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Here's a look at another guitar I've been working on.
These were taken before paint. I hope to have it painted in a week or two.




This one has two planks of maple in the middle, followed by a plank of walnut on each side, followed by ash.







It's basically wired like a Strat, except that in the middle switch position, instead of getting the middle p-up only, you get the bridge and neck.

Here's a few photos of its precursor.
This one only has 2 p-ups.
I've since softened up some of the curves on the un-painted one.






Anyhow, there ya go.
Any and all comments, critiques and questions greatly appreciated.

Jeff

Awesome work, Jeff!
Do you finish the contours by hand?
Nelson

I like this one even better. How do you fixture and reference the body to work on the back?

I machine "tooling holes" into the front of the guitar body, either in the bottom of the p-up pockets, on the neck, or at the bridge. I then generate some mounting blocks, and press a .25" dia dowel pin through them. I use the dowels to locate and zero, and clamp the "sandwich" together with long woodscrews.





Hope this helps.


Jeff

Screws up from the bottom - brilliant!

Unique design, and good ideas on the fixturing. If you're not in a hurry to pump them out, then love thy self and get a 3/4" ball and drop down the stepover until you can get away with just rubbing off the tooling marks, though.

It might make me the laziest man alive, but if it's a personal project then I'd much rather have the Fadal run for an extra hour rather than do an extra 20 minutes of sanding

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