Just an intro...

Earlier this year, I got this itch to buy another guitar but somehow I couldn't justify spending $1200 or more for a quality piece soooo... one day I got this brilliant idea of building one. Now, a few months later, here I am building a guitar from a kit provided by Stewart MacDonald (http://www.stewmac.com/). This blog site is pretty much a way for me to document the steps in building this guitar. So check back every now and then or leave me a reply on how crappy of a job I'm doing (I think I enabled the function where you don't have to be a member of this blogspot to leave a reply).

Here's a picture of the kit I received from Stewmac. For those of you interested in the details of this kit, I ordered a 000 size guitar like those produced by Martin or for Taylor fans, the x12 series (I think...). The wood is pretty decent: AA sitka spruce top, east indian rosewood back and sides with a mahagony neck (12 frets). Don't know if you can see it in the picture but the tuner head of the neck is slotted which I'm pretty excited about. I also got vintage-type Grover gold tuners which I think will match the guitar well. The kit overall is well put together. It includes an instructional DVD hosted by this really boring, monotone dude but he seems like he knows what he's doing and let me tell you now, he makes it look really easy. Everything came well packaged and packed and got to my house safely. I would definitely buy from Stewmac again. In the far back of this picture is the mold I made for the guitar. I'll post again later with a close up.