Fingers are the best method of finding out spots the sanding missed.

There are 2 reasons for the lack of posts these last few days. The big one was my trip up and down Pacific Coast Highway 1. If you haven’t already done so go check out post about it on My Trips.

The other big reason is because most of what I have done since you last had updates has been sanding and small fitment things. Lots of work but little to show for it. What took the most amount of time was sanding, every woodworkers favorite part of every project… I also created the volume and tone knobs out of a stick of Ebony I purchased a while back.

I used my random orbit sander to do most of the heavy lifting, starting at 40 grit and working up to 180. Around there I started moving on to hand sanding and went up to 220 grit. I also raised the grain twice to make sure everything will be super smooth even after the lacquer is applied. That’s where I sanded to guitar body to 220 then lightly moistened the entire body which causes the wood fibers to rise up. After letting it dry for a few minutes I could come back and sand with 220 again to smooth out those raised fibers. Once I was happy with how smooth everything was I went ahead and applied the first coat of lacquer to the front and sides of the body. Now for the fun part of applying a coat, waiting a few hours, flipping the guitar over to cover the other side, wait a few hours, then rinse and repeat those 2 steps a few times.