Monday, December 12, 2016

Progress . . . .

Well, some anyway, rough shape got cut with the jig saw. NOTE, rotary cutters and curly maple do NOT play nice together, you get an awful fuzzy cut so if you must, stay well away from the final line. AND, I found a great use for that vacuum driven Dremel I got initially, with a rotary sander it makes for quite a nice edge finishing tool and, here is the great thing, most of the dust created disappears directly into the shop vac . . . perfect.

And the edges are getting thinned . . . here the edge is down to 1/16 - 3/32 . . . . 1/16 is the goal all around but this is the first pass with some 60 grit EZ lock sanding disks on the dremel for quick removal of material and it already went a (tiny) bit quicker than I really wanted . . . . . . nothing disastrous but . . . . . . and yes it will be evened out by hand . . .

Also considering some ideas to reinforce the joins, with the cutouts for the pickups going through all four joins (reducing the total area) that may not be a terribly bad idea . . . . . . . 

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