one step closer...

to having a guitar that is slightly less a piece of shit than before.

So I finally got all the frets glued down and began levelling them. about 80% of the way thru the proccess, I discovered that the neck was warped/bowed. No reinforcement/truss rod. I gave up on that, it was close enough anyways.

Crowned them all last night, did the last 3 this morning, and polished em up. Cleaned up the fretboard with some pledge, a toothbrush, and a sock, and then glued in the nut. Here's some pics....

Gonna let the glue dry probably overnight, then put the saddle back in, string it up, and see how awful it feels and sounds.

long time no post

Its been ages since I've posted. School is out til August, and I haven't set up my woodshop yet, so things have been slow the past 2 months. I decided to dig something out of the garage earlier out of boredom and work on it.

So several years ago my sister bought a cheap acoustic guitar on ebay, intending to learn how to play after messing with my gear I'd left around the house. It was pretty unplayable to begin with, unless you're a classical guitarist with huge hands, which neither of us are. So a couple months later when she broke her hand doing gymnastics, it left her completely unable to play so she gave it to me.

Since I didn't much care for the way it played, a couple summers ago I began tinkering with it. When I was still living in Crete, all I had done was pulled out the frets. Once I had moved I began working on reshaping the fretboard and just set it aside to collect dust. Earlier I dug it out and finally finished sanding that down. It was a pain in the balls since I'm pretty sure the neck is fiberboard with some sort of softwood veneer over it.

For some reason it won't let me rotate it... But anyways... After I finished the sanding with my stew mac radius block, I cut new fret slots and cleaned them out with the back of an exacto knife.

Following cleaning that up, I wiped the guitar off and tried to tap as much dust out of the sound hole as possible. I'm most likely going to vaccum it later when i'm done with everything. I concluded that acoustic guitars look stupid with natural wood colored necks unless done right, so I busted out the Dark Walnut stain leftover from my shitar and stained it up. Turned out looking somewhat interesting, I may go one coat darker, not sure yet. I'll have to wait until it dries.

Thats all for now. I'm going to have to seal it and find what the hell I did with the frets. I saved them because I don't feel like spending the time to do a fine job on something that cost a dollar to begin with. I have plans to build a better acoustic later this year when I have the proper tools for cutting and sanding anyways.