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Everyone needs to drop all of the off-topic comments. If it ain't about Ceri's build, please save it for another thread.

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Kong wrote:
Everyone needs to drop all of the off-topic comments. If it ain't about Ceri's build, please save it for another thread.



Everyone, please welcome our newest self-appointed moderator Kong! Let's give him a hand!

Oh, wait, no.



Nice build Ceri!

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[2 January]

And we're back.

All right, normal service resumes tomorrow. Done some stuff today but not quite ready to show pix yet...

Meantime: as I might have mentioned, I've been away in Florence, Italy. What cultural activities did I get up to in the finest Renaissance city in the world? Well, anyone remember this line from Young Frankenstein?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Kbyte51MY

WHAT KNOCKERS!
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And because little boys never really grow up, they never get tired of very small jokes:
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How my wife sighed each time I needed one of those photos taken. :D

This was the front door of our hotel. Also nice knockers!:
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There. Tomorrow I'll try and grow up a bit and do some actual guitar building again... :roll:

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I will be fantasizing about knockers all night now :shock:

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Ceri wrote:
WHAT KNOCKERS!


Sheesh! :lol:

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I will be fantasizing about knockers all night now :shock:

:D

When I saw that other row starting to break out here I was worried my thread might get locked down halfway through. I guess if it gets locked now I only have myself to blame... :lol:

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glad you had a safe return Ceri.
cant wait to see the next guitar building pics.


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Wow look at all the pictures of Ceri playing with Florence's knockers!!!! :P :P :P

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the way i see it....if you go somewhere and you see big knockers...nothing to do but take pics...or we wont believe you..... :D


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after giving it some thought. I dont think that Touching up Nikininja's body is the right place to put anything about the big knockers........ :shock:


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"What great knockers!" Ha-Ha!!! I saw that movie in the theater when I was a kid. Glad I can still appreciate that line...HA!

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Okely dokely: back to work. A quick recap?

Previously on Touching Up Nikininja's Body - we turned the guitar on the left into the one on the right:
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Now we want to route some cavities and stuff, yes? However, a couple of nigglesome details to take care of first. You might remember that when first stripping the paint off the body we discovered that the wood under the neckplate had previously been sanded a touch too much and so had evidently needed rebuilding with filler to make a surface for that plate to sit on (page three of this thread):
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That unwanted curve is still there and we need to address it. Several options. We could build it up again with filler as Nick did before. Or we could carve out a section and insert a new piece of wood to bring the surface flat, as we've done with a couple of other small edge repairs around the trem cavity.

Don't like either of those. So how about turning the problem into its own solution? Instead of repairing that curve let's increase it and transform it into an asset - a shaped neck heel for more comfortable upper neck fretting. Then instead of having a neckplate we can use individual screw ferrules inset into the wood, like these:
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So that's the plan. First we need to drill out the screw holes so that when we carve out the neck pocket in so doing we take away any scrappy wood caused by the drill bit emerging from the far side:
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As it happens that didn't cause too much tear out after all, maybe because of the hardness of the sycamore on the front:
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Then I carved the heel using a rasp, file and sandpaper till it seemed more comfortable in the palm. I don't have a model for this, I was just making it up as I went along. I rounded the corner as much more as I dared, but since I don't want to move that screw hole I could only take that so far:
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(The eagle-eyed are going to notice that a couple of my pictures get a bit out of sequence at this point. In fact, I'm not working quite as logically as it seems here, finishing one bit before doing another. In truth I often have several bits going on at the same time - but if I reported that absolutely blow by blow this thread would become incomprehensibly difficult to follow. Anyway - there you see a neck pocket which officially doesn't exist yet... :lol: )

When I'd taken that comfort-shaping as far as I felt reasonable without weakening this part of the guitar I then used this 15.88mm / 5/8" forstner bit in the drill press to rebate for the screw bushings. The front ones where the surface curves are deeper than the rear ones - I've taken that as far as seems safe:
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Next, it's about time we made a cover for that control cavity. First, I made a tracing of the outer edge of the cavity:
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Then I transferred that to a piece of mount / matt card which I then fine shaped to fit the space. The pencil lines on it indicate the direction of the grain:
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That card then made a template to place on the sycamore - with amazing foresight I made the rebate on the control cavity exactly the right depth to take a cover cut from that topwood. Almost as if it was planned that way...

Again, the extremely observant may have noticed part of that happening way back on page 18 in this pic. There is the control cover pencilled on, top left:
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This has partly been another out-of-sequence bit, and in fact I've had the off-cut of that sycamore with the control cover marked on it sitting around waiting till today when I got down to cutting it out and fine shaping it. Here it is in situ with most but not all of the shaping done:
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The ruler shows that it is nice and flush to the face of the body. All those little pencil marks round the edge indicate; "Sand a bit more off here..." Getting it to fit the cavity perfectly is a case of endless trial and error: I might find a touch more to do on that over the next couple of days.

And that's it. A bit slow getting back to work, but tomorrow we'll take a look at some hardware, and get down to making some routing templates for the pickups - cos they're a little differently shaped than the usual...

Cheers - C


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Ahhh!! So good to see you back at work on this project Ceri!! :) This place kind of falls apart without you mate!! Great work! 8) :wink:


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Thanks for the pics of those nice knockers. The project looks like it is going well. Looking forward to the next installment.

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