Building A Super Cool Mosrite Style Guitar... Body Building
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2017
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This Video is part 2 of our Mosrite style guitar project. We start with a poplar blank, thickness sand to 1.5” and cut the perimeter of the body and the neck pocket.
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Original score: Electric Boogie Dawgs and Lords Of Distortion
Artwork: Paul Shellooe
I'm a cnc guy and proud of it but I totally enjoy watching you do your thing.
Thanks for watching my friend.
I'm a true believer and I love to see people build guitars, no matter how they do it. I love industrial power tools from every era... including CNC.
That neck pocket took way longer to cut out than to shape the whole body.
Why didn’t you route out the other cavities of the guitar at the same time?
Poplar is such an easy wood to machine. Too bad it has such a mundane grain. The grain it does have grows a beard pretty easy too. Hahaha
Thanks for bringing us along on this journey. You’ve resurrected the guitar that was instrumental (you see what I did there?) in getting me to buy my first LP.
The neck pocket is a different template than the pickups they get stacked
I was wondering how you cut the neck pocket so easy now I see there was a guide on the bottom that the template follows.
Thanks Krusty, there is a pin on the table that follows a routing guide in the body template.
love the retro 80s rock tune in the background. white line fever? who's it by? day after day I fall deeper in love with that damned pin router of yours. lol
That is my homeboy Mike Learn's band Lords Of Distortion
Texas Toast Guitars awesome, I’ll check them out
Texas Toast Guitars found their album on bandcamp. Picked it up and love it. The air brush Maestro also bangs out some pretty damned good rock.
That shaper is fukkin baddass. I'm green with envy, and not just cuz your poplar is green.
Oh yeah man it doesn't mess around and that Shelix brings the heat. I saw these in use at the original PRS factory.
Texas Toast Guitars, back when they were still in Annapolis? That shop was about two blocks from where my sound company shop was. Then they moved across the bay, to stevensville. Small world. Keep up the good work. I will refrain from beer shaming you. 😜😜
You know it is a small work hombre, stay cool.
In fastening the template to the body, why not install the screws where the holes will not be seen like under the pickguard and tremolo base. No repairing required where you will never see it.
good idea
Looks great! Do you have issues with wood snipe on the thickness sander? I've considered replacing my planer with a sander for this reason. Also, is poplar more prone to dents/dings? Just wondering if you have to use any type of hardener?
Hi Uglybeat, I will occasionally use my planer but its capacity is only 13". The truth is that the thickness sander is so much more versatile for me that I don't use the planer very often. I just source lumber that is already S3S and dial it in on the sander. Plus that Performax is a monster with 60 grit.
No issues with poplar denting any worse than something like mahogany. I hear basswood is tricky... I don't use it.
Give it a try and see what you think.
Thanks for watching.
How did you traced the body in the wood????
Hi Matt,
how far are you going with the "Mosrite Style" inspirations? Just the look or also trying to fit the sound?
Due i haven't been into Mosrite guitars till your project i did some research and wondered how they managed the real unic twangy sound. Just the PU's?
...and beware of the shaper. This is a real badass tool.
Greets
El
Thanks for watching El, yeah the shaper isn't a tool to be taken lightly... that's for sure. We aren't going to use Mosrite pickups in these, there are a handful of guys still making them though. We will be using our standard "Pure Juice: pick-ups on these. The humbucker body route is the most versatile since everyone makes something that fits in that dimension. I don't think anyone would have a problem voicing pickups to the style they are playing with these guitars.
what style of neck join is that going to be? ok i'm a bit thick when it comes to the building process, it just surprises me every time that such tension requires so little of a joint.
These are going to be the same neck as we use on all our other guitars. there isn't as much glue surface as on the Challenger but it is considerably more than, say, an SG.
That would've taken two hours on an cnc, nice!
HAHAHA I have no idea how long it would have taken on the CNC but I think I got the outline and the neck pocket in about 3 minutes. That shaper is no joke!
Thanks for watching big guy.
where did you get the template for the mosrite ?
guitartemplates.com
I `am a cnc guy and I shit my pants 3 times ,, but I love my cnc
You're still slower than the dudes in China.lmao
They use a table mounted router, It just shows a guy going to town sloting
out the pickup bay. neck pockets. a couple people can probably do a couple hundred bodies a day. Just have one guy..mounted and remount the template. the other
guy route.
HA, you got me there.
Send me a link to that video sometime I love factory tours.
it's an old video. They were just making the same guitar with
different paint jobs. Looks like those $50 ebay strat , no brand
or whatever brand
CNC are over killed for certain things.
They're good for crave or arch top guitars. You still need
people there to set in the body blanks and remove them.
it's only cost effective if you're making thousand in a week...
But the dude on the router machine was going gang buster. Lmao
They probably got drill bits for cheap becuase he just shove it
in and went at it.lmao..it's just a stationary drill press..with depth
adjusted already. most likely. He just moves the body around.
The pin router was the go-to tool for pattern making back in the old days. Since I'm such a traditional guy I love it. If one were going to start a factory today the FADOL 5 axis CNC rig would be a great investment. I think you could make less than 52000 guitars a year (or 1000 a week) and still see some utility in modern tooling. Doug Kauer does. I have told Doug I would race his machine too :)