Acoustic Guitar Construction

You're going to put your eye out with that!

Hahahahah...I hope not. One advantage of wearing glasses with lenses like coke bottles is the safety factor!!
She is strung, but not up to pitch. I gave her 15 minutes to get used to the new load, time to go out and cowboy up with full pitch tension. Whoopee!

I will post once more today and give progress (hopefully) reports.

She's in tune - D-G-a-d and holding so far. The sound of the open chord is good and loud.

I'll let it stabilize overnight, and reassess in the morning. I have done no finish sanding or pore filling at all, and if it looks like it might hang together I will go ahead and do a good setup, reassess, and perhaps go on to finish it.

Looks really good! How did that zero fret work out?

For a first attempt, real good. I've read the pro's and con's of the bone fret vs. the metal fret - I'll play this awhile and make my own judgment. But it is dirt simple - the string slots don't have to be accurately gauged at all, just spaced correctly and lower than the nut of course.

Goin' through the steps. I use a capo on the first fret and use the 13th fret method for setup purposes.

Looks quite cool Dave. Anxious to hear it!