12/21/2006

Here are the parts for the 3rd and 4th guitar.

The third guitar is going to be my first attempt at a cut away.  I am going to us standard rosewood for it cause it is supposed to be the easiest to bend.  And since I to this point have bent the sides successfully I will say that it is a pretty easy bending wood.  The top will be of a plain tight grain spruce.  Both woods came from Grizzly Tools.  They have surprisingly good quality tone wood for a great price.

The neck joint on this guitar will be a mortise and tennon and a bolt on design I got from one of this years Guild Of American Luthier's magazine. 

Bubinga Back	Bubinga Sides	Bubinga Backs with Walnut & Maple Backstrip		Paua Rosette
Rosewood Back	Rosewood Sides	Engleman Spruce Top	Oak Neck Blocks	Cutting the second neck
Rough cut neck	Slot cut for the truss rod	Truss rod in slot	Raw fingerboard blank	Fingerboard planned
Fingerboard edge planed	Fingerboard fret slots cut with template	Crisp slots	Tennon for the neck cut	Rosewood back joined and backstrip inlayed
Another view of backstrip	neck heel tennon	Rosewood side with the cutaway bent	Another view of the cutaway that was nervously bent