Misc. Monday: Mini-Electric Guitar Progress

Dan is building Lilly an electric guitar per her request for her 6th birthday. You can see the schematics she drew in this previous post. The process is simply amazing, and blows my mind! The body and neck have been sprayed and are hanging in the garage to dry. Last night, Dan borrowed my old Singer sewing machine to wind the pick up. He had to explain it to me too. He used the sewing machine to wind hair-thin copper wire around a set of magnets that are mounted to the front of the guitar. This set of magnets "picks up" the vibrations made by the guitar's strings and sends them to the amplifier to make the sound. What is more amazing than me understanding what I just wrote is that Dan has had to fabricate everything for this guitar himself since it is only 3/4 the size of a regular guitar. So not only is he doing all the woodwork, but he is doing all the metal work as well. He even designed and made his own decal for the headstock, spending hours on the computer getting his font to look just like Fender's. I'm tell you, he is amazing!!