The Chimera - Custom Guitar Build - Part 8: Fretwork and Trussrod Cover

This is the Eighth episode in an 11 part series on the making of this custom guitar. This is a design that I have named the Chimera, and it is entirely my own design that I chose to go with because I had not made a "double cut" guitar before. This build was also intended as a challenge to myself to build a very complex guitar, both in terms of construction (neck-through with separate top) and electronics (piezo bridge that can be blended with the magnetic pickups, and a coil-tap toggle for the humbuckers). This episode covers fretwork, and making the trussrod cover.

The top is Quilted Maple, the neck is 3 piece Jatoba and Wenge, the body wings are Walnut, and the fretboard is Snakewood.

The pickups are Lace Alumitone in the neck position, and Lace Deathbucker in the bridge position.

Hardware: Shcaller Hannes Piezo bridge, Grover locking tuners, stainless steel frets.

Episodes of this build series will go up once per week, as well as a full length build video going up after the series is complete.

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