Steel Guitar Builder

The fretboard is now shaped:

Xavier, you are doing some fine work there! As for dye...do you have inkjet refill kits there? Get one of them. It has a black ink in a small bottle. You can dilute it with alcohol and get the shade you want. Great, Bent! I may find some here in NC I found too some info on the stewmac site that alc...

My ebony fretboard is not as black as I'd like... what would you use as dye ?

Today I routed the fretboard to thickness: http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/5341/imgp2037d.jpg Then taped tre drawing of the fingerboard (I double checked the printing scale) on it and sawed it withe the Stewmac fret saw... Hard, the saw doesn't cut, 3 hours... and shallow slots... http://img826.i...

Dave, the material is ivoroid plastic and the glue the stewmac black CA for plastic on wood, and for plastic on plastic, i carefully removed the BLACK glue where the 2 white plastic pieces meet, and use Tamya glue(model hobby glue) because... I didn't have any other plastic glue.

Today was tedious: The peg head binding.




Xavier

Hello, and happy Easter yesterday and today I shaped the peg head with a file (:-() and glued the ebony veneer: http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/7633/imgp2024.jpg http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/8717/imgp2028r.jpg http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/776/imgp2029z.jpg I tried to file the edge squar...

Paul Lafountaine wrote:You do realize that by doing such fine work you are challenging me to have to do better EH! Keep up the good work Bud!

Paul

Don't worry Paul, the job is not finished There are still so big mistakes to do...

Xavier

I spent the free time of the last 2 days trying to master a CAD software to design the fretboard: http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/3060/imgp2021.jpg http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/7841/imgp2023.jpg But I think it's worth the time... First, I could do a real simulation of what will be the nut w...

Today I carved the junction between the neck and the headstock, and routed the nut notch...






Xavier