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A Month in and Out the Shop: Hästen
10 Jun 2024 - hästen, pick-guard
This time we catch up with Hästen, the last of the old mustang-style builds, which finally hits its "strings on" milestone!
![A photo of a work-in-progress solid-body electric guitar laid on a workbench in a workshop. The guitar has a body painted light blue with just a bridge installed and no electronics or pick-guard yet, showing the internal cavities lined with copper tape. The neck is made from birds-eye maple. Most importantly the guitar has strings on it.](/blog/2024/06/10/a-month-in-and-out-the-shop-hasten/IMG_7026_hu52dac12f9334c878b402fc4ef4be44c8_2354305_150x150_fit_box.png)
A Week in the Shop
10 May 2024 - cleaning, hästen, nut carving, verkstaden
An exciting week in the shop as a new guitar gets strings for the first time, I tidy up a neck on another build, and I find out how dirty old rosewood fretboards can really get.
![A photo of a yellow and black finished guitar body on a workbench, on top of which is a palm-router and everything is covered in wood-dust from some cutting.](/blog/2024/05/10/a-week-in-the-shop/IMG_6563_huaf36989143dc4fc156621d27eef9aff3_3590744_150x150_fit_box.png)
A Week in the Shop
2 May 2024 - hästen, measure, measure, cut, routing, verkstaden
A week of highs and lows in the workshop, as I try to push forward again with two stalled builds.
![A photo of a blue-painted mustang-style guitar body is sat on the workbench showing a string-ferrule block in place on the rear.](/blog/2024/05/02/a-week-in-the-shop/IMG_6423_hufc2ddb84441d733db3d24f93f1ad57e9_2163422_150x150_fit_box.png)
Workshop Catch-Up: Hästen
A Couple of Weeks in the Shop
A Week in the Shop
31 Oct 2023 - delfinen, finishing, fretwork, hästen, verkstaden
Putting in the time: nothing new this week, just a week of getting on with the jobs I started previously in the workshop, with more staining, more oiling, and more fret-dressing and polishing.
![A photo of two guitar necks hung up on rack in room otherwise filled with wood on shelves. Both necks are made from maple: one is hung so you can see the back, showing the birds-eye figuring, and the other is hung so you can see the fretbaord is covered in masking tape.](/blog/2023/10/29/a-week-in-the-shop/DSC08104_hueedec4ab2953e7b00bd68010f675d2b7_5209769_150x150_fit_box.png)
A Week in the Shop
A Week in the Shop
15 Oct 2023 - correcting, delfinen, glue, hästen, staining, verkstaden
Last week we had a failed attempt to stain a guitar body, and this week we get to work saving the instrument from the rework pile.
![An orange-stained guitar body sits mounted on a jig in a spray booth.](/blog/2023/10/15/a-week-in-the-shop/IMG_5325_hu4724bc8135bf045bb053cbca809e29dc_1784226_150x150_fit_box.png)
A Couple of Weeks in the Shop
1 Oct 2023 - Delfinen, Hästen, Laser-etching, Logo, Painting, Verkstaden, Westfield
A lot going on in the workshop as I try to push the three ongoing guitar builds towards finishing, and I get re-united with the instrument that is somewhat responsible for all this.
![A close-up of three headstocks, with my signature and guitar's name laser etched into the headstock.](/blog/2023/10/01/a-couple-of-weeks-in-the-shop/IMG_5199_hu96f81b683fd3a9a2d07debbf32e3a06a_2079796_150x150_fit_box.png)
A Few Weeks in and Out the Shop
17 Sep 2023 - Älgen, Delfinen, Hästen, Wuthering Bytes
A catch of events both out of (attending Wuthering Bytes, talking at OSHCamp) and back in the workshop (a lot of carving and sanding).
![A photo of me talking in front of an audience. I'm stood wearing a guitar on a strap in front of a slide showing a CAD model of the same guitar, and I'm doing the devil's horns gesture with my hands for some reason.](/blog/2023/09/17/a-few-weeks-in-and-out-the-shop/IMG_4994_hu764248432125b56d7da2bbef993273f5_1248650_150x150_fit_box.png)