Nathan Fowler Guitar Project Blog » falcon

Blue guitar- light is showing at the end of the tunnel!

Nathan — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:11:36 +0000

Grover tuners are in! And today I mounted the ABR bridge and wired a ground to the tailpiece. The neck pitch needed some tweaking to set at a good angle for the new bridge, but that's in great shape now. The nut and frets are next on the list. I'm excited to do that soon and really fine tune all the details!

Polishing out the blue guitar

Nathan — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:18:55 +0000

Today I sanded and polished the blue guitar. I'm planning to change out the bridge for a Gibson ABR style this weekend. I'm holding off on refretting the guitar for now.

More coats

Nathan — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:51:44 +0000

I got to sanding the body of the blue guitar to prep it for laquering and rubbed some spots down to the wood in the process; so more coats of blue paint today. I will do a few coats over the next few days, and the laquering process will have to get pushed back.

In the mean-time - I'm levelling and crowning frets. I will still be re-fretting in a week or so, but it's nice to play around and warm up since I haven't done a total re-fret before.

In between all that I got to working on a headstock logo too.

Assembled for test fit

Nathan — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:19:13 +0000

After I made a new bridge and nut I finished putting everything together for a test fit. It'll all need to be removed in 12 days so I can laquer the body. The polish on the neck feels great to play, and the wide aperature single coil pickup has a unique and fun character to it.

Curing paint

Nathan — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:54:35 +0000

The third coat of paint is on the body, and the neck has been sanded, lacquered and polished to shine!

Primer

Nathan — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:08:44 +0000

Started priming the new project today. I'm still scouting for the color I want for paint.

Who made Who

Nathan — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:14:22 +0000

This is a new toy I recently acquired from a friend. The body seems hand-made (project guitar style) with a catalogue order neck.

After doing some paint the first modifications will be to replace the nut and bridge.

Here's some before shots. More to come.