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Aristides makes great guitars, and indeed their construction is somewhat of a trade secret. They have a formula, and they prefer it stays theirs. We can theorize though, and think of some ways to make a guitar without the use of wood. For example my guess is that they are using a carbon fiber shell...

Interesting testbed! I do not mind short lengths of fretwire if it is not too expensive Pipe clamps are really helpful! A big piece of plywood and some wedges can be used as well, but I definitely like my pipe clamps (I also make furniture, so I sometimes have glue-ups of longer panels). +1 on the f...

Pretty wild!

Same, learned a lot here, indeed also remember it to be more lively, but that is how these things go. It's a cyclic thing, I think. I dabble in electronics, and when I started building effects pedals and modular synthesizer modules, it was a pretty small community, which quickly grew very large, fro...

Ouchie, are you going to remove a piece of fretboard, glue in a new piece and then redo the fret slots? Or just fill the erroneous slots with veneer?

WOW, that is a schematic! :) thanks for sharing. Might be a fun project to try a power stage like that with some really old (50's vintage) speakers I still have. In a dovetailed speaker enclosure Built this a while ago: 20231004_170749.jpg Padouk and basswood, no name speaker, and a class d amp at t...

Keen on seeing the schematic for your amp, surprised that the EF80 only has 2.5W max plate dissipation, they are bigger than the smaller double triodes, and ECC82/12AU7 even has a higher max plate dissipation.

What did you use for the output transformer?

The ABM ones are 50 euros each or so, and the head unit is sold separately, so that is quite expensive. Also, in my mind at least, it is more expensive than necessary. I always try to assess whether the price, whether high or low, makes sense. In the production volumes and quality ABM does, I see a ...

Fretboard prepared, sidedots fitted, headstock routed (will need to do some repairs because of a few blown out corners, The bigger follower bit I have is not as sharp anymore, will need to give that a go on the diamond plates. Glued on the fretboard on the neck, and started neck shaping, a very enjo...

That looks great! Traditional looking yet with a few interesting features, like the sideport, the bigger binding, the headstock, really nice.
Beautiful top also.

It's important to note that this is poplar ply, because that is easy to cut on the diode laser, and that is a pretty weak material. So a cylindrical pin for alignment is fine, a wedging in a conical pin, not so much. As mentioned, masking tape on the jig, masking tape on the fingerboard, bit of supe...

As mentioned above, no longer fitted the locating pins to rest the fingerboard against when sawing, I simply attached it using the painters tape and superglue trick, and that worked well.

Me too! I did some rough contouring of the headstock and rear of the neck, and it is uncannily light, so I am interested to see how it holds up. The fingerboard is, even after radiusing still pretty thick, so that'll help in stiffness. Oh, and I went for fretlines from a styrene sheet, felt that the...

Sawn fretslots, front and sidedots drilled. Made a "mistake" for the sidedots, it is going to be a fretless, so thought about shifting the sidedots to on the fretposition, rather than in the middle. They are aligned with the front dots now, and the fretlines will be deeper so they are visi...

I had ordered the wood from Maderas Barber in Spain, came very well packed. The fingerboards were right off the bandsaw however, and one of them is pretty warped so that is a bit of a bummer. The Engelmann Spruce top was also not sanded, but I think out of the thicknesser, pretty rough. I assumed th...

That GITEC resource is wild! Lots of info there. Prof.dr.Zollner was awarded the Helmholz medal, apparently: https://elektro-informationstechnik.oth-regensburg.de/news/detailansicht/professor-manfred-zollner-erhaelt-preis-fuer-sein-lebenswerk Link to the forum did not work for me, but this one does:...

Made another one for the medium scale (32"-ish) fretless I have started to build. Scale length 810mm Screenshot 2024-03-13 144409.jpg PDF attached. Fretting jig baseplate 810mm copy.zip Note that if you want to cut this on a simple laser cutter, you'll need a Y-axis extension. Length of the par...

Cut the baseplate with locating holes to cut the fret slots. 20240312_205204.jpg 20240312_205346.jpg Accuracy is pretty good, the saw guide bridge with magnets I made for the little travel bass. The wood for the fingerboard will probably delivered somewhere the end of this week. Need to change the m...

Correction, have used the highest 5 out of a labella BassVI set, and as mentioned, string tension was a bit high. Tried regular bass tuning with a set of Pyramid strings for mini bass (23"), but that doesn't work, very floppy, as expected, and the E-string kept going flat. Can't imagine this wo...

Headstock veneer Trussrod and carbon rods Thought about having them fan out, but they'd be right where the neck attachment screws would, caught that one in time few.
It helps to make a drawing of everything....