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Baritone rebuild – day 3 | Midnight Woodworking
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Baritone rebuild day 3. Ok, so I had every intention of finishing the body last weekend, but I ran into a lot of operator error, mixed with a little bit of trouble from my temperamental carver…. Cutting off rear panel #2…. After carving a perfect rear panel, but carved in reverse, I chopped off the next two feet of the piece of 8/4 walnut. I ran through the entire process of milling and re-sawing to create this beautiful panel below. Glue up of panel #2. Screw-up of panel #2. Adjusting my planer sled.
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The papal chair project – day 2/3 | Midnight Woodworking
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The papal chair project – day 2/3. The panel has dried, so I pulled the clamps and sharpened up my smoothing plane blade. I worked with both my smoothing plane and my orbital sander to get the panel joints smoothed out. A good smoothing plane does not really need to be followed up with a sander, but I do not have a good smoothing plane so mine did…. After an hour or so of labor, I had the front of the panel looking really good. This is very disappointing! I carefully sliced away the grain where the damag...
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Reclaimed reverse Firebird – day 1 | Midnight Woodworking
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Reclaimed reverse Firebird – day 1. The lightest wood, that I have is the reclaimed hemlock that I carved the 72 thinline. Telecaster guitar body from. When that body was hollowed out, the entire body only weighed 2.4 pounds. Alex over at Vintage Lumber. Planing away the ugly…. Looks brand new underneath. Cleaning up the edges. After cleaning up the boards, I cut them to 24.5″ long, then lined them up to match the grain patterns. Panel no.1 done. Both panels glued and clamped. Adding some blue dye. I gra...
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Baritone rebuild – day 5 | Midnight Woodworking
https://midnightwoodworking.com/2015/07/28/baritone-rebuild-day-5
Baritone rebuild day 5. I had a lot of details to tidy up before starting to apply the finish today. I started by pulling the clamps off the headstock veneer, then taping off the rest of the head. The Buckeye is a very soft wood, so it is very easy to sand away. If it were a harder wood, I would probably be trying to flush up the edges with my router. I spent a little time rounding the edges over with the sander, then I sanded it down with 220 then 400 grit paper. Moving on to the next detail, the pickup...
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Baritone rebuild – day 7 | Midnight Woodworking
https://midnightwoodworking.com/2015/07/30/baritone-rebuild-day-7
Baritone rebuild day 7. Bill finally got me the last piece of the project today. He wanted this particular style of input jack. I wish I had this component before I carved the rear. I would have moved the control pocket down enough that the jack could have been moved closer to the bottom. Since everything is carved and just one coat of finish away from complete, he will get it where it will fit…. Finding a location for the jack. Squaring up a shoulder for the nut. A quick rub down. Sixth coat of Tung oil.
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Guitars | Midnight Woodworking
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Maple and purpleheart bass guitar. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Follow Blog via Email.
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Carving the Papal seal | Midnight Woodworking
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Carving the Papal seal. Papal seal carver program. My goal for the first version is to cut the seal completely through a 5/16″ piece of hard maple. Step one is to resaw a few pieces of scrap down to about 3/8″ thick. I start with the table saw, then move to the band saw to finish the cut. Finishing the cut on the band saw. To remove the narrow rib and the burning, that remains, I ran the boards through the planer. I took them down to their final thickness of 5/16″. Planing to 5/16″ thick. After glueing u...
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Baritone rebuild – day 6 | Midnight Woodworking
https://midnightwoodworking.com/2015/07/28/baritone-rebuild-day-6
Baritone rebuild day 6. I talked to Bill about the switch and he didn’t feel like looking for one with a longer neck, so before I put on another coat of oil, I need to fix the switch problem. The old guitar body had a 1/8″ thick top, the new one is 3/8″ thick. Since the burl top is rather soft, I want to remove as little of it as possible. I set the switch in place and traced a line around it. I sanded the body down with 400 grit paper to smooth things out, and started the third coat of Tung oil. Leave a...
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Purpleheart & maple bass guitar – day 6 | Midnight Woodworking
https://midnightwoodworking.com/2015/06/24/purpleheart-maple-bass-guitar-day-6
Purpleheart and maple bass guitar day 6. I got up bright and early yesterday to put the sixth and final coat of Tung oil onto the guitar body, before I went to work. Prepping for the last coat. After each coat, I sanded the surface down with 400 grit paper, to remove any dust motes that may have stuck in the previous layer, and to prep the surface for the next coat. Sixth coat of Tung oil. After six coats, the body really shines. Rubbing down with brown paper. Applying a little paste wax. I decided to dr...
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