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As promised, here are some more pictures of the build. If you're already sick of the sight of this guitar, you'd better hurry away now!
All of the components, tools and instructions laid out ready for assembly. I bought the neck support on the left recently, which is nice for doing things like restringing.
Fitting the pots and stuff into the control cavity...
There was no hole for the ground wire to go through to the bridge support, so I veeeeery carefully drilled one!
Hammering in the posts for the bridge, which was a bit nerve-wracking! It destroyed the bottom of that scrap of wood (which was my first nitro colour tester) but the posts were fine.
Fitting the tailpiece (if that's the right term for that part). Since I don't have another guitar with that style of bridge, I was slightly surprised to find that the tailpiece and bridge are not actually secured onto the posts, but are simply fitted loosely and held in there by the strings.
The finished guitar...with the blue chicken head knobs on it.
A closer view of the headstock. I've wrapped the strings the wrong way around the tuners on the left hand side. I'll fix that next time I restring it.
And the back of the guitar. Hang on, what's that I can see?
Oops! Slight miscalculation on the placing of the handle that I fixed to the neck for painting.
I'm going to take the neck off one day and repaint that. I might actually spray a purple burst on the bottom of the neck after patching that (not) blue bit so that the colours merge more smoothly between the body and the neck - what do you all think of that idea?
It's not perfect but it's been fun and very instructive. I don't think I'll do it again in the near future, partly because I already have quite a few guitars and I don't need to add a bunch of crappy home made ones to my collection. No regrets, though! |
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