Chubbuck Guitars / Kevin Chubbuck, making & repairing guitars in an old building just north of Boston, Massachusetts.
Chubbuck neck build :: fingerboard glue-up
I use a single-action truss rod on my acoustics and push relief into the neck when I glue up the fingerboards. This way I'm able to extend the range from relief to straight to back bow upon tightening the rod. I also use hot hide glue for this glue-up.
Rogue 005 in the front, Kalliope 001 in the background (clamped).
Peghead glue up :: rear laminates.
Kalliope 001 and Rogue 005 necks are almost ready to carve. Next up will be shaping the pegheads and gluing the fingerboards.
Neck prep :: using a drum sander to thickness pegheads.
Here I'm thicknessing the rear of the headstocks for Rogue 005 and Kalliope 001 before I laminate them. When I worked at Santa Cruz, they had a shop-made drum sander that works awesome for quickly thicknessing pegheads. I have always thought that I was going to have to build something similar for myself but have gotten around this task by using a Wagner Safe-T-Planer in my drill press. This time around I decided to see if I could use my new-ish drum sander. I was extremely pleased to find that the in-feed roller on the drum sander is easily removable. Much better results with this method in less time, but super dusty. I used a fan to attempt to direct some of the dust into the hood but I'll need to rig up something better next time.
Note: the Safe-T-Planer method works fairly well, but it requires more time to clean up the transition from head to neck.
Chubbuck acoustics :: Rogue & Kalliope mock up.
The first Chubbuck guitar builds in the new shop are getting ever closer (finally!). The necks for Rogue 005 (left) and Kalliope 001 (right) need their rear head laminates and fingerboards glued up before being ready to carve. So far I'm really happy with the new Kalliope design. I tried to borrow the lines of the Rogue and scale them up to a larger body.
Fingerboard binding :: Chubbuck Kalliope & Rogue acoustics.
The fingerboards for Kalliope 001 and Rogue 005 are bound and need to be cleaned up. Both necks are very close to being glued up and ready to carve.
