Author Archives: Brandon Saporito

Accomplishments – installed ferrules, strap buttons, electronics, output jack plate, and bridge with grounding wire Tools used – soap, drill, various bits, screwdriver, wrenches, sandpaper, and a pencil Learned – a 3/32 bit is works fine in the absence of a 7/64 bit. And how useful soap is here, like seriously, the difference between aContinue reading “Week 17”

Accomplishments – Watched and answered questions for videos about inserting string ferrules, attaching strap buttons, and installing and grounding the bridge. Learned – How to do the next few steps in building the guitar once I’m able to.

Accomplishments – Read about and answered questions on Seth Lover and the history of Rickenbacker, watched a tour of the PRS factory. Learned – How the humbucker and Rickenbacker came to be, but more importantly, the step-by-step process of how a professional company makes their guitars.

Accomplishments – Did an activity and quiz on solenoids. Learned – What solenoids are, what they’re used for here, and their magnetic configuration.

Accomplishments – watched an interview with Brian May on his guitar, the Red Special, and completed an activity on phase switching Learned – What phase switching is and how it’s useful here, but more importantly that Brian May’s an absolute legend, having built his famous guitar himself from scratch with some pretty weird stuff atContinue reading “Week 13”

(No picture) Accomplishments – sealed headstock, stained body, sealed body, and attached a handle Tools used – tee shirt pieces, stain, finish, drill Learned – stain is surprisingly easy to apply

Accomplishments – finished soldering curcuit, tested it, and began designing headstock logo Tools – soldering iron, solder, alligator clips, tuning fork, amp Learned – I am much too indecisive to easily choose a headstock logo

Accomplished – learned about the circuit we needed to create and began soldering it together Tools used – soldering iron and wire stripper Learned – the circuit layout of what we needed to make, as shown in the picture above

Accomplishments – drilled output jack hole, learned about potentiometers Tools used – drill, sandpaper, multimeter Learned – that while we hear a linear increase of volume, the electrical increase is nonlinear

Accomplishments – leveled frets, recrowned frets, filed fret ends, polished frets, rounded body Tools used – sanding beam, recrowning tool, sand paper, steel wool, files, router table Learned – how easy polishing frets can be