I’m currently working on neck attachment for the 3 guitar builds in progress. In the picture above, you can see the fretboards laying on the necks. I had to do some hand work (saw, chisel, plane) to square up the location on the headstock where the nut butts up against it and is wedged between [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Layout’
X-braces for the top
When making the top, you need to find the center line (isn’t this a running theme in all the pieces of the body?) and then use your plans to layout the braces. My plans came from LMII (I have both a set of paper plans and a plastic, re-usable template for the orchestra sized body). [...]
Guitar body 3 – the back get’s braces
I showed all the little bits of progress that I made over the weekend in my last post. Today, I worked on taking the braces I made and applying them to the back which will be part of the guitar body 3. The first step is to mark/verify the location of each of the braces, [...]
Lots of Little Things
Today was a day where I got a lot of little things done. First, I needed to start working on the backs to attach to the sides that I have prepped. The first step is to glue a center brace down the center line of the back. Next, I had a chip out on the [...]
New Kerfing Installation Technique
Kerfing is such a weird word. If you look at a guitar, the sides, back and top are all made of a very thin piece of wood. If you think about glueing the top or back to the sides, there really is no strength there and it would probably not hold up in normal guitar [...]
Top and Back
In recovering from my issues with this guitar build, I ordered some additional wood. In my first attempt, I let LMII service the top and back which meant that they joined the back and side book matched pieces together and did thickness the pieces. This time around, I wanted to do that work myself. It [...]
