Some music maybe?
"Rainwater blowin' all under my hood ...but I knew that was doin' my motor good ,"
...one of my most favorite lines. Got any that stick with you ?
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I mentioned to Darwin I'd elaborate on some pics of guitars in the works.
I bought a few slabs of white/black streaked limba a while back . They were 2" thick and pretty
heavy at full thickness. I'm leaving one as a full slab that will have some artful sculpting to reduce the weight
some. The other two I divided ; one just about in half (1" thick each), the other I shaved a top of of it (5/8" or so)
leaving a nice slim 1 3/8" slab for the L-1000 parts and old L-2000 neck .
Here's a body with one of the 1" halves glued up with some Honduran Mahogany I 'milled' from a 60's pool table
that was in pieces at a previous residence. I left the three slate slabs (would be good for sound isolation now that I think about it ), each slab must have weighed 400 lbs+ . I split one of the( I have lots!) thick toneful Mahogany boards and glued
them together bookmatch style to get the 15" width needed. So that's what's on the back .
Here's the front -
don't worry...nothings resting on the ASAT...just the camera angle
Here's a nice shot showing the two woods , Korina on the top /old Mahogany on the bottom -
I love how the grain seems to magically fit with the lower horn -
This one is assymetrical in a few ways. Let's say I didn't have a wide throat bandsaw and just had a sawzall with a long blade, a couple handsaws and a funky jig to keep the blades straight (they like to wander in these situations). The top is not an even
thickness as a result , I made it work , looking forward to feel how it vibrates with some heavy bottom strings.
It'll probably be a hardtail.
Can you see what I mean?
...and a couple shots showing the sculpting -
the upper horn grain -
This is a piece of one of the 'hog boards , split , and in the raw -
and with maybe the 5/8" korina top ?
In an ASAT form ( I'd need to put an accent stripe in the middle to make up that overhang) ?
I promised Ken some shots of the PRS neck and it's body .The neck is probably late 80's , I bought it NOS .
The body is Macascar ebony on the top , vacuum pressed to a korina base .
It's being refinished and done a bit more right this time around . I gigged it heavily years ago and it was built when I had
a couple chisels , no dollars , and alot of determination . Plays and sounds great , boy that control cavity is rough...LOL
I had a piezo under the fender style bridge (what was I thinking ) . Might be a good place to put a saddlelock bridge boss
(I called it a boot the other day, I was close...sorta). The guts were/are Alembic P-bass style.
The neck slips in and is tight ...angles back from the body ever so slightly .
I have more black walnut veneer , I can make this pretty . It was done ( and again ...gigged heavily) in a time of no workshop or tools .I have a nice truss rod cover for it.
Here's some art shots of the inlays , the last one I reduced the brightness to bring out the colors in the inlay.
getting close to a final wet/sand buff where it really counts .Or maybe as louis suggested , buy a spray can of casey tru-oil for the final coat.
I know there's a vid of us playing a dive , not the greatest band, but not the worst . I used this bass then, I'll see what I can find.
I'll report back with what I see in my lunchtime future , it's a little early for that still .
I'm thinking of using pool ball looking inlays for fret markers for the guitars with the billiards table wood.
Interesting that all that beautiful mahogany was sheathed in plastic fake woodgrain .
I've been watching a 12 string aria pro on ebay...can't really afford it , so I'm destined to make my own .
Found this in a google search , it makes me feel a little less sheepish for my guerilla guitar work.
pretty rough, even before the decades of (ab)use .
http://vintageprsguitars.com/1970s-prs- ... ring-2955/
I better submit before a solar flare hits. I think I need to play for a while, it usually makes the sun rise quicker .
What do you do to get your Zen on ?
Does playing guitar /bass get you there most the time ?
If not...can we help ??
These guys had some serious tools at hand ( and probably some cool hotrods in the garage !! ...1959 ?!! )
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all my best,
elwood
... edit >> it must be on my end because Chuck's back on line now 
