Electric Guitar Body Shaping

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Frank Pope, FBI Guitars. I'm here on behalf of Expert Village to give you some tips on how to build your own guitar. Now we're going to talk about what you're going to do after you've cut the body out with a bandsaw. If you remember we will have cut out just outside the line. We don't want to get to the line, we want to be maybe a 16th of an inch outside. Then what we can do is, we can use this spindle sander and it will put a 90 degree sand and we can sand up to the finish line, up to the pencil line, all the way around, utilizing this particular sander. When we get finished with that we can then use a mouse. We can around to get it down to maybe 220 grit or so. Lastly with 320 or 400 grit on this, we can go over the entire instrument to get it as smooth as possible and ready it for the finish."