sMg Guitars

June 1, 2008

Still haven’t moved on the finish on the OM Rosewood.  I’m too distracted by working on this maple.  I worked a bit on the back brace shaping, then moved to the cutout of the neck pieces from the humongous maple neck block.  The piece was large enough to craft two necks, and I’m glad there was as the first cut ended up with a headstock too thin and out of square.  Second go around of the cutout resulted in a near perfect, and square, neck cutout.  This is just the first part of an adventure I’ve not yet embarked upon.  I’ve got the tools and plenty of advice from the O’Brien DVD, the K. book, and the Cumpiano book, where I should have a modicum of success, if I take my time.

Maybe tomorrow I’ll take a break from the maple and get on the finish work for the next 3 lacquer coats for the rosewood.

June 1, 2008

Happy June everybody.  Clearly no one is paying careful attention, or you think my way is the right way.  In yesterday’s post, I showed two examples with fret dots set on top of the fretboard to see which looked better:  without the 3rd and with the 3rd.  But nobody called me a bonehead because I showed dots on the 14th and 16th instead of the 15th and 17th.  Mixolodian.

Anyway, fret dot placement exposes my dyslexia.  I’ve installed on the 11th (my Spinal Tap Dot) and offcenter and too deep and akimbo.  Just getting all the wrong possibilities out of the way.