Making My New Guitar

I have been working on this make your own guitar kit that I bought from Grizzly Industrial Inc. The reason that I wanted to do a guitar kit is because I wanted a chance to wood burn on the guitar.

All of the parts that came in the guitar kit. (picture from Grizzly's website.)

I thought that it would be really fun and unique to have the wood burning on the guitar. I first drew the design on paper, then traced it onto the guitar and then burned it.

The guitar with complete wood burning, waiting for glue to dry, attaching the fretboard to the neck.

After I was done with the wood burning, I attached the neck and fretboard to the guitar. Applying the finish is a job that is impractical to do yourself if you don't have the right set up and experience so for this I sent the guitar to Trevor Healy, a guitar maker in East Hampton MA. Check out his website here, he has some beautiful photos of guitars that he has made.

Once I had the guitar back, all I had to do was install the strings and I had the finished product!