Project Guitar

Just before Christmas, Corey saw a toy guitar at Target.  It wasn't just an ordinary toy guitar, no, it was one of those "I know it is going to be obnoxious" toy guitars with so many bells and whistles that you just could tell it would eat through batteries in a few hours and drive you nuts in much less. Unfortunately, he kept talking about this guitar.  Thus the idea of project guitar was born.  Daddy was going to be off work for several days for the holidays, and that would be plenty of time to do a daddy and me project with Corey.

It was great.  Corey and Daddy went out to the shop and together they cut out, routed and sanded a little wooden guitar (Daddy made a second one too so Kyle could have one too). 

And yes, we know he is holding it backwards in this photo.

 

 

Inside, we painted the guitars, and Corey picked out the stencil we used for a design on the front.
They were pretty much done with the exception of stings.  We weren't really sure what we were going to use, so it took us a while (okay weeks) to finish that last step.

Funny thing is, he referred to the Target toy guitar as the "purple guitar"
so I figured he would choose purple paint...nope, he went with RED :0)

 In the end we found some really large rubber bands, and instead of cutting them and trying to figure out how to attach them, we decided to leave them whole and have them wrap around the entire guitar...this would also make it much easier to replace broken "strings" ;0).  With a few well placed notches and a simple bridge, we had them well secured and ready to play! 

 

And Corey hasn't mentioned that silly toy guitar since :0).