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Yhe project has commenced. Just in time to distract me from term papers and finals Thanks to Aug for the tracing

Went and got a 3 peice body blank from here
http://www.gilmerwood.com

a cool place with a whole musical insturments wood room, with some really crazy wood


I cut the bottom with a bandsaw, but need to make the neck pocket template and route the neck pocket next.

A question for the experts, how do you guys make shure the neck pocket is strait with the rest of the body?

Here's some pics. One's for me and the other is for my girlfriend.





we bought warmoth necks for the bodies. 22 fret jazzy YAY

light rail coyote wrote:
A question for the experts, how do you guys make shure the neck pocket is strait with the rest of the body?

that's not an easy question to answer. I don't know how the experts do it, but I like to trace the full template onto the blank, then set the neck pocket template on and route. Lining up IS key, so I've found that if you'll use a straight edge along both sides to see how they line up with the bridge. As for pocket distance from the bridge, simply measure another guitar's neck to bridge centerline. Once you route the neck pocket, if you find that it doesn't quite line up, then sand the pencil tracing off the wood, lay a neck in the pocket, use a straight edge to mark a line from each side of the neck, remove the neck, then lay the body template down and line shit up.

If that makes no sense, then hold on. I just woke up. ack.

That's some gift to your GF! Here's a single white guard for $20 BIN FYI. I was looking for something else just after this post and saw it. Can't beat 20.

Nice work on those! You guys are pushing me into body building with all your initiative.

you got the right idea with the center line, i figure even if it is off by a mm or two as long as i have the rest of the guitar off with the neck at a mm or two then it will all line up and it won;t be noticable.
its one othse things.
like puberty.

DGNR8 wrote:That's some gift to your GF! Here's a single white guard for $20 BIN FYI. I was looking for something else just after this post and saw it. Can't beat 20.

That's a good deal.

light rail coyote wrote:


we bought warmoth necks for the bodies. 22 fret jazzy YAY

What do you think about the quality of warmoth necks? how much did you pay? If you don't mind me asking?

dodgedartdave wrote:

light rail coyote wrote:


we bought warmoth necks for the bodies. 22 fret jazzy YAY

What do you think about the quality of warmoth necks? how much did you pay? If you don't mind me asking?

I've always heard great things about Warmoth necks. If I get a template from Aug for a guitar body I'm gonna be buying a neck from them too.

dodgedartdave wrote:

light rail coyote wrote:


we bought warmoth necks for the bodies. 22 fret jazzy YAY

What do you think about the quality of warmoth necks? how much did you pay? If you don't mind me asking?

I love warmoth necks about as much as anything. They seel them from $125 up. These were from their showcase necks. The one w/o birdeye was 199 and the one w/ was 175.
great deal on the PG, but I work at a guitar shop and have the hookup for ordering Warmoth, So I got all the parts I need on order, including 2 TS PGs
Thanks for all the advice and encouragement. I probable won't do any more until I have the rest of my parts, and am done with finals though.

hey dgner8, thanks for that link, now i have a new jazzy guard to make temps out of and ima include it when i ship the body to mr mustache.

Some progress



Practicing with the router and my neck pocket template


Routers are fun tools
Body template


3 more days till the end of the term, and I con go into full project mode.
I'll need to make a router table, and then its game on

Looks pretyt cool.

looks great!!

looks very cool , grats

This is coming along nicely. Can't wait to see the finished product man!

iCEByTes wrote:looks very cool , grats

I am very impressed Icey, this is the first time you've shared your opinion on a guitar without offering your destructive criticism regarding bridges and/or electronics and/or wood amd/or anything like that. I'm not even being sarcastic.

Malik wrote:

iCEByTes wrote:looks very cool , grats

I am very impressed Icey, this is the first time you've shared your opinion on a guitar without offering your destructive criticism regarding bridges and/or electronics and/or wood amd/or anything like that. I'm not even being sarcastic.

You just don't pay enough attention.

I like the look of it at the moment, it's got that Danelectro slabness to it.

Malik wrote:

iCEByTes wrote:looks very cool , grats

I am very impressed Icey, this is the first time you've shared your opinion on a guitar without offering your destructive criticism regarding bridges and/or electronics and/or wood amd/or anything like that. I'm not even being sarcastic.

Even if you're not being sarcastic with that post, you still come off sounding very arrogant. Was it really necessary to attack him if you were impressed?

Billy3000 wrote:

Malik wrote:

iCEByTes wrote:looks very cool , grats

I am very impressed Icey, this is the first time you've shared your opinion on a guitar without offering your destructive criticism regarding bridges and/or electronics and/or wood amd/or anything like that. I'm not even being sarcastic.

Even if you're not being sarcastic with that post, you still come off sounding very arrogant. Was it really necessary to attack him if you were impressed?

When I was trying to point out Icey's post I tried many ways to type that message without it coming off as offensive, but it just wouldn't work, so I gave up. I did actually mean it positively, Icey would be way cooler if he didn't act like a Metal-Missionary.

leave it at that boyos!

This is looking good man, i need to get my finger out and start my next build.

Hot as hell, bro. Yo are making us all look good.

I would love my decals to say SYNCHRONIZED FUCKING TREMOLO instead of FLOATING. That's how you'd know they weren't factory.