Bubber wrote: Thu Oct 19, 2023 7:01 pm
Maurice wrote: Fri Sep 15, 2023 8:54 am
With luck, I'll have the body ready to go by the end of the weekend.
C'mon man. I can't be the only person who wants an update. Saw a Mpls/AZ luthier post a 9-string guitar the other day and it jogged my memory.
I was ridiculously optimistic about how long this would take. Due to understandable life stuff, the neck builder took five months from order to delivery...and that's fair. It's a lot of frets, even without interruptions! I
also took far longer than I expected to complete the wiring. I've wired guitars before! How long can it take? The complicating factors here were my using the wrong soldering iron tip (smaller/more precise is better, right? Not if it's not getting the lug or wire hot enough...) and there not being a lot of room in the Tele Deluxe body channels. I also had to bevel/dress fret ends. Once I got all that worked out, I'd burned three months. (Still have to lower some high frets and lower string slots at the nut.) But...I have a show with it tomorrow. So off we go.