[beamerweb]

Ok - it's finally time for guitar number three!!!!

This time, an acoustic. Nice and small, comfortable for playing on the couch. Gonna go for a small Martin 00 style. This episode goes through making some of the patterns and templates so I can pick the wood for the main parts. After that, we start cutting the wood! Resawing the front, back and sides, this project is underway!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXW38ePetks

[beamerweb]

This week, now that the body pieces are sanded to rough thickness, we position the profiles of each part and then decide on our edge jointing for the bookmatches. Then a little edge planing and some glue-up. After that, i shape the sides and the top and back see some drum sanding to final thickness. I think we might be ready for bracing soon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NciJDWue2fo

[beamerweb]

In this episode it's all about bracing. Now that the front, back and sides are shaped, we can focus on the structure inside the body. I have a nice piece of sitka spruce that's perfect for this and I set about getting the absolute most out of it as I can. Thanks for watching!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQUgliOgPtQ

[beamerweb]

This week, I start out with deciding whether to radius the top or not, thanks to a very good comment by Gabriel Hoffman - hoffmanguitars.com -- and explain my reasoning for the direction i chose to go. Then we set about doing the radiusing and then cutting the main joinery for the braces. It's starting to look like the inside of a guitar!




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=288yQhXgMlg

[Kosh]

What brand of double stick tape are you using? Looks like it pulls of cleaner than my 3M stuff.

[beamerweb]

What brand of double stick tape are you using? Looks like it pulls of cleaner than my 3M stuff.

Mine actually says "Duck" on it - with the picture of a duck -- i found a bulk deal for 10 rolls on ebay a few years ago .. so far, it sticks pretty dang well (sometimes too well) and pulls off okay - sometimes a little mineral spirits releases it real easily

[beamerweb]

In this episode, it's time for a couple jigs. We start out making up a slab that will be used for an outer mold jig. In the process, we have a little hiccup with the vacuum press. While that's cooking, we do up a new fretboard radiusing slab since I sold the last one. After that, the mold parts are cut and assembled into a decent shop-made clamping rig. Thanks for watching!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDHns-l27_w

[beamerweb]

This episode is a tough one. I need to make some final decisions before much more progress can be made. I still haven't decided on binding or rosette or even fretboard, headstock or bridge species. This episode shows a little of that process (about 10% of the actual agony, lol). But in the end some decisions get made and then I start focusing on the neck.

Info on Ziricote: zircote

Thanks for watching!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWy1MoSC8Bs

[beamerweb]

This week the first order of business is fixing that mistake from last week. Oops. After that, I set about making up the blanks for the rosewood fretboard, headstock plate and bridge. I found the really dense rosewood resawed so well, I could almost just set the fence to final dimension and run it. Very little drum sanding necessary... That was pretty cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgCtct91lOU

[InMesh]

Thank's for the fret slotting Vid ,I have to get around to making a right angle gear arrangement soon .

[beamerweb]

This one has its ups and downs for sure! First, we check out the results of the rosette inlay and scrape everything flush. Sound hole gets cut and we turn our attention to the back. Ugh. Another speed bump. Once past it, I set about gluing the bracing to the top and back. Things are moving along!

Thanks for watching!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18mVSVBMoxc

[InMesh]

Nice work there ,I now how hard jigs are to get rite (should stop changing my mind) great when it comes together great effort

[beamerweb]

This week, we tackle that dang shim. It's tricky holding something you need to taper nicely to zero... my methods may not be ideal, i look forward to suggestions on better ways to get a shim to fit in a spot that's tough to measure angles from or anything. After that, we clear out the truss rod access a little and basically get that area ready for the neck to be glued in. Picky stuff, but necessary.

Thanks for watching!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u16v-u83ww

[Kosh]

This week, we tackle that dang shim. It's tricky holding something you need to taper nicely to zero... my methods may not be ideal, i look forward to suggestions on better ways to get a shim to fit in a spot that's tough to measure angles from or anything. After that, we clear out the truss rod access a little and basically get that area ready for the neck to be glued in. Picky stuff, but necessary.

Thanks for watching!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u16v-u83ww

WHY???!!!! are you shimming the fretboard? I have NEVER seen anybody do that before. Your neck should have intersected the body flush, and then the fretboard goes straight onto the body. With the right neck set, it will have a slight angle down when attached to the body.

[beamerweb]

WHY???!!!! are you shimming the fretboard? I have NEVER seen anybody do that before. Your neck should have intersected the body flush, and then the fretboard goes straight onto the body. With the right neck set, it will have a slight angle down when attached to the body.

A couple episodes ago, I realized I made a mistake in the body which left me with no choice. The angle on the body was way too much - would've made for a 20-25mm tall bridge and I didn't want that ... so the shim lets me correct that. It's actually done very frequently on archtops and semi-hollow guitars.