My first mold

[hummingbird]

Im posting some pics of my mold in the making. This may or may not be of interest to you but Im putting it out there anyway. Its based on a plan that I found on the internet.
Please excuse the bad quality pics from my iphone.

[deadedith]

Hey, we ALWAYS like pix!!
I'll follow this with interest - having not yet built a mold myself.
Thanks for posting.

[hummingbird]

Wait wait there's more

[hummingbird]

I dont know what happened but the pics ended up in the wrong sequence. Sorry about that. Just read my posts from the bottom up.

[johnnparchem]

Wow, nice work. I look forward to watching you build a guitar. You’re showing a lot of craftsmanship in your work. Now I am embarrassed by my molds with bondo on the inside as one of my pieces was thin from when a bearing came loose on the router bits.

[David L]

Pictures must be posted in the opposite order that the poster wants them to appear, takes a little getting used to.

David L

[Ken Hundley]

Can you show where you found the plans? Would that be against forum rules? I am interested in rebuilding all of my molds and bending forms.....I did a crap job on them the first time around, not really thinking I was giong to build LOTS. I need to improve my tooling, my machining technique, and hence my guitars, and would love to know where you saw that. Looks like a GREAT job on them so far.

[MuddyFox]

What did you use to cut the acrylic?

[hummingbird]

Thanks Ken. I got the plans here

http://www.liutaiomottola.com/Tools/Mold.htm

There's alot of good info on this site.

Here's my finished mold with the spreaders.

[David L]

Call me a skeptic, but I don't believe that's your first mold. Your mold looks better than my guitar!!!

David L