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Re: First LS project: 8strings New yorker replica
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 1:01 am
by banjo980
Hello, and happy Easter
yesterday and today I shaped the peg head with a file (:-() and glued the ebony veneer:
I tried to file the edge square (really difficult with a hand file)to the peg head, as regular guitars (On the original, it's perpendicular to the fretboard, like banjos and mandolins) because the binding job will be easier.
Here is the result:
Andy DePaule (
http://www.luthiersupply.com) will cut the bone inlays for me and send me a custom bone nut (and bone fret markers), I'll get them in about one month...
Xavier
Re: First LS project: 8strings New yorker replica
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 12:46 am
by banjo980
Today was tedious: The peg head binding.
Xavier
Re: First LS project: 8strings New yorker replica
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 10:57 am
by Dave L
Looks great. I can imagine tedious. what are you using for binding material and what type of glue?
Dave
Re: First LS project: 8strings New yorker replica
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 9:34 pm
by banjo980
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.
Re: First LS project: 8strings New yorker replica
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:19 am
by banjo980
Today I routed the fretboard to thickness:
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...
And then I remembered a tool I have for engraving plastic hobby airplanes:
the HASEGAWA LINE ENGRAVER!!!!
Fantastic tool!. In less than 5 mn I removed easyly more wood than in 3 hours of hard sawing... safe and clean!!!
Highly recommended
Xavier
Re: First LS project: 8strings New yorker replica
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:27 am
by Georg
Looks like excellent work all the way so far.
Re: First LS project: 8strings New yorker replica
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:55 am
by banjo980
My ebony fretboard is not as black as I'd like... what would you use as dye ?
Re: First LS project: 8strings New yorker replica
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:23 am
by Bent
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.
Re: First LS project: 8strings New yorker replica
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 4:34 pm
by azureskys
Looking real nice . Russ
Re: First LS project: 8strings New yorker replica
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 1:30 am
by banjo980
Bent wrote: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 alcohol-soluble dyes for leather work well. I'll see what I easily find
Thank you again,
Xavier
