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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 connectingContinue reading “The Fret Board”

This week we drilled the jack hole and the holes for the wiring to pass through. For the jack hole we used a 3/8″ Forstner bit and drilled it in diagonally into the electrical box as shown. Besides drilling holes I also continued to carve the surface of the guitar. Overall, I learned how toContinue reading

Assuming that you are using a guitar kit like me, you will already have a body blank that needs to be shaped and refined such as the one in the first photo. The edge of the body will need to be sanded with progressively smaller grits of sandpaper to prepare it for routing. I startedContinue reading “The Beginning”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates. Before we learn how to go about making an electric guitar, we have toContinue reading “My First Blog Post”

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