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Making a couple rosettes
Hey, I have some time, so I’m catching up. Here is how I made the rosettes for these two guitars. I went with a geometric style. Very similar to my first rosettes. Started with humble beginnings of...
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A bit late on guitar updates
I’ve been really bad at keeping this up to date. There are probably about 15 posts I could make at this point, but I’ll keep it short and post a pictoral update. I actually made a test guitar body to...
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Starting a couple more guitars
After a brief hiatus and doing a bunch of small projects for the shop and in the house, I decided to start a couple more guitars. On the subject of shop projects, I should post those soon. I just...
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A bit more than making a new bridge
This is my dad’s first and, if I’m not mistaken, only guitar. Its a Harmony archtop, probably from the mid 50′s. Dad just told me he got it in third grade. This has been moved around a bunch. I had...
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Shop lighting upgrades
Before polishing the guitars, I decided to upgrade some shop lights. I have very poor natural light in my shop unfortunately. I stole two task lamps from above one of my benches. I had a thrown...
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Finished Guitars
I guess I neglect to update every so often. My first three steel string guitars, and my 3rd, 4th and 5th total, are finished. Took quite a while. I used micro mesh to polish out the lacquer after it...
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Intermission for non guitar stuff
While my lacquer was curing for two weeks I took the opportunity to do a couple things around the house. I installed an automatic gate opener for my drive way. Of course I picked a particularly cold...
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Building bridges
I finally finished the lacquering on three guitars. Now they need to cure before I can wet sand them. I’ve been doing some odds and ends while I’m waiting. Just a little guitar stuff, like the...
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Some catching up to do here
I guess I’ve progressed a bit and neglected to post. All three guitars were fretted, sanded, pore filled where needed, and coated with shellac prior to finishing. I bought an HVLP gun. My finish...
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I never worry, but I have started to fret.
Started fretting the guitars. I have two done so far. These were my first bound fretboards so I had to clip the tang off the fret to go over the binding. I made a little device based on one I had...
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Working my way towards a finish
Masked off the two flamed maple guitars for stain. Opposite color schemes for these. Used a homemade walnut stain I made last fall. Dark back and sides on one, dark bindings on the other. Added...
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Hey, first steel string… mit neck!
I’ve been slowly shaping necks. Got the first one to where I think its a good shape. I have a hard time telling on neck shape as I’m not much of a guitar player… hell, I don’t even own a real steel...
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Neck shaping
Made a neck carving fixture. Got the idea from another luthier online. It’s nice because you can clamp it horizontal to work on the fretboard edges. Then it clamps vertical in the vise and keeps it...
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Necks and fingerboards
Made a prototype adjustable radius sanding block. Had to figure out how to radius these fretboards. It worked well. Sanded the fretboards down to 120. I made a second block at the same time. A...
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I love bound fingerboards.
Therefore, I bound fingerboards. Still flat, they need to be sanded to a radius, but that will come later. On to shaping the necks. Filed under: Gibson OO build, Luthiery, Woodwork
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Progressing… slowly.
After a few days of no real work in the shop, I was able to get a few things done over the past few days. Fit up my third dovetail neck. Paid close attention and used some quick gauges to make sure...
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Expletive, expletive dovetail neck joint
Ok, this was tough. Probably one of the most challenging things I’ve done so far. The hand cut dove tail neck joint. Started my making templates to lay out the pieces. Marked the mortise on the body...
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The necks are neck and neck… and neck?
Jeez, did I just type that? And will I leave it in? If so, pardon me, I’m tired and delirious. Necks. Yes. Almost there. Bullet point list to reduce potential risk for bad puns: - laminated 3...
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Well that’s enough of these for now.
Guitar #4 -Flamed Maple Guitar #5- Cherry Three guitar bodies from the back Front View of 3 Finished the binding and end graft on all three. Just did some minor variations on the ends. The cherry...
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Progress report… still binding.
As much work as it is, I’m glad I do a few at a time. Each one I do, learn something that I apply to the next one before I forget it. For example, after the purfling goes on, I’ve really started to...
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