SpondonBassed Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 I especially like how the line is interrupted neatly by the dot outlines. Beautifully done. Have you got smaller ones from the seventeenth up? The image is not quite focussed up there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyjr1515 Posted July 4, 2018 Author Share Posted July 4, 2018 19 minutes ago, SpondonBassed said: Have you got smaller ones from the seventeenth up? The image is not quite focussed up there. Yes - where the fretboard is over the body, there is only room for the 3mm versions. Albeit I did them vertically (as there was no raised fretboard - the body curve was the fretboard) I did the same thing on Mick's Psilos: I put the small dots on Neil's fretboard before gluing it on. Don't fret (like the pun?) about the glue line, by the way - the joint hasn't been scraped yet: 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpondonBassed Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 Ah... the devil is in the detail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyjr1515 Posted July 5, 2018 Author Share Posted July 5, 2018 Another one off the list - and one of my least favourite ones. Fitting the tuners. And fitting tuners shouldn't be as fiddly as it often seems to be. Also - a bit of a repetitive gripe - hmmm, I do like Schaller but... They make some REALLY nice products Their customer service, in my experience, is FIRST CLASS BUT they often don't seem to check how difficult it is to fit their own products. And they often don't provide the basics to allow the fitting to be done successfully and/or easily. The worst case of this was this piezo Hannes bridge. Flagship product. Total nightmare to fit. And I pretty much know what I'm doing! And I've got lots of standard and obscure tools. And I still needed to buy another specialist drill bit. Yes - a drill bit!!!! : Looks nice. Until you see the back: ..and then read the instructions of how to bolt it, and the instructions of how to string it, and the complete lack of any reference, whatsoever, of what you do with all the piezo wires and collector block - important in the context of the 10 or so precision drill holes (tenth mm precise at the guitar top and tenth mm precise at the guitar back after drilling through 30mm of wood or, trust me, it isn't going to fit) you've already drilled perilously close to each other and very perilously close to where the piezo wires are going to have to be. Anyway...I've taken a few more pills and calmed down a bit. And compared with a Hannes bridge, fitting a Schaller pegged tuner is, I suppose, a doddle. But is it asking too much - and surely it wouldn't be too much trouble - to pop a little piece of paper in the box with a full size drawing of the centres of the bush and two pegs to use as a template? Anyway, for what it's worth, this is what I do nowadays with pegged tuners if I don't have a template or the exact dimensional drawing to hand (and trust me - you can't measure the actual item accurately enough): I drill a hole for the bush in a thin piece of hardwood. I pop a drop of paint, or snowpake or wet sharpie ink on the pegs, pop the bush on, tighten until the pegs touch : I drill the peg holes on a drill press to ensure they are vertical and test fit the tuner. I then use this, with a bush pressed through the template and headstock hole, as the drill guide: Then, if everything is flat, square and vertical, the tuners should fit without having to 'ease' out the peg holes at all: Anyway, that's how I do it. And maybe it's just me that finds pegged tuners a PITA... Next job is carving that slightly ugly volute 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si600 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 You're carving an ugly volute, or you're starting carving from an ugly volute? 🙈 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyjr1515 Posted July 5, 2018 Author Share Posted July 5, 2018 4 minutes ago, Si600 said: You're carving an ugly volute, or you're starting carving from an ugly volute? 🙈 I'll beat the inevitable responses from our other friends - if it's the former, then it would be truly an image in one's own likeness Happily, it should look nothing like me once it's finished... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stylon Pilson Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 1 hour ago, Andyjr1515 said: That poor piece of wood looks terrified. S.P. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpondonBassed Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 11 minutes ago, Andyjr1515 said: I'll beat the inevitable responses from our other friends Spoilsport. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyjr1515 Posted July 5, 2018 Author Share Posted July 5, 2018 10 minutes ago, Stylon Pilson said: That poor piece of wood looks terrified. S.P. It reminded me of 'sad monkey' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyjr1515 Posted July 5, 2018 Author Share Posted July 5, 2018 As you can see from the bobbly lines, I still have the final sanding of the neck to do and will finish off the volute at the same time - but this is pretty much where I want it to be in general terms: Not quite as butt-ugly as its creator 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norris Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Looking less of a carbuncle now - nice 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpondonBassed Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 16 hours ago, Andyjr1515 said: Not quite as butt-ugly as its creator Depends on who's glutes you are comparing your volute too. If it was me, I'd have it shaped to resemble Beyonce tying the shoelaces on her Doc Martens. Wisecracks aside; that's looking like summat to get to grips with. Tactile and highlighted by your laminated neck. Class. 10 hours ago, Norris said: Looking less of a carbuncle now - nice I always though a carbuncle was the fat one that keeps buying you chips when he takes you and your dad to the seaside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norris Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 2 hours ago, SpondonBassed said: If it was me, I'd have it shaped to resemble Beyonce tying the shoelaces on her Doc Martens You'd be playing open notes all the time so you could fondle it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpondonBassed Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 1 hour ago, Norris said: You'd be playing open notes all the time so you could fondle it! Thumbs up for that comment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len_derby Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 A very happy birthday to our master-builder Andy. I hope you can put your tools to one side today and have a great day. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpondonBassed Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 2 hours ago, Len_derby said: A very happy birthday to our master-builder Andy. I hope you can put your tools to one side today and have a great day. Thanks for the heads up. Congratulations Andy. How many candles are there on the meat pie? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 Happy Birthday, young sir.... Hope that you're doing something that you enjoy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyjr1515 Posted July 7, 2018 Author Share Posted July 7, 2018 6 hours ago, SpondonBassed said: Thanks for the heads up. Congratulations Andy. How many candles are there on the meat pie? Far too many to count. Let's just say that I now fully understand the lyrics of one of the more irritating Beatles songs in their portfolio - and most of the answers posed in said number are, in reality, 'no'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyjr1515 Posted July 7, 2018 Author Share Posted July 7, 2018 (edited) 8 hours ago, Len_derby said: A very happy birthday to our master-builder Andy. I hope you can put your tools to one side today and have a great day. Thanks, Neil and all you others. I was doing so well until the end of the England match when, in the excitement, I went down and cut a few bits of wood: "Oh no - he's not going to try an make his own knobs again, is he???" Edited July 7, 2018 by Andyjr1515 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 Wood? Are you sure that isn't some very small cheeses? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len_derby Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 3 minutes ago, Woodinblack said: Wood? Are you sure that isn't some very small cheeses? Mmmmmm, could this be Andy's subtle comment about the music he's heard me play with a couple of bands? 😂 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 It would be better than when my wife did some cheese knobs.. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 Cheesy knobs??...I don't like where this is going 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimothey Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 2 minutes ago, TheGreek said: Cheesy knobs??...I don't like where this is going Damn just pipped to the post! 😁 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpondonBassed Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 (edited) 14 hours ago, Andyjr1515 said: I now fully understand the lyrics of one of the more irritating Beatles songs in their portfolio - At long last. Someone who can finally explain who the flipping walrus was and where Paul was buried. Oh yeah, and Happy Sixty Fourth you old scrote! Edited July 8, 2018 by SpondonBassed 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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