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A very good days work, these three are a niced start for our stock ranges..
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The second padouk is next to be carved.. Dust!!
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The first padouk top is rough sanded and the carving finalised..
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A truly 'crimson' guitar.. The padouk will look stunning!
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The front, however, is perfecly flat.. and thus boring, for now :)
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There is less carving to be done on the back of this padouk RF guitar.. flat back in the middle because of the trem..
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A move to the next guitar on the list.. or at least in the pile... A padouk one piece has its control layout drilled..
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The same process on the back and this body is very nearly ready..
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The final shape of the top is achieved with the random orbital sander and a rough sanding disk..
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The carving of the top begins.. The galahad tool is a little rougher than the sanding disks I'm used to, but effective!
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I now use the Holy Galahad and angle grinder to carve the ergonomic back carves..
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The control layout is drilled in..
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This sapele bodied guitar will have MIDI but no sustainer and will have a tunematic and stop tailpiece combination..
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Now, since everything I build is a one off and hand made the fun bit is the carving.. I mark out my plans for this body
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The body blanks, including two destined for figured tops, are put through the drum sander.
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I'll be using the new, sexy as hell, wilkinson trems on the 24 fret Robert Fripp models..
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The cavities and recessed control plate cover routs are.. routed.. This is a bubinga body..
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Still with the stock bodies, more pillar-drill action as I pre-drill the control cavities..
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What a dusty day! Dagnamit I need a shower!!
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Next I make a start on routing out the tremolo cavities, on the guitars that will have them..
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The first bubinga blank has her pickup cavities routed out and is starting to look rather nice..
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Look at the stunning colour this padouk body is spilling forth.. it's almost un-natural!
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The first cavity to be routed out is the neck pocket.. The order is important as this goes into the pickup cavity..
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The pre-drilling begins.. This makes routing much easier and helps preserve router bits..
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I now fully appreciate the temptations of cnc routing.. This is knackering!!
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I start the same process with a padouk blank.. My least favourite dust this..
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The first of the new RF guitars is a solid, one piece, bubinga beast.. The outline is routed and the cavities marked out
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Now this will be an interesting afternoon.. 20 odd body blanks in varied tonewoods.. Much dust will fly!!
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The third, and final, new template is for the two recessed control cavities. After lunch we'll get stuck in with some real wood!
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A rather large control cavity but it will work for both roland GK and ghost MIDI system equiped models..
