Building the Red Special body
In this foto collection you see how the body piece by piece gets into its final shape.
MDF shape that will be used to mill the real body
Rough shapes of the front and back covers
Milling the sound holes and gluing the back and top covers
Milling the pocket and firts testing how the neck fits into the pocket
Milling the bindings
Milling the elctronics compartment
Gluing the bindings into the body
Scraping the bindings so they fit exactly into the body
Milling the tremolo compartment.
Gluing the neck into the body and milling the area for the neck element
Milling the other element area's and the jack hole
The elements, bridge and tremolo are now in place including the tremolo cover plate