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looking good man, its starting to take shape![]()
Regarding the pickup cavities; You can find the correct height by placing a long straight ruler over the fretboard, then subtract the distance from that ruler to the body from the pickup's height itself and you have the depth of your pickup routes.
looks good man, I'm in agreement with the credit you're getting for doing it all with a chisel. Props man
About the zero fret, just use the same fret wire and when leveling don't touch. Later on you can adjust accordingly.
Credit for all the handwork dude. As for marking the frets, just use a fret calculator on the net man. You enter your fret board widths at nut and end, scale length and amount of frets and then u can print a full size sheet that has all the frets marked. Then you glue or tape that to your fingerboard and cut on the lines. Saves you marking all by hand which is hard to be exact
Does anyone know of a good cheap material to cover the electronics and tremolo cavities with? I was going to use wood but I'll settle for some black plastic if I can get some.
A few hours after all the 5 hours of sanding I did yesterday I noticed that my shoulder is inflamed. This is going to be a real pain if it does not go away within a few days, I am taking some Ibuprofen. Has anyone else hurt their shoulder from sanding is it likely to go away of is it going to hang around for a few weeks like elbow tendinitis?
You generally dont want to go higher than 8mm on fretboards, since that part has to be straight it's gonna make for a pretty uncomfortable neck profile if you leave it like that.
Regarding sanding, I REALLY would not sand as much as you are doing by hand now. I bought a Black & Decker Mouse sander (perfect for body and contour sanding, even inner horns are a breeze) for 35 euro's with a whole bunch of sand paper and attachments. It's highly worth it. When the guitar is as rough as yours it will take you hours upon hours to get the final scratches out and too much sanding in a row will cause problems with your shoulder or other body parts, as you are experiencing now.
One other tip I can possibly give you; sand from your elbow and not your shoulder; use your elbow to ''push'' your forearm forward in long strokes.