"camille" small build

[monsterwalley]

Originally Posted by FF_Pedals

Northern Quebec. It's a HUGE resevoir called....The Cabonga

I caught a 5lb Walleye there last summer. I was there in early July this year, I was catching around 2-3lb.

I think it's relatively well known, lots of Americans fly in / drive up.

I've never been into Canada. I'd love to get up there and do some fishing!

I havent touched a pole in 6+ months but my friend still hits it daily here. We used to charter a boat out of the grand river at lake erie every year with Thumper Charters (Capt. Ron Johnson) The best!!! We used to haul Pigs outa that place.

We have a HY-Vee that opened up here in town and they have walleye @$12.50/pound. That's a hell of a lot cheaper that it costs us to fish for it

[Fletch]

Originally Posted by monsterwalley

Hey Fletch, ..... I used a regular wallpaper scraper. It worked really well and every now and then I would drag the sharp edge against some cardboard to give the edge a little "curl" I also, on the preliminary scraping to get it close, taped off the rest of the edge to keep from removing any material on the body. Once I was close I took the tape off and went around it to make the binding and body perfect with each other.

The trick is to scrape it on cardboard away from you then when you scrape, pull it too you. The curl on the edge seemed perfect!






I havent had the guiness in a long time They (plural) were killer

That is brilliant... I will be looking for them at the local home supply stores now. I really expected a link to some woodworking website for something that costs $10 or $20 bucks...

thanks!

fletch

[wizzbang]

what a lucky little girl you have.
custom Les Paul AND one off ducky inlay. WOW

[monsterwalley]

Originally Posted by wizzbang

what a lucky little girl you have.
custom Les Paul AND one off ducky inlay. WOW

She's a good girl, and It's a good excuse to get to build another guitar and get it ok'd with the momma at the same time.

[monsterwalley]

Originally Posted by Fletch

That is brilliant... I will be looking for them at the local home supply stores now. I really expected a link to some woodworking website for something that costs $10 or $20 bucks...

thanks!

fletch

You might want to tape your fingers up too. The damn things are sharp
You tend to get a little lazy after you get started and loosen your grip a little. I think it's too early in the build stage to start staining if you no what I mean.

[monsterwalley]

A little help please! I want to route the truss rod cavity tomorrow, and at the last minute I decided I should go with a slim taper for cami's build. Does anyone have the specs like on the stewmac plans at the 1'st and 11th frets? Since this is for a 8 soon to be 9 y.o. the 59 neck is a little thick isnt it?

[wizzbang]

looking in the back of The BOB the thinest 60,s neck was

thickness at f1 20.0mm (40 thou thicker than 3/4in)
f11 21.8mm (just under 7/8in)
width at nut of 42.8mm
at body joint 54.5

thinest measurements over all (a mixture if you will)
f1 20mm
f1 21.8mm
nut 42.5mm
body join 54.3mm
hope that helps

[wizzbang]

Just a thought because the neck is shorter,will you be using lighter guage strings?
If so the over all neck thickness could be thiner(Ibanez style).
the thinest for the stew mac hot rod style truss rod is 3mm under the adjustment nut area,(I would have thought that this was too thin but I fix cars for a living)so the thinest I see the neck at the nut is 14mm (1mm counter sink for the brass block,10mm for the truss rod)

[monsterwalley]

thanks wizzbang.

I ended up measuring up my 2005 sg and am going to go off it.

[BigJza]

Awesome work...I look forward to seeing the finished product

[monsterwalley]

Originally Posted by BigJza

Awesome work...I look forward to seeing the finished product

Thank you............. I'll post some more progress shots soon......

[GreaseBox]

The suspense is killing me!!!!

[monsterwalley]

Ive got some pics, just need to find time to post them. Right now I'm trying to screw my neck up.

[wizzbang]

Originally Posted by wizzbang

Just a thought because the neck is shorter,will you be using lighter guage strings?
If so the over all neck thickness could be thiner(Ibanez style).
the thinest for the stew mac hot rod style truss rod is 3mm under the adjustment nut area,(I would have thought that this was too thin but I fix cars for a living)so the thinest I see the neck at the nut is 14mm (1mm counter sink for the brass block,10mm for the truss rod)

Just been rereading my post and realised it may not have made sense.the neck measurement of 14mm is without the fretboard on.

