yes.weijie wrote:
You're planning on eventually making the necks yourself right?
Design-wise, what do you think?
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I'll post pics tomorrow...I went out and bought a brand new 13" Craftsman Professional thickness planer 
, a 10" Craftsman drill press and a 10" Craftsman bandsaw. After spending 2.5 hours just assembling and setting up the tools, I made a completely done Jazzmaster in about 80 minutes. (The jazzy was too big to run through the planer. 
), but I made another Mercury body, and it fit just fine, and it took less than an hour!
The bandsaw literally takes 1/100th of the time of a jigsaw. boo jigsaws!
oh! I also bought another bad ass plunge router. It came with 2 seperate bases...one for plunge, and the other for stationary with a microadjustment thing...having multiple routers with multiple bits sure makes shit go WAY faster.
, a 10" Craftsman drill press and a 10" Craftsman bandsaw. After spending 2.5 hours just assembling and setting up the tools, I made a completely done Jazzmaster in about 80 minutes. (The jazzy was too big to run through the planer. ), but I made another Mercury body, and it fit just fine, and it took less than an hour! The bandsaw literally takes 1/100th of the time of a jigsaw. boo jigsaws!
oh! I also bought another bad ass plunge router. It came with 2 seperate bases...one for plunge, and the other for stationary with a microadjustment thing...having multiple routers with multiple bits sure makes shit go WAY faster.
Like mine? MANLAND!bubbles_horwitz wrote:my dad has an electric planer. he was making fingerboard blanks for me when i was in tennessee last month. that thing is way cool. wish i had one.
haha...so does mine. the bag with the trash can is so gay. I'm gonna hook my MANLAND vacuum up to it after today. I had sawdust FUCKING EVERYWHERE! dave's gonna get pissed, too...I had it aimed right at his tool boxes, and laughed my ass off!bubbles_horwitz wrote:yeah, but his doesn't have a bag, it just spits little wood noodles everywhere.
you lose.bubbles_horwitz wrote:i inherited a bandsaw, tablesaw, and drillpress from my grandpa. no router, though
I currently own 2 and have 2 others at my disposal. By summer's end, I'm planning on owning at least 4 more. Go to sears, dude (laural cyn and victory) and get one...they aren't that expensive...but, I HIGHLY recommend you get the 1/2" and avoid 1/4" (unless you're out to only make pickguards)
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aug your thickness planer is for monekys
check out the delta36 planer, its open on end so could technically plane your neighbors dog with no problem.
no actually congrats on the thickness planer i saw that in another thread.
i would love to make necks for you,
but there is no way in fucking hell i would make 8-10 a month a 100 a neck.
you know as well as i that there is too much work to sell it so cheap, if i had some duplicator bit then perhaps, but i do it all by hand and it basically takes 2 weeks to finish a neck anyway. especially maple.
check out the delta36 planer, its open on end so could technically plane your neighbors dog with no problem.
no actually congrats on the thickness planer i saw that in another thread.
i would love to make necks for you,
but there is no way in fucking hell i would make 8-10 a month a 100 a neck.
you know as well as i that there is too much work to sell it so cheap, if i had some duplicator bit then perhaps, but i do it all by hand and it basically takes 2 weeks to finish a neck anyway. especially maple.
at this point, I'd be satisfied to just find someone who'll make a thick rosewood fretboard with frets for me to just glue onto a maple neck.robert(original) wrote:aug your thickness planer is for monekys
check out the delta36 planer, its open on end so could technically plane your neighbors dog with no problem.
no actually congrats on the thickness planer i saw that in another thread.
i would love to make necks for you,
but there is no way in fucking hell i would make 8-10 a month a 100 a neck.
you know as well as i that there is too much work to sell it so cheap, if i had some duplicator bit then perhaps, but i do it all by hand and it basically takes 2 weeks to finish a neck anyway. especially maple.
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how thick? i usually leave mine at 7 mms, considering the fret slots are 4 mms deep.
i have made one that was 5 mms and the fret slots were probly about 3 1/2 mms deep, its for a baritone tho, and the radius is pretty close to flat.
if you really want a rosewood board i can find you one for cheep but......
still no access to a 24" fretting template, buddy(the cnc guy) is focusing on doing arch top plates at the moment and thats not high on his list.
altho i think there is a company that makes them for pretty cheap.
i'll look around today.
i have made one that was 5 mms and the fret slots were probly about 3 1/2 mms deep, its for a baritone tho, and the radius is pretty close to flat.
if you really want a rosewood board i can find you one for cheep but......
still no access to a 24" fretting template, buddy(the cnc guy) is focusing on doing arch top plates at the moment and thats not high on his list.
altho i think there is a company that makes them for pretty cheap.
i'll look around today.
i WILL eventually buy me one of these. one thing I think is needed, block fucking inlays.
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