Get the show on the road.

So of course here i am posting a few days later than planned.  Work and poor file management have eaten up some time in getting this show on the road.  So the question is what does one do with a $15,000 fellowship?  Tools, classes, travel so many different possibilities. Of course  most of the ground work was laid out in the writing of my submission for the fellowship.

     The very first thing i did was purchase some hand tools.  I acquired a router, dremel, cordless drill, and some hand tools such as files and chisels.  I also purchased i wide variety of guitar components and parts.  Armed with these i set out to build my own guitar.

    A side note.  The neck of the guitar is all machined aluminum. A fair portion of the rough shaping was done while i was still in school.

I started out by drawing my body shape and cutting it out of a slab of Osage Orange.  The wood is naturally this color when fresh cut.

Rough shaping of the body using mostly hand tools like files and spoke shaves. Also started playing with sample finishes on scraps

Refining the shape more and adding body cavity

Test fitting parts in cavities

Machining work on the aluminum neck. cutting out the truss rod channel

machined tuning key holes

All kinds of test fitting going on.  Here the neck has the fretboard attached with the custom inlay i did.