Zach's Guitar Service and Luthiery

5-6 coats in. Will reassess tomorrow in natural light.

First shot at using colored lacquer. I used alcohol inks from amazon in lacquer. The first thin toner coat is on. Shooting for this dark tobacco-y color

Should be up for grabs after the holiday season! This was after the first two thin coats of lacquer.

A healthy schmearing of filler for a smooth top coat

Padauk wood. Very dense and chippy. Makes a huge mess. Everything will be red for a month after.

Will be for sale soon as its cured and polished

Working on 3 client guitars this week. This one is getting a fresh set of tuners. Its already been cleaned, ordered tuners this morning from bitterroot guitars. Itll be ready to string up soon.

Another neck 🤟

Sealer coat before lacquering

Nice looking maple 👀

The next project has begun

Starting a restoration on this trash can find soon🤞

A side quest ive had in mind for a while, putting a 16" radius on this squier neck 🤙

The next fretboard going on 🤞

Mistakenly routed the pu cavity too far back 🥲. So cut a spacer to glue it. Whie waiting for that to dry got started laying the next fretboard

Fretted, headstock cut, taped up 👍

Routed the nut slot. Getting the order of operations down is a real brain teaser, theres so many ways of doing things 😵‍💫

Proof of concept more or less. Using a long ruler as a guide to saw out the neck with enough tolerance to sand down to shape.

After delays with the CNC i decided to go back to basics. Got some padouk blanks and birdseye maple fretboards were included at no charge. Put in a big order for tools that im still waiting on. Waiting on the neck blank too, as i do t have the machinery to make my own blanks

Finally back to work after some delays waiting for parts and a spell of depression 🥹

Only the best. Graphtech kicks butt 🤌

Still a sh**load of landing to do yet BUT FOLKS WE HAVE A GUITAR

Back to work carving the neck before gluing sides. Still very chunky. Aways to go yet

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Routers are f # #$ing scary

Time to revise the strategy

Neck cut, headstock cut, fretboard radiused 😪😴 time for late breakfast