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The £100 Guitar Challenge: April 2008
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The £100 Guitar Challenge. As started on the MusicRadar forum, this will be the unfolding history of the guitar built to a budget . of just £100. Wednesday, April 23, 2008. Despite what I've said in the previous blog entry, the progress pics for my self build #2 are now on my other blog . Which can be found here. As will be progress pics for self build #3, self build #4 and self build #5. That's a joke - it'll take me at least a month to build a guitar! Tuesday, April 22, 2008. Sunday, April 20, 2008.
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The £100 Guitar Challenge: Today I have mostly been in my workshop
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The £100 Guitar Challenge. As started on the MusicRadar forum, this will be the unfolding history of the guitar built to a budget . of just £100. Sunday, February 15, 2009. Today I have mostly been in my workshop. Seeing as how it's no longer freezing out there, I decided to start my £100 challenge guitar, #2, today. Only 2 weeks late. So, I decided to try to make it into a better guitar as part of this year's challenge. The work will involve:. Making the guitar look a bit more interesting. The neck p'up...
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The £100 Guitar Challenge: May 2009
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The £100 Guitar Challenge. As started on the MusicRadar forum, this will be the unfolding history of the guitar built to a budget . of just £100. Sunday, May 31, 2009. The £100 challenge is over for another year, or until someone else decides it would be a good idea to start a new one. So I'm not planning any further updates to this blog. My various guitar building/buying activities will continue to be published on my other blog. I've also set-up a separate website dedicated to Kawai Guitars. Now, which ...
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The £100 Guitar Challenge: March 2009
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The £100 Guitar Challenge. As started on the MusicRadar forum, this will be the unfolding history of the guitar built to a budget . of just £100. Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Here it is . finished around lunchtime on Sunday. The original 1-piece cherry wood Tele body has been routed (the black areas) to take about 3mm off the depth of the body and then sprayed (which is why they're now black! The standard tone control will eventually be replaced by an active control, once I've enlarged the control cavity to b...
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The £100 Guitar Challenge: February 2009
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The £100 Guitar Challenge. As started on the MusicRadar forum, this will be the unfolding history of the guitar built to a budget . of just £100. Saturday, February 28, 2009. Ready for some paint. Now it's time for a bit of pain spraying. I did try wood stain first, but that didn't turn out so well. So, rubbed the body down some more and bought some paint instead. All nicely taped to protect the bits that I don't want painting . Sunday, February 22, 2009. This weekend, I have mainly been sanding. My orig...
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The £100 Guitar Challenge: March 2008
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The £100 Guitar Challenge. As started on the MusicRadar forum, this will be the unfolding history of the guitar built to a budget . of just £100. Monday, March 31, 2008. It might not look like much, but the body has been thicknessed to the correct depth, more or less by hand. I used the router to remove a lot of the "bulk", but that a lot of router marks instead. So out came the planer, which removed a lot of the router marks, and left planer marks in their place! Friday, March 21, 2008. I've already pos...
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The £100 Guitar Challenge: Ready for some paint
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The £100 Guitar Challenge. As started on the MusicRadar forum, this will be the unfolding history of the guitar built to a budget . of just £100. Saturday, February 28, 2009. Ready for some paint. Now it's time for a bit of pain spraying. I did try wood stain first, but that didn't turn out so well. So, rubbed the body down some more and bought some paint instead. All nicely taped to protect the bits that I don't want painting . Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What can you do with £100 . Now, which s...
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The £100 Guitar Challenge: Quick (and final?) update
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The £100 Guitar Challenge. As started on the MusicRadar forum, this will be the unfolding history of the guitar built to a budget . of just £100. Sunday, May 31, 2009. The £100 challenge is over for another year, or until someone else decides it would be a good idea to start a new one. So I'm not planning any further updates to this blog. My various guitar building/buying activities will continue to be published on my other blog. I've also set-up a separate website dedicated to Kawai Guitars. Or buy all ...
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The £100 Guitar Challenge: 'tis done ...
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The £100 Guitar Challenge. As started on the MusicRadar forum, this will be the unfolding history of the guitar built to a budget . of just £100. Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Here it is . finished around lunchtime on Sunday. The original 1-piece cherry wood Tele body has been routed (the black areas) to take about 3mm off the depth of the body and then sprayed (which is why they're now black! The standard tone control will eventually be replaced by an active control, once I've enlarged the control cavity to b...
