Work Page 6-2019
Barry's Gibson ETG 150
FON 2290-4 (1949)
Convert from full body to cutaway
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Template from TJ's Granpa's guitar
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Rough cut-out on top complete
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Top is solid spruce, not ply.
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Lines for side cut scribed
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Silica Cutting wheel is the choice for the rough cut
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Now to trim off the neck block
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Flush-cut saw is the tool chosen for the task.
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Chiseled out, ready to cut the back
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Checking the binding thickness to be used
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Backing for 1/16 maple installed
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Next, I will bend some maple
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Ready to bend some maple
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Refresher course,thanks O'Brien
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Close enough, now to draw the profile and cut
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Letting it dry a bit first
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After glue/clamp/trim/tint
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That is wood, not binding, ready to rout.
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Starting the binding after routing
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removing excess
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Getting some tint and patina for the binding applied
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A few more coats of clear to blend in with orig finish
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Removing the sheen with fine wool befire buffing
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Time to cut the pick guard
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I put some vintage white knobs on it
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Direct mount to top now.
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Buffed/Waxed, ready for strings
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Back down for fret dressing, final tweaks
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Tuned to pitch, elecs. OK
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"Shop grunge" wiped from case.
Now to get it packed up and off to the "Indiana Flash"
Barry and I figured out along time ago that we could save money, by sending the same instrument back and forth.
We just make changes and both of us enjoying these changes like they are new instruments!
Thanks for watching,
Vinnie
Now to get it packed up and off to the "Indiana Flash"
Barry and I figured out along time ago that we could save money, by sending the same instrument back and forth.
We just make changes and both of us enjoying these changes like they are new instruments!
Thanks for watching,
Vinnie