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Spalted headstock for the CELLAR-DIME

Do I see cthulhu peeking through?!

CELLAR – logo on headstock

What do you think? Tung-oil like the rest of the neck or maby a gloss finish for the logo

CELLAR logo cut out in ebony

Will place it on the back of the headstock as the spalted beech is just too beautiful to hide behind the logo 😉

Something like this Jeroen? :)

Let’s check tomorrow for the top of the headstock!

Bookmatching and gluing the spalted top!

The wood seems to be nice and hard due to the wood hardener

Made the neck-pocket for the CELLAR-DIME too

Next up is to cut and fit the spalted maple top! 🙂

The neck nice and snug in the pocket..

..and I have also made the matching zebra wood top for the headstock!

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The zebrawood top for the CELLAR-AIR guitar!

Pretty awesome if you ask me 😉

 

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Sawing and gluing the pieces of zebrawood

In a kind of herringbone motif, you’ll see what I mean in the next post 😉

Shaping the perfect neck-shape

Nice and flat, but not too tiny. Smooth as silk and just the right feel in your hand!

Applied the fret side markers

Black mini dots in cream binding for the CELLAR-AIR guitar, and white in black binding for the CELLAR-DIME.

Sawing the necks to the right width..

and prepared and installed the binding for both necks (while enjoying an Erdinger 😉

Gluing on the fretboard of the CELLAR-AIR guitar

This starts to look like a proper guitar-neck!

Dual action truss rod sitting perfectly flush and snug..

..in the exact centre of the ML Neck. Next step is gluing the fretboard on the neck.

The compound radius jig is working!

10″ at the nut and 16″ at the bridge side of the neck

Cthulhu inlay is finished..!

And so is the AIR inlay:

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Working on some brass Cthulhu inlay

@Jeroen, which size do you prefer? 🙂

Fretboard awesomeness!

Thanks to the StewMac templates!

StewMack party time!

Just love to buy myself http://www.stewmac.com/ presents! 😉

Cut out the inlay for the “CELLAR-AIR” guitar

Its an ambigram, so you will be able to read it too while playing the air guitar!

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Made a “compound-radius-fretboard-jig”

Works like a charm. Check this video if you are wandering how it works:

 

Things are starting to take shape!

Mainly thanks to the band saw I bought of course 😉

So this is roughly what the 2 new guitar shapes will look like

Extra long ebony fretboard being sawed

By Lucsa @SpruceGuitars Utrecht. Thnx, very nice atelier and awesome guitar building skills!

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Making the basic ML headstock shape

@Jeroen, hope you’re absolutely positive on the ML shape, because this is a kind of point of nu return 😉

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Drawing the body shapes

Ready for the band saw!

Built a headstock neck angle jig

And sawed en glued the scarfjoint on the first of the two necks! IMG_2147 IMG_2150

The finished bookmatched zebra wood top!

Pretty awesome if you’d ask me 😉

Oef! Sawing the last bit of zebra wood by hand! :(

The circular saw is only 7 cm high so have to do the rest the old fashioned way! Got some nice blisters from this baby 😉

Flattening two necks with my home brew router jig!!

Works like a charm!

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