Wood SX Hero mod+stabilized wood=Fabulous

[dliverance]

Hi everyone. My name is Trey and I'm a cheap ........ I recently picked up a zero sx clone and I love it. In fact, I love it so much that I decided to buy another one. The second one is a wood hero sx. I'm sure some of you are familiar.

I am a huge fan of the zero sx and I'm also a fan of high figure wood I.e. flame maple, curly maple, spalted maple, quilted maple, birch, and other quality/exotic woods. I'm not a huge fan of paying over a grand for a mod. I am an electrician by trade and I have access to a complete machine shop.

After ordering the mod I ordered a nice cut of wood. Stabilized spalted maple. The plan is to machine the maple to replace the crappy wood that the mod came with. I'm currently waiting for the mod and wood to arrive here in Alaska (another week) but I will continue to update this thread as often as possible. I have also been speaking with a nice gentleman about having some custom wood work done. I'm leaving the deposit on that today sometime. If all goes well with the second piece of wood, I should have it in two weeks time.




Thanks for looking

 

[icebat]

Subscribed. Can't wait to see your progress Trey!

 

[dliverance]

Still waiting for the goods to arrive but I do have one update. This project will be an ongoing project and as long as I have a job I will try to build a sleeve every two weeks. I have two other blanks on the way for the next projects. One santopol hybrid (maple/acrylic) and a gnarly piece I picked up on a Facebook auction. I can't wait to get started on these things already.

 

[asdaq]

That green stock looks great, the red one looks harder to pull off aesthetically, perhaps using the least amount of red. I'd happily take cutoffs of your cutoffs on the green one.

 

[dliverance]

Lol if you pay half of what I paid for it, you can have it. As of right now, my idea of making multiples is not going to happen. When I finish this one, it's going to ice bat and the green one will be my own personal mod.

The first blank and mod arrived today. I'm about 2 hours into the process but here's where I'm stopping tonight.

 

[dliverance]

 

[icebat]

Loving these progress pictures! Really nice work Trey.

 

[dliverance]

I got about 2.5 hours into it today. The last thing I did was coat it with epoxy to fill a small knot hole. Tomorrow I have to sand all of the epoxy down and then all that's left is routing it out for the electronics. Today our machinist was using the mill so that was out of the question.

 

[dliverance]

Spent some time on the mill today. My backs starting to hurt a bit but I made it this far.

 

[icebat]

Spent some time on the mill today. My backs starting to hurt a bit but I made it this far.
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee124/Dliverance320/20150314_021530_zpsbyyvs8hb.jpg

Looking good

 

[dliverance]

99% complete. Just need to find new hardware.

 

[keepsmiling]

Kewl stuff

 

[dliverance]

Thank you.

Here it is. No top screw installed to compress the frame and align it but you get the idea

 

[icebat]

Thank you.

Here it is. No top screw installed to compress the frame and align it but you get the idea

Great work Trey! Looks really good

 

[asdaq]

That came out real nice, that mod is much improved. Now get cracking on that green one!

 

[keepsmiling]

It looks great!

 

[LKILO]

Real Nice! Wish I had more tools. I'm using a router, and building jigs and sleds. I did pick up some spalted Tamerind and a nice piece of walnut. Built several out of oak for practice. Did u mill the aluminum as well?
Did u mill the 510?

 

[dliverance]

Thanks guys. I didn't do any work on the stainless. This was originally a hero sx mod. I just added to it.

 

[dliverance]

Unfortunately the screw holes are stripped in the first piece and there's not much I can do about it while I'm here in Alaska but I did get the green wood in tonight. After working the first one the second one came together pretty quickly. Not much left to do now and no stripped screw holes.

 

[MCCOY300]

That is gorgeous. Nice work