All done with the little hardtail Strat! After waiting and waiting and waiting, I finally did the sand, buff and polish and it looks great. It is a bit nerve wracking taking to your masterpiece with sandpaper, but I love how it's turned out.
After assembling everything and having a quick play I very quickly realised that you can't get away without touching the nut. It was horrid! The nut got a few gentle taps from side to side and then I worked a millimetre or two off the bottom with the levelling beam until I was happy with the action (and tuning of fretted notes!)
The kids love it and they're playing rock stars with a little Squier 10A amp. Kit strings aren't my fav, so looking forward to switching them out, but it's nice to play on the short scale with less tension on the strings.
I'm onto my next project tearing down a 2009 MIM tele and rebuilding it, but here's a final pic of the blue lightning guitar.
I'm taking a build it and they will come approach with this Colin. They started taking an interest around 6 months ago, so they were 3 and 5 at the time. I figure if I've got something closer to their size in the rack that they can pick up I will get them engaged and then look at lessons with them.
Hopefully having them involved in building the instrument will help build that interest too
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