Show Countdown Update #8

I prepared 40 white super bright light emitting diodes that will be used in the show guitars.

It took about 3 hours to make all of these. Trim, trim, trim, splice, splice, bend, twist, twist, solder, solder, trim, trim, test, shrink tube, shrink tube, repeat. 80 more to go!

Don adjusting the pup routing template to fit the Bell-a-Blaster for Brett's hardware.

Here are the the routed JazzBlasters for the show.

Don completing the routes for the Bell-a-Blaster.

We will be painting very soon. Monday, hopefully.

Countdown post #7...

Don spent most of his time sanding and polishing last week while I was out. The new batch of guitars look like glass! Shown here are four JazzBlasters and two SST's.

Now they feel and look like guitars instead of just parts. Don began shaping the neck joins and routing for the pickups last night. The new neck join is VERY comfy and looks fluid, too (I'll photograph this for you on Saturday and include it in the next blog). I sanded the remaining guitar bodies that don't have necks yet. Although I spent 3 hours sanding, I probably only got about half the work done. We go through tons of sandpaper. 6 different grits for each guitar, I believe.

A little more work

Here's the 12th fret graphic for Brett's Bell-A-Blaster. We machined the pearl because of the minute details. It's full of epoxy and glue right here.

Now it's had the fret slots widened, the fret wire cut, frets set, glued, trimmed and sanded. Just about to be glued to the neck.

Don sands and shapes a neck for one of the guitars. An SST, I think.

Countdown Update #6...

Some necks are fit to their bodies.

One SST will be the worlds first and last Bell-A-Blaster.

We surfaced about 10 headstocks last night. Next they get ears and then they can mate.

Here are some necks. I filed two fretboard edges last night. Wow. I know. Right?

Last night my wife told my two year old offspring she was cleaning the funk out of his toes.
This morning he asked me if I could "Peas get da fuk out da toes". "Hell yes", I said.

Countdown Update #5...

The Tonar 3D modeling is just about done. Looking damn good.

Here's an SST guitar with the neck fitted. We began shaping the necks for the show guitars yesterday, and will be attaching them to their bodies this coming week. It's all cake after that!

An SST sandwich on JazzBlaster bread.

Latest Tonar Design...

Here's the Tonar with a few adjustments and some fantasy stuff that probably wont make production. It's a direct import from the 3D program Rhino into Illustrator, so the lines of the body are exact, but the neck and pups and stuff are not to scale.

In Law to the Rescue

I'm back in the guitar designing business. My father-in-law had a monitor he was going to trash, so I took it. Design CPU is up and running and I can return to changing the world.

Hopefully I'll be back in the shop by Tuesday or Wednesday.

I'll post some Tonar designs soon.

Thanks, Chico!