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 For Christmas 2014, Robert and Elizabeth bought Bdale a beginner's guitar
 book, and Robert offered to help with a guitar build project based on the
 success of his Telecaster build.  This is the resulting project, Bdale's 
-first guitar, started in February of 2015!
+first guitar, started in February and completed in December of 2015!
 
 After a lot of reading and listening, a few core decisions got things rolling:
 
 * build a "clone" of a hard-tail Fender Stratocaster (no tremolo)
 * body and neck to be near-natural wood color with satin finish
-* no pickguard (maximum exposed wood grain, rear control cavities
+* no pickguard (maximum exposed wood grain, rear control cavities)
 * pickups and all hardware in black
 * standard strat-like 3-pickup, 1 volume, 2 tone design with 5-way selector
 * second tone control with push-pull switch to phase-reverse middle pickup
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ The rest of the parts were mostly obtained from
 [Guitar Fetish](http://www.guitarfetish.com/), with the exception of a nicer
 [hard-tail bridge](http://guitarheads.net/products/bridges/hardtailrear.html)
 sourced from [GuitarHeads.Net](http://guitarheads.net), and a 22-fret natural
-Canadian maple neck purchased from eBay seller "bluelink88".
+Canadian maple neck purchased from eBay seller "bluelink88", and black machine 
+screws in several sizes sourced from Amazon.
 
 ## Purchased Items ##
 
@@ -83,20 +84,31 @@ but the STEP import process seemed to lose the ability to keep the various
 sub-assemblies oriented correctly relative to each other.  Since Alibre has
 been replaced by Geomagic Design, I pulled down a 15-day trial version of
 that package to one of the Windows machines in the house, and (not 
-surprisingly)it was able to read the file just fine.
+surprisingly) it was able to read the file just fine.  I was then able to
+export just the body and read that into FreeCAD, which was used for the
+remainder of the design work.
 
 Another interesting STEP file of the body from a 1962 strat drawn by Marc 
 Erasmus is available on [GrabCAD](https://grabcad.com/library/62-strat-asm)
 and it appears at least one person has actually built a guitar using these
 files.
 
-To build the guitar body I want, the existing body design file needs to be
+To build the guitar body I want, the existing body design file was 
 modified to eliminate the tremolo cut-out and rear cavity, to add screw holes
 for the hard-tail bridge, and to shift the electronics cavity from being
 front-open to being rear-accessible with the front just having 3 holes for
 the volume and tone control shafts and the slot and mounting screw holes
 needed for the pickup selector switch.
 
+The first attempt to cut the body on our CNC router failed, because a large
+delivery of building materials happened in the middle of the roughing pass,
+and I naively thought the router would be ok cutting for a while without 
+me.  Apparently, swarf jammed the bit up enough to cause the machine to lose
+steps and shut itself down.  Unfortunately, when I attempted to restart the
+cut, something went horribly wrong and the roughing cutter put a deep gouge
+through much of the body of the guitar.  I decided to call this attempt a
+bust, and look for more wood to start over with.
+
 ## Wiring ##
 
 A standard strat has a volume control, 2 tone controls, and a 5-way pickup