Second build.

[casper100]

My first build I didn’t know about this forum so I just posted the result. For this build I’m going to post along the way.

I went to Texas A&M and I’m an Aggie through and through, so I’m going to build an Aggie maroon and white baritone. I already have a Warmoth maple baritone neck. Warmoth Maple telecaster body is ordered.

The top will be Australian Red Gum Burl, epoxy floated (black) and stained maroon.

Here is the two piece top after joining and glue up. Each hole was filled with bark I had to remove with a Dremel and Dental tools.

 

[Hodgo]

My first build I didn’t know about this forum so I just posted the result. For this build I’m going to post along the way.

I went to Texas A&M and I’m an Aggie through and through, so I’m going to build an Aggie maroon and white baritone. I already have a Warmoth maple baritone neck. Warmoth Maple telecaster body is ordered.

The top will be Australian Red Gum Burl, epoxy floated (black) and stained maroon.

Here is the two piece top after joining and glue up. Each hole was filled with bark I had to remove with a Dremel and Dental tools.

Your first build was so cool, really excited to see this one shape up too!

 

[Hagwood]

Very cool ! Your first build was awesome and turned me onto the idea of using Rubio on a guitar. Can't wait to see this one.

 

[casper100]

Very cool ! Your first build was awesome and turned me onto the idea of using Rubio on a guitar. Can't wait to see this one.

Rubio 2C Red Velvet looks to be a very close match to Aggie Maroon on my test on the Australian Red Gum. On the back, I'm not sure if I will use Rubio White on the maple or try a maroon and white crackle paint finish. It will depend on the tests.

Although Rubio is thought of as an expensive finish on furniture, you use so little on a guitar body its actually very cheap.

I lived in Australia for 5 years. 1 in Sydney, 4 in Adelaide, so I wanted to do an Aussie wood.

 

[casper100]

I managed to find a nice, flat bottomed plastic drawer for the epoxy fill pour. TotalBoat with black pigment. Since the pour was on a nice, flat, level surface, it was easy to give a quick sand, then put through the planer. Still a fair number of holes to fill after the first pour, so had to finish with a second coat. Ended up about 6mm thick. The maple Warmoth body just came in, so perfect timing. Really impressed with the quality of the Warmoth bodies.

 

[Hagwood]

Beautiful ! Well done, that is going to very nice.

 

[casper100]

5mm taken off the top of the body with a planer. Indexed the top to the body with pegs through the neck bolt holes so it doesn’t move during glue up. Every clamp I own, lol. 0.5 mm black veneer for a contrast strip. Flush trim router bit to match the body, then round over bit for the reveal. Then of course a nice water pop.

 

[teleme01]

That's awesome

 

[rockandroller]

The patterning in the Red Gum Burl reminds me of Karelian Birch! (which I am inordinately fond of...)

 

[casper100]

The patterning in the Red Gum Burl reminds me of Karelian Birch! (which I am inordinately fond of...)

Wow, that Karelian Birch does look cool!

 

[ragamuffin]

Karelian Birch!

What did you call me???

 

[Hagwood]

5mm taken off the top of the body with a planer. Indexed the top to the body with pegs through the neck bolt holes so it doesn’t move during glue up. Every clamp I own, lol. 0.5 mm black veneer for a contrast strip. Flush trim router bit to match the body, then round over bit for the reveal. Then of course a nice water pop.

Killer workmanship !

 

[casper100]

Cavities routed and body sanded. Even though I indexed the top, my center line was still a tad off. Gonna bug me forever, lol.
For those wondering, I drill the string though holes from the back, which lines everything else up using a StewMac template for the bridge screw holes and roughly the pickup and electronics cavities. Everything else is just a router with a flush trim bit. Easy.

 

[ragamuffin]

That top looks great! Even if slightly off kilter

 

[Hodgo]

If you hadn’t mentioned it, I wouldn’t have noticed. It’s most noticeable now between the D and G string through holes, but once the bridge and pickups are installed I think it will be nigh undetectable.

Not to you, of course… you built it. You’ll only forget once the sweet release of senility kicks in.

 

[casper100]

The white part of the maroon and white AggieCaster is in the books.

 

[rockandroller]

Cavities routed and body sanded. Even though I indexed the top, my center line was still a tad off. Gonna bug me forever, lol.
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Hey, just think of it as a souvenir momento of this month's clunkier-than-usual global magnetic pole shifting - lots of seismic events knocking things off-kilter!

 

[casper100]

AggieCaster coming along.