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My Gretsch Style Guitar Kit Build


RudysBlues
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07/28/2017 6:06 pm

The Kit

The kit has arrived with a rosewood fretboard, Mahagoni neck and maple plywood hollow body. The fretboard has acrylic block inlays.

[br]The build on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/3ADGoY9gXSY


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07/28/2017 6:28 pm

Woah! This is awesome. Thanks for sharing Rudy. You gotta show us what it sounds like next!

Thanks for sharing, Rudysblues.


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08/13/2017 3:18 pm

Shim the neck to the soundboard[br]Through the alignment process, the neck has become a little far up from the soundboard. So I decided to shim the gap to the soundboard.

Part 2 on YouTube

https://youtu.be/ESZTXqyCjTc


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08/14/2017 11:43 am

Great project!

It's a good idea to document the process. I did a couple of project guitars with my kid. One was an assembly build kit like this one. We had a lot of fun doing it.

Thanks for posting these pics & the link to the vid. I'll be watching for the completion. Best of success with it!


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