Selecting wood for the body. The wood is a nice old piece of alder
Yes, perfect pieces.
Project Ares SC Custom, Niclas Lindh
Here is some pictures from the making of an Ares SC Custom. This guitar will be made with a
quilted maple top. More pictures will come during the project. The project started at 16 september
2010
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Selecting wood for the body. The wood is a nice old piece of alder |
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Yes, perfect pieces. |
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Planning |
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Gluing |
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Selecting a bookmatched quilted maple top |
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Gluing .... |
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... under pressure |
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In the bandsaw |
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Sanding edges |
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OK, so far so good. |
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Routing |
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Frontside |
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Backside |
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Drilling channels |
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The neck in a prefinished stadium |
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Fretting |
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Side dots |
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Shaping the back of the neck |
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Put together for test |
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Customer tests the guitar before laquer. |
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Stained by hand |
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This will be nice |
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In the spraybooth, backside. |
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Frontside |
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Spraying the neck |
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Polishing by hand |
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Tuners in place |
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The neck is mounted |
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A hole must be drilled for the split switch |
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Coverplate |
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Jackplate |
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Finally ready. Time to call the customer.... |
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...to show up and test the guitar |
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Guitar nr 276, an Ares SC Custom, is ready to go. |
