Accomplishments – pressed frets in, filed frets flush with neck on the sides, leveled frets

Tools used – drill press, file, sanding beam, purple sharpie

Learned – frets don’t go in nearly as evenly as I’d hoped

Accomplishments – Cut out fret slots to the proper depth, cut fret wire

Tools used – Hand saw, cutters, that wire-bender, mallet

Learned – This is all decently easy, but pounding the fret wire into place with the mallet just straight up doesn’t work

Accomplishments – inserted side fret dots, sanded neck, polished fretboard, learned about the fret spacing

Tools – sanding paper from 160 to 2000 grit, drill, google sheets

Learned – about the whole rule of 18, which is basically just the scale length divided by 17.817, then subtracting that from the scale length and then repeating this process with the new numbers in the place of the scale lenght for the placement of each fret

Accomplishments – connected electronics holes, sanded body, marked fret holes, drilled them out, inserted and cut plastic fret dots, sanded, inserted truss rod, and finally attached fretboard to neck

Tools – drill, spindle sander, drill press, handsaw, hole press thing, wood glue, rubber band

Learned – to be a but more carful as I chipped the body while drilling electronics holes

Accomplishments – sanded headstock & fretboard into shape

Tools used – spindle sander, sandpaper, 120⁰ radius sanding block thing, files

Learned – that there’s a specific radius fretboards have to be sanded to and that doing so takes forever

Accomplishments – sanded headstock & fretboard into shape

Tools used – spindle sander, sandpaper, 120⁰ radius sanding block thing, files

Learned – that there’s a specific radius fretboards have to be sanded to and that doing so takes forever

Accomplishments – acquired all necessary pieces, designed head stock shape, and finally cut out the headstock

Tools used – bandsaw

Learned – nothing new really, except for how much pressure the strings put on the neck (~100 lbs)