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- A back brace ready to be sanded for the back's 15’ radius
- A back brace sanded to 15’ radius conture. Radiusing improves structure and tone.
- Top and Back Braces are fashioned from Sitka spruce blocks.
- Using the Safe-T-Planer to begin thickness process
- Sanding off scratches from drum sander
- Back plate halves ready for gluing
- Gluing back plate halves together
- Back ready for bracing
- Using the Go-Bar deck to glue the back braces
- Tapering the back braces
- Completed back
- Top plate halves glued together
- Resizing dreadnought rosette for Concert guitar
- Routing for the rosette and purfling rings
- Routed and ready for gluing
- After gluing, a cabinet scraper is used for leveling
- Leveled and sanded
- Putting a radius on the tail block. Sand until pencil marks are gone.
- Ready for sealing
- Tail block and heel block sealed and ready to receive the sides
- X-braces joined and glued to the top.
- The X-brace joint reinforcement
- Top braces and bridge plate in place
- Top tuned, braces shaped and sanded
- Sides thicknessed and ready for bending
- Bending a side
- After bending, the sides are placed in the body mold
- Planing the sides to near final height
- A 15’ radius sanding disc is used to radius the rim set
- Radiusing involes a lot of planing and sanding
- Sanding is done by rotating the form like a steering wheel
- Sawdust and shavings
- Kerfing provides glue contact areas for top and back
- Chalk is used to know when to stop sanding the kerfing
- Radiused rim set
- Using a cutting guide to cut end wedge slots
- Gluing the end wedge in place
- The end wedge
- Gluing the back to the sides
- Inside before gluing on the top
- Gluing the top to the sides
- Gluing the neck scarf joint
- Routing the binding channels
- Router set-up
- Process for gluing bindings
- Top bindings glued and bound
- Scraping the Bloodwood bindings
- Some naptha on the koa to see how it will look
- A bit like Birdseye Maple! Nice.
- The completed body.
- A neck blank and a neck in progress
- A Scarf Joint creates the headstock angle
- Carbon fiber is used for neck reinforcement
- Using the Neck Jig to rout the mortise slot
- A closer look at routing the mortise slot
- Routing the neck tenon
- Neck adjust to fit body
- Heel ready for mounting inserts
- Installing the neck mount inserts
- Cutting fret slots
- Installing the Koa heel cap
- Gluing the laminated headplate
- Thicknessing the headstock
- Beginning to carve the neck
- Would you like curly fries with that?
- Working on the middle
- …and the heel
- Carved neck and shavings
- Putting a 16’ radius on the fretboard
- Macabauba fretboard with marker dots
- Pins to locate, bands to secure it
- Beveling the fret edges
- Preparing headplate for inlay
- Completed inlay
- Pre-finish side view
- Pre-finish back view
- Pre-finish top view
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