| Bailey Custom Process... How I make Guitars |
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| On this page, I'm going to tell you a little about the way I make aluminum guitars. I won't tell or show you everything, some things are proprietary. I have invented some of my tools for this work and I don't really wish to share these, but I will show some of what goes on. It's not glamorous or whatever. Making these guitars is A LOT of work..... I know, people say that what they do is a lot of work, but this is. I have talked with other aluminum guitar makers and they also say it's a lot of work. I hope to add to this page as I get more pix.... For now.... Here we go! |
| Turning the back of the neck... The profile. I do this early in the process, on my lathe. I have to set it up with an offset and a taper... |
| This is where some of the hard work is..... After the neck is off the lathe, I have to start filing the shapes that I can't get from the lathe. I use a variety of files. I then start sanding, with a sander and by hand. Once it's sanded, I start polishing the neck with high speed buffing wheels. |
| The neck, after buffing. This one still needed some final, fine polishing from this point..... But you get the picture. |
| The sanding is done! Time for buffing! |
| The neck has been filed.... |
| This neck just came off the lathe... Ready for filing... |
| Bending fret wire with a fret wire bender that I made. |
| Using a mill to hollow out a Veleno Tribute body..... More on body work will be coming soon. |