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Here's some pics of a neck through Raven. I'm also filming the progress so you can follow along. Try to contain your excitement....
Basic specs are black limba body and neck, ebony fretboard, spalted maple all over the place, 24 frets, two hums, wraparound. Here ya go:
Took a trip to Dallas Makerspace to use their 12" jointer with a spiral head cutter and used that to get the blanks, wings, headstock and neck angles done. Love that thing right in its face!
Spalted maple headplate on
Headstock bound
Wings on
Blue glow powder + CA glue
Get in the bag!
Out of the bag
I had some leftover spalt cutoffs, so I bookmatched them as best as possible and used it for the raised center block on the back. Huge pain in the ass. Dunno that I'd do that again.
Spalt on the back of the headstock
As it is now, I've got to final sand it and get it out of here for finishing. It's going to have a light trans blue finish on the back/sides, and the lowered wings on the face. Not necessarily what I'd choose, but hey, it's not my guitar.
Here's some video of the process:
Basic specs are black limba body and neck, ebony fretboard, spalted maple all over the place, 24 frets, two hums, wraparound. Here ya go:
Took a trip to Dallas Makerspace to use their 12" jointer with a spiral head cutter and used that to get the blanks, wings, headstock and neck angles done. Love that thing right in its face!
Spalted maple headplate on
Headstock bound
Wings on
Blue glow powder + CA glue
Get in the bag!
Out of the bag
I had some leftover spalt cutoffs, so I bookmatched them as best as possible and used it for the raised center block on the back. Huge pain in the ass. Dunno that I'd do that again.
Spalt on the back of the headstock
As it is now, I've got to final sand it and get it out of here for finishing. It's going to have a light trans blue finish on the back/sides, and the lowered wings on the face. Not necessarily what I'd choose, but hey, it's not my guitar.
Here's some video of the process:
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