Something I found to play with

[PhilHill]

Thank You and yes. It's just plastic binding (probably ABS), I used a piloted router bit that put a 1/4 rabbit in the edge and glued the binding in with CA adhesive. With the plastic binding you can get away with sanding it some without it melting.

Interesting. That looks like a carved-top body? Must've been a bit of a trick to get the edge routed for the binding. I did the 5-layer binding on the L5S in my sig, which has a flat top, and that was nerve-wracking enough. Build thread's here, if you're interested. I found scraping the binding was more effective than trying to sand it level. Still have to sand it eventually, but the scraper works well to start with.

The final part of the carving was done after the binding route was cut, but yes it still was great fun. Had to use additional support blocks around the treble side horn. And your right about doing most of the leveling with a scraper. In fact I had to buy a new box of single edge blades before I could do it, didn't realize I was out till I needed one. But, all told it was better than it used to be with the old celluloid binding. That stuff would go bad if you looked at it wrong.

 

[PhilHill]

Looking

Thanks. :icon_thumright:

 

[BigSteve22]

Phil, that's a beautiful job on the binding! Forms a sort of frame around the intricate grain pattern that really sets it off. Well done!  :icon_thumright:

 

[PhilHill]

Phil, that's a beautiful job on the binding! Forms a sort of frame around the intricate grain pattern that really sets it off. Well done!  :icon_thumright:

Thank You. I like the way it turned out, which is good because halfway through doing it I was ready to throw the whole thing in the incinerator. I hate doing binding to start with, and this required gluing in three strips at once. The biggest pain is trying to control the adhesive so there's no squeeze out, otherwise you find yourself bonding with the guitar in a way you don't want.

 

[PhilHill]

Well, I'm at a point where I have to decide on pickups for this thing. I fully admit that I'm not up to date on what's currently available in the market, but I know we have some folks here that are. The customer wants to be able to achieve a good jazz sound primarily, but he also wants to be able to do country and rock if he needs to. Not asking too much is he? But anyway, could someone kindly point me in the direction of something that comes close to this? Kent Armstrong used to be the go to for jazz, but I don't know if he makes something that can twang and thunder also. Appreciate any suggestions along these lines that involve two humbuckers and a toggle type switch.

 

[rgand]

Seymour Duncan P-Rails. Very versatile.

 

[PhilHill]

Seymour Duncan P-Rails. Very versatile.

Ahh, I did see those but wasn't sure, thank you I'll have to look into them further. :icon_thumright:

 

[rgand]

Seymour Duncan P-Rails. Very versatile.

Ahh, I did see those but wasn't sure, thank you I'll have to look into them further. :icon_thumright:

A couple push/pull pots, mini toggles or slide switches can control the modes nicely. Then you just have normal controls like you'd always have. I added the bass bleed but you don't really need that.

 

[PhilHill]

Gracias, I have saved that for reference. It will go into my binder of diagrams I've saved over the years. If I can ever get the binder back from my nephew! :dontknow: :sad1:

 

[rgand]

Gracias, I have saved that for reference. It will go into my binder of diagrams I've saved over the years. If I can ever get the binder back from my nephew! :dontknow: :sad1:

Glad to help. I also have one from SD with 2 vol, 2 tone setup if you ever need it.

 

[PhilHill]

Gracias, I have saved that for reference. It will go into my binder of diagrams I've saved over the years. If I can ever get the binder back from my nephew! :dontknow: :sad1:

Glad to help. I also have one from SD with 2 vol, 2 tone setup if you ever need it.

OK I'll remember that. I'm not sure if I want to try drilling more holes in the thing or not though. LOL If you'll notice in the one picture there's a little tear out on one of the holes I did already. I had a good piece of scrap wood firmly clamped to the face of the body and drilled from the control cavity through the body into the scrap. And it still decided to take a chunk out. My own fault though, my 3/8 Forstner bit had gone south on me and instead of waiting until I could get a new one, I just used a twist drill.  :doh:

 

[rgand]

Yeah, those twist drills can be treacherous.

 

[PhilHill]

Yeah, those twist drills can be treacherous.

Quite so. The secret is maintaining proper speed and feed rate, evidently I didn't do this, which then caused me to utter several expletive deleted's.  Realizing the impropiaty of my actions, I put things aside for awhile and spent the remainder of the evening punishing myself by washing my mouth out with alcohol.  ccasion14:

 

[Logrinn]

... and spent the remainder of the evening punishing myself by washing my mouth out with alcohol.  ccasion14:

That should teach it!

 

[rgand]

Yeah, those twist drills can be treacherous.

Quite so. The secret is maintaining proper speed and feed rate, evidently I didn't do this, which then caused me to utter several expletive deleted's.  Realizing the impropiaty of my actions, I put things aside for awhile and spent the remainder of the evening punishing myself by washing my mouth out with alcohol.  ccasion14:

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