Today, I shaped the 4th Guitar’s neck. As you can see, I’m using my Shaving Pony to shape the neck. The critical elements include the thickness of the neck, the smoothness (how if feels sliding up and down), comfort of the shape (roundness or radius of the back of the neck). I obtain the thickness [...]
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4th Guitar Neck
When making a guitar, there are some elements that are put together a bit like a puzzle. For instance, the Neck. The first step in making a guitar neck is to take a long piece of the desired wood and make an angled cut. The angle is determined based on the angle that you want [...]
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 [...]
No Cut Away Body – Kerfing Glue Up
I almost wasn’t going to do this post but after how simple it was, I thought I would note a few things. This (body 3) is the first full body (no cut away) that I’ve installed kerfing on. My first guitar was a kit and the kerfing was already installed. A cutaway guitar only has [...]
More Body Work
A guitar front and back have slight curves to them. Remembering back on some physics classes where we studied sound waves in relationship to surfaces, I’m guessing these dome shapes predominately give the resulting sound from the guitar more volume. It is possible that they also give it some resonance and other acoustic characteristics. I’ll [...]
