After a bit of time re-establishing the routine with getting kids to school and doing homework with the kids, I got back in the shop. I had left off finishing the install of the binding and purfling on guitar 3′s body. I had done a little clean up and wanted to finish that up. I [...]
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Guitar 3 has been bound!
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 [...]
Purfling…what a funny word!
Purfling is a word that defines material between the binding and the top or back wood on a string instrument. Binding is a word that defines the outer most material surround the top and back wood on a string instrument. The purfling is decorative but the binding actually provides some function. First the binding provides [...]
Guitar 4 – Rosette Install and Glueup
When installing a rosette into a guitar top, you need to make sure that you’ve got an accurate measurement of the guitar top. In my case, my guitar top is 3 1/2 mm thick. This means that when you cut out the channel or groove for the rosette, you need to cut no more than [...]
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 [...]
Sides are done
The sides are done for both body 3 and body 4 guitars. You can see body 3 which is the orchestra sized body with no cut away and body 4 which is also an orchestra sized body but with a cutaway. The kerfing installed nicely and I did have more glue squeeze out (meaning I [...]
Kerfing installed – body four
I’ve decided to keep my 3 guitar’s in progress straight that I want to term them. The guitar I’ve been working on for the last few days has been body 4. This is an orchestra sized guitar with a cut away. See the previous post on how I prepared the kerfing. The installation went great. [...]
Headstock Laminations
Part of making a guitar neck can be creating a certain look for the headstock (where the tuner machines are for tuning the guitar). For this guitar neck, I chose to go from the maple of the neck (which is a light colored wood) to a dark wood (ebony on one and mahagony on the [...]
Guitar 2 – Scarf Joint
OK, I’ve begun the 2nd guitar in ernest. I started with the neck. When building a guitar neck you need 3 basic elements. The neck body. This is where the fret is on up to the 14th fret. The headstock. This is angled down from the neck body by about 15 degrees and is where [...]
Guitar Building Class – 4 of 5
Sunday I went to my 4th of 5th guitar building class. As I stated in my previous post, I did a lot of pre-work so felt that I would be ahead of the game and that turned out to be true. I discussed a few minor imperfections with Eli, my instructor and he helped me [...]
Guitar Building – Pre class work
As I stated in the previous post, I was working on cleaning up the body using hand scrapers and various non-powered hand sanders. After all the scraping was done, I turned to the hand sanders. After 3 solid days, I finished and am very pleased with the results. I had one area of tear out [...]
