Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Neck shaping and fretboard

The kit I got came with a rough shaped neck, and I needed to do quite a bit of carving to get the final shape I wanted, although it's still not 100% perfect where I want it, you can get the idea from the picture.

I didn't get multiple pictures of this so you can see the fretboard has been glued on also, and it's fretted up until the 12th fret so that fitting the neck will be a little easier, I'll go back and fret the rest of them later.

I don't have the tuners installed in the picture, but I've also drilled the holes for my gold Gotoh tuners that is a really nice touch to the guitar.




Bindings

I haven't updated this in a while, but that doesn't mean I haven't made ANY progress. I'm not going to lie though, the bindings of the guitar intimidated me and I was a little afraid to get on it, and that's why it'd been so long since I've updated. I'm lacking quite a bit of tools and had to improvise as much as possible as far as guides go, but they turned out ok.