[monsterwalley]

Originally Posted by wizzbang

Just been rereading my post and realised it may not have made sense.the neck measurement of 14mm is without the fretboard on.

Yeah, I figured it out. Thanks!

[monsterwalley]

I finally got around to uploading some more photo's of progress.

Some of the photo's are self explanatory..........


I found a hooked shaped x-acto blade that worked great for getting in tight to trace the mop. Oh, I used mop on this because cami liked it better than the celluloid i used on mine. (she thinks I am building a guitar for a friend) I then followed up with a normal x acto changing the blade everytime I did a new one.

[monsterwalley]

Starting on the curved truss rod route. I already messed up on the first neck by getting the headstock too thin and had to cut another



Using the jig I made for my first guitar with a shorter curve in the template

[monsterwalley]

Making the truss rod. I don't remember anybody posting photo's of this. Not
very technical or exciting or very good pictures for that matter but here they are anyway. This is the stew mac truss rod.


cutting to length......




I couldn't get the picture very good but I like to gind a small bevel on the end before I thread it, or anything else for that matter.....

[MRJ5]

Great job on the inlays. That is an outstanding looking board.

[monsterwalley]

Truss rod installed then maple strip glued in......







Later I sanded down the maple strip flush to the fingerboard then glued on the wings.....





Cut the taper on the finger board....



Then I finished cutting the fret slots to depth and fretted the board.....

[Fletch]

Very nice, I like the xacto blade with the hook.

fletch

[monsterwalley]

Ok, Here is what I have for her headstock. You have already seen the mop duck in earlier posts.

What do you think of this? Too much? I like it, but I'd like to know others opinions.

The headstock is the same as a full size other than I took a bout 3/4" off the top



Here is on with my full size......

[monsterwalley]

Originally Posted by Fletch

Very nice, I like the xacto blade with the hook.

fletch

Thanks,
It helped me out a lot, I have a hard time with my finger on delicate operations, they've been abused pretty badly over the years.

[Fletch]

Originally Posted by monsterwalley

Ok, Here is what I have for her headstock. You have already seen the mop duck in earlier posts.

What do you think of this? Too much? I like it, but I'd like to know others opinions.

The headstock is the same as a full size other than I took a bout 3/4" off the top

I like it, the duck doesn't look out of proportion at all to my eyes. I say go with it.

fletch

[monsterwalley]

Originally Posted by MRJ5

Great job on the inlays. That is an outstanding looking board.

Thanks, it's the third set I have ever done. At least they get a little better/cleaner on each one.

I used grizzly mop since they had the points, I don't think I will use them again though. I don't think they were very good quality. Some had pretty deep depressions that had to be sanded out and rough saw marks. Then one of them was pretty translucent like if you sand one too thin and can see the wood. (which I know from experience) but these are all pretty thick. I didn't find out till it was glued in either.

Part of me wants to route it out and replace but the other part says that's were all my problems usually start. I'll probably leave it.

Oh, and the board is just a stewmac indian rosewood.......

[monsterwalley]

Originally Posted by Fletch

I like it, the duck doesn't look out of proportion at all to my eyes. I say go with it.

fletch

Thanks, I sure like it. It helped chopping off some of the top too as far as proportion. I wasn't sure if the "Camille" was too big or not.

I'm thinking of doing her birthdate on the back of the headstock using the technique mongrel and ex-n have done.

[captcoolaid]

Dude that is cool. I love seeing the mini threads. How old is your daughter.

[monsterwalley]

Originally Posted by captcoolaid

Dude that is cool. I love seeing the mini threads. How old is your daughter.

Thanks!


9 on Oct. 17th

[captcoolaid]

I ask cause my son wants a green one but he is only 5. I want to do a quilt top in Trans green for him. Headstock logo of the old green machine.

[monsterwalley]

Originally Posted by captcoolaid

I ask cause my son wants a green one but he is only 5. I want to do a quilt top in Trans green for him. Headstock logo of the old green machine.

Sounds killer dude!!!