Started a couple days ago with a more challenging project. 1960's Japanese starter guitar for kids, with the body about 75% normal size and a 23.5 inch scale length. The action was about 5 or 6mm and there is no adjustable truss rod to straighten the bow of the neck. I have compression frets coming to see if I can work that out while changing all the frets. The old frets were so worn I had fun getting some of them out. I pulled the 6 inline, one piece tuner assembly off as well as the tuner bushings. They will be replaced by vintage Tele style tuners. Tonight I made a neck jig from a scrap piece of poplar from the nearby Home Depot. Attached the neck to it with the 4 screws and mounting plate from the guitar. Used a wooden dowel with a leather washer superglued to it as the pivot point and a couple clamps to attach it to the table and adjust the neck to straight so I could go over the fretboard with a 9.5inch sanding block. 60, 150, and 400 grit were used. When the frets get here Friday I may spend some time working the bow out of the neck. This will be interesting since this fretboard has binding. I use a homemade fret slot depth tool made from a old fret cut and bent at 90 degrees with the barbs filed off to check the slots were still deep enough after sanding the radius. A nice little trick that saved me from needing to buy another tool for that.
. The clean tones from this guitar were not bad at all on my Crate test amp.
