http://www.tdpri.com/forum/telecaster-discussion-forum/117238-coming-thread-near-you.html
Ron Kirn is one of the heavies in the bolt-neck crown, he still does it all by hand, one at a time. Tom Anderson, Suhr, and others are inching more and more towards the assembly-line methods - nothing wrong with that, the more great guitars the better. But in this thread, even though I don't like the fittings of the final "telecaster" - borrowed from a late-50's Gibson L-5 - the detail of the posts on wet-sanding the finish are great, you might not see some of these tricks anywhere else. P. 2 he uses a steam iron to raise the grain prior to finishing and he's a nut for making perfect little tools out of scraps to get everything just right.
Ron Kirn is one of the heavies in the bolt-neck crown, he still does it all by hand, one at a time. Tom Anderson, Suhr, and others are inching more and more towards the assembly-line methods - nothing wrong with that, the more great guitars the better. But in this thread, even though I don't like the fittings of the final "telecaster" - borrowed from a late-50's Gibson L-5 - the detail of the posts on wet-sanding the finish are great, you might not see some of these tricks anywhere else. P. 2 he uses a steam iron to raise the grain prior to finishing and he's a nut for making perfect little tools out of scraps to get everything just right.