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    Overall view

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    deeaa*
    , March 13th, 2011 at 07:37 AM (Dee's guitar-making/modding projects blog)


    Alright; seems I've settled with the star shape. Here's the fretboard glued in place and radiused and the neck part laid over the bottom veneer with the shape marking. Also the headstock shape now visible; the same knife shape repeats in the body.

    The body will be built much like an acoustic, but with ~1" thick maple sides and the neck-thru, but anyway ...
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    Radius gauge

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    deeaa*
    , March 13th, 2011 at 04:54 AM (Dee's guitar-making/modding projects blog)


    While the glue is still drying, I made this radius sanding tool to keep me busy. I screwed a slab of metal onto a chunk of acrylic or similar quite hard/resilient plastic of some sort (used to be a MinuteMaid chopping board) , dipped it in boiling water and used screws and a few washers to force it into a nice curve; it was easy to adjust it by turning the screws in various locations. ...
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