Tools and materials:
Pyrography Pen Wood Burning Kit
Cleaning & polishing rotary tool kit
In this video I assemble a guitar kit. I also decorated the guitar with pyrography and alcohol based coloured markers.
Harley benton was kind enough to send me this kit. You can find it here.
First of all I scanned the headstock and designed a template based on a telecaster.
I then cut the headstock on the bandsaw and sanded it.
The guitar is pre-finished so I sanded the old finish and wood burned my design. Next I added a coat of sealer and then I coloured the piece. Finally I buffed it on the wheel with carnauba wax.
The fret work of the kit was alright. But I like my frets really shinny. So I polished them with a rotary tool. This helps when bending strings or when you like to produce vibrato effect.
The same techniques I applied on the body of the guitar as well.
The electronic part didn’t require soldering. So at this point I assembled all the parts together.
I then worked a little bit on the action of the strings and the intonation of the guitar. Also I like the pickups relatively high so they are kind of loud.
Over all it was a really interesting process and the guitar came out great. But that was it. See you soon with a new project video.
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