Four coats of Formby's Tung Oil Finish on so far and its looking great. This is some very nice looking wood. Sanding took a little while to get it flat but it went very quickly after that.
One more picture from above. Can't wait to get it all done.
I'm trying to get all the woodworking stuff done before I move on to the metal parts (which I'm not looking forward to). While the finish is drying, I decided to start working on the fretboard. Its a 22.5" scale length which doesn't match any standard scale length and any guitar part store would sell. My plan was to buy a blank rosewood fretboard and cut fret slots and fill them with strips of maple. Stewart MacDonald sells all the parts I used for this. As a guide for where to make the fret lines, I used the existing cheap aluminum fretboard that came on the pedal steel. I cut it down a little and taped it to the bottom of the rosewood so that I can still see the lines sticking out the side. The mitre box makes it go very quickly. I cut 12 slots today and I can probably do the rest in about 10 minutes, then I can start gluing in the wood strips. Maybe tomorrow?
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