ECGuitars
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Well, I built a guitar...
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I wanted to really test it out (aka play it) but I forgot to make a nut...I will do that in the next days.
I also want to refine the shape of the neck a little to adapt it to my liking.
Here's a picture of my sophisticated setup to press the frets in
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And now there's a big BUT (not this:)
After installing and flush trimming the acrylic around the guitar I discovered that it looks quite ugly. Gluing acrylic greatly changes the appearance of it even if both sides are sanded to a 'satin' finish. Because of that I need to re-evaluate a different concept of of lighting the guitar. And while I'm at it I also want to come up with a solution which doesn't require bending acrylic since that's nowhere next to a precise process and also it changes the thickness of the strip depending on the bending radius which again creates gaps. Nobody likes gaps so that sucks.
Right now I see two possibilities:
1. Ditch the whole lighting (NEEEVER!!)
2. Throw money at the problem
This means, instead of bending the acrylic I'm going to cut its shape in two or three pieces out of a 'sheet' (like 20 mm thick lol) of acrylic and attach that to the body.
I still have to decide how exactly I want to do that (which usually gives me sleepless nights). It most likely involves making a new body (but this time I want it from one piece, not two). Good thing I don't use expensive (tone)wood
But at this point I'm already quite proud of what I achieved and very thankful for all your suggestions in this thread
The first few notes I played on this guitar (without a nut so with a 'zero fret' lol) sounded really cool and I can't wait to continue on this build![]()
If you sand the edges of the acrylic you can use a blowtorch and just get it neat enough and it ever so slightly re melts the acrylic and it becomes clear again. I do it all the time at my job