How do I spend my Sundays in Santa Cruz? I just play frisbee! I'm very happy I was welcomed by the group that play Ultimate Frisbee every Sunday in the DeLaVeage Park. This frisbee club is called the Danger Club. Frightning he?! Well, it's not close to frightning, every Sunday turns out to be great! We start around 10:00 am. People show up, start warming up by throwing the disc around a bit. And after a while we start the game. Is a great work out because there's a lot of running involved. So I really had to get used to that in the beginning, not to say the first few times I thought I'd die...

Last week we got a visit from cowboy legend Don Edwards. He was very pleased with the sound of the 1929 OO all mahogany model. He played a song for us. Great voice!

Here's me routing the dove tail slot on a body. This is the job where you get wood chips even under your shirt! You can see the body hanging in what's called the dove tail fixture. This fixture is made by Richard 30 years ago. And they still use it. Together with Richard I made an optimization plan for the whole body-neck fit. Part of this plan is a different way of aligning parts in fixtures and moulds. But for this specific fixture we decided to only modify it and not the replace it. I think it will last at least another 30 years.

Wow, this blog site is turing out to be a major part of my adventures! I'm  really amazed by how many people are reading my blog! It feels great to be able to share my experiences.

Especially the comments are so welcome to read. Thanks a million to everybody!

Markjan

Here's some pictures of Stephen doing a hand carved neck. It takes a lot of skills to do this so, it was very exciting to watch the complete process.

In SCGC necks are devided
in 3 categories:
   1. Standard
   2. Hand carved
   3. Hybrid

The standard neck is made fully on the CNC. The hand carved neck is made by hand and mostly that's because of custom specifications. And there is a hybrid, partly made on CNC but with some custom specification done by hand. The hand carved is the most fun, because it makes you feel like a real luther!  ;-)