Sunburst day!

BUSY day today!

I'll let the pictures do the talking... more to come!

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There are ALOT of guitars in the booth right now but we pulled this one to snap some pictures. Thats just sealer... tomorrow we start shooting colors.

Dougs Tool of the Day pt2

Revised our fretboard clamping jig today. We've been trying to come up with a way of clamping the fretboard and making sure that it doesn't shift around during the process. So here's what I came up with:

        

Basically a same idea as last time with some changes. Once side has fixed blocks that will come up to just below fretboard height. The other side has cammed clamps that rotate and pinch everything into place.

Neck glued up

Fretboard on, pinched tight into place.

Simple clamping caul, this time its just 1/2" plywood. The last ones were 3/4" and radiused to match but honestly the 1/2" ply bends just about right on its own.

Doug's Tool of the Day

Actually, I can't take credit for this. We needed a tool to sand the milling marks on our knob recesses and Steve said "to bad we don't have an old exhaust valve or something". Well heck, I called the machine shop around the corner that we've known (and worked with) for years and Steve went over. When he told Rick (the owner AND guitar player and hobbiest builder) what we needed he milled a scrap valve to the size we needed.

A little 3M Stick-it tape and chucked up in the drill these sand the marks out effortlessly!

The full crew today!!

Not sure how we did this but we managed to have a BUNCH of help in the shop today.

Theresa cutting and nipping frets for the next few necks coming up.

Steve hard at work doing the final sanding and QC on guitars. These are getting prepped for grain filler.

In between running some new necks and fretboards I started applying grain filler.

... and in between that drilling the last couple output jacks.

We also started epoxy filling any worm holes. Mostly this is on the maple tops (since they are Worm Wood) but this Korina Daylighter had 2 small ones to fill.

     

4449-21 sanded and better pictures finally. We cut the neck and fretboard for it today.

There we go! LOTS of guitars sitting while the epoxy fills the worm holes. They'll get resanded tomorrow and final grain filling. Should start seeing these in sealer in the next few days.

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-20 on the left and -21 on the right. Some big plans!!

jig of the day

A friend asked me to snap some better pictures of my neck carving fixture. This one is just temporary, the full working one will be free standing and bolted to the ground.

Since all the necks are the same right now, I have a dowel at one end to lock into a tuner hole and the other end has a rotating piece that locks the neck into place. Nice and simple.

Lots of stuff going on in the shop, we're WAY behind in updates!

4 of a kind...

Another 4 Daylighters with the necks set in them!

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They will start getting final sanding the next few days.