At last, I some progress to report on my first ever guitar build. It has some midly curly koa back and sides a mid-grade engleman (I think) spruce top, rosewood trimmed ebony fingerboard, and a mahogony/rosewood 5-piece neck. It's scratch built, because I want to learn how to build guitars properly, all by myself.
I have been doing lots more reading, jig building, screwing/fixing up, etc. and have finally arrived at the point where I have a neck that fits (at the correct set angle!), the back is on, the fingerboard is on, the frets are fitted, and it's actually starting to look like a guitar!!
All I have to do now is:
a) finish sanding the neck
b) make/fit a heal for the neck (does it really need one do you think?)
c) make a nut
d) make a bridge and saddle
e) do some minor tweaks to the neck angle if needed
f) bind the body of the guitar and do the purfling (paua all the way around the front maybe - is it worth it on a first guitar?)
g) sand/scrape everything again
h) fill pores and apply finish
i) glue bridge on then set up with strings
j) play!
Whoa, there's still a lot of work to do! Back to the workshop.....
Cheers,
Dave F.
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Still, I think it will end up okay - good enough for a first, and I have learned a LOT on this first one!