Today, I’ll show you a little about how I improved my binding and purfling install. Below you can see that the first half is finished. Before finishing the 2nd half, you need to square up the ends so that you can get a flush joint. In my case, I usually overextend the glue joint for [...]
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It’s a good day!
Today was a good day! I decided to try a new approach to the initial glue up. In the previous glue ups, I run into a problem that the purfling is not pre-bended (it’s just too thin to even try) while the binding is pre-bended. This aggravates the nature of thin pieces of wood getting [...]
Less Swearing…
I got back to my shop yesterday and returned to working on building 3 guitars. The step I’m on (installing purfling and binding) is not fun and actually quite frustrating. Yesterday, I was swearing a lot. In fact my wife, Kathy, came out to check on me. I’ve broken the job down into 4 installs [...]
Guitar 1 – Year 2
You might remember that my first guitar project was from a kit from US Guitar Kits. I was happy with the resulting guitar so I gave it to my Mom. Let me explain though cause that sounds a bit weird. I grew up around musicians and the primary reason was my Mom. My mom decided [...]
Binding/Purfling
Tomorrow, I’m going to explore the next step to my 3 guitars which I’m making. The next step is to install the Binding and Purfling. The Binding is a thin piece of wood or plastic that surrounds the outside perimeter of both the top and back of the guitar. It’s purpose is to hide the [...]
Guitar Triplets
Here are all 3 guitar bodies: From left to right, Guitar 2, 3 then 4. I’m going to work on the 3rd neck next. I found I didn’t have enough binding and purfling materials so I had to order some. Hopefully I’ll get my stuff from LMII sometime next week.
First Guitar Reviewed
Well, it wasn’t exactly reviewed but I had 3 friends that were all guitar players (better than I am by a lot) that had a chance to play my first guitar (see earlier posts on the building process). They liked the sound and overall feel of the guitar. I was hoping to fix the action [...]
Sticking out 2 Necks
OK, I’ve moved from issues to being in good shape. The glue-ups of both necks turned out great. My next step was to thickness the headstock. I used hand planes to do this. Given that both necks are maple, it took awhile and I had to monitor grain direction to make sure we had smooth [...]
Making Spool Clamps for Guitar/Luthier Work
OK, as I get closer to actually making a guitar (need my budget to catch up again), I need to find economical ways to do things. A spool clamp, as you can see from the picture borrowed from Stewart-MacDonald, is about clamping the back OR top on to the sides. While I fully expect to [...]
Build a Guitar – A Class
Over the past 8 months or so, I’ve been researching how to build a steel string acoustic guitar. I’ve watch nearly all free videos on the internet (and boy, are there a lot of them). I’ve bought a DVD series. I’ve bought 5 books. What’s been missing is a class that teaches how to build [...]
