Chubbuck Guitars / Kevin Chubbuck, making & repairing guitars in an old building just north of Boston, Massachusetts.
2007 Gibson SG TV yellow [6.9 lbs] :: rusty fret setup.
This guitar was not played for a few years so the frets and hardware had tarnished quite a bit. I used steel wool to clean up the frets and metal polish to clean up the bridge and tailpiece. The saddle slots were cleaned out with nut slotting files and the loose output jack tightened. Back in business!
See previous photo here.
Super rusty frets :: TV yellow SG
This 2007 SG has not been played in quite some time and the frets are badly corroded. Let the steel wool fibers fly ...
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.
