We started off feeling pretty jaded after a short night's sleep but quickly hit our rhythm . . .
When we arrived in the workshop you could touch the oil fumes from the previous night. No naked flames allowed!
We took our oiled bodies and necks and then wax-oil sanded them with the finest sandpaper you can imagine, essentially standard A4 printer paper.
We also worked up a frenzy completing the fretboard with tiny shapings of each fret end, fret levelling and polishing. Fret filing is a tricky business . . .
And can be surprisingly dangerous!
But it looked damn good afterwards!
We also worked hard on finishing the headstock with the machine head tuning peggy things . .
We branded our guitars in deference to the professor, Eki . .
Some jamming / quasi-rehearsing kicked off during the late morning . .
We stopped for a light lunch of chuletas di cordero at Can Forn . .
We returned invigorated for a rocking blues jam . . .
We worked late into the night, completing the assembly of the pickups and deep-frying them (don't ask!) . . .
Yesterday's pizza boxes came to use, as always, as the wiring diagrams . .
Then the wiring work started . . .
Eric completed his Precision Bass and it sounds AWESOME (as our American cousins say)!
We continued working till 11.30 and left the rest of the gang still at it. We returned for a late night nibble with some vinha musica . .
Last day tomorrow. A lot to do . . . and a gig . . .
Hasta . .
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