Finished!!!

Well there have been lots of fuckups, learning curves and work arounds.  It's taken nearly a year but I stuck to it and didn't resort to any power tools and at long last it is completely finished!



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Back



Taken for a trip across country to meet its older brother who resides with my older brother.



And a gratuitous shot of me too...



This was recorded through my Marshall 100W valve amp set on a very weedy measly 1 and it still sings clearly with a bright jangly sound.  It is very under powered without the pre-amp so I may well rewire to be on permanently when the plugged in.

I have done a band rehearsal with the guitar and it performed really well.  It doesn't really have the low end balls that I need for the sound of this band so it's unlikely to get used live.

The pickups really need to be wax potted too as they are incredibly microphonic.  If you talk in to them your voice come out through the amp...

I might even make some more p'ups, humbuckers this time as I have plenty of the matching wood left!

Thanks for reading :-)

Finishing touches

Well, it's pretty much all done, just the last little finishing off job



Got the frets leveled, dressed and polished



The bone nut cut and shaped.



Bit of disaster and I might have cried a little bit!  As I was about to fit the neck p'up I dropped it and the surround shattered.



Thankfully all the breaks were clean so it glued up nice and cleanly.  I really didn't need this heart attack this close to the end of build!!!



The strings fitted with the bridge propped up on some walnut off cut sat on some cloth so it can be easily slid around and positioned for the best intonation and then the post holes drilled.



Making the headstock decal.  I used water slip paper.  The decal was printed off in a hollow block font in reverse and then filled in liquid gold leaf paint.

Decal in place...

...after the I covered it over with oil to hide the decal lines.  

It can still be seen if you catch the light right but otherwise it looks mostly seamless so I'm happy.