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Looking great Ceri. Enjoying this much!!!!

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Looking great Ceri. Enjoying this much!!!!


Thanks man! Gotta say, I never forget that I'm just a fumbling amateur - you are the real deal. Happy St Patrick's Day! On which...:

I suspect this drinks thing is getting seriously out of control. Still, it seems I have to find a cocktail for Trauma.

Well, this evening I arrived to meet The Missus at her office in time to find her young Irish assistant still there and dressed in the colors of the Irish flag. Which meant I couldn't help but notice that it is St Patrick's Day. We already did a cocktail with an Irish name, but howsabout a green drink?

I scratched my head a bit and then remembered this favorite from the old days. The Olympic - very simple and also green, in a muddy kind of a way.

The Olympic
* 1 measure brandy
* 1 measure blue Curaçao
* 1 measure orange juice
* Shake with ice and serve - in this case for some reason I feel inclined to serve it to you in and olde worlde champagne glass rather than a cocktail glass. Don't ask me why...

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If you like your cocktails sweet then this one is really quite nice. Better than it looks, anyhow:

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There ya go, Trauma. Happy?

(Tell me we don't have to do this every day... please!)

Cheers - C

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I see 2 eyes and a mouth in the bubbles (or ice) on top. Is that a Leprechaun Ceri? :lol:


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I see 2 eyes and a mouth in the bubbles (or ice) on top. Is that a Leprechaun Ceri? :lol:

Hi Hop: or could it be that you've been at the green beer quite a bit already today...? :lol:

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looks like a drunk fish to me....

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Ceri wrote:
cvilleira wrote:
Looking great Ceri. Enjoying this much!!!!


Thanks man! Gotta say, I never forget that I'm just a fumbling amateur - you are the real deal. Happy St Patrick's Day! On which...:

I suspect this drinks thing is getting seriously out of control. Still, it seems I have to find a cocktail for Trauma.

Well, this evening I arrived to meet The Missus at her office in time to find her young Irish assistant still there and dressed in the colors of the Irish flag. Which meant I couldn't help but notice that it is St Patrick's Day. We already did a cocktail with an Irish name, but howsabout a green drink?

I scratched my head a bit and then remembered this favorite from the old days. The Olympic - very simple and also green, in a muddy kind of a way.

The Olympic
* 1 measure brandy
* 1 measure blue Curaçao
* 1 measure orange juice
* Shake with ice and serve - in this case for some reason I feel inclined to serve it to you in and olde worlde champagne glass rather than a cocktail glass. Don't ask me why...

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If you like your cocktails sweet then this one is really quite nice. Better than it looks, anyhow:

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There ya go, Trauma. Happy?

(Tell me we don't have to do this every day... please!)

Cheers - C

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Thrilled to (hiccup) bits...(hiccup)....mate!...passes out with Mrs. Leprechaun..............

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I like the Guiness ... It's a nice nod to St. Patrick's Day. :wink:

The neck is looking great so far!! I really can't wait to see the finished product.

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I don't post on here much. I'm mainly a reader. :D

Ceri I want to say that your build is looking wonderful. I can't belive the painstaking detail you go through to build a guitar. I just wish I had that kind of patience and craftmanship to do this. Keep up the great work!!

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EGrier65 wrote:
I don't post on here much. I'm mainly a reader. :D

Ceri I want to say that your build is looking wonderful. I can't belive the painstaking detail you go through to build a guitar. I just wish I had that kind of patience and craftmanship to do this. Keep up the great work!!

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wow title of thread should be changed from "touching up nikis body"
to "Master luthier Ceri, on How to build a guitar out of a shipwreck"

bravo mr ceri.
you work with the precision and accuracy of an engineer, with the soul of
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Taking a slight detour Ceri but in keeping with the thread lately :wink:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsZGhJih5qI&NR=1


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Miami Mike wrote:
EGrier65 wrote:
I don't post on here much. I'm mainly a reader. :D

Ceri I want to say that your build is looking wonderful. I can't belive the painstaking detail you go through to build a guitar. I just wish I had that kind of patience and craftmanship to do this. Keep up the great work!!
Ethan

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Oh shucks! You guys... :oops: Thank you kindly.

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wow title of thread should be changed from "touching up nikis body"
to "Master luthier Ceri, on How to build a guitar out of a shipwreck"

And shucks again! :oops: To be clear, the "master luthier" is nuttin' but a DIY amateur dabbler. But as far as the skunk stripes are concerned I it's true - I really am building a guitar out of a shipwreck!!! :D :lol: (See previous page...)

