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By Trevor Eichelberger
Select the fret board, neck, and body, depending on the wood type, grain, and general shape.
Roughly sand out and dents or blemishes, the fine sanding will be done later on
Decide on a headstock shape and cut it out using the band saw.
(Use relief cuts when cutting harsh angles to prevent breaking the band saw blade)
Using a router, you can apply a rounded contour to your body. (Seen in the image below)
Use a bladder sander to sculpt a belly cut and arm rest. (Optional)
After sculpting the body and head stock, its time to glue the neck together
Using a sanding board, sand the neck and fret board flat
Align the fret board with the neck and use the drill press to drill holes for the placement pins
Smear the wood glue evenly over the entire face of the neck
Apply the fret board and align it using the two pins
Finally clamp the neck and allow it to dry
Before fully drying, use the truss rod to clear any excess glue from the neck cavity
Now the neck is glued together and you can measure where to place the fret dots
This is done by making two lines from one corner of the fret to the opposing corner
This creates an x and by drilling at the intersection point you will have a centered fret dot
Its best to mark all the fret dots before drilling to compare how straight they look vertically
After drilling the fret holes on the drill press, use super glue to place the plastic pegs
Saw off any extruding plastic, leaving only the inlayed fret dot (animated below)
Clamp the neck down and use a radius block to apply a radius onto the fret board
After installing all of the frets, the next step requires us to level the frets
Measure the frets in groups of three using a straight edge, this is known as rocking the frets
When rocking the frets, Crown the frets by using a concaved fret file to file down the taller frets
(Although this process is long and tedious, leveled frets are crucial in building a good guitar)
Go through and rock the frets one final time to check for any uneven frets still remaining
Soldering Electronics
Start by tinning the Potentiometers and leaving a solid bead of solder
Solder one of the three prongs back onto first pot leaving two available prongs
Connect the first pot prong to the hot output and use the final prong to attach the second
pot
Attach a wire from the 3-way selector using the same prong that connects the two pots
(Soldering can get tricky, but if you take it step by step it isnt too bad)
On the back of the second pot connect a ground wire, a capacitor, a output wire, and a wire
connecting the 3 way switch
Connect the output wire to the fuse and then attach the output to the fuse
(Remove the fuse from the fuse box when soldering)
Now you have to just plug it in and jam out on your new electric guitar!
Thank You!