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I've run into a slight setback with this guitar, which I've decided to name La pesada (double meaning: annoying and heavy). The problem lies in the frets. You boys with the planers... I hope you appreciate what you've got. I think my personal planing system - a few hours of sanding back and forth along the fretboard until all the cut marks disappeared - left a bit of a valley in the middle of the board. That's my theory at least.

That wasn't my only problem, however. I also didn't cut some of the fret lines deep enough. Some of them needed some more strokes of the saw across them. Others needed better gluing at the edges to hold them down. Vamos, a plethora of problems with the frets. But it's a learning experience and after a quick search I found some great help in the Intermediate Builders Group (here is the link). I think I'll be able to combine some of the tips there and get this thing under control.

Besides the frets, I think I've got everything ready for final sanding and beautifying (is that a word?).

Here are some pictures of it pieced together. The black straps are just to hold it together temporarily.

I hope to get it done soon. Some friends, who actually know how to play, were visiting last weekend and I would have loved to have seen them play.