Wet weather non guitar making

[DarwinStrings]

As I make practically all necks now in the same style as Leo Fender made them I have been meaning to make this for ages and finally got to it.

One part I find a bit slow is the transition from headstock to neck. So far I have band sawed the shape, that is the front flat part of the headstock then into the curve that ramps up to the fret board and then sanded it by hand to level the face and clean up the curved transition.

With this drum sander I'll again band saw the shape but then just feed the headstock into the drum which will thickness and level it and also the drum is the same radius as the curved transition so it will give me a nice even curve sanded smooth.

The feed table is pivoted and adjusts the thickness so it can also do other sanding/thicknessing jobs. All the parts are from offcuts I already have except the two bearings which cost $20.

In the end it was also a challenging wet weather project.



Jim

[Lillian]

Jim, did you construct the dust shroud or borrow it from something else? Nicely done.

[ap404]

Gold Jim,

I don't do the fender shape often, but I know the feeling of looking around the workshop for the right radius on a bottle of stain or a chisel handle to do concave curves when sanding. I usually head for the curved end of the belt sander and wiggle back and forth to adjust radius

I was thinking of something similar for thickness sanding bindings/small parts etc.

Elegant.

Cheers AP

[DarwinStrings]

Cheers AP. Yep same, the belt sander is a trusted friend.

I made the shroud Lillian. It was just a matter of wrapping a piece of 80grit around the larger piece of plastic pipe and sanding the smaller one against it till it matched neatly. Then drilled a hole in the large pipe, cut the opening out of the other side, glued the small one over the hole with CA glue, dig a little jig and that was it, minimal dust.

Jim

[Lillian]

Thanks Jim.

[Dennis Leahy]

Slick jig, er um tool, Jim. I guess it's really more of a tool than a jig. Good engineering ideas there. You got the gears spinning in my head too!

Dennis