I put around 6 hours into this fretboard. I decided to go a little off the more common road, boa ughh some Padauk wood, and made my own inlays. I practiced I laying for about 1 hour and 30 minutes. Then I worked on my fret board. I cut each trapezoid out individually, and inlayedContinue reading “The Fretboard”
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Drilling the holes of the guitar
There were 4 different holes drilled. I started with the jack hole. This was made for the hole to plug an amp into. After drilling the jack hole I used the jack hole to run an extra long but through to the next that went from electronics pocket to the pickups pocket.
Headstock and Sanding
The headstock, as I talked about in my guitar anatomy post, is at the tip of the guitar and hold the string trees. It is a crucial part of the guitar. I inlaid a piece of exotic wood into my headstock The sanding of the guitar is the most crucial point of making it lookContinue reading “Headstock and Sanding”
Shaping the body
We started routing our bodies and I used a decent depth round edge router The router has a run collar that rides along the surface of the side to give an even rout.