Author Archives: gryder

I decided to drill the holes in the end. I used a 2mm drill bit (1.5mm seemed too tight) for the holes. Using a screw to mark the holes worked a lot better than a pencil mark. I’m going with … Continue reading →

The test fit of the neck looks “ok”, though when shaping/sanding it seems I have again thinned the neck on the high e side. Oddly the low e side seems dead straight, while the high e bows in around the … Continue reading →

Well due to the wet weather and darkness, I haven’t done any work on the guitar for ~4months. Last weekend I cleared out the garage and got it ready. It’s still wet this weekend but almost light and warm enough … Continue reading →

So the dyes arrived from America this week. They are ~15grams each, which makes 1-2 litres of dye. However, I didn’t have any scales which could measure tiny quantities, so I had to do the test mixes with guess work … Continue reading →

The weather has over taken me, it’s getting pretty damp in the garage and light isn’t good, so I don’t think I’ll get the guitar finished this year. Instead I’m switching my focus to learning how to finish wood, which … Continue reading →

Here is a shot of the first test fitting of the hardware. I haven’t done any finish sanding on the body, so there is still a lot of tooling marks. This was to check everything worked before I moved onto … Continue reading →

So it has been a long time since I updated this blog. Not long after the last update, I did a test fitting of the bridge. Somehow during the neck template design or sanding, the neck ended up too narrow … Continue reading →

The guitar building stopped for a while due to travel and weather, however it’s back underway. The neck pocket has been cut. I used clamped bits of wood around the neck to form a “negative” of the neck end. This … Continue reading →

I traced the template onto the body and somehow managed to make the horns smaller than they should be. I only found out after I took the body onto the bandsaw and cut around the outline. How I managed this, … Continue reading →

Here is the neck, just before I fretted it. I decided to fret the neck before final sanding this time. I’m using better quality fret wire, which meant it was a lot harder to cut. There are some marks on … Continue reading →