I started reading House of Leaves on Thanksgiving...I guess I've been reading for about a week now. It's very good. I've never read anything put together quite like it. Amber, I think you'd possibly like it. It's got a weird edge to it...just feels spooky. It's been a long time since I read a book that had me worrying about what might be in the dark corners of a room...
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I also started working on building my guitar body modeled after a Fender Thinline Telecaster. I bought some shelves from IKEA to use. Buying real nice wood is a bit too expensive for a first shot. Plus, the neck that I'm going to be putting on it is a bit thin; I'm worried it'll be too narrow for my giant fingers. I'd hate to drop a bunch of money into something if I won't even be able to play it.
The shelves were almost exactly 1/3 the final width of the body, so I had to cut 3 pieces. I rough cut those last Friday. This was advantageous, though, because the body is semi-hollow (it has some open cavities, instead of being solid wood. Over the weekend, I routed out the cavities, cut the F-hole and the control cavity hole. Last night, I glued the pieces together. As of now, it looks kind of odd, but I think I'll route out the final shape of the body tonight. I'll probably cut the neck pocket sometime this weekend after I do a test or two to determine that my template will fit. I'll try to take some pictures sometime.
After I do that, I'll only need to cut the pickup cavities, drill the mounting holes for the bridge, the string-through holes, the strap button holes, and the mounting holes for the neck. Also, I'll need to do the holes for the wiring. Physical construction of the body will be complete. Then I'll need to stain and seal the body with a clearcoat. I'll wind the pickups and do wiring. That should wrap the whole thing up.
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Christmas is a dumb holiday because so many people get all religiously excited. No one even knows when Jesus was born; they just took the date because it was a popular day and hoped to convert as many people as possible. Plus I hate Xmas music...
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I'm excited about maybe reading that book, perhaps over the school break. (I have 2-3 other books I want to read first. And I usually plan so much to do during the break and only get to do half of it, so who knows.) How long is it?
Making a guitar sounds like a lengthy, difficult process. You should take and post some pictures of it during the creation and completion stages. I wanna see...
Like Elliott and Lauren, I LOVE Christmas music!!! But I see where it's not for everyone. Even ignoring the religious part of Christmas, I still love that holiday season, music, movies, togetherness, etc. We are complete opposites in this area. But we've known this.
Christmas music is just poorly done. It's always so jingly and stupid.
I'll take a picture or two of the body, as it is right now. It's nearly complete. The neck pocket is routed, I did the roundover on the edges. The construction stages weren't THAT interesting, so I didn't do any pictures of that (plus I'm lazy). I probably won't take another til I do staining/clear coat.
house of leaves is sort of long but there are passages that have like one word on a page. i finished the book in like two days a few summers ago.
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