'Building' a Danelectro 58 DC

[oigun]

Way to go bro!! Keep pics comin'

[Olav]

The bit I needed

weighed the skeleton

comes in at about 1 kg

[Olav]

used double stick tape to secure the template to the skeleton, coz I'll be manouvring her about quite a bit I think

ALWAYS make sure your router bit isn't touching the wood whan you start the router... I got in a hurry...

darn thing nearly jumped out of my hands

[Olav]

took off the template, found I had used way too much of the double face stick tape

router won't go deep enough

so I had to flip the skeleton over and change bits, that did it though

I'm ready for my close up now Mr DeMille

[Sarah93003]

Very cool!

[woodchuck30]

This is kind of kool anxious to see what the final result will look like, if its like your other projects, it will be priety and cool

[Olav]

I'm actually kinda on my own here, this is my first project building a guitar.
Oigun is in on this, but busy doing a couple other projects.
Oigun provides guidance and advice

...and he'll be doing the painting.

Thanks for the kind words everyone.
I'm as anxious as you are...

[Olav]

Glued the skeleton


Be sure to rub that out and let it sit for a couple minutes


Then clamp the thing, check the top don't slide off, use pieces of scrap wood to prevent the clamps from indenting the top and back

[Olav]

I made a couple booboos along the way.
1) I neglected cleaning the glue spills when joining the two 18mm skeletons
2) I neglected to clean the glue spills when glueing the top and back on the skeleton

Made for a couple dozen runs that made routing the top/back to size along the skeleton... hmmm... an interesting experience.
Body came out looking like it had goose bumps if that makes sense.
Wound up having to 'dremel' sand those off.

3) Neglected to check router depth between runs when rounding of the edges. For some reason the router bit slipped inside the lock and routing depth ended up being a fraction of a mm deeper the second sweep. Made for a 'nice' snipe (I think you call it) that had to be sanded down. By hand. Don't wanna ruin the edge by using a sander.

OK, that's enough for confession time.
Here's some pics.

routed to size


goose bumps


dremel sanding bumps and glue runs off


rounded off


centre lined


weighed


the net I used will have added maybe 100 grams

comes out just under 2kg

Tomorrow I'm routing the neck pocket at Oigun's. I need the neck to create a tight fit. The tighter the better. Neck needed a bit of a touch up here and there.
So... updating tomorrow night.

[Sarah93003]

It's looking great! Well done.