blablas

Filling the leftover space in the fret slots and fixing the frets, with superglue (cyanoacrylate).
The capillary effect will in principle fill all the leftover space.

Hammering in the frets.
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Halfway there.

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And all in place.

I find it very comfortable to play, I prefer a flat fingerboard over a radiused one, certainly with five or more strings.
And as far as building is concerned, the fingerboard can be thinner and I don't need to sand a radius.

Gave the fingerboard a final leveling session and after that sanded it up to grain 1000, also put on two layers of Danish oil to seal and protect the wood during the next tasks.


Shiny and level!!

Next up: hammering in the frets.

Another minor update.

Roughly prepared the nut.

Only a minor update.

Made two round-overs at the other end of the neck.

You are not the first to wonder if I could make a living as a luthier, I've even given it some thought myself and decided I would miss my daytime job too much.
My daytime job is being a instrumentmaker and engineer at the forefront of scientific experimenting at the physics department of the Leiden university. The work I do there is very diverse and gives me a lot of satisfaction, it also leaves me enough freedom to do whatever I want for the rest of the time.

Roundwound, C to B will be Elixer and the F# will be a black label Warwick.
I'm using this same set on my previous 7 string build and like this combination.

The top (and back) is Iroko, it's grain is dull and boring, but the flame in it makes up for everything.

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Leveled the sides of the neck, now the side markers are nicely visible.

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Headstock-neck transition.... Wood-porn!
It will look even better once I've shaped the volute.

Glued in the side markers.
Used bamboo for this (also known as toothpicks ), they are exactly the right size and color very nice on dark wood.

.175 , a normal B is .130.

My most recent finished DIY project.
My current project [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/224630-de-afwerking-mk4-7-blablas-next-build-project/"]build diary[/url].

And for my older DIY projects just click on the link below to my homepage.

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Cut the fret slots, not a fun job to do in snakewood, certainly not with such long slots.
This wood is hard and my saw clogged up in it, greasing the saw with a little bit of candle wax helped but it still was a tough job.

Sheldon Dingwall is not the one who came up with the idea, it was Ralph Novak's brainchild.

[quote name='wiki']In 1989, Novak patented a new type of fret arrangement which he called the “fanned fret”.[/quote]

Drilled the holes for the tuners.


Mounted the tuners q&d and pimped the wood with some naphtha to see if my idea of using gold hardware on myrtlewood was the right one, I'm not disappointed! Certainly when taking in consideration I normally don't like gold hardware.




Also leveled the bottom side and sawed of the sides of the neck.

It's starting to look like something.

My lefty F(ake)ender Jazz V.
Fender or Squier don't make them so a fake will have to do.

My little Jazz herd.

With a hammer.

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Made the roundover going towards the volute.

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Leveled the headstock and sanded it to thickness, also refined the headstock shape a bit more.

Headstock ready to be sawed.


And done.


And a more detailed shot of the headstock/fingerboard transition.

The slot is 2 millimeters wide, I'm using brass for the nut.
I have used this with the last couple of builds I did and and it works okay.

Finally finished constructing, time to start shaping.
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Made the truss rod covers.

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Worked on the headstock/fingerboard transition and also routed the groove for the nut.

Put the truss rods in place and glued on the fingerboard.


And no one will ever see the rods are not exactly aligned to the center of the neck!

I know of even more small mistakes I haven't shown here.

Once everything is finished I will be satisfied with the end result and don't care about these kind of errors, they only bother me a little bit during the building process.
Mistakes just happen and add a nice challenge to solve them, if all went exactly as planned these kind of builds would be boring to do for me.