RIP Swinger Project (now with more Duo-Sonic!)

Post by **Hurb** » Sun Apr 11, 2021 11:10 pm

plopswagon wrote:I had a minute.

The neck pocket was particularly troublesome I was using a mini-router and thereÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s just not enough flat surface to keep it from getting kinked up. . I see the advantage of doing the route before cutting out the body now.

Lesson learned.

looking great though!

plopswagon · Post by **plopswagon** » Mon Apr 12, 2021 2:12 am

If youÃ¢â‚¬â„¢re going to reproduce a CBS era Fender, it should be up to CBS era Ã¢â‚¬Å“standards.Ã¢â‚¬Â�

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Mon Apr 12, 2021 9:11 am

plopswagon wrote:If youÃ¢â‚¬â„¢re going to reproduce a CBS era Fender, it should be up to CBS era Ã¢â‚¬Å“standards.Ã¢â‚¬Â�

It's looking good!

Post by **dots** » Mon Apr 12, 2021 2:16 pm

paul, that's a hot body you got there

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Mon Apr 12, 2021 2:24 pm

I find him a bit overweight, but sexy non the less

plopswagon · Post by **plopswagon** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 4:53 pm

Doing some exciting stuff today, canÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t wait to post!

plopswagon · Post by **plopswagon** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 8:44 pm

I did the body edge radius and the arm and belly cuts

I've never done the cuts so they're a little bit not perfect the belly cut in particular is more of a V shape than a scoop.

Noirie. · Post by **Noirie.** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 8:51 pm

The only thing missing is a Steve Vai monkey grip.

plopswagon · Post by **plopswagon** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 8:52 pm

Noirie. wrote:The only thing missing is a Steve Vai monkey grip.

unzips pants...

Post by **Hurb** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 9:24 pm

Really really good! Very satisfying to see the progress.

plopswagon · Post by **plopswagon** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 6:08 pm

Pickguard trimmed down to Swanger size.

Thanks again Cooter for the template.

Post by **Hurb** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 6:12 pm

plopswagon wrote:Pickguard trimmed down to Swanger size.

Thanks again Cooter for the template.

dont show mike that!

Great work!

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 6:13 pm

Tidy!

plopswagon · Post by **plopswagon** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 6:47 pm

Hurb wrote:dont show mike that!

Great work!

I already taunted him with it last week.

Mocked up

plopswagon · Post by **plopswagon** » Tue May 04, 2021 6:20 pm

Ordered paint stuffs from Reranch!

Post by **dots** » Tue May 04, 2021 7:29 pm

what color?

plopswagon · Post by **plopswagon** » Tue May 04, 2021 8:02 pm

Daphne Blue for the Swanger and Ã¢â‚¬Å“Gorilla VanillaÃ¢â‚¬Â� for the Duo.

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Wed May 05, 2021 2:15 am

Great job there, looks super neat. Daphne Blue is growing to be my favourite colour

Post by **dots** » Wed May 05, 2021 2:09 pm

plopswagon wrote:Daphne Blue for the Swanger and Ã¢â‚¬Å“Gorilla VanillaÃ¢â‚¬Â� for the Duo.

man, those are gonna be hot.

plopswagon · Post by **plopswagon** » Mon Jun 14, 2021 3:08 pm

It's been raining too much, and now it's too hot, and for a while I was too depressed to do any work on guitars, but, I was able to make the neck templates yesterday.

I've also been distracted by this

I've got basically (pun intended) got everything to make a bass neck. A lovely piece of birdseye maple my brother gave me years ago, a StewMac pre-radiused and pre-fret slotted rosewood board (which I'm going to re-radius to 7.25") and a low profile dual action truss rod.

I started a template for that but the router bit I was going to use was effed up and I didn't have anymore 1/4 MDF