Progress Pictures of the Shamray Guitar Body
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Shamray Guitars was kind enough to share progress pictures of the Ovation Breadwinner style 12 string guitar we looked at in Shamray Guitars Reinterprets the Ovation Breadwinner. Let’s take a look at some of the steps in the building of the guitar body…
The initial mockup:
The sapele body blank:
The plan drawing on the body blank:
The flush trimmed two-piece body before contouring:
The neck pocket route:
The guitar body gains its contours:
The pickup routing:
A front view of the guitar body:
A rear view of the guitar body:
In the next installment, we’ll look at the laminate set neck build and its mating to the guitar body.
Rob,
Pass on a big “Thanks” for me.
Ray
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Robert Irizarry replied on Sep 26th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Will do, Ray. More to come in the next installment. Look out for it next week.
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Man, this is one of the coolest guitar blogs I’ve seen.
When I saw the name Ergonomic I had to check it out.
That’s one of the neatest guitars I’ve ever seen. Probably plays like a gem with those humbuckers too…
~Jason
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Robert Irizarry replied on Sep 26th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Thanks for saying so Jason and welcome to the blog!
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Greetings, I think that the headstock design works well with the body. A vast improvement over the Breadwinner IMO. Did you consider book matching the wood used on the body ?
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michael walker replied on Nov 30th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
As much as I would have loved too, I actually could not bookmatch the body, as the only available board of that AAAAA pomelle Sapele was too narrow.
have a look at the “Pattern On Body Blank” pic above… you can see that we could only “flitch-match” the body, and just barely squeezed it in to the board with a couple of millimeters to spare!
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Oct 4th, 2007 at 9:07 am
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