Well, since deciding to purchase a guitar kit to build my first electric guitar, I have watched several series of You Tube videos of building guitars, I finally settled on a couple of guys who build guitars for a living. I will follow Brad Angove as he has a series to build a guitar from a kit from Solo Guitars which is where I got mine.
One of the things I did first was order some tools from Amazon. I looked at the cost and settled on a specific fret tool mainly because of the price only to find out when it arrived, it was cheap for a reason, not the right size and has a slight bend in it. Lesson learned, you get what you pay for.
I have decided that I will paint the guitar with Black Pearl paint and go with a clear coat at the end to make it really shine. Hopefully, I will be able to achieve the same finish or better than the finish on this test piece. And for those of you with a keen eye, there are some scratches on the wood. They are there on purpose to show me how obivous it will be if I don’t prepare the wood properly.
Well, the guitar arrived. I opened the box and looked inside and every thing is there to complete the guitar. Most of the components are probably the cheapest of the cheap, but my plan is to build it as is for now, and then replace everything with quality parts as part of my training to become a luthier.
The task right now looks daunting and there is a lot of work that has to take place. What have I gotten myself into? All I did the first day was clean up my workbench so I have somewhere clean to work and unbox the guitar. Oh yeah, and opened the box as you will see in the pictures. Now I to get to work and do some assembly. Stay tuned for Day 2.
