{"id":360,"date":"2012-12-01T18:20:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T22:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danharrisdesign.com\/?p=360"},"modified":"2012-12-01T18:20:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T22:20:39","slug":"almost-done-the-koa-guitar-number-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danharrisdesign.com\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"Almost Done! The Koa guitar- Number 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surprising that it has been just over a month since my last post! \u00a0I ran into several problems applying the finish to the Koa guitar… \u00a0I burned through the horn while buffing, and ended up refinishing the whole guitar. \u00a0I finally completed that, had the guitar sitting on a sofa in the living room and somehow Petey, my six year old, put a gouge on top of the guitar. \u00a0So I had to sand it out and refinish it once again. \u00a0Each finish takes a couple of weeks before it can be buffed.<\/p>\n

I made the pickups from the same wood as the fretboard- bocote wood. \u00a0I then decided that I should make the knobs to match, so I turned them on a lathe and spent countless hours making them identical to\u00a0each other (to within four thousands of an inch, anyway). \u00a0I spent even more time putting the thick glossy coat on these knobs. \u00a0I decided to apply Super Glue to them for durability and had real problems getting the finish to match exactly from knob to knob. \u00a0I set metal sleeves inside the knobs, perfectly centered, so the knobs don’t rock on the potentiometer shafts as they turn.