My latest hobby has been trying to build a guitar.
Its just about there, but with all the baby stuff going on building cribs,
changing tables and decorating Ava's new room its been hard to focus on the
guitar. But here are some pictures of the current status.
I hope you have a broadband connection. These
pictures are high quality since I did not have a chance to manage them and make
them more web friendly.
If your on dial up may I suggest you get broadband.
You only live once and you can't take all that money with you so you mind as
well fork over the couple extra bucks a month.
Here are the latest pictures of the guitar. Its
really in the home stretch. I am waiting on the tapered bridge reamer to
show up so I can mount the bridge and hear the first sounds. If it sounds
good I will French polish the whole thing.
The heel cap is also missing. I am going to
make it out of bloodwood to match the binding. I have learned a lot from
the experience. There is no better way to learn than from doing it.
All in all I am very happy with the way this guitar is turning out.
The next guitar I make will be a cutaway, and I
think I am going to cheat on the side bending by using a fox bender. I got
the plans from Luthiers Mercantile. The plans are short on the instruction
but I think I can get it to work.
Well I got the materials to build a second guitar.
Click here to find out more about it !
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Guitar sides in form |
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After the bending of the sides pressure is applied by a turn buckle and a set shoes to keep the sides in the form. |
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Go Bar Deck |
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Here pressure is applied to the spruce barcing using a go bar deck. I still need to work on it a little bit since its a little on the flimsy side. |
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Bear Claw Spruce |
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The guitar top is cut to an approximate shape and the green abalone rosette is put in using a fly cutter and a drill press. |
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Rosette |
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Abalone, here is a close up. |
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Spruce Bracing |
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Here is the spruce bracing already cut and ready to be dimensioned and glued onto the patern drawn on the back of the guitar top. |
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Back Of The Top |
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Here is the bracing drawn on the back of the top. |
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01/18/2007
