cicada

body ice birch with wenge top
neckthrough curly maple with wenge center bridge hannes, tuners schaller pickups kinman, bridge strat, neck big-nine-o, mixed with a bournes blendpot finish tru-oil weight 3 kg

Cicada
Cicada

cicada

the neck has been ajusted and now fits onto the body. all frets on the neck are in place and both pieces are ready to be glued together.

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cicada body

indlays on the wenge top has been routed and are now ready to be glued on to the body.

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cicada indlay

all indlays are being cut out. see video

Cicada

cicada body

the wenge top has been routed down to 5mm thickness and the contur is of the body is ready to be made from the front side.

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cicada body

frontside routed and wenge top has been glued together. next step is to glue
the wenge together to the body.

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cicada body

backside of the cicada body has been routed.

Cicada

cicada body

backside being routed by a ΓΈ10 ballnose.

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cicada inlay

all inlays has been cut and glued onto the fretboard. we have precut all the inlays for the body as well. now it is ready to be cut from the back

cicada fretboard

cicada inlay

the process has begun. we have completed the front of the neck and all small inlays has been routed out. now we are ready to glue all the pices in and begin the routing process from the back of the neck.

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cicada materials

mazurbirch for inlay, wenge top, mop and abalone

cicada

cicada

a render design layout of the cicada guitar is made before we begin. this helps us choose the wood that we should use. we will be using schallers hannes bridge together with schaller mini tuners. bookmatch wenge top with a maple body. the body will be hollow to loosen up the weight of the guitar.

cicada
Cicada guitar