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I finished my guitar and did the intonation and put on the nobs for the volume and tone. The thing that i didnt do was put the coverplate on because my guitar is having an issue when i plug it into the amp, so ill have to maybe look at that and figure it out,Continue reading “Final Blog”

This week i put the strings on my guitar and put the string trees on. I thought putting the strings on would be harder than it actually was. I like that i have an actual like guitar now and not just the parts.

This week i installed the pickups and soldered all the wiring. I also put the tuning machines on as well. I learned that doing pre intonation made it easier when we do the intonation because then we wont have to make major adjustments. I ran into a couple of difficulties, like for the neck pickup,Continue reading “week #19”

This week i started building my guitar. I sanded the guitar body and neck with 600, 1000, 2000, and 3000 grit sandpaper along with polishing the guitar. I then hammered the string ferrules in on the back. Next i put on my strap buttons and then i put on the bridge and ground. Next iContinue reading “Week #18”

This week we watched a few videos and one of them was sanding the clear coat down on our whole guitar, neck and all. We have to use a sanding block when we do it and it takes a lot of sanding. Another video we watched was how to put the output jack in andContinue reading “Week #17”

This week( technically 2 weeks ago i believe) we watched a bunch of videos on the assembly of the guitar. One of the videos was teaching us how to put the bridge on and ground the wire that goes under the bridge. For that you’re supposed to have a long wire and strip one sideContinue reading “Week #16”

This week we watched a cool video of a tour of the PRS guitar factory. I liked being able to see all the intricate hard work that they put into each guitar. One thing that was really cool was the robot arm spraying on the finish so that it would be put on in oneContinue reading “Week #15”

This week we learned about solenoids. They were kind of confusing but if I remember correctly a solenoid is a type of electromagnet that is a coil and its purpose is to generate a controlled magnetic field. One thing we did was watch this video of a news guy and a science guy who putContinue reading “Week #14”

This week we learned about Brian May who is the lead guitarist to Queen. I learned that he made a guitar when he was younger just out of some rough scraps around his house, specifically the neck of the guitar. In one of the videos we watched i learned about all the different. Switches onContinue reading “Week #13”

This week we watched videos on how to spray paint a guitar, how to fix the small chips in a guitar, and how to level sand and buff a clear coat finish on a guitar body. What I’ve learned from the three videos is that you can fix any little chip or dink in theContinue reading “Week #12”