Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by repoman » Tue Aug 23, 2022 4:33 am

Awesome jig!

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Tue Aug 23, 2022 4:44 am

I like it! Will you be using it to radius the bottom of a fretboard, to be able to do a veneer-style neck?
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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by CROSS_guitars » Tue Aug 23, 2022 6:27 am

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I like it! Will you be using it to radius the bottom of a fretboard, to be able to do a veneer-style neck?
Yep, that's the plan!

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Tue Aug 23, 2022 8:33 am

CROSS_guitars wrote:
Tue Aug 23, 2022 6:27 am
Shadoweclipse13 wrote:
Tue Aug 23, 2022 4:44 am
I like it! Will you be using it to radius the bottom of a fretboard, to be able to do a veneer-style neck?
Yep, that's the plan!
Dig it 8) Is there an advantage to the veneer fretboard vs the block-type, or just aesthetics? It DOES look cool, so don't think me judgy, but I've never played one before and just have no idea.
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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by CROSS_guitars » Tue Aug 23, 2022 7:32 pm

Shadoweclipse13 wrote:
Tue Aug 23, 2022 8:33 am
CROSS_guitars wrote:
Tue Aug 23, 2022 6:27 am
Shadoweclipse13 wrote:
Tue Aug 23, 2022 4:44 am
I like it! Will you be using it to radius the bottom of a fretboard, to be able to do a veneer-style neck?
Yep, that's the plan!
Dig it 8) Is there an advantage to the veneer fretboard vs the block-type, or just aesthetics? It DOES look cool, so don't think me judgy, but I've never played one before and just have no idea.
It's just aesthetics, really. I've always liked the look of the veneer fretboard. Not many bedroom builders like myself are making them this way.

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by CROSS_guitars » Sun Sep 04, 2022 5:40 pm

Finally had a couple of nice days of weather so I was able to finish off the headstock on my LEADWOOD.

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Just gotta fix a small wiring issue and it's all done!

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Post by CROSS_guitars » Wed Sep 07, 2022 9:10 pm

With strings!

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by CROSS_guitars » Sun Sep 11, 2022 10:18 pm

Sneak peek of the veneer neck I'm working on.
The hard bit is over. Machined the underside radius of the fretboard to 7.25" and the maple.
I'm still using a modern 2-way truss rod.
The radiuses didn't match up for some reason so I had to do a lot of "hand stuff" to get the rosewood to meet the maple.
I think there needs to be some kind of radius compensation to factor in the sandpaper thickness.
Anyway, this is a huge step for me as I have always wanted to build necks this way.

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Sun Sep 11, 2022 11:02 pm

Beautiful :-*
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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by CROSS_guitars » Mon Sep 12, 2022 6:45 pm

Fully radius'd
I think that's about as thin as I would like to go with it. Vintage neck veneers tend to be much thinner.

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by CROSS_guitars » Mon Sep 12, 2022 7:48 pm

Head shot.

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Might mod the headstock shape. Not sure yet.

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Mon Sep 12, 2022 8:49 pm

That's a great shape! I wouldn't ask you to change it, if that was the guitar that I was buying from you!! ;)
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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by CROSS_guitars » Mon Sep 12, 2022 11:11 pm

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That's a great shape! I wouldn't ask you to change it, if that was the guitar that I was buying from you!! ;)
Thanks heaps! It's so hard to come up with headstock designs that look good.

This is a 24" scale neck and BIG headstocks usually look cool on short scales.

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by efiug » Mon Sep 12, 2022 11:58 pm

always felt like those thinner veneers looked cheap, yours there looks like the perfect cross between veneer and slab. absolutely beautiful work.

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Tue Sep 13, 2022 12:38 am

CROSS_guitars wrote:
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...It's so hard to come up with headstock designs that look good.
That's pretty good though. I guess it's a marriage of the CBS Strat, Coronado and G & L design.

It really does go to show how distinct & influential the classic Fender headstock has become. Generally anything that veers too far away from it looks weird, with a few exceptions. Vox did pretty well with their minimal, rounded triangle & I like the Teisco headstock on the TB64. Nothing else really springs to mind.

What makes it work for me is having the rounded end quite large. It's the swoosh next to it (or whatever else you can come up with) that seems to be by far the hardest part!

I had a go myself many moons ago, ending up with something quite geometric that looked OK. I'll try'n dig it out if you like.
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