When I finished building my guitar, I put my Martin on the guitar hanger and haven’t touched it since. I love this new instrument. It’s not pretty, but it sounds wonderful and feels great. The neck is wider than most steel string guitars I’ve played and that allowed me to set it up more like a classical guitar. Finding my way around the fretboard has been a lot of fun. There are only two adjustments to be made. I have to replace a tuner because it’s all flavors of not working and I really need to take the action down a little bit. I’ll attack the saddle this weekend and mess around with some of the slots in the nut. The D-string is being pinched and that’s not cool.
Noticing how much I enjoy playing this instrument has brought up the temperature of my current build. The other thing bringing up the temperature is, well, the temperature. I have to get the body assembled before the heat sets in. It’s humid as all get out down here and I need to be able to work without sweating all over my stuff. That means getting all of the power tool work done in the next two or three weeks. I’m hoping to have the sides ready and the kerfing in before the end of next week. Then I can get to the business of carving some braces and then finishing the body entirely.
I love making things that make noise.
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