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Taking a slight detour Ceri but in keeping with the thread lately :wink:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsZGhJih5qI&NR=1

Yep. Been there, done that... :D

Okely-dokely: if you remember we were waiting overnight for the glue to dry on one of these skunk stripes, stuck in on top of an inserted trussrod:
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That of course left a section of spare skunk stripe raised up proud of the neck blank. Here's my slightly nifty way of dealing with that. This is a rather cool Japanese "flush cut saw". It has a very bendy blade - as you see:
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It also has the teeth set straight, not sticking out at an angle either side of the blade like on a conventional saw. All of that is handy because it means you can get it right in flush to a flat surface and cut along it without scratching the face of the wood. Like this:
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Kinda cute, huh? And the surplus removed is just right for using as another skunk stripe without further shaping work. Good! Now we just need to make the surface absolutely flat again using the cabinet scraper and perhaps a bit of sand paper. We need it flat for forthcoming machining purposes:
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Another shot of that scraping:
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Which gets us to this stage (this looks like a different blank, I think):
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We'll just take this moment to cut back a bit of surplus wood at the heel end. I shall be making a 22nd fret overhang, so I need to leave a bit of timber beyond the butt of the heel to carve the overhang from. This much, to be precise (I inked in the lines here to make them easier to see):
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(By the way. Let us all take a moment to respectfully remove our hats and stand in silence. That was the 400th build photo on this thread, excluding cocktails, MI-6 HQ pix and all the other nonsense. That's a lotta photos - and we ain't finished yet!)

Now then. I am going to show you a new idea for my neck process - and how it went wrong. Tomorrow I shall show you how I do it the right way instead.

So. It is time to start carving my two degree angled back peghead. I normally do this using a jig of my own construction - which you will see tomorrow. But I had a brainwave and wondered if I could use my planing machine to cut a corner and do things quicker. So one of my neck blanks travelled to the part of the country where that machine lives:
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My idea was to build a simple jig that could firmly hold the whole blank and present it to the spinning planing blade at a two degree angle, so that I could just shave the front of one end of the wood off at that slant. Like this:
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Here is the tip of the neck blank as it arrives at the cutting head:
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To understand how the planer/jointer works; you can raise and lower the steel beds either side of the cutting head. You set the left-hand one exactly to match the top of the spinning cutter so that it receives your planed timber on the level. The bed on the right can be lowered as much as you want and that will determine how much wood is shaved off on each pass.

My idea was that I would pass the end of the timber across the cutter at its two degree angle and with each pass I would gradually lower the bed so that more and more was removed and we gradually created an angled surface at that end of the blank. The curve of the cylindrical cutter itself would carve the curved surfaced where the trussrod nut emerges.

Clever, huh?

Here is the little gauge that tells you how far the bed has been lowered, using that hand wheel:
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BUT. I didn't think to check how low the steel bed would go before I started - fatal error!

I planed timber off the blank, it was all going nicely - and then the steel bed bottomed out before I'd got all the way down the to surface of the peghead. I must admit, I didn't see that coming. It's down to not being familiar enough with a machine I've only had for a few months, but that is a bit of a thin excuse.

This turns out to be as low as the feed bed will go:
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Which only permits me to shave this much off the front of the headstock part of the blank. The pencil working line shows how far I had to go:
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Infuriating, because as you see the angle was right and it was working nicely. Turned out the cutter wasn't going to produce a nice smooth curve at the nut end of the peghead but that's OK; I would have just gone back to finishing that the old way.

So now I have a knackered neck blank. Luckily I was experimenting with one I hadn't put a trussrod in yet, so it isn't so bad. Still...

Tomorrow I shall revert to my previous tried and tested method of making the angled back headstock and hopefully you'll see that one work out right.

Anyway. You get's the unvarnished truth here, screw-ups and all! Exciting, in't it?

For now, cheers - C


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That was worth the try though Ceri. I thought it would work, when you started showing it. Is that blank actually knackered though? Doesn't look unsalvageable to me. Might take some tedious elbow grease but...

I am looking forward to live video when the rasps and spokeshave come out!!!

on that fretboard seen in lieu of a beverage in one of those shots, did you buy it? I would imagine we would have had 4 or 5 pages already had you made it. ( i love the forshadowing in your shots, a sneak little cameo of the fretboard, as well as having your spray gun do a walk on. Hopefully more on that too, HVLP gun, how many CFM? What pressure are ya gonna spray at? It's a stylish red, mine are much less sexy.) that begs the question, what are we going to see shot on that neck? is it going to be satin or gloss, lacquer or urethane? Is it going to be clear, or are people going to learn about using amber? It just gets better and better!

Oh man, I miss having access to a stocked tool shop, the only reason I can think of to have extended a certain relationship was her father's workshop!!!


well my little nephew is over, we're going to watch 'Wallace and Grommet: Curse of the Were-Rabbit' So see ya tomorrow.

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Ceri,

Looking good. I was hoping for a little update tonight before going to bed. I'll be dreamimg good tonight. I am sure the neck is going to look great before it is all over...I mean look what you did to the body already. I have complete faith this part of the project is going to turn out awesome. Thanks for the show.

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Hey Ceri, Dont feel bad....using a basketball reference...do you watch basketball over the pond? MAN U all the way but....oh yeah I was trying to tell you something wasn't I?....Here you are:....You will always miss %100 percent of the shots that you do not take...with that being said....you had to at least try...it would have bugged you all night...

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