Waiting for paint to dry. Then gonna wet sand and buff...

So when I was sanding back that epoxy, I had a less than brilliant idea to scrape it close to flat before sanding it, and I ended up pulling the epoxy right out of the holes it was filling I had to repeat that step. But now it's really really close to ready to spray! http://i993.photobucket.com/albu...

I sanded the sealer flat using 220 grit dry. I used to wet sand this step, using mineral spirits, but I was advised not to by a friend who does AMAZING finishes for a large but still respectable guitar company you've heard of. He says that the wet sanding at this point will do 2 things; it will make...

Supersonic, eh? I could make anything I wanted to, if I woke up internally motivated to do so. The trouble is, I don't control what I'm motivated to do, I just find myself with an insanely strong desire to make one guitar, but not another, and I'll spend hours on end working on it, no eating, no sle...

After I sanded the body from 80 on up to 220, I sprayed a pretty dry coat of Behlen vinyl sealer, then a few very wet coats of it. It's all drippy and gross, but I care not, because this will mostly be sanded off, when I level it all out, after it's dried. Then I'll shoot another couple of coats of ...

Oops, bridge is sitting backwards. Forgive me!

Gonna hold off on painting it, because the sunburst actually looks quite good after a good rub down with extra fine steel wool... It's all routed now, for P90's. I have a cheap pair coming soon, but I plan on replacing them with something nice, later, along with high end pots, etc. Also, it's gonna ...

Nice!

I just bought this. It should be at my door any day now. What do you think I should do with it?


-ADH

'Sup doods. Thanks for reading! this stuff gives me something to do when I have no life at all (I currently have no life at all). Band sawing just outside the outline. The closer I get, the less material I have to remove with the big, scary router bit later. http://distilleryimage0.s3.amazonaws.com/...

That's rad. can I get one with "Rhythm" and "Treble" on each edge?

So I haven't taken custom requests in a long time, and I haven't been selling guitars and/or bodies much at all, but this deal felt right, so I put my recent LPJR builds on hold for a few days or weeks or whatever to knock out a Jag body. http://distilleryimage7.s3.amazonaws.com/87cc205c125711e2a64f...

In the past, on my F style neck builds, I've used my straight truss channel jig and a wide bit, with the neck shimmed up 1/8" on the first fret, to cut a flat sloping channel on the back (which looked something like these) http://i993.photobucket.com/albums/af58/andrewlovesgrunge/IMG_2044.jpg h...

Did work on neck #2 Planed the ash headstock cap so it was flat. It still had those wavy band saw marks, before... http://distilleryimage6.s3.amazonaws.com/31f56e28125611e2ad82123138191492_7.jpg Routed the truss rod channel. I've noticed in many drawings I've seen, that the deepest part of the arc i...

So, the rosewood piece wasn't totally flat, and on one side the joint ended up a little ugly... I hope this is something that the height adjustment on the bridge might be able to compensate for... But otherwise, I planed part of the neck at an angle to match the flat face of the body. See... http://...

That's amazing work man. I really admire your skill and patience. I'd love to take the time and care to do something like this. Alas, I think I have entirely the wrong temperament. Doing this changes your temperament. That's why I love it. My first builds were rushed like crazy. The more I do this,...

Excellent stuff! I'm a long-time admirer of your work on OSG. Thanks for posting this project here. Incidently, is this how you make a living? Have you considered going into series production or would you find that too repetitive? Sketched any original designs we could see? Sorry for all the Qs, bu...

I made a jig to drill the truss rod access (jig complete with drilled out viewing area, so I don't drill too deep), but I used a bit that was smaller than the washer (epic fail) and since the area was then bored out, I couldn't simply drill it again with a bigger bit, because there was nothin there ...

The headstock wasn't totally flat, because the joint shifted as it was drying, so there was a step. I removed material from the headstock piece, using a jack plane, so that it was flat and straight, flush with the neck half of the joint. I'll say again, this is my favorite tool. http://distilleryima...

Gave the scarf joint another try... I made a quick sled/jig thingie to cut a more shallow angle than my band saw's mitre thingie was able to. I don't know what the angle is, I just eyeballed it. It would take me 4 minutes to alter the jig to any angle later, this is just what I did for now, to learn...