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Mr Bones · 12-17-2007, 11:03 PM

Not a whole lot of progress today, as I spent most of the morning cleaning up shop:

I then went to work on truing the neck. The back side of the radiused sanding block is perfect for leveling as it is wide enough and perfectly flat:

I check it with a straight edge as I go until there are no dips twists or rises. There are shims under the end of the body and the back of the neck holder that you can't see in this pic, but they are there to stop the neck flexing while I sand on it.

Before I glue the fingerboard on, I want to route out the pickup cavities since I have to stick a template right where the fingerboard will be:

I was really nervous to see where my internal routing and blocks were going to come out. I knew I had measured everything, but could no longer see anything inside. Luckily everything underneath appeared where I expected it to:

I like to move the bridge pickup about 3/16" closer to the neck that a standard LP. I like em a little warmer, and with the wraptail, it takes a bit of the snap out of it while still getting the sustain of the wraptail:

I hope that my neck binding shows up tomorrow, or I will be treading water a bit.

12-17-2007, 11:03 PM	#77 (permalink)
Mr Bones V.I.P. Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: 225 Parsons Street Posts: 1,025 Thanks: 2 Thanked 20 Times in 7 Posts	Re: Building a Chambered LP Not a whole lot of progress today, as I spent most of the morning cleaning up shop: I then went to work on truing the neck. The back side of the radiused sanding block is perfect for leveling as it is wide enough and perfectly flat: I check it with a straight edge as I go until there are no dips twists or rises. There are shims under the end of the body and the back of the neck holder that you can't see in this pic, but they are there to stop the neck flexing while I sand on it. Before I glue the fingerboard on, I want to route out the pickup cavities since I have to stick a template right where the fingerboard will be: I was really nervous to see where my internal routing and blocks were going to come out. I knew I had measured everything, but could no longer see anything inside. Luckily everything underneath appeared where I expected it to: I like to move the bridge pickup about 3/16" closer to the neck that a standard LP. I like em a little warmer, and with the wraptail, it takes a bit of the snap out of it while still getting the sustain of the wraptail: I hope that my neck binding shows up tomorrow, or I will be treading water a bit.