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Today’s woodcraft, minus all the fancy power equipment, is much the same as it was in the 1800’s. Individual’s working mostly alone through diverse challenges of how to turn chunks of wood into beautiful artwork, functional furniture or anything else.
Steady rests… Looking to expand the variety of my turning projects, deep hollowing absolutely requires some method to support the work extended from the lathe chuck… Here is one example that provides a significant amount of support using a set of roller blade wheels. Like most projects I take [...] Routing the cavities are straightforward. As with any work that demand precision it’s always best to work with Jigs or Fixtures. In this case for the Stratocaster styled single coils I used a scrap piece of MDF.
I began with a template for the size and shape of the pickups. Crazy, I know but [...] Production shops create most electric guitars out of two major wood components. The body which can be a single block machined or several pieces glued up into a solid block, semi-hollow, or like an acoustic guitar virtually completely hollow. The second major component is the neck. In many cases the neck is bolted on, in [...] |
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