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Just one more - pickup and surround

Posted by Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw on December 5, 2011 at 2:50pm
A little detail shot of my 4 string showing the pickup and surround. The surround is made of four parts from one of those wooden sheets that you get inside a cigar box, plus a top layer of maple veneer.It is still missing a heal and what you see under the neck is 16mm steel tubing. It plays OK without a heel cap so who knows when I will get that done.
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  • Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw December 16, 2011 at 3:50pm

    Hi Lofi.

    Very kind of you to comment. Thanks. The fretboards are just sawn on a bandsaw and then sanded on a belt sander. Once glued to the neck I paper them with abrasive stuck to a small glass sheet (it was a shelf from a bathroom cabinet). That gets the fretboard flat enough so that much fret dressing shouldn't be needed. Depending on the wood I will either fill the grain with sanding sealer or not (the one in the photo is ebony so didn't need any filling) and then cut that down with steel wool and Danish oil.

    After that I mark and cut for the frets. This photo shows that bit.

    I hope that is useful.

    All the best and thanks again for the comments.

    John

  • Lofi Delux December 15, 2011 at 7:07pm

    Your guitars are amazing, thank you for sharing so many pictures of the process. How do you make your fret boards?

  • Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw December 6, 2011 at 11:19am

    Hi Roy.

    Thanks for the comment.

    All the best.

    John

  • beStillroy December 5, 2011 at 8:30pm

    I Dig it.

  • Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw December 5, 2011 at 5:30pm

    Hi John.

    The pickup is a rail humbucker from FleaBay.

    I'm not sure that steel tube quite matches the rest of the look of the thing. Still, it's different I suppose.

    All the best.

    John

  • jabes December 5, 2011 at 5:09pm

    don't bother john ,it looks fine ,what pup 's that, looks very cool...

     

  • Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw December 5, 2011 at 3:03pm

    Hi there.

    I think this pic will make it clearer.

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  • Mr.C December 5, 2011 at 2:57pm
    Is the neck square all the way up.what did use to blacken it
    looks nice.
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