Fretwork- Hammering nickel silver frets into slots in the fingerboard. The fingerboard is planed to get it to the correct angle and flatness. The guitar wears a white cardboard mask to protect the top while fretting and planing. The frets are held in the nifty section of 2 x 2 in the background- Its to keep me organized. There are holes to hold frets 1 through 18- fret 19 is in two parts. The hammer has a nice polished surface on the head so it does not scratch the frets as you bump them in. Each fret has a toothy spline under it that fits in the slot. When you hammer it in the tiny teeth on the spline or tang of the fret hold it in place so the rounded over crown sits proud of the fingerboard a stops the string when you press it down. The blue thing is from a Scuba diver lead belt. It is covered in plastic. Over the neck the frets can be hammered in freely as long as there is support under the neck. But the fingerboard expends out over the fragile thin top which is 2mm thick. It has braces under it to support it, but if you hammer the frets in over the fragile top you risk cracking it. So you slip the divers lead under the fingerboard to serve as a backstop which absorbs the hammer blows and keeps the top from being cracked. You can see I took a photo of the inside of the guitar by slipping the camera into the sound hole. The divers lead gets held just behind that wood beam in the top of the photo. The area corresponds to where the fingerboard is on the outside of the guitar. Next- fitting in friction pegs. Then test drive.
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 06:18:24 +0000
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