What's on your workbench right now?

[Shadoweclipse13]

Okay, not as good as polarized but not a huge deal. The polarized plug would just insure that the polarity is correct, as the name implies. I’m guessing that it’s a plastic casing?

The sewing machine itself? Yep. Plastic main casing, with a few tiny bits of metal (knobs, etc).

[Scout]

Without getting too deep into electrical theory, you don’t need to ground the metal chassis,which is what happens when you change a two prong plug to a three prong plug. That third wire, ground, does not carry current except under a fault condition. The chance of a component allowing voltage to go to ground is slight on a plastic bodied sewing machine, it’s much higher with an amp and without that grounding wire you could become the path to ground which could be dangerous.

[niksureal]

got the body cut out. not much of an update but a bit closer.


oof looks like the camera was focused on the carpet not the guitar. more updates soon.

[Shadoweclipse13]

Without getting too deep into electrical theory, you don’t need to ground the metal chassis,which is what happens when you change a two prong plug to a three prong plug. That third wire, ground, does not carry current except under a fault condition. The chance of a component allowing voltage to go to ground is slight on a plastic bodied sewing machine, it’s much higher with an amp and without that grounding wire you could become the path to ground which could be dangerous.

I work industrial maintenance, so I'd be ok with the electrical theory. If the outer case had been metal, I would've changed the plug and not even questioned it. I had my doubts that I'd need a grounded plug, but I definitely wanted to make sure. Thanks for the help dude! Guess I'll just put it back together and use it

[Scout]

Without getting too deep into electrical theory, you don’t need to ground the metal chassis,which is what happens when you change a two prong plug to a three prong plug. That third wire, ground, does not carry current except under a fault condition. The chance of a component allowing voltage to go to ground is slight on a plastic bodied sewing machine, it’s much higher with an amp and without that grounding wire you could become the path to ground which could be dangerous.

I work industrial maintenance, so I'd be ok with the electrical theory. If the outer case had been metal, I would've changed the plug and not even questioned it. I had my doubts that I'd need a grounded plug, but I definitely wanted to make sure. Thanks for the help dude! Guess I'll just put it back together and use it

Cool, it’s fine as is, I was just explaining why. Sewing, yet another skill set I leave to others, have fun.

[niksureal]

routing complete. sand/fill/seal and maybe paint tomorrow.

[Rgand]

[Scout]

routing complete. sand/fill/seal and maybe paint tomorrow.

looks great, I do like those pickups.

[Fiddy]

routing complete. sand/fill/seal and maybe paint tomorrow.

Damn, that looks badass. Great job Nik.

[Shadoweclipse13]

I concur! That might be one of, if not the, coolest ones you've ever done. I'm quite excited to hear how those pickups sound.

I was first intrigued by them when I saw the Fender custom shop video where they made a double-neck Jazzmaster for Troy van Leuwen. The 12-string was basically a Telemaster, with a Tele bridge pickup and a 12-string style split coil like that in the neck.

[niksureal]

Thanks everyone!


filler/sealer done. have since sanded. hopefully putting colour on this evening.

[niksureal]

paint done. you can really see how imperfect the cavity routing is. i did it all freehand cause i didnt want to make a template. the gold colour i initially wanted was unavailable so i went with a champagne type of gold. im honestly really into it. way more than i expected.

[Deed_Poll]

Looks fantastic, like Shoreline gold. Great work!

[Scout]

I don't see a need to make a template for a one off set-up, besides that would just slow you up! The color looks good

[Rgand]

Beautiful job. The color is outstanding.