While I was working on the guitar (see previous post), I’ve had a nearly completed desk in my shop. It’s been quite handing with having another surface to place tools, work items and such on. However, it’s been nagging at me to get it done. Well, this week I was able to get BACK TO [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Woodcraft’
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 [...]
Guitar Building – Binding Purfling Cleanup
Here is a shot of the guitar I’m building via the Woodcraft class: I’ve done a lot of cleanup after taking off the tape (the clamp) from the binding and purfling glue up. The glue used was still sticky to the touch even though the binding and purfling were solidly glued into place. This was [...]
Guitar Building Class – Binding & Purfling
This past Sunday, we worked exclusively on the binding and purfling. Our first step was to route out the rabbit on the front and back for the binding. The second step was a rabbit on the inside of the rabbit for the binding on the front side which is for the purfling (less deep). I [...]
Guitar Building – Homework
In my previous post (Guitar – Headstock), I talked about the homework that my guitar building instructor gave us. In that post (an update specifically), I told about the problems I had with the headstock. Well, I worked on my backup option and used only hand sanding to finish it. The results are nice (OK, [...]
Guitar Building
I mentioned in a past post that I was going to take a class in guitar building through my local Woodcraft store. The guitar kits they use are from US Guitar Kits. The kits are partially assembled. They have the sides bent and the back attached. They have the bracing attached (though in the 2 [...]
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 [...]
