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2009-10-19
The rear gets some Ed the head lookalike:
Template to get the outlines (Homemaid.....) Some clouds..... More defined face......
2009-08-06
Well I'd better leave it at this..... Ok as base for the bats I think.
2009-08-03
Bluer clouds....
2009-07-29
Masked Moon.... Airbrushed............ Clearcoated.........
Airbrushed the clouds and moon..... och clearcoated...
2009-07-28
I also built a smaller cajon to test size/materials/sound.
Started with the motif on the roman - Outline of the moon glow-in-the-dark.
2009-07-09
Testing the layouten of the "bat", (the observant observer can see its not "Batman" but an enlargement of one of the neck inlays.
Testing the batmotif.....
2009-06-22
Onwards.....
Filling in small dents and clearcoating with laquer for woodflooring.... (waterbased).
(The last picture shows the rubber feet)
2009-06-21
Continueing the cajon...
Drilling, glueing, plugging and planeing with the trying plane (this is also an auctionbargain ~7$)
A distance to get the correct placement of the board... Found the other cargobelt.... :-/
Handmilling tool bought on an auction for 50$ (cheap then, before the chinese dropped the market)
Milling the edges... (Of course you can use a plane, files or sandpaper.....)
2009-06-20I also built an Cajon, a drumbox you play sitting on.....Drilling, plugging, glueing using clamps bought at an auction for about 20 years ago...(Glueing one thing at a time, about 2 hours of setting time each) Get out of that Houdini.... Drawing where the rackboard goes, checking the looks of the DM5 in place.
2009-05-27
Strapholders were loose....Glueing in roundstaff, cut and drill new holes.2009-05-15
Bought a used guitarneck at Ebay for 9$:-The holes were totally finished so I had to plug and drill new holes.Start..... ..........................................................................................................................................> >.........................................................................................................Finished!
2009-04-12
Airbrushing a Sapmí-flag on a Str*tocaster on a body I built about 25 years ago.Sanding.... (Rented personell, my son.... :-) Painted with basecoat, fill old cavities, (Please bear with me with the non-professional craft on this one. Its made with a drill and chisels.) Drawing the pattern, masking away.... Finished (Lots of pictures inbetween though....)
2008-12-15
Mark with the tuners, punch and drill.....2008-11-06
Addning some drumpads i built too...Plasticcymbals, stands made out of fencepoles bought at a surplusstor (cheap), drums made out of bent planeplywood and last a hi-hat molded in latex on an aluminiumplate.Finishing guitarhead with with nitrocellulose laquer....About 20 layers of laquer and still not finished.2008-10-29
Polished the neck today....Sanded the neck and waxed with my homebrewn beeswax…
(Sorry for the bad quality of the pictures)2008-10-16
Released the trussrod because the pressure because the of the absence of string pressure (If you pull the key towards the trebleside the pressure ”loosens” and basswards the head moves backwards J
