The Padauk Fender: Happy New Year
After my last post, there was about a seven week chunk where I was away for the holidays, on a business trip, visiting friends, on another business trip, and then away for the holidays again. I had some amazing adventures and enjoyed a bit of downtime, but now that January has come back around it's time to stop spending the entire day on the couch drinking eggnog, and start sitting at my desk and working. While drinking eggnog. I wasn't entirely unproductive though. So anyway. Since I didn't have to fly to get home for the holidays, I was able to bring the Fender and some of its associated supplies with me, which ended up working out quite well, because the finishing process I settled on takes some time. First I had to sand the body after it came off of the CNC machine. And I had to sand it a lot. To keep machining time down, the finish was a bit rough, and I knew that the orbital sander and I would be spending even more quality time toget...
