They say that a fool and his money are soon parted. Man, I would pay someone a lot of cash to explain that to me.....

Today started out ok. Very tired due to daylight savings and early work hours, but work went by pretty quickly and I was able to get a lot of shop time in.

Made a lot of great progress, too. Got everything drilled out, tuners aligned, and everything was perfect. Now, I'm not all that great, and usually I'll get it "good enough," but when I say perfect I mean PERFECT.

Then I botched it all... cut my neck way too thin. And I mean, WAAAAAY too thin.

And this evening, I discovered that the best way to clean a cell phone is not to put it through the clothes washing machine.

Damn. Decent, to great, to bad, to worse. What a day.

The good news is, like with some f**kups, I think I can salvage the neck. I'm going to try to laminate a strip of maple on the back of it. So, with any luck, this will result in A) me not having to add to the firewood pile, B) a cooler looking neck than it was going to be before, C) a more comfortable feeling neck, and D) a stronger neck.

It's going to be a challenge cutting and glueing the maple to the neck, for sure. Fitting it will be very challenging, I reckon. But I enjoy a challenge in general, and the challenge of fixing a f**kup and making it better than before in particular.

The phone, on the other hand, is toast.

Ya win some, ya lose some.