routing ...

[GPW]

  Don't know if it's Kosher to post this , but it's good info and some pictures too... http://www.stewmac.com/tradesecrets/ts0128_routing.hzml?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ts0128

[KhoChi son of BakTarg]

Good info! Thanks for posting this!

I'm getting a Dremel for Xmas, so I'll soon be happily cutting and routing stuff. 

[Chris]

A Dremel is very useful, BUT doesnt make a great router.

[Baz]

could you use a dremel to make visual effects in teh wood, such as the ripple (or crocodile skin) effect on an Ibanez ART300?

[GPW]

 ... or scallop fretboards 

[KhoChi son of BakTarg]

... or scallop fretboards 

Yeah. 

[FC]

could you use a dremel to make visual effects in teh wood, such as the ripple (or crocodile skin) effect on an Ibanez ART300?

Sand blasting can do that, and you got plenty of that in AU.

[Baz]

lol, i would have thought sand blasting would more or less turn it all into saw dust... there has to be a different way, cause sand blasting would cause a different pattern each time, but every ART 300 has the same patter, the only difference is where any given part of the pattern lays on the finished product, like, on one it could be just below the bridge, but on the other it'll be near the neck pickup... i dunno... just trying to work out how it's been scalloped because i reckon it looks, and feels, fantastic and wouldn't mind doing it myself... lol

[Chris]

lol, i would have thought sand blasting would more or less turn it all into saw dust... there has to be a different way, cause sand blasting would cause a different pattern each time, but every ART 300 has the same patter, the only difference is where any given part of the pattern lays on the finished product, like, on one it could be just below the bridge, but on the other it'll be near the neck pickup... i dunno... just trying to work out how it's been scalloped because i reckon it looks, and feels, fantastic and wouldn't mind doing it myself... lol

Im pretty sure its all in the paint. They probably use a super thick poly, and dry it in a mold.

Just a guess however.

[breakfastime]

lol, i would have thought sand blasting would more or less turn it all into saw dust... there has to be a different way, cause sand blasting would cause a different pattern each time, but every ART 300 has the same patter, the only difference is where any given part of the pattern lays on the finished product, like, on one it could be just below the bridge, but on the other it'll be near the neck pickup... i dunno... just trying to work out how it's been scalloped because i reckon it looks, and feels, fantastic and wouldn't mind doing it myself... lol

It looks a lot like the top on the Gibson BFG model Les Paul.  I think this is from the machine that carves the top, but instead of final sanding the top smooth, they leave it raw like that and then do the finish.

[KhoChi son of BakTarg]

could you use a dremel to make visual effects in teh wood, such as the ripple (or crocodile skin) effect on an Ibanez ART300?

I could do that! Just send the guitar to me, and I'll ship it back when I'm done...eventually...