It has a voice!

Yesterday I strung the guitar up for the first time! And off course, it sounds great! Before I could put the strings on first some jobs had to be finished. First the bridge position on the top had to measured out. I drilled a small hole underneath the bridge to feed the wire from the pick-up into the guitar body.

I picked up the wire inside and pulled it out the sound hole. Now the jack-plug could be soldered to the wire.

The metal wire you see in the image was used to pul a nylon wire to through the guitar out the hole where the plug should come. The wire was attached to the plug and than carefuly the plug was pulled trough the guitar and through the hole in the bottom of the guitar.

The plug was then secured with nuts. After that the tailpiece was installed and the nut was place in position. Also the tuners where placed back in the head stock and secured with small screws. Once finished with all these small jobs the strings could go on and I could hear the guitar for the first time. I can tell you I am really pleased with the sound and it will only get better over time when the guitar settles. It still needs some fine tuning but the results are promising. Some pictures of the strung up guitar: