Friday 22nd February 2008

tuners are put on the RF Slim

the frets marked off, filed and stoned flat and then carefully bprofiled and polished.. small frets give this guitar an extremely low action!

the padouk fingerboard is oiled and buffed up

and the pickups and hardware are installed.. the new, larger, wiring cavities make this much easier!

the compensated ebony nut in it’s component for..

and after fitting.. a long process as the shelf section has to be contoured to fit over the curve of the fingerboard

she is then scalloped, cut an polished..

the strings go on for the first time..

and here is a virgin control cavity

which is shielded carefully

and here she is with all the neccesaries

once everything is in she gets her set up

here we have my first close up sighting a local, slighlty annoying, woodpecker..

the battery compartment is cut out

and the custom output cover cut and shaped out of scratchplate material.. not that I’ve made a scratchplate in a while!!

but it works quite well

as does this.. very unattractive, but worth it in the end.

the truss rod cover is shaped out of ebony

and engraved

and then the nut slots are cut down to give the perfect action.

and her final setup commences.. this takes two or three hours

and she sits on the wall for a while!

on to Archies Chinese Ovation

the new soundholes are cut

and Frieder does an A/B test.. beautiful sounds commenced!

and he fell in love with his new baby..

the first of the new generation RF Slimlines!

’till next week,

Ben

Crimson Custom Guitars