X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?p=web%2Fgag.com;a=blobdiff_plain;f=music%2Fguitars%2Fbdale-1%2Findex.mdwn;h=f7fe02b984076462e77132d547f6e041e2f9e933;hp=757f6d03363a03e62bb6263ed4bb3b26b3e9e908;hb=7f46b743f4ab4d1479486af38460db263485b770;hpb=d9899f583c7989a7e56e007887500924d69def96 diff --git a/music/guitars/bdale-1/index.mdwn b/music/guitars/bdale-1/index.mdwn index 757f6d0..f7fe02b 100644 --- a/music/guitars/bdale-1/index.mdwn +++ b/music/guitars/bdale-1/index.mdwn @@ -3,13 +3,13 @@ For Christmas 2014, Robert and Elizabeth bought Bdale a beginner's guitar book, and Robert offered to help with a guitar build project based on the success of his Telecaster build. This is the resulting project, Bdale's -first guitar, started in February of 2015! +first guitar, started in February and completed in December of 2015! After a lot of reading and listening, a few core decisions got things rolling: * build a "clone" of a hard-tail Fender Stratocaster (no tremolo) * body and neck to be near-natural wood color with satin finish -* no pickguard (maximum exposed wood grain, rear control cavities +* no pickguard (maximum exposed wood grain, rear control cavities) * pickups and all hardware in black * standard strat-like 3-pickup, 1 volume, 2 tone design with 5-way selector * second tone control with push-pull switch to phase-reverse middle pickup @@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ The rest of the parts were mostly obtained from [Guitar Fetish](http://www.guitarfetish.com/), with the exception of a nicer [hard-tail bridge](http://guitarheads.net/products/bridges/hardtailrear.html) sourced from [GuitarHeads.Net](http://guitarheads.net), and a 22-fret natural -Canadian maple neck purchased from eBay seller "bluelink88". +Canadian maple neck purchased from eBay seller "bluelink88", and black machine +screws in several sizes sourced from Amazon. ## Purchased Items ## @@ -83,7 +84,9 @@ but the STEP import process seemed to lose the ability to keep the various sub-assemblies oriented correctly relative to each other. Since Alibre has been replaced by Geomagic Design, I pulled down a 15-day trial version of that package to one of the Windows machines in the house, and (not -surprisingly)it was able to read the file just fine. +surprisingly) it was able to read the file just fine. I was then able to +export just the body and read that into FreeCAD, which was used for the +remainder of the design work. Another interesting STEP file of the body from a 1962 strat drawn by Marc Erasmus is available on [GrabCAD](https://grabcad.com/library/62-strat-asm)