This weekend I spent about 3-4 hours working on the guitar. First, I went ahead and did a second cut with the Dremel router to make the pockets deeper. Here is the result:
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| Pockets routed to final depth |
Finally, after making this final Dremel cut I'm ready to start hand carving. Before I began, I took a piece of scrap bass wood and drew a small section on it to mimic the hair from the guitar. My goal here was to make sure I could actually carve using the hand gouges. The result was not too bad, so I started on the guitar. I think the body is going to be the hardest part to shape, so I started with a piece of the hair on the right side. My thought is that I can "learn" how to use the gouges on the hair since the hair should be fixable, but the body not so much. If I jack that up, it's game over. One unfortunate thing I found when I started carving, is that the entire guitar body is coated in some kind of protecting layer that looks like hardened glue. It's actually pretty thick (~1mm or so). This means I have to carve through this layer first, just to get to the wood. It's a pain, but I'm going to have to do this. Anyhow, here is the result of the first part of the hair I did with the hand tools (i.e. no Dremel action). It actually went faster than I though (~1 hour)
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| Laminate removed (from just the hair portion) |
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| This is what the hair is starting to look like using the hand tools (not complete yet) |
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