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But my result of the day is definetly the headstock inlays.. gnight!
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And here we leave her for tonight.. the body rough sanded and the binding looking great.
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The final sanding process begins, the new Robert Fripp guitar from Crimson Guitars is coming to life before our eyes!
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Finally the backplates are drilled.. I really love how this is turning out!
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The backplates are carefully fitted using the bobbin sander..
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Very pretty.. with the clamps removed it's time to fit the backplates..
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Some more design work on the new acoustic violin, new skeletal headstock and some inlay ideas..
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The crimson guitars logo is engraved carefully..
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The custom backplates need somewhere to sit and I glue the disks to the guitars top for this reason..
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Using a plug cutter I create some 25mm rosewood disks..
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The triangular ebony side markers are inlaid..
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I take an offcut of ebony and whittle it into a triangular shape..
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The inlays are now glued into the headstock..
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The crimson guitars logo is cut from the reconstituted stone we used on the fretwood inlay
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After the inlay has been cut out with a jewelers saw I scribe around it with a scalpel blade and fill that cut with chalk.
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The next inlay is the silhouette of a crow in flight.. for obvious reasons done in ebony..
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The new crimson guitars Robert Fripp guitar is one piece now, and currently weighs just four lbs!
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One perfectly aligned neck is glued in place and left to cure overnight.. the body lost 1 1/2 pounds during routing!!
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The neck pocket is tidied up by hand with a sharp chisel...
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More routing.. the spring chamber for the tremolo.. this guitar has lost a lot of weight!!
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The cavities are predrilled with a forstner bit on the pillar drill...
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The routing begins..
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The pickup cavities and neck pocket are marked onto the body.. it's refreshing not having a neck attached at this point!
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The control cavities are the last to recieve their binding..a single strip of maple..
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The les paul is pretty pointy where the neck and body meet so I cut an angle and face it in maple..
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The heel inlay is finalised and glued in..
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Back with the new Robert Fripp guitar after some much needed rest..
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And this is where we leave it for now.. the neck and body look great together!
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The binding on the top is planed down now, the effect is well worth the effort.
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Crikey that was a bugger to do.. and only half way there!!
