Attachment : PXL_20230329_105719400.jpg Next, I marked out the velute.... Attachment : PXL_20230329_125852711.jpg Attachment : PXL_20230330_091821640.jpg ...and roughly carved out th...

Attachment : PXL_20230323_100806246.jpg Attachment : PXL_20230323_135707969.jpg Attachment : PXL_20230324_115654487.jpg Attachment : PXL_20230323_141840032.jpg Next, I roughly...

Attachment : PXL_20230322_153249154.jpg Attachment : PXL_20230322_143452017.jpg Next I marked out the dovetail onto the heel end of the neck. Attachment : PXL_20230323_093612635.jpg ...

Attachment : PXL_20230322_093207624.jpg Attachment : PXL_20230322_101104810.jpg Plane down the edges of the veneer flush with the headstock and cut the edge of it straight against the front...

Attachment : PXL_20230317_112131444.jpg Attachment : PXL_20230317_112551504.jpg Attachment : PXL_20230317_112202764.jpg Then I glued the veneer onto the headstock. Clamp it down, app...

Attachment : PXL_20230302_135042668.jpg Attachment : PXL_20230302_134309860.jpg Next, I prepared the headstock veneer. Planed and scraped it smooth to a thickness of 2mm.

Attachment : PXL_20230309_140313579.jpg Attachment : PXL_20230309_113146313.jpg Attachment : PXL_20230309_140619152.jpg Next, I routed out the truss rod channel. The access for this ...

Attachment : PXL_20220929_113151658.jpg Attachment : PXL_20220916_124945432.jpg Next, glue the 4 pieces together to form the heel then glue the heel to the neck Attachment : PXL_2022122...

Attachment : PXL_20220916_111936965.jpg Attachment : PXL_20220916_111943607.jpg Once the two pieces are planed flat and square they can be glued together as shown in the pictures. The thick...

Attachment : PXL_20220916_103726020.jpg Attachment : PXL_20220916_103733357.jpg Measure 90mm from the Nut towards the end of the headstock and mark the position of the scarf joint. I cut it...

Attachment : PXL_20220908_091021219.jpg Attachment : PXL_20220909_141913388.jpg I started by squaring up the neck blank. Planing one of the faces flat and smooth then squaring up both of th...

Welcome to the forum, I’m looking forward to seeing what you will be building. Enjoy the journey 👍 Sounds like there’s quite a few of us scattered around Scotland, I’m on the northeast coast n...

@peter-c-f. Welcome Peter. The course in Glasgow is a great start to guitar building. I hope you are successful getting a place. I completed the NQ course and came away with a couple of parlour guitar...

Last week, I trimmed the edges of the top and back, with a chisel Attachment : IMG_1064.jpeg Attachment : IMG_1066.jpeg Attachment : IMG_1058.jpeg Attachment : IMG_1057.jpeg ...

After some cleaning up on the heel and end blocks and adding an inwards curve ( approx 3 mm max depth ) towards the waist from the upper and lower bouts, to clear some space for the players hand and s...

Some pictures of the creation process of the bridge. We start off by shaping the piece of pearwood to the profile of this little part of the plan. Notice the small indent on the left side. We will nee...

Today I finished the little bridge, lots of knife carving 😊 The little flowers are 7x7mm , just to give an idea how small and finicky this bridge is I m sorry but the photos are not in chrono...

this week I worked a bit on the back of the bridge (pear wood ) Attachment : 14DDC44D-FF56-4FF3-A0B8-7D94F54BB6CD.jpeg Attachment : E835A4DF-7BFA-4C32-B4D4-F4E5FEF12AC8.jpeg Attachme...

Last week, I worked on the rosette some more. I glued parchment on the back, using fish glue and cut out the details with a punch and a scalpel knife. Attachment : 493F91F6-D082-4708-BEEE-219B7F75...

Last week I finished the carving of the rosette, well the major part of it. Next up is gluing parchment and cutting the refined details for the rosette in the parchment. But that is for in a few weeks...