Apply paint

Now is the time we start getting stinky. Paint fumes are no joke. Get yourself a good respirator. Your N95 mask is not going to protect you.

First, a preview of the components we're going to use on the body. Everything seems to fit okay.

bart - Tue, 02/07/2023 - 15:38

Power tools and mistakes

So begins the hard lessons.

I used a template for routing out the body of the guitar. I haven't used a router often and it has been quite a while since that time I fired it up.

Here you'll see the wavy lines caused from not properly adjusting the height of the bit and cutting into the template. This dry fitting wasn't too bad, but not great. Next step is to ask my brother to cut out the body with his ban saw.

bart - Sat, 01/14/2023 - 15:11