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This week I focused more on my neck. The back of the neck still had ridges in it so I decided to sand down it with a 80 grit sandpaper. While I was sanding down the ridges, I noticed that I wanted my headstock to be more round. I decided to hand sand the headstockContinue reading “Fourth and Fifth Week of Build”

This week, I cut out the shape for my headstock, started to sand the back of the guitar neck, sanded the front and back of my guitar body, and drilled my ground wire hole. For cutting my headstock, I used a band saw to achieve the shape I wanted. I used 80 grit sandpaper andContinue reading “Third Week of Build”

After sanding down the body, I decided I wanted to shape the guitar to sit better on my body when it was being played. I used a shaping tool that took off large amount of wood and began shaving down the front and back of my guitar. The area I was shaving down was notContinue reading “Second Week of Build”

This week, I began sanding my guitar body. I used 80 grit sandpaper to smooth the sides of the body to allow the routing bit to not catch. After a few days of sanding with 80, I spent one day sanding the body with 100 grit sandpaper to get rid of some of the largerContinue reading “Start of Build: First Week”

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. —B.B. King Guitars have three main parts: the body, the neck, and the headstock. The body plays a large part in the tonal characteristics of the instrument. It is the largest section of the guitar and includes: the cutaway, theContinue reading “The Beginning”