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While I have time over the next fortnight to work on it, as my workshop is a mile from home I'm not sure if this contravene's the lockdown if I go to work on it for a few hours (in isolation)? Any views welcome on that, I'm totally on the fence but veering on the side that it's wrong.
Looking forward to seeing the end result.
And of course we can sit and play guitar for hours on end too without getting bored...
Take care and stay well.
One thing I didn't do was drill a hole between the neck and bridge pickup cavities, but as the pickguard will eventually cover the gap between them I'm planning on routing a stepped channel and gluing in a fillet. I have a "tonk strip" cutter that'll make this easy. I'm quite pleased with the neck tenon fit, seems it was snug now I've routed most of it away haha!!
I've been considering colours for a little while and my thoughts are to go dark dark brown (a bit like the Grace Potter V), olive drab, or maybe change the pickup covers and do a '54 goldtop / V mashup. I think the latter would look cool, but not sure it's actually something I want.
Anyway, onwards and upwards (slowly)!
lovely job !
I might attempt to get the bridge fitted tomorrow and the small other routing bits done today.... maybe start spraying before end of next week if the finishes arrive in time!
I don't think I like the Faber machine heads, they seem to have a lot of slack in them and I also made a total schoolboy error by snapping a f'kin screw for the machine head because I didn't wax it.
The biggest downside is that I think I rushed the fret cutting as a few seem to be maybe 1mm off, so if I'm to do another guitar I will definitely make a jig and spend more time marking out.
I'm most definitely going to slim the neck down, it's way too chunk higher up the dusty end - this was identified earlier in the build but I sat on it until now.
Hopefully with enough fuzz and volume you won't hear any intonation issues!
Pics:
Das Jig:
Crap tuner:
Boshed it in:
Those tuners though - I have one too for my acoustic - heap of crap. can't beat a nice plugged in hardware tuner, TC Polytune or the Peterson stuff. Where did you get that compensated Tailpiece btw ?
The bridge is the Faber compensated bridge, I bought it from GlueToMusic.
Fretting about the fretwork (bad pun) has made me ponder doing a second build but spending much more time on jigs as you did. I get a bit gung-ho and impatient!