cardboard guitar update #3

[big bob]

Well it's no longer the cardboard guitar; it's now the lanocaster..
The body has been glued and I am still tweaking it.  I decided I did not like the braces for the horns showing so I caped them, not a big change but a change nun the less.  I have the control panels mounted on the top and the top is ready for sanding and shaping.  I still need to cap the horn struts on the back and fill all gaps, and mount the access panels, then it will be ready for sanding and shaping.  I have the neck and the bigsby, the pups and tuners all that’s left is the bridge (will probably go with a mustang style) and a neck plate.. Each time I access what is left, I remember things I've left out.. Oh well some day it will get glassed..

home spray booth

 

[big bob]

and the back

and front

 

[big bob]

more front

 

[blue313]

Hmm...this is turning out pretty cool.  :hello2:

 

[DangerousR6]

Looking good there bob, but one question, why would you have a square cut heel route for the neck..Gonna use a tele neck?? :icon_scratch:

 

[mayfly]

ok - I haven't been following this, or the previous, thread so I confess that I had no idea what you were up to.

But I gotta say, that's the most original guitar idea I have ever seen!  :hello2:

Reminds me of my young days building balsa wood airplanes...

 

[big bob]

Looking good there bob, but one question, why would you have a square cut heel route for the neck..Gonna use a tele neck?? :icon_scratch:

good question, not a tele , a generic route , will alter for the angled strat neck. 

ok - I haven't been following this, or the previous, thread so I confess that I had no idea what you were up to.

But I gotta say, that's the most original guitar idea I have ever seen!  :hello2:

Reminds me of my young days building balsa wood airplanes...

yes very close .. that was the idea ,a plane wing

 

[DangerousR6]

What kinda wood is the "skeleton" made from bob?

 

[metalman22105]

oh man, that's too cool!!

 

[big bob]

What kinda wood is the "skeleton" made from bob?

cypress.. very much like cedar..

 

[dbw]

Cool.  It sorta looks like pine.  I really want to see this one finished!!  :guitarplayer2:

 

[big bob]

Cool.  It sorta looks like pine.  I really want to see this one finished!!  :guitarplayer2:

you and me both brother ..

cypress is funky in that it has a big grain like pine, but is nor brittle, ie bends and shapes easy. the saw dust really fuchs with your eyes. after sanding I have learned to flush out my eyes with water..

 

[m4rk0]

So what will you use as 'top'? will you just bend it over the frame?

 

[big bob]

So what will you use as 'top'? will you just bend it over the frame?

once the body is finished I hope to streach fiberglass cloth over it and coat it with resin like a surfboard..

 

[dbw]

So what will you use as 'top'? will you just bend it over the frame?

once the body is finished I hope to streach fiberglass cloth over it and coat it with resin like a surfboard..

Tubular.  You gonna wax it too?  Speaking of which, you gonna start waxing your chest like a surfer?  :laughing7:

 

[big bob]

Yes I am going to wax it but not like a surfboard more like a B.M.W. a nine carnuba.. and I have no Idea what you mean about the chest thing... I'm a surfer and, ah,  no chest waxing for me thanks..

 

[USC-Blues]

Very interesting build. Please keep the pics coming :icon_thumright: Report is good size swells on west facing beeches this week. Rincon to Huntington will be going off.

 

[dbw]

Hmm, no good surfing around here.  Cow-tipping is more popular.

 

[big bob]

OK. so I'm getting close to adding the skin. this week I got the shaping done, sanding done, control cavity plates done, added a heel access route, and changed the neck pocket from square heel to strat heel, all thats left is to fit the neck shim (yes I decided to raise the neck and Put it at an angle) and then I can grain fill and fit the parts. and then all the fiberglass stuff I know nothing about ..

 

[big bob]

sanded front