You might consider reaching out to Developing Nations guitars about the richlite/aluminum neck and fretboard combo. They had some issues with richlite causing issues with neck warp that don't occur when using aluminum for both the neck and fretboard.
I love how you show the method to your design process. I have been having an idea floating around in my head for a while now, but I don't know how practical it would be. A neck through carved top and back semi-hollow guitar with dual splitable humbuckers and both a piezo bridge and piezo transducers inside the body. Four dual stacked pots for volume/tone of each pickup and a dual stacked pot to blend them together.
always loved your work tim sway!! one day i dream of owning an aluminium guitar in like a telecaster or jaguar design, dying for that dream to come true...
Never underestimate the potential for complete disaster. Handy how test runs can still be useful. Looling forward to the final result for this one. Thanks for sharing!
My life was music and steel fabrication. I had my own ideas about materials for guitars. I helped a guy build a stainless steel hollow body dobro and wanted a titanium body/carbon fiber neck. Titanium is expensive and machining is a real challenge. The problem with an aluminum neck will be thermal rates of expansion
Looks good. As far as dust collection for non wood, for less than $100 you can build a small portable one to use for stuff like that. I did one to make my lathe portable, cause it keeps getting shop really dirty when turning bowls. Looking forward to this build. I made one for a customer out of legos. That was fun getting to do something out of my element.
Clever thing I stole from a different TH-camr was using the cyclone from a trash picked bagless (Dyson style) vacuum cleaner. With a shop vac to power it, it gets the vast majority of the sawdust coming from my saw.
I love this design, it's like if Rickenbacker switched to making ultra modern guitars but kept the aesthetic of the 600 series. As always I love the videos. Keep on doing the good work.
If this client keeps requesting smaller guitars, you'll have to settle for an even shorter scale and a higher tuning, like the Lapstick, which is tuned as if you had a capo on the 5th fret.
Dude you are one helluva luthier.. love your videos.. was recommended from Scar my guitar a long time ago. Just curious how much something like this costs? I can only imagine.. nice work as always 🤘
a smaller stepover for the finishing pass would lead to a lot less finish sanding required and i think with some people preferring a satin finish over a gloss finish on wood necks, you might be able to get a usable matte surface right off the router [or with barely any sanding] with a finish pass going along the neck with a small stepover
I love the creativity - the major companies just crank out the same old designs, with minor changes. What's sad is that everyone is crazy about the newest "update"
Beautiful work, slightly worried about the strength of the tenon for the wood neck with that pickup recess. Does it flex much right now? Had an Ibanez Rickenbacker copy that had a neck through tenon with a huge route for the neck pickup which was a mudbucker design. Over the years the joint failed and the neck lifted. Ended up plugging the route and rewiring as a 4000 style bass.
Richlight? Any particular grade of aluminium. I remember aluminium necks of guitars from the 70’s being notorious for going out of tune in extremes of weather. I.e. band turning up to a gig in winter and going on a hot stage.
Throwing the noodle on the wall seeing if it would stick... Have you thought of Corian? I'm not saying it's good or anything, but my dad has a router table made out of a kitchen sink cutaway of a kitchen project he did. It's a nice slick hard surface and I wonder how it would behave as a fretboard!!
Even in the digital age, it's good to see that people are still using Cardboard Aided Design.
well, digitally cut cardboard :)
You might consider reaching out to Developing Nations guitars about the richlite/aluminum neck and fretboard combo. They had some issues with richlite causing issues with neck warp that don't occur when using aluminum for both the neck and fretboard.
I love it Tim! This is a great look into your prototyping and first article process. I can't wait to see how the guitar comes out.
I love how you show the method to your design process. I have been having an idea floating around in my head for a while now, but I don't know how practical it would be.
A neck through carved top and back semi-hollow guitar with dual splitable humbuckers and both a piezo bridge and piezo transducers inside the body. Four dual stacked pots for volume/tone of each pickup and a dual stacked pot to blend them together.
none of that sounds impractical to me!
Nice work Tim! Looking forward to seeing the actual build. 👍👍🎸🎸
classic Tim Sway signoff! 🎸
My Steinberger headless bass has been around the world a few times since '93, fit's great in the overhead bin of the airplane
Great work! Love the new, “old” logo too!
always loved your work tim sway!! one day i dream of owning an aluminium guitar in like a telecaster or jaguar design, dying for that dream to come true...
