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Day 2 – Of Heat, Heavy Metal and a Sore Back!
So today’s agenda is simple. And suicidal. It is once again 44 degrees All the way from Gurgaon to Old Delhi Celsius outside. I’m heading to Chawri Bazar, Old Delhi’s biggest wholesale market for...
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Day 3 – My Weapons of Choice!
Now that most of the materials have arrived, I need to get into setting things up to start the actual build. Hmm.. let’s back up a bit. Now that most of the materials have arrived, I can start making...
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Day 5 – Over the Top!
Aha, now we’re talking business! This is the meaty part of the guitar, the front! Things are gonna get a lot more intense, because this is the part that people are going to look at first – so Hopefully...
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Day 4 – Time for some Body Building!
Now let’s get to the exciting bit! Here’s the timber for the back and sides – Indian Rosewood. (pic) Rosewood for the Back and Sides, and Sapele for the Headstock Veneer The Guitar Back – glued, planed...
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Day 6 – Brace Yourselves!!
I’m sitting here with my Guitar top with the rosette inlay done, top sanded down to 3mm, with a slightly off center sound hole cut out and wondering what to do! After a brief period of mourning for the...
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Weekend Projects
Hi All! This past weekend was a little off track, in the sense that I spent it making a couple of Jigs and things that I need to help with the guitar building process. The agenda for the week was to...
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Strat – Repair Work
Part of last weekend’s work was sorting out an old Squier Stratocaster for my young friend Zubin Mitra. He’s a budding guitarist and a great singer, all the ripe old age of 15! The guitar was handed...
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Day 7 – Side Bends!
I finally move to more technically challenging work – bending the guitar sides! The Situation – The guitar sides are around 32″ long x 4″ wide x 2 mm thick. Yupp, thats 2mm! The initial challenge is to...
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Day 8 – Working the Sides
Now that the sides are bent, they need to get shaped a bit to take on the final form. The first bit is to place them in the body mold and trim the length down to final size. Once this is done, blocks...
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Day 9 – Little Tidbits
I’m at a stage where I have the top, back and sides prepared individually, but now things need to start being put together, to see something that even remotely resembles a guitar! I begin with shaping...
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