Building a kit guitar

Building a kit guitar was an idea that was introduced to me by a college buddy JJ Phair (check out his brewery and ale house at http://www.ejphair.com/alehouse/index.php ). We go fly fishing two or three times a year (more on that later) but anyways when this guy gets in to a hobby he really gets in to it. By the time I heard that he was building his own guitar I think he was starting on his third.

So, after talking about it for a little while I bought a rosewood OOO kit from Martin. Check their website and dig around a little bit to find it. Building a guitar is intimidating for sure but it's been a really Zenney experience.

My first step was to build a work bench.

Then I just followed the instructions. I am trying to use a bare minimum of tools. Partially for budgetary reasons and partially because I liked the idea of building a guitar with only basic hand tools.

I won't go in to too much detail but I'll post some pictures and highlight some of the things that I did along the way.