TT2-10 Building a telecaster style guitar from scratch

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1st March 2010

The fillet and little glued block have dried and been sanded level with the blank.

The holes for the tuning pegs are drilled and then I line up the tuning pegs to make sure that they are going to be straight when fitted together.

Next I move onto measuring and scoring the frets and then using a junior hacksaw blade cut the fret grooves.














15th April 2010

I received some bad news from the buyer for this guitar. He lost his job and will not be able to pay for it. I did get a deposit to cover costs so all is not lost here. I decided to continue on but motivation was a little lost hence the 6 week break since the last entry. If I can sell it then I will give the deposit back to the original buyer however I may have to make a new neck to more standard dimensions.

I got a little careless here and ruined the previous veneer so the veneer you see in these pictures is new.

You can also see I have now cut the binding groove

















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