Hofner progress

We're putting in the frets in the Hofner Verithin, with Jingo using decidedly third world techniques and tools to do it with. According to this article, frets should be pressed into the fingerboard, not hammered in, but since we don't have the proper instruments this will have to do. To his credit, Jingo is a careful artisan and was able to install the frets without damaging the guitar.

We're going slowly with this because we want to do it right -- although Jingo is also notorious for being a slow worker. As it is we're about three weeks behind schedule, and it looks like it's going to take at least another week before this project is done.

We've decided to use wood strips as binding for the neck because we couldn't find plastic that's both strong and good-looking. Also, I think we'll just use sanding sealer on the entire thing because I want to preserve its aged look -- sort of like how the Stradivari violin nicknamed "Hammer" looks like but still sold for 3.5 million dollars.