Rocketfire Shop Tour
At
Rocketfire Guitars
I've become a stickler about building anything that I feel effects
quality. It
started with fit and finish and has grown to pickups, wood parts, and
even some of the metal components (truss rods etc). My initial thought
in
building was to take the easy route and use what was already available.
This didn't last long.
Early on a good friend encouraged me to dive in and build/do everything
I could possibly do myself. He said it'd be a good experience and teach
me the craft of
guitar building along the way. Boy was he was right! I'm so glad I listened to
this advice.
Every wood part in a Rocketfire Guitar with my trademarked headstock is
built from the ground up as in raw wood comes in the back door and the
finished guitar goes out the front door. Is this the easiest way to
do this? No. But it gives me the full control that I have to have in order
to do this the way I would like to. I like to go to sleep at night with
the feeling that I just built the best instrument I know how to build and
with the confidence that the customer will open the case for the first
time and every time to follow with the feeling of, "this is special.
It was made almost like it was made just for me. It was made with care
and feeling and has life to it". That's
what I am building right now for you if you've ordered a
guitar from me and I take that responsibility as quite an honor. Thanks for reading!
Nick Sorenson
10' light
weight Select Alder boards ready to be cut into guitar
body blanks... maybe one of yours will be here:
This vintage DeWalt radial is cutting the boards to
length for a Strat
body
(this saw is as old as the original Fender guitars and is still razor
knife
accurate!):
The new CNC!! ( I love labor saving devices:) )
Router Table setup for Roundover (see some things are still
done by hand!):
Bodies fresh off the contour shaper, rounded over and ready
for final sanding... We're getting there! Look at that beatiful Alder
grain!! You should smell this stuff when it's being worked! It's
great... like fresh popcorn! mmm!!:
The near finished product after several hours. Now that was
easy wasn't it.......... You didn't see all the
hand sanding involved!! =) :
Freshly Potted Strat pickup sets (Maybe yours!!!) The vintage
spec wire smells great! Old... Like the real thing:
Necks! A stack of Rosewood ready for machining and a pair of Maples ready for trussrods:
Squaring off the heel of a Maple neck, rough cut, dots milled and ready:
Tuning Keys Drilled Nut Slotted and almost ready for the router:
Nick using a hand scraper to remove any marks left by the power planer:
Stop waiting and order yours Today!!!
