The Building Process
Protocaster Guitars are largely a handbuilt affair. The basic building blocks are sourced from a handful of small shop operations like myself whose parts are wrought using a series of older crafting methods
Necks particularly receive a great deal of painstaking attention. I receive necks in an incomplete state, such that they have an entirely square back and require frets as well as inlays. With a spoke shave, flat bastard file, rasp, and various grits of sand paper I'll hand carve the neck profile for each Protocaster, using a contour gauge and calipers to ensure a consistent shape. Arguably, the neck is the most important part of the guitar; it's where the most intimate physical connection is made when playing, and as such it's the area that warrants the greatest scrutiny during construction.
Does this process yield a guitar that sounds better than one produced entirely by a CNC router? I don't see much in the way of evidence to support that idea, but it does afford me greater control as a builder not to mention that there's a pretty neat cache that goes along with having a thing that's produced with simple hand tools.
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