V Mania

I’m working on two Jackson Vs right now.

Even though I’ve already spent a lot of time with them, there is still a lot to do: The Floyd Rose Trems are going to be replaced by Kahlers and the cuts in the Vs are going to be filled. That means a lot of routing an gluing in pieces of wood. After these are sanded flush, there is more routing to get the cavities for the new tremoloes and the desired outline of the Vs.

After all the wood work is done, both guitars are going to be finished in a dark metallic red. But that will be a while…

Before

Routing a cavity in the back

Custom Made Bass

Ups … , it’s already the end of January and I haven’t posted anything since early December

I’m working on an electric bass which I’ve developed with a customer. We started in September and it took a long time choosing and ordering all the parts and materials and sketching and drawing the whole instrument.

In January I started actually building and the photos show you how far I am right now. The body needs to get its actual shape, what I could I already routed, the rest I have to do by hand. A lot of the work was done by my CNC router which I used for the first time to build a guitar body.

The pieces for the neck blank were glued together, the headstock veneer is on and the channel for the truss rod is routed. I resawed the fingerboard blank from a piece of rosewood I had sitting around in the shop for almost ten years. 

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