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Aug wrote:

dodgedartdave wrote:

eupat wrote:it's the template i've done for dddave
now the swinger is sold but i've some pics ant i can give you some informations.
which details you want to know ?

Yes, that your template. All I really needed was the outline of the body. The guts are all gonna be bronco. I have all the parts already with the exception of neck pup.

this whole 'Aug-is-building-all-yer-shit' thing might work a bit quicker if I had a Bronco and parts, dave.

I'll get parts ASAP sir!

UPDATE!

I'm doing this so that I can fulfill my promise to make a guitar building wiki...dots, this means you!


Here you can see that I've screwed my neck template onto the blank and routed the pocket. Prior to doing this, I laid my body template down to ensure that everything will fit. Once I traced the body temp. on the blank, I lined the NP temp. and routed away.






Here you can clearly see the tracing with pencil. Although a bandsaw would be ideal, I don't have one...so I use a jigsaw. Always cut 1/4" away from the line, as the blade will bend and drift around. Trust me, I had to learn the hard way.



Halfway done with the jigsaw




I needed to be able to screw the template onto the body and since we decided to use the top half of a Bronco pickguard, I traced that onto the template. Note the 1/8" holes and the bevels.





This is pretty self-explanatory:



Note the next bit of pics and remember this at the end of the post. Tearout will royaly screw you up. Do what I do, kids.







See? I did this on the last little run to show you the tearout. It's ok for this guitar, as I've yet to round the edges.





The neck fits perfectly. I am a GOD!





Coming soon: body contours, pup and wiring routes.

thats one janky lookin guitar.

iCEByTes wrote:pickups will looks like duo sonics




cool

Thats actually pretty chill.

To answer Billy's earlier question, yes the Warmoth Swinger body is a 25.5", but its all pretty customizable when you call them, you can just tell them what to leave and leave out, but I knew I wasnt going to have a 22.5" neck around/ready for this project, and i think I actually prefer a larger scale, not necessarily 25.5", a 24" would have been fine, but since they would go ahead and drill the ferules and such for free at the 25.5" length, and since I am short on time, and still new at a good amount of this, I figured it'd be best to continue with the 25.5" scale, I also have a 25.5" Arrow shaped neck already. Which heavily influenced my decision to go ahead with this project.

I still have to get a custom pickguard made for it though, and yeah I still have to get routing templates to do the slanted neck route.

I was at a shop in Harrisonburg, VA yesterday, and the owner had a shit-ton of earlier Fender amps in there that weren't for sale. They also had a Duo-Sonic II that was for sale, but something like $1500. And a modified Cyclone for $399. I saw a Bronco in there last time I was there, but he sold it, I think he wanted $900 for it too for a late 70s one. Anyway that's just for the interest of anyone living close enough to go by and play one if you havent gotten the chance to play one before, I know I certainly hadn't found a duo-sonic II to play before. They also had a lot of the newer Squiers and I must say they are really improving the crap out of them. That Tele SSH is fanastic.

Dingus wrote:To answer Billy's earlier question, yes the Warmoth Swinger body is a 25.5", but its all pretty customizable when you call them, you can just tell them what to leave and leave out, but I knew I wasnt going to have a 22.5" neck around/ready for this project, and i think I actually prefer a larger scale, not necessarily 25.5", a 24" would have been fine, but since they would go ahead and drill the ferules and such for free at the 25.5" length, and since I am short on time, and still new at a good amount of this, I figured it'd be best to continue with the 25.5" scale, I also have a 25.5" Arrow shaped neck already. Which heavily influenced my decision to go ahead with this project.

I still have to get a custom pickguard made for it though, and yeah I still have to get routing templates to do the slanted neck route.

You're currently building a swinger also? You've gotta post pics. What configuration are you gonna use?

Yeah, I mentioned it a long time ago, but it took forever for the body from Warmoth to show up. I'm just sticking with the slanted neck route, I like the look of it, although from Warmoth its already got a slanted bridge route, which will be covered by the pickguard. It also has a rear control route because that's all Warmoth offered as far as control routing. Anyway yeah it'll be forever before I put anything up, I'll absolutely do it though.

Dingus wrote:Yeah, I mentioned it a long time ago, but it took forever for the body from Warmoth to show up. I'm just sticking with the slanted neck route, I like the look of it, although from Warmoth its already got a slanted bridge route, which will be covered by the pickguard. It also has a rear control route because that's all Warmoth offered as far as control routing. Anyway yeah it'll be forever before I put anything up, I'll absolutely do it though.

So your making a swinger that looks more or less stock, eh? That'd be very cool.

mezzio13 wrote: Dots, aperantly none of can mod in this forum, else I'd have just split and deleted this thread.

Sorted.

Hurb wrote:

mezzio13 wrote: Dots, aperantly none of can mod in this forum, else I'd have just split and deleted this thread.

Sorted.

...and sorted, with one post left to delete...

Aug,

I've got more parts for ya. Twang-banger bridge pup and the Alnico 2 pro flat-pole pup for the neck is on its way. The only thing left is ordering the pickguard material and the desert sands paint. I'm super stooked about this project.

dave:

I need the 3 way switch and for you to come over and talk about the routing. I just want for you to see what I've done...I don't want to have to do all this work twice.

Beautiful work, as always. I almost thought I saw chicken wire in one pic. Are you still working in the bunker? That pic made the body look like a Frank Gehry building.

DDDDddadaave, where are you going for Desert Sand?

Hurb wrote:

mezzio13 wrote: Dots, aperantly none of can mod in this forum, else I'd have just split and deleted this thread.

Sorted.

details, details. . . you leave out one, and everything goes to shite.

DGNR8 wrote: DDDDddadaave, where are you going for Desert Sand?

Aug likes Reranch. It's going to be only a singe stage. I'm going for the vintage looks of the 50's paint jobs. I haven't decided if I was going to try to relic it a bit. I was also thinking about parchment for the pickguard. I believe Stu-Mac has that.

UPDATE.

Here's the bit I use to round out the edges of the guitar.



this is for Mike, so he can stop going out of his damned mind:

Man! That looks really sweet!

that thing is so for the win

WOW! Looking good. I think I just Nut myself. I guess the next step is more parts and a conversation about the routes.