The majority of the routing (all the contour) has been done! Sadly, i bumped the router into the body (the router was off), and got myself a very nice chunk out of the corner... =(
It will partly go away with the rounding of the edge (its not that big or deep), but will need some filling. I'm beginning to consider painting this guitar...
The new bit i got helped a lot to overcome my previous upgrain issue, but i still had hairy surfaces...
Well, i decided it was acceptable and it would go away with some sanding, so i moved on to rounding the edges, using a 1/4" radius bit.
Still have the same problem of rough surface, but could be avoided going slowly.
And here i made the fisret stupidity of the day.... Rounded off even around the neck pocket... Oh, well, rookie mistake! wont be that bad in the end, i hope. Anyways, with the rounding done, i prepared for routing out the neck pocket and neck PU cavity.
And had two tearouts doing this... One of them not so serious, quite small, but the other one very serious:
Right there.... Well, an acceptable mistake for someone using a router for the first time, but again some filling needed! Rookies should take care here, on how they are routing. take just a little at a time! i took too much =(
At this point, i was already tired from an afternoon of work, but decided to move on to drilling some wire channels anyways, after having the routing on the body done (one step coquered, although with many problems on the way)!
Cheers
André Ripoll