Pinheiro

Yes!!

Gluing the fretboard. Belinha! A great "partner" during my projects... Some people will ask me why I screwed the neck instead of gluing it. I never liked glued necks... Here in Brasil I have a friend who bought a guitar with glued neck and had a lot of problems with it, which would never happened if the neck were glued, so I made my decision. I know it's not original, but I'm fine with it. Those are fabric Lines, just to see how it will be...

I bought an "Embuia" fretboard... The same wood that my father used in his homemade Les Paul (that is shown on the second picture). Well., I loved the color, but I didn't like to work with it, However the cuts were the right size to the frets, they just didn't fit in there. But in the end all fit, because I opened the cuts a little bit. Since the beginning I had wood for more than one (or two) guitars, so I started sanding it even before my V was read to play (at the moment that woods has already a guitar shape , I'll keep it to a new post...).

A quick mockup to adjust the alignments...

After drilling all the pickup routes, I drilled the neck to install the truss rod. The last picture shows the first guard design...

Checking if the neck fits and starting to draw the neck pickup route... Drawing the headstock and drilling it up!

Right before drilling the pickup routes... Had some challenges to get the neck aligned, but with patience I got there.

Hi there! You have the same concern that I had when glued the body... In fact I have 6 clamps and I've positioned car batteries all around, as the train track shown on picture above. I Did some tests on the wood with the glue before and scheduled a "perfect weather" day to complete this job. After drying, I noticed that the joints became very rigid. As this is my first guitar project , I have and I am learning a lot. Got to say thanks to all members of Guitar Project.

Posting some more pictures...

In fact I used a lot more than that when I glued it up. Today the guitar is ready, I'll be posting every single picture I've taken.

In fact I used a lot more than that when I glued it up. Today the guitar is ready, I'll be posting every single picture I've taken.

Hi there! I've just joined ProjectGuitar, but I've been following several projects since 2014. Last year I started my very first project: a Flying V. I'd like to read some opinion of this build, because I've already started a new one (it will be posted in soon...) and today I did the disassemble of the V with the purpose of finishing it. So far it keeps with no chemical treatment. Just started sanding it. Spec> Wood: Pink Cedar Did the plans by my self based on pictures... Sincerily hope you like it.