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Radius top superstrat
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 5:08 pm
by demonx
Finally got a day where it wasn't raining, so I snapped some pics of this one:
Mahogany body (radius top carve)
Papua New Guinea Rosewood neck (quarter sawn)
Rosewood fingerboard
Cocobolo binding
Bareknuckle Blackhawks
Hipshot bridge
26.125" scale
Brass Roman Numeral inlays
16" radius
6150 Dunlop fretwire
24 frets
Ebanol nut
Grover strap lock system
Grover tuners
CTS pots
Freeway selector
0.022uf paper dipped in oil cap
Stain and oil finish
Re: Radius top superstrat
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2015 9:12 am
by colburge
You never fail to impress! Another great looking instrument.
Col
Re: Radius top superstrat
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 11:49 am
by scripsit
What's with the numbering system?
It goes 15, 16, 19, 21 at two fret intervals.
Kym
Re: Radius top superstrat
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 1:30 pm
by Nick
scripsit wrote:What's with the numbering system?
It goes 15, 16, 19, 21 at two fret intervals.
Kym
Look again Kym, 16 is actually 17, the second "I" is hidden by the B string
Re: Radius top superstrat
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 1:42 pm
by scripsit
Look again Kym, 16 is actually 17, the second "I" is hidden by the B string
Apologies, I blame aging eyesight!
Kym
Re: Radius top superstrat
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 9:44 pm
by kiwigeo
scripsit wrote:Look again Kym, 16 is actually 17, the second "I" is hidden by the B string
Apologies, I blame aging eyesight!
Kym
And youre not a Roman
Re: Radius top superstrat
Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 9:10 am
by demonx
scripsit wrote:What's with the numbering system?
It goes 15, 16, 19, 21 at two fret intervals.
Kym
See, funny you mention that, as on this guitar, they are correct, yet later on I used the same lettering to do this board for my Redwood acoustic build, but somehow one of the digits got erased: ghost in the machine (which stupid me didn't realize until after I'd finished the inlay and stepped back to pat myself on the back.
So I fixed the G-code so to include the digit again and ran another board:
Again, the machine had skipped that digit! It left the space for it, but it's just not there! I checked the CAD. It was there. I checked the CAM. It was there. Ghost in the machine. So I added it in afterwards.
Same guitar as above but with the strings hiding the detail:
