Hi everyone. This is my first build. I decided to go with something fairly simple for a first project and work my way up. First impressions of the kit are good. All the glued joins are neat, the neck fits like a glove, frets appear to be pretty good. There were a couple of pretty decent tool marks around the edge of the body and a couple of small dings on the side of the rosewood fingerboard.
So then the sanding begins, i worked all of the rough tool marks out of the body with 120 grit. then went through 200, 320,400 and fine steel wool. i decided to hang the body so i could stain the entire thing in one go.
Then the same treatment for the neck. I've been lucky with this one, despite being three pieces it has some quite nice grain.
I've decided to finish the guitar with tru oil, Mainly because of how simple it is to apply and it looks great. Four coats on the body so far and three on the neck. I'm planning on about ten coats.
Really enjoying this kit so far. I've dug out a set of 6 a side fender tuners that i'm going to use, and a set of Gibson 490t/498r pickups. More pic's to come.
Jason.
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