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Two weeks in the shop

28 Apr 2018 - bridge, effects, fretwork, hoxton, mastery, owl, pedals

In which I work on the frets for my prototype offset build, check out the nice Mastery bridge unit, and try coding up some of my own effects with the Hoxton Owl pedal.

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A guitar neck sits on the workbench, with the fretboard covered in masking tape to leave just the ferts showing. Half the frets have black sharpie on them, waiting to be shaped, the rest are shiny where they've been worked on.

A week in the shop

25 Nov 2017 - 3d printing, fretwork, tips and tricks

A week spent working on necks: carving them, etching them, and fixing them when things go wrong! I also spend some time with a new 3D-printer.

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A work in progress guitar neck sits on a cloth covered stool in the workbench. The neck is shaped and has frets in, and the fretboard has a nice spalted wood look, where black marks in the light wood look a little like flames at the bottom of the neck.