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My first mold
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 11:09 pm
by 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.
Re: My first mold
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 11:14 pm
by deadedith
Hey, we ALWAYS like pix!!
I'll follow this with interest - having not yet built a mold myself.
Thanks for posting.
Re: My first mold
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 11:21 pm
by hummingbird
Wait wait there's more
Re: My first mold
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 11:24 pm
by 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.
Re: My first mold
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 11:51 pm
by 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.
Re: My first mold
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 8:56 am
by 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
Re: My first mold
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 2:25 pm
by 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.
Re: My first mold
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 5:18 pm
by MuddyFox
What did you use to cut the acrylic?
Re: My first mold
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 5:22 pm
by 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.
Re: My first mold
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 5:41 pm
by 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