Well, I have not finished several things including the final clear coat finish, but I couldn't wait to try it out. So I went ahead and put the strings on it temporarily. I mentioned in the last post that I used wood glue on the bridge. I found out that was not the best choice. As I tightened the strings almost all the way to where I wanted, there was a loud pop. I wasn't sure what it was at first, but it turned out to be the bridge-to-body glue bond breaking. It didn't move a whole lot because the pins were still sticking through the body holding the strings.
So I cleaned the wood glue off and used Gorilla Glue on the retry. That worked much better.
So after all that, here's how it looks.
I am pretty happy with the way it looks and sounds (mostly). The finish has some issues and I found that at least one of the frets is too high. The action is too high as well, but I think I can trim down the saddle to fix that. I'm going to play with it a little bit and then remove the strings to apply the finish. All in all, it is close to finally being done and it is not so bad.
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