This week in guitar building we began by doing two coats of sanding sealer on the neck and headstock, this applied moisture to the wood grain so it would, for lack of better words, fuzz up, and then dry so later, when we put on the finish, the wood would not fuzz up and create a bumpy guitar. After those two coats, we sanded off the hardened fuzz and began applying a water based sealant to the headstock. I did about 30 coats of this stuff over the course of the week. I also put the sanding sealer on my guitar body, and followed that with sanding it off. We also but eye hooks in the bottom of the bodies, these would be used to hang the guitars when spraying finish. And finally, we drilled in handles where the neck would be, these will allow us to move around the body, without touching it, when we spray finish on it later.
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