Thursday, August 23, 2012

Day 3 - Neck and Neck

It remains extremely hot and the locals claim this is the hottest August for years, and THAT is saying something. Feels like 45 degrees and 95 percent humidity, and the warm scirocco wind is dumping sahara sand in the streets every day . . .

After a Macondo breakfast and one of Chimichurri Jose's great croissant con marmelata, we settled in to neck dynamics study . . . .  which of course is always more complex than you remember . . .


However, we quickly returned to honing the shapes of the guitar bodies . . .





And by the end of the day it actually started to look like a Jaguar . . .


Eric, always a little premature, couldn't wait to work out his bridge and pick-up design . . .


Neck construction then started in earnest, after another fine lunch . . .



Routing the cavities for the truss-rod assembly involved some long lost skills, but Eric was ahead again . . .


A lot of wood rubbing will continue tomorrow as we refine the shaping . .

Hasta Manana

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