Everything but the kitchen sink (no Warmoth content)

[Logrinn]

I just made the Daphne Blue one my new background image on my iPhone.
Now I’ll dream of such a guitar every time I check my phone.

Seriously, Aaron - are you getting this?

 

[rgand]

That Ocelot is a winner! Looks great.

 

[Fat Pete]

Maybe I'll start naming all my projects after obscure creatures. First to suggest axolotl wins a prize (oops, snagged that one for myself).

 

[Cagey]

Maybe. but, while some extinct/obscure creatures are attention-getters (after the fact), they're usually not very sexy, and as we all know, sex sells. In fact, if some of those creatures were to have a little more sex, they might not be exinct/obscure <grin>

 

[Logrinn]

As a side note: Ocelot is spelled Ozelot in swedish.
Other unused cat names for guitars are Panther, Cheetah, Leopard, Tiger, Lion. 
:icon_jokercolor:

 

[bagman67]

Pangolin? 


Tasseled wobbegong?


Yellow-bellied sapsucker?


Blue-footed boobie?


Blobfish?


Goblin shark!

 

[rgand]

Sunda Colugo?

 

[Axkoa]

Platypus, Echidna, Quoll, Bilby, Quokka.

Also Cagey, is that a birdseye maple lam top?

 

[Cagey]

I'm not sure what you're looking at. If it's Pete's project, then yeah, that looks like birdseye to me. Sometimes those features don't show up very prominently until they're finished.

 

[Fat Pete]

Platypus, Echidna, Quoll, Bilby, Quokka.

Also Cagey, is that a birdseye maple lam top?

Finally, some useful suggestions (I'm looking at you, Ian).

If you're looking at the photo showing the thinline Strat's chambers, that's certainly maple with plenty of pin knots (and mineral marks), but not really what anyone would sell as birdseye - it's constructional veneer (about 1/16" ~ 1.5mm thick before it was planed down a bit), actually intended for skateboard building. It's visible in the other photo as a pinstripe.

 

[Cagey]

That explains the lack of prominent features  :icon_biggrin:

 

[Axkoa]

Oops :icon_scratch:  I meant Rgand's picture.

 

[Fat Pete]

I'm calling this one ready to finish (well, almost). I'm planning to do it tandem with the original subject of this thread. Should be fun. Please excuse the phone pics.

Despite the valid warnings in another current thread, both will be getting the Birchwood Casey grain fill treatment followed by Tru Oil. I've tried it before and, as I'm aiming for a fairly glossy finish, I think it should work ok. Also, I'm concerned that if I tried the sanding method, I'd end up with visible ash/maple dust in the walnut's pores.

 

[rgand]

Looks great as it is! Can't wait to see it progress even more. Thumbs-up to that neck/middle pickup rout. It takes off a little extra weight and makes wiring easier.

 

[rgand]

I'm calling this one ready to finish (well, almost). I'm planning to do it tandem with the original subject of this thread. Should be fun. Please excuse the phone pics.

The more I look at this, the more I like it. There are so many aspects of it that just look so cool.

Your phone is no slouch, there.

 

[Cagey]

No, not at all. There was a time not long ago when phone pics would have to improve just to get up to pitiful, but these days, they're putting the camera OEMs in an uneviable position.

 

[ghotiphry]

Oh my.... Dodo?

 

[Fat Pete]

Oh my.... Dodo?

Definitely not playing that game anymore. Here's a little update on the blobfish and the dodo...

Finishing (whoever named it that must have had a sense of humour, or at least never tried Tru Oil, as I'm not sure the end is in sight) proceeds.

I'm posting these pics partly out of technical interest - I hadn't realised how much using flash exaggerates wood figure - go figure...

Hybrid Thinline Nashville Strat:

Model 15:

I thought the flash photo was interesting enough to give up on the suspense element I've been dragging out, so here it is in all its weirdness. The figuring is actually fairly subtle under normal lighting.

It has some 'mechanical' defects discovered when I started the finishing. Nothing that will stop it functioning (as a guitar), but enough that the intended finish quality has been downgraded to 'that'll do'. It was always something of a prototype/test bed project anyway...

As a little aside, I was at my local auto parts store recently, purchasing some recreational abrasives and chatting to the guy there about what I'd been up to. I said that there were some things I would have done differently had I known better at the start and he said that stuff was always easier with 'hindsight'. Of course I asked him where I could get some for my next project. He looked at me for a long moment, like he was trying to decide if I was serious, and then said in a silly deep voice, while kind of squirming around and waving his in arms, in what I took to be a live-action imitation of some Outer Limits-type VFX, 'it's from the future'. I told him, 'no sale' and left - I hate stuff from the future; it's often more expensive and you have to wait for it. While I'm on the subject, why is stuff coming from the future 'back-ordered', not 'front-ordered' - are they secretly shipping it in from the past? We have a right to know.

Apparently the vapor is harmful.

It's getting late here, but just for fun, here's another thing I found on the drawing board that I was messing with a while ago - it's a 'tribute' to Teisco's K series (Shark) 'German' carve and all. It appears to have a built-in fuzz. I thought Big Steve might appreciate it. I might actually make this one next...

 

[rgand]

Man, some nice stuff, Pete. Those tops are spectacular with some finish on them. The concept drawing is pretty cool, too. I anticipate lots of fun following you on these.

Apparently the vapor is harmful.

:laughing11:

 

[BigSteve22]

I'm posting these pics partly out of technical interest - I hadn't realised how much using flash exaggerates wood figure - go figure...

If your camera has the option, you might try what's called Rear Curtain Flash Sync. It waits until the shutter curtain is just about to close, before triggering the flash, instead of doing it as soon as it's open. This allows the background light a chance burn in before the flash exposes the main subject. On figured wood, it gets the highlights from the flash, without loosing detail in the darker areas.

The attached photo was taken that way. Really brings out the flame....