Never underestimate the potential for complete disaster. Handy how test runs can still be useful. Looling forward to the final result for this one. Thanks for sharing!
oh yea, if there's a path to disaster I can find it!
My life was music and steel fabrication. I had my own ideas about materials for guitars. I helped a guy build a stainless steel hollow body dobro and wanted a titanium body/carbon fiber neck. Titanium is expensive and machining is a real challenge. The problem with an aluminum neck will be thermal rates of expansion
Looks good. As far as dust collection for non wood, for less than $100 you can build a small portable one to use for stuff like that. I did one to make my lathe portable, cause it keeps getting shop really dirty when turning bowls. Looking forward to this build. I made one for a customer out of legos. That was fun getting to do something out of my element.
I thought about just setting up my shopvac, but I didn't feel like dragging it over ther from where it's buried! lol
Clever thing I stole from a different TH-camr was using the cyclone from a trash picked bagless (Dyson style) vacuum cleaner. With a shop vac to power it, it gets the vast majority of the sawdust coming from my saw.
I love this design, it's like if Rickenbacker switched to making ultra modern guitars but kept the aesthetic of the 600 series. As always I love the videos. Keep on doing the good work.
good eye! I was definitely channeling Rick in the design!
@timsway chef's kiss
Awesome work mate, I do love that neck heal design, gives me ideas for a small body design I'm working on... 😊
If this client keeps requesting smaller guitars, you'll have to settle for an even shorter scale and a higher tuning, like the Lapstick, which is tuned as if you had a capo on the 5th fret.
Nice new project with interesting materials, loving the concept and design process, is it likely to be heavy?
comparatively yes! But since it's so small it shouldn't be overall too heavy to play or anything
Dude you are one helluva luthier.. love your videos.. was recommended from Scar my guitar a long time ago. Just curious how much something like this costs?
I can only imagine.. nice work as always 🤘
I tend to keep my production models well under $2k and custom builds tend to be in the $2kish range, but this one definitely exceeds all that!!
@@timsway yeah I figured so.. that's actually VERY reasonable all around 👍 Thanks for taking the time 🤘
Sounds just right for playing Light-Metal. 209th view gonna have to happen later... nah - why weight?! 6:54 - The polished finish looks cool.
a smaller stepover for the finishing pass would lead to a lot less finish sanding required
and i think with some people preferring a satin finish over a gloss finish on wood necks, you might be able to get a usable matte surface right off the router [or with barely any sanding] with a finish pass going along the neck with a small stepover
I love the creativity - the major companies just crank out the same old designs, with minor changes. What's sad is that everyone is crazy about the newest "update"
That is going to be cool!
isn't richlite technically still a wood byproduct unless the paper is made from something other than wood pulp?
congrats! you're the first to win the pedantic race! lol
Best of luck ✨️.
Like deployed 👍
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Beautiful work, slightly worried about the strength of the tenon for the wood neck with that pickup recess. Does it flex much right now?
Had an Ibanez Rickenbacker copy that had a neck through tenon with a huge route for the neck pickup which was a mudbucker design. Over the years the joint failed and the neck lifted. Ended up plugging the route and rewiring as a 4000 style bass.
me too, for the wood one, but not the aluminum. The design is for aluminum, yknow? I might glue the wood one together to help that out.
@@timsway yeah will be fine with alu, looking forward to seeing it come together.
Richlight? Any particular grade of aluminium. I remember aluminium necks of guitars from the 70’s being notorious for going out of tune in extremes of weather. I.e. band turning up to a gig in winter and going on a hot stage.
that can be a problem with wood, too. Aluminum will certainly have its own issues. everything does. I'm using 6061. Richlite is a paper-based micarta
@@timsway ah, so wood😉😁
Throwing the noodle on the wall seeing if it would stick... Have you thought of Corian? I'm not saying it's good or anything, but my dad has a router table made out of a kitchen sink cutaway of a kitchen project he did. It's a nice slick hard surface and I wonder how it would behave as a fretboard!!
th-cam.com/video/xFCxG7-7BYM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=PwGQ3IErczy47Z16 :)
@@timsway why obviously!!
Running out of pallets and doors?
lol