Tue, 20 Jun 2006
I’m Building Guitars In The New Shop
The top of the guitar is now braced up and the braces are scalloped and sanded.
This guitar will be an OM style with a cutaway. I just havn’t cut away the “cutaway” part of the top yet.
The rosette is kind of different. I went through my wood stash and found a really curly chunk of maple.
I cut the piece into sheets and then I cut a disk from one of the sheets of maple. The extra sheet of maple will be the headstock faceplate.
I inlayed a very thin ring at the edge of the sound hole so the soundhole is “bound” by a solid ring of maple. Then I left a small ring of the original spruce top, then I inlayed a black-white-black perfling, another maple ring, and one more black-white-black perfling.
The backs and sides of this guitar are Indian rosewood. The back is joined and it looks great.
I’m going to inlay a strip of flamed maple down the center of the back and line it with the same purfling I’m using on the soundhole and the binding. Here’s the center strip taped into place to see how the colors will look. It’s wiped with some mineral spirits to help show the color.
It’s good to be building instruments again.
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