Sweet 16 with LGRP

As it happens this week monday was quite the productive day for guitar building. Could be it gained momentum from an intriguing interruption in the form of inspecting packages & parts for next weeks amplifier course that came about during the morning. Always good to do something unplanned and out of the ordinary once in a while :)

In the afternoon we then braved the laser with a classmate...

...and got some good jigs out of it.

I also got the routings done for the bindings on the second guitar so a good start for the week!

Naturally the next step was to glue the bindings on. I must say that as expected birdseye maple was a bit stiffer and harder to work with than the walnut bindings I used for the cherry guitar. Luckily there are ways to guide the binding to place neatly even if it is a bit headstrong...

So got the bindings on, cleaned up and sanded everything to be ready to get the neck angles.

Took some time for fingerboard preparation.

This week we had a session about building the bridge. To get started I decided to make a few blanks to test with. Traditionally the same wood is often used that appears on the fingerboard and headstock but let's' see what I will decide on. The wood should be quite hard anyway to be able to bear the strain and pull of the strings.

Friday I got the neck angles sorted and made the first runs with the circular saw to prepare for the dove tail joint...

...which I plan to work by hand this time.

I'll work on the joints evenings next week since like I mentioned we have a visiting lecturer come and show us how to build tube amplifiers, feeling electrified!