Channel: lignum

Category: Howto & Style

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Description: My first ever guitar project. My brother's been telling me to build a guitar for quite some time now and after seeing Modustrial Makers latest guitar, we decided to give it a try and make this autumn themed guitar. It's far from perfect but I hope you like it.. We found some leftover planks of thermally treated oak, white ash, and some walnut.. After cutting and planing the wood, we assembled the patterns we thought would work and glued the body and neck blocks. For this purpose, we used ordinary acetate glue with half an hour of open time. After removing the clamps, blocks were left on the room temperature for a week before any further work so the inner tensions could settle and so that different wood types come to the same moisture level. Body and neck piece were then milled on a kuka kr150. I made the design in auto cad and rhinoceros, and also used rhinocam and irbcam software for milling. Tension rod is made from two 4mm round cold rolled steel rods, one 4mm inbus screw and six 4mm nuts. The tension rod will be inserted into a neck groove under the fret board. Fret positions are marked with a caliper measure and sawed with a 0.5 mm thick saw blade. Frets are then hammered into cut grooves, edges are filed, leveled and polished. Details on the body are shaped with biax tool and belt sander. Two small red Japanese maple leafs are glued on the front of the body with acetate glue, holes for the wiring and knobs are drilled and the whole body is sanded and coated with three coats of water based matte varnish. This varnish is designed to accentuate pores in the oak to give it more of the autumn look. Between each coat, everything is sanded with 400 grit sandpaper. The last thing was to assemble all the guitar pieces. I didn't write down the amount of work hours that went into this project but I would say it took more than 100 work hours over the period of 2 weeks.. Special thanks to Krešimir Klen- Fish for the final guitar test!.. :D Thank you for watching this timelapse video project and don't forget to like and subscribe! :D If this video gets a decent amount of views and interest, the plan is to make three more guitars, each themed over one of the four seasons! My instagram: instagram.com/lignum_channel/?hl=en My facebook:facebook.com/lignumchannel Website: lignum-art.com Music: Above planets, good times, running out by Patrick Patrikios