The Goa airport is about an hour’s ride from Baga by taxi. I quickly learn how to repack my things so that I still only have one check in and one carry on. With Maxine as my primary carry-on I board a flight to Delhi and arrive in the afternoon.

I arrive in Delhi in the [...]

 
The guitar is finally finished after I put on a second set of strings, I broke the first E string the first time. I am really glad I took this course. I not only learned how to build an acoustic guitar, but also how to rely mostly on hand tools. Really discovered how much of [...]

Goa has much in the ways of day markets, night markets and just markets and gatherings in general. Here you can find all sorts of goods from clothes, sculptures, to spices, jewelry and Tibetan made items. There is so much traffic at these events its easy to figure out where and when these gatherings occur. [...]

Tasks:
1. Attach bridge

2. Shape nut and saddle

3. Final sand everything
4. Add strings
5. Adjust frets if needed

Progress after day 14:

Tasks:
1. Shape and attach cap to heel

2. Prepare bridge

3. Sand and prepare everything for spray

4. Spray

Progress after day 13:

Tasks:
1. Shape the round curve of the neck with a rasp then sand paper

2. Microsaw frets
3. Hammer in frets
4. File and sand fret ends to length

Progress after day 12:

Today after working on the guitar I jump on my bike and head into Calangute to run some errands. On the only intersection that I pass a group of kids covered from head to toe in multi-color powder pants blindsides me with handfuls of color power thrown at me. I quickly become the canvas in [...]

Tasks:
1. Sand the purfing until flush

2. Saw fretboard

3. Saw head veneer to fit trussrod
4. Insert trussrod
5. Dry fit fretboard and then glue on to neck

Progress after day 11: