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After taking a few minutes to properly sharpen the chisel it's time to pare away the new fretboards wood binding
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First things first, a plug on the heater, I'm 4 stone thinner than I was last year and I'm missing all of it!
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With the binding still needing time to cure this is where we leave this guitar for the day.
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The dual action truss rod is installed, much easier than traditional truss rods and more useful as well!
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Back to the neck, the truss rod access channel is carefully routed out.
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Finally the top is glued, clamped and left to cure.
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The new rosewood top is jointed carefully with a razor sharp shooting plane.
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With both plates the required thickness it is time for some more sedate work, a hand plane maybe..
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While I'm in the machine shop a rather lovely rainbow appears.. A sign?
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As this is to be a through neck guitar the body will actually just be a pair of mahogany wings..
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Book matched, now for the thicknesser.
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The top, a large chunk of rosewood is split down the middle on the band saw.
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The maple and ebony binding is glued to the sides of the fret board, thus cutting out fiddling around with a router.
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The binding, flame maple, is cut to the required width..
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Using the dogs the fretboard is held flat to the bench while I plane in its radius.
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Taking into account the binding I plane the fretboard sides down to a perfect finish and dimension.. I'm doing this a different way this time, no sense in becoming mired in old habits.
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The final dimensions of the fretboard are achieved using the band saw
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The frets are cut, for years I avoided jigs etc out of sheer bull-headed pride but they are worth issuing!
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The padouk fretboard is stuck to the fretting template with double sided tape.
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Already the new bench saves me a few minutes, this is a very useful vice! The headstock angle is finalised with the 4 1/2 plane from last week.
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Ok, this rosewood neck blank needs to be a guitar next week and I need a break from final finishing or I'll lose my mind:-)
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And here we have it, one bespoke multi-scale guitar bridge with hidden springs..
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In the new bridge the strings will be seated on these stainless steel plugs..
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The new workbench is in and my area is ready for some real guitar building, this bench will speed it all up no end:-)
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In the acid and away we go!
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After a quick session in the shot blasting area the new bridge is ready for anodising.
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The saddles are some custom ones we made when building the red eight string scorpion guitar..
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The bridges base plate is milled out.
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After fighting with a recalcitrant website for days I just have to be in the workshop..a new multi-scale bridge is called for.
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the workshop blog is live at http://bit.ly/nPfBXW complete with the new twin neck guitars demo videos.
