So last night I got the fretting/binding done and glued the fretboard down onto the neck. Slept forever today and woke up at 3:30pm, guess my cat decided to let me sleep for once. Took my allergy meds and got to work immediately downsizing the overhang so the neck and fretboard were as flush as i could get em. I had planned on using my orbital sander like I did on Tom's, but the sandpaper I bought isn't as high quality as 3m, so I ended up block planing the crap out of it. Once it was smooth enough for my liking, I went at it with my rasps and files. Last weekend I had watched an episode of The Woodwright's Shop with Roy Underhill and they were taling about how handcut rasps seem to cut more thoroughly than machine cut, so I tried out my shitty 3 dollar Harbor Freight rasp set over the more expensive Home Depot set. Needless to say, I no longer think the cheap ones are so shitty. Anyways, here's a bunch of pics, there's still some more filing and sanding to do, but its about 90% done.
And here's today's work so far. As I said, still a little work needs to be done to clean up as many tool marks as possible.
I'm going to try to condense the next several blog posts, I have something special planned for my 100th entry.
*UPDATE*
Just slotted the headstock and drilled for tuners. Learned a new technique involving the drill press and chisels, so I can ditch the sloppy routing.
Now to sand out any rough spots.
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