It has been a long while since my last blog because of holiday and I laid a new floor in the living room, so time for an update. The label I showed previously has been glued in with tide-bond wood glue:
But before I can close the body I have to finish up the rough shape of the neck and align it to the body. It also has to be fitted to the body since I will not be able to reach the bolts when the body is closed because of the unusual place of the sound-hole. To be able to align it I had to remove a small portion of the overhang on the top.
A file is the best tool to do this.
When the neck is not yet attached to the body, it is much easier to hammer in the frets. The fret-board is already slotted but I have to widen the slots to fit the frets in. So I got to work with a small saw:
Once they are wide enough the frets can be hammered in with a PVC hammer. The frets are arranged on length:
And then one after the other they are hammered in:
The over length of the frets is cut off and will be finished with a file later on. I also got the bridge (Schatten Design AT-04 with build in pick-up) so I laid everything together for a preview:
Nice view isn't it (also the new floor :) )?
