

But finally i am cutting fret slots .... (and the small hand brush is really good as a light wooden hammer to to position the log exactly at the desired position).

The piece of meranti unfortunately did not give enough flawless wood; i will have to fill a fewe nail holes after having roughly contoured the neck. Well, that's life...

 

[bea]

Last update this Year!

The angle of the open headstock sould be altered, right?