Wire and Assembly

My friend Thomas doing all the wiring and solder work. It was a little more complicated than last guitar built because of the 3 way toggle switch and two pick up set up.





Strung up and setting the action.

Clear Coat

Built a little wire hanger contraption to suspend the guitar body in air. Takes 30 minutes for first coat to dry, then every 2 hours to reapply another coat.

Mock up

Did some final painting, sanding, and routing of the body. So this is basically what the guitar will look like in its final stage, just with more shine and glossy look.

paint

Body cutting and shaping

Used a band saw to cut out the body. Poplar wood was a little bit different to cut on, but the band saw made quick work of it.

milled out the neck pocket and also the control channel (the milled out line on the body where the volume, toggle switch, and tone control will go.





this is the basic draw up, trying to figure out exactly how the body will be shaped.


finished body design

The Jimmy Special Mk. II

Refined body shape. Tele style set up for bridge, pick up's, and neck. here are the 2 body blanks of POPLAR wood. Used poplar because its the cheapest of the hardwoods. Nice characteristics of being very hard yet very light of the tone-woods.

Uhlig Mk. I Guitar

Well 2 some odd months later, and I finally Finished it. Designed, fabricated, sanded, re-worked, put-together, disassembled, reassembled, lacquered, sanded, re-lacquered....and it is finally done.



Little video to listen for the first real guitar sound.




It was fun. This will definitely NOT be the LAST. I have already started designing the next incarnation to make it better, bigger, and more grandiose and closer to what I really want in a custom guitar.


But here is the very last steps I took to finally push me past the finish line:

Lacquering the body on my back porch.








I layered it on real thick because I was going for a real glossy shine. You can see how wet and slick it look, and all I used was just Cabot Lacquer from a spray can. $5.





Now I have shown you the last step of my process. Here are some full angle pictures of the finished product: