This week was focused on starting the fret board of the guitar. We started by drilling holes with a 3/8″ forstner bit about halfway deep into the fret board. we had to make sure every hole was perfectly centered. To do this, we marked the frets we wanted to drill with two diagonal lines connecting opposite corners of the fret. this would ensure that every hole was in the center of the respective fret. as shown.
After we completed drilling the holes we inlayed the fret dots by taking a piece of plastic rod specially made to fit in these holes. We glued the plastic rod into the hole using super glue, then sawed the part of the rod extended from the hole off. Once we had done this for each hole, we clamped and glued the fret board to the neck of the guitar and let it set overnight.
Guitar Science 