Building a Trekker - Page 4

2017-12-01

Slow stuff

The holes are drilled for the tuners and the tuners fit.

The sound hole has been replaced by a pickup hole. I was at first thinking of both a hole and a pickup but the instrument will be quite quiet in any case and the sound hole will not make that much difference. I am still deciding if I should add a pickup switch or not. The pickup switch would allow different sounds even with only one pick up. Perhaps I will bring it to playable for testing before adding the back.

As with the Mandocello, not so much has been done. The next thing is to drill some holes for a plug and volume control and install the wiring. Then install the back and after yet more sanding, it will finally be time for some finishing.