'Building' a Danelectro 58 DC

[Dennisthe Menace]

Very nice Olav! Will the DC have the 'Page' look??

[Olav]

It's looking great! Well done.

Thanks Sarah, it's looking HUGE overhere to be honest.
Anyone else have the jumbo sized pics show up?

Very nice Olav! Will the DC have the 'Page' look??

Thanks D, if by 'Page look' you mean black with a cream pickguard, then yes. Oigun will add a hint of sparkle when he paints it. Just like the old Silvertones. Unlike the JimmyPage 59DC it'll be a 1 lipstick guitar though. I really can't even handle more. Ain't no JP...
Flip back a couple pages for a pic of what it'll look like.

[Sarah93003]

You have to reduce the size of the photo before you post it or it will be huge. I use photoshop and always reduce my pics to 6 or 7 inches in the longest dimension. Then I upload them to PhotoBucket and post them here.

[Olav]

That's the thing. I reduce all my pics to 320x240. Previous posts had forum software freak out over the size of my pics eventhough I had downsized all of them. Last post software didn't bat an eye and published every pic without so much as a hiccup. Eventhough I downsized my pics forum shows these jumbos anyway...
I can't take it anymore!
Every other forum I posted these shows medium sized pics...
hmmm...

[edit: now it's showing the pics med sized... ]

[oigun]

Come on, show the goodies!!!

[Olav]

Hai Sensei.

Today I attended a Masterclass at Oigun Sensei's workshop. He showed me how to make a template for a neckpocket and we routed both that and the pickup cavity.

prepared a piece of MDF, drew a centerline to act as a guide
clamped the neck


double stick a piece of MDF on three sides of the neck, squeeze 'em in!


routed out the pocket template, made a tight fit!


took some doing to place the pup cavity in the template


routed everything


Next step is routing for control cavity and making a cavity plate.
Tomorrow?

[oigun]

Just leftyfied the neck:
Drilled away the sidedots:

And made some rosewood "pills " with a little brass pipe.

Glued in the holes:

Almost invisible:

Voilá ready for a refinish:

(sorry my camera sucks!!)

[Olav]

As if it weren't enought to just lefty it up a bit, Oi has gone ahead and completely leftied the neck over!
Leftification is complete!

[Olav]

Haven't gotten round to much in the last couple days. Routed the control cavity, well... opening. And cut a plate for it.

[oigun]

Haven't gotten round to much in the last couple days. Routed the control cavity, well... opening. And cut a plate for it.

OMG! he's building a cookie jar