Frankenstein's Lab! [SHOW YOUR PROJECTS THREAD]

[Dandolin]

oof - sounds like a real mess!

yeah, I like those black top classicals

[Blackened Soul]

real mess!

Orange crap removed. letting it settle for a few days..

[repoman]

Very nice, what did you use to remove the varnish/lacquer? That guitar looks super interesting.









I need to figure out how to polish aluminum well before finishing the Twist, started building a Tiger model and Wandre Waid/Spezial bass. This is the headstock of the Tiger right after TIG welding (hit one side with file).

[Blackened Soul]

Very nice, what did you use to remove the varnish/lacquer? That guitar looks super interesting.

Not the best interns of speed but I was trying not to mess any glue joint up.. Same reason I din't use a heat gun.. might have messed with the braces and the goal is to glue the top back together... On a side note... to keep myself from doing this again I gave the rest of the jog to my sister for her home remodeling project that way I don't have the temptation to remove finished for a while.. every damn time I do this I say I'm not going to do this again.. and I do

[dubkitty]

fucking hell, you guys, this is great stuff! my mind is boggled at the Wandre.

[qersty]

comment dites-vous? "Great for slide! Open-G ROLLING STONES KEITH RICHARDS"

[Dandolin]

oof sorry to see that
no can glue, fill, and drill I suppose?
if you're not feeling the Krichards thing, maybe try Baroque guitar or Cittern tuning

[repoman]

Made this bass string holder for the Waid bass last night
The actual ones seem to be made of extruded aluminum half round pipe, the one I made is just solid half round. Also figured out how to buff/polish aluminum...buy a buffer! Spend 5 hours wet sanding or 2 minutes using a real buffer. :surprise:






This bass is massive, I tried printing this so it would be 100% scale to help in making the template but I'm fairly sure I printed it way undersized looking at the position of the bridge (assuming it is a 34" scale bass) and how close the strings are on my print out...I'm guessing the body is 2 feet wide at its widest on the real ones...just ridiculous. I'm building it to be more normal sized.

[Blackened Soul]

Looking at that, the bridge looks like a hofner which have near guitar string spacing if that helps...

[repoman]

Yes! Just looked it up, says Hofner spacing is 14mm or 0.560 inch, I copied the spacing on the Pbass bridge I have which was 0.800 inch.

[repoman]

Needed a fret press caul, and decided to try and make one and maybe save 70 bucks from stewmac.
Tested it on a scrap neck, seems to work well. Took a long time though because my mill is small and milling steel on it is glacial.

[Blackened Soul]

I put banjo tuners on my spanish laud

Before [with wooden pegs

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Now with Gotoh planetary banjo tuners

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Also working with Tortis pick guard material is weird you have to microwave it to work with it

[coldbrightsunlight]

Very cool! Looks great

[dubkitty]

and you'll never have to sand pegs to fit ever again!

[Dandolin]

nice work! I wish I could do that with my mandola, but it's a slot head...they make planetary gear pegs but gatt damm they are expensive.