Control cavities routed

Today I routed the control cavities for my electric guitar. While it may not seem like much, there is a fair amount of prep and planning that goes into these routing procedures. It's my perception that much of guitar building involves the prep and pre-planning ie. setting up jigs and machinery (in this case accurately routing these cavities to within 1 thousandth of an inch) versus actually executing the task at hand. Because of this, many builders work in batches, producing a group of instruments at a time and executing each step of he building process with groups of guitars-to-be as opposed to setting up each machine or jig one at a time.

It's all about efficiency.

As I've mentioned, I'm also currently building an acoustic guitar but at this point, much of that work simply doesn't translate that well to blog-form. Right now we're carving the internal bracing structure and working on the body of the instrument. I would say we're about a week away from gluing up the entire body: back, sides and soundboard.

Photo of the back of the electric body and the neck. The top right is the 3 way pickup selector and the bottom left is the control cavity for the master volume and tone. Yeah... that headstock looks big! Chock it up to camera angle and the influence of D'Angelico and Ren & Stimpy/Björk animator, John K.