Attachment : bookmatched top-1.jpg bookmatched pine top, just need to hand plane it to thickness.

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This afternoon I cut the fret slots. Attachment : image.png Attachment : image.png

Today I have put some coats of wood hardener on the top wood as spalted maple (or any spalted wood) can be quite brittle. So no spectacular progress today, but it does give an impression of how it wil...

Made some progress today. First I've cut the fingerboard a bit shorter and narrower and with my router made it to 6 mm thickness. And sanded it flat. Attachment : image.png Attachment : ima...

getting closer now Attachment : through neck proto-1.jpg Attachment : through neck proto-2.jpg Attachment : through neck proto-3.jpg Attachment : through neck proto-4.jpg ...

Once the sides and blocks were glued together I radiused the edges of the sides on the radius dishes. 28' for the edge to be glued to the soundboard.... Attachment : PXL_20221118_101450916.jpg ...

Then I glued them in place inside the mould Attachment : PXL_20221117_140936288.jpg Attachment : PXL_20221117_140927620.jpg 🙏🎶🎸🙂

Then I cut the end block and the heel block to size and squared them up. Attachment : PXL_20220916_144517215.jpg Attachment : PXL_20220916_143044686.jpg 🙂🎸🎶...

I did quite a bit today, including planing in a break angle into the body otherwise the action would have never been right, I glued the sawn off neck piece back on because I need to carve where the ne...

This morning, after making sure they fit seemlessly (a tiny bit of routing and some sanding) I glued the pieces of wood for the top together. Attachment : image.png Attachment : image.png ...

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Then I bent the sides into shape using the pipe bender. I then held them in place in the guitar mould. Attachment : PXL_20221116_141955560.jpg 🙂🎶🙏🎸

Then plane the edges flat on the shooting board. Attachment : PXL_20221104_120832643.jpg Attachment : PXL_20221104_101554408.jpg 🎸🙏🎶🙂

Then cut into shape on the bandsaw. Attachment : PXL_20221104_094805768.jpg 🙂🎶🙏🎸

Onto the sides now. I used cherry for the sides on this one. Planed and scraped down to 2.0 - 2.1mm thick. Attachment : PXL_20221103_134054841.jpg Attachment : PXL_20221028_143829287.jpg ...

Frets in, markers and side dots done, next up it's carving the neck and volute. Attachment : 20230806_164550.jpg Attachment : 20230806_164557.jpg

The Renaissance guitar build is on hold until september, but I started making a mold for a dreadnought guitar, I am planning to build a 12 string and a bass guitar next. Meanwhile I am working on som...

Then I carved out each end of the centre strip to accommodate the heel block and end block. Attachment : PXL_20230209_135932639.jpg Attachment : PXL_20230209_133648378.jpg 🙏...

Time to carve the back braces into shape. Attachment : PXL_20230209_113055517.jpg Attachment : PXL_20230209_101904324.jpg 🎶🙂🎸🙏