My first attempt at the binding and purfling went fairly well though I had some issues at the waist (the skinny part of the guitar body). The purfling twisted and the binding and purfling didn’t glue tightly against the body. I had to carve out a small section and remove the bad piece around the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Repair’
Guitar 2 – Disaster Averted
With the terrifying news coming out of Japan, it’s hard to call my mishap with glueing on the top a disaster but in the scope of the project, it could have been. After the clamps came off, I was able to take the splits (all three of them) off and save them. I then trimmed [...]
Guitar 2 – Glue Up Disaster
Have you ever experienced going through a project where things seem to be going well but something is nagging at you … and then some disaster happens and you figure out what is nagging at you? Well, today that happened to me. I’m working on getting the top ready for glue up. To do this, [...]
Top Glue Up and …
Today, I received some more wood for my guitar project. I think it has actually turned into 2 guitars. As you may remember, I had damaged the headstock on my first neck so I ordered another but also tried to fix the original neck and headstock. The new neck is great but the repair actually [...]
Glueing the back on – 2nd try
Today, after a little bit more cleaning up I worked on radiusing the side to be glued on to the back (15′ radius). I left the kerfing a little proud so as to minimize the thinning of the sides and hence the depth of the body. After this step, I cut the slots where the [...]
Back to work – Let’s fix this!
OK, as you could tell from my previous post I was very frustrated. It is amazing to see on a few luthier/guitar making forums how challenging guitar number 2 usually is. I suspect it’s because you have finished your first guitar and you’ve decided that it’s a piece of cake and forget to stay with [...]
Body – first steps
I purchased my wood from LMI. Most of it is their unserviced pieces which means that it is not finished in it’s thickness or shape or assembly. There were 2 exceptions. I had the back and top glued from their matchbook pieces (this was a moment of weakness during the ordering process – I won’t [...]
Back on track!
After the damage, I started thinking about how to use the damaged neck. After some thought, I reached the conclusion that attempting to fix the headstock would give me some skills (or at least a first attempt at skills) at repairs. Even if I wasn’t satisfied with the results, I could use this repaired neck [...]
