kG's $100 Build - Now pics with a *CAMERA*

[Cagey]

What misfortune? Any excuse to buy tools is a Good Thing. Misfortune would be to lose or break a tool he's already bought.

 

[Soylent]

What misfortune? Any excuse to buy tools is a Good Thing. Misfortune would be to lose or break a tool he's already bought.

Like the Dremel he just bought, come on Cagey...  :icon_biggrin:

 

[Cagey]

That one broke. That was unfortunate.

 

[Soylent]

Unfortune, Misfortune.. it's all the same difference.

 

[whyachi]

Updates! I breathed so much freaking poplar dust today, I've taken three Zyrtec and I still can't breathe.

 

[Mor Paul]

Body's looking good, Ian.

 

[Cagey]

Updates! I breathed so much freaking poplar dust today, I've taken three Zyrtec and I still can't breathe.

Does Zyrtec help at all? I've had the same problem lately, working with walnut. I was so frightened yesterday morning, I nearly went to the hospital. I was searching the 'net trying to find out if I needed a prescription to buy oxygen.

 

[whyachi]

Thus far, the Zyrtec is failing miserably, but I am out of Claritin.

 

[whyachi]

Confirmed that its only poplar dust I'm allergic to.

The pickup "route" is done. Since its technically a four-piece body, I did the route by going at the top bit in two halves, using a coping saw and some files. The channel for the wires and ground to the bridge is done the same way - I took a hacksaw to the inside to cut some paths then a round file to dig them out until my wires fit. Its rough, and it works. Once the sun is up I'm taking a chisel to it in attempts to clean up the pocket.

Not pictured, the neck pocket is started the same way, and also I learned why daddy always said cut away from your body by sticking a utility knife in my leg while trying to open some nuclear-strength plastic on the clamps pictured. Ironically, the knife didn't cut me, but the plastic did.

 

[Nando Vallart]

Going nice!

:laughing7: for the plastic cutting you... Murphy is still alive, mate!

 

[whyachi]

Talkbass always says you can never have too many clamps, but I had eight I couldn't squeeze onto here. Gluing the two halves of the top and bottom together before I sandwich them.

 

[BigBeard]

I was searching the 'net trying to find out if I needed a prescription to buy oxygen.

Yes you do, unless you are in a state that allows it's use for medicinal purposes, then you still need a club card and a doctor's recommendation. 

Just make sure it doesn't have any seeds in it!!!  :laughing7:

 

[whyachi]

Glued the top onto the bottom. Tomorrow I'm borrowing a belt sander to knock the edges off.

 

[Nando Vallart]

 

[whyachi]

Got a hold of this vintage Craftsman belt sander and after throwing some sparks and shredding a belt, I figured out how to work it. Its down to 5lbs.. hope to take some more off when I route the edges.

 

[whyachi]

Mo'.

 

[Cagey]

Mmm... belt sanders... you can do some serious shape-changing in a hurry with one of those bad boys. My problem with them has always been that it's tough to know when to quit. They cut so fast you want to use them as long as you can before you drop back to the dreaded and glacially slow manual sanding, but you can go from fixing a persistent problem to creating an irreversible new one in no time flat <grin>

Lookin' good, though. I'm anxious to see the end result.

 

[whyachi]

While playing with my practice maple scraps I've been saving all the sawdust, with the intent to cram it down into the fret slots and make maple fret lines. I figured maple sawdust + super glue, same technique I've seen people do for inlays, and then sand down over the top to make it all flush.

Anyone see any issues with that?

 

[Mor Paul]

Line might not be clean at all.

 

[whyachi]

I have yet to come up with another method for putting fret lines on it. I have $0.42 left in the budget, and I really need them as I'm rubbish on fretless.