Today I was torn between feeling like a free spirit artist type in the midst of processing his art form and a slave grunt wearing a dust mask longing for the end. This is the ugly part of the guitar's construction. Working with composites and epoxy can be a messy affair and I was reluctant to post these ugly pictures. It's all about prep work at this stage. Smoothing out the transitions and prepairing a perfect surface for the final layer of Carbon Fiber is very important and worth the extra time spent. One thing that you do not want is air voids under the CF. So the key is to sculpt the Spruce neck and tail blocks in with nice slow easy to laminate to transitions - no abrupt corners. For this task I use patience, perseverance and a pneumatic sanding ball with an 80 grit sleeve.
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