I built the CMS Guitar to celebrate the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the CERN LHC collider. This blog documents the construction of the guitar and my musical projects featuring this instrument.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Time to get busy
I'm moving on to cutting some of the real wood. Here's the channel I routed for one of the long inlay lines in the ebony fretboard.
I had to fight with the Stewmac Dremel routing attachment to keep it from moving my router bit around, which was causing the channel to be a little wider than planned. In fact in one place I managed to route two channels side-by-side, which is really bad but I will have to cover it up somehow - either add a short parallel inlay line or just fill it with black epoxy. Will see.
This time I took pieces of veneer spanning the whole length of the inlay channel:
Here's the first line after cutting off the excess and rough-sanding it down a little. Looks like I have a few gaps that I'll need to fill, should have used more epoxy it seems. But first I'll do the rest of the design.
Labels:
fingerboard,
inlay
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