My first guitar (kit) Day 4
- July 27th, 2009
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Almost done!
Today we scraped the @#&$ out of our binding! I did a pretty decent job of keeping glue off the wood part of the guitar, so I didn’t have a ton of work to do. We scraped and scraped, and when we were sick of scraping, we scraped some more. We drilled pilot holes for our tuners machines. After scraping, we sanded down the glue and gunk on the soundboard. Somewhere in there we put the side markers in the pre-drilled holes. We sanded and fitted our bridge and saddle. After that we used the supplied jig to set the location of the bridge. Next, we drilled holes for the bridge clamp and glued the bridge on.
That was pretty much it! Now for pics.
- Blurry image of the binding during scraping
- more scraping of the binding
- are we having fun yet?
- it’s actually starting to look like a real guitar!
- CA + plastic = easy
Next week is the last week. We’ll fret the fingerboard, install the tuning machines and string it up!