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This week I stained my guitar using a very pretty colored stain I brought from home. I also put 2 coats of sanding sealer to the neck of my guitar and then I put that same sanding sealer, just without water, on just the face of the headstock of my guitar neck to make itContinue reading “Week #11”

This week I connected the output jack to the rest of the electronics. I soldered the out put jack to ground and to the volume potentiometer. After I was able to test it on the map and it worked. It was cool using a tuning fork to make the pickups work. I learned that theContinue reading “Week #10”

This week we did a lot of stuff that has to do with the electrical parts of the guitar. First we wrote out a diagram to know what connects to what, and then we set them up on a piece of paper to see what it would look like with all the parts. We thenContinue reading “Week #9”

This week I drilled the hole for the output jack using a drill with a forstner bit that was 7/8 of an inch. I also did some experimenting with the potentiometer to investigate the functionality that will be used in our volume and tone controls. I also assembled the pickups which wasn’t that hard; justContinue reading “week #8”

This week I did body contouring. I used the rounding table to round the edges of my guitar to make it more rounded. I also created a forearm rest on my guitar using filer and then sanded it down with an orbital sander. I learned that you have to feed the guitar against the roundingContinue reading “Week #7”

This week I recrowned the frets using a fret recrowning file. After that I got rid of the scratches on the frets using 1000 grit sandpaper and steel wool. I learned how to use a recrowning file and tha there is such thing as filing too much.

This week i put on the side dot inlays and i sanded the back of the neck and the fretboard. I used a hand drill with a 5/64s drill bit and drilled in about an 8th of an inch into the side of the neck. To sand the neck i used 80 grit sandpaper toContinue reading “Week 4”

This week I glued the fret dots in my fretboard and i glued the fretboard to the neck of my guitar. First i drilled the holes in my fretboard using a 1/4 inch Fostner bit and then i used the fret dots and glued them into the holes. For gluing the fretboard to the neck,Continue reading “Week 3”

This week i did a few things. I sanded my fretboard, made indents for where the octave dots are gonna go, and i drilled where the electric holes are supposed to go in my guitar. For sanding the fretboard i had to tape it to a board and then i had to sand the fretboardContinue reading “week 2”