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Luthieria Guitar Making
Vacation Day 5
I didn't quite spend as much time in the shop yesterday, it was time for some
much needed relaxing with my wife.
I leveled the frets. I marked the top of each fret with a Sharpie, then lightly
sanded with sandpaper on a straightedge. When all the marks are gone, the frets
should be level. It leveled up quickly and evenly.
I did have a few stubborn frets on the upper part of the board, the ends weren't
staying down. I made a makeshift fret press and used superglue to hold down
those frets.
# posted by letseatpaste @ Saturday, August 04, 2007 0 comments
Vacation Day 4
French polishing supplies...
A couple French polish sessions on the top just to seal it so it won't get stained by
pore filler.
Pore filler on the back and sides, looks like a mess now but when I sand it back
the wood will be nice and smooth.
The heel cap glued on, same wood as back and sides.
I tapped in some frets and started filing the excess off the sides.
Vacation Day 3
# posted by letseatpaste @ Thursday, August 02, 2007 0 comments
Vacation Day 2
Here are some highlights from yesterday.
The fingerboard is only attached with double stick tape at this point, to give me
a guide to cut out the rough shape of the neck.
I roughed out the shape a bit, now it's starting to look like a guitar neck.
Now I have to make ramps into the slot so the strings have clearance to get to
the tuners.
Working on getting the neck fit properly to the body, which involves a lot of
attaching and detaching the neck as I make adjustments.
I sand to make a flat surface so the fingerboard can lay flat and true.
And at 1:30am last night I glued on the fingerboard to the neck with epoxy and
called it a night.
Vacation Day 1b
# posted by letseatpaste @ Monday, July 30, 2007 0 comments
Vacation Day 1
I've got this week off of work, and the goal is to finish this guitar. The deadline
for the luthierforum contest is Friday, so expect lots of updates with very little
text description this week.
# posted by letseatpaste @ Monday, July 30, 2007 0 comments
A little bit mo mo mo
It's lonely at the top:
Brace yourself:
Back to it:
Epoxying in the neck reinforcement:
Attaching the top, closing up the box:
Banding, Bending and Binding: (Also bonding, bunding, and sometimes bynding.)