Then I plane on the radius of 20 foot using the shooting board. Attachment : PXL_20221222_111323781.jpg Attachment : PXL_20221222_111206068.jpg 🎸🙂🎶🙏

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

Hi All, this will be a sloooow build as I can only work on the guitar a couple of hours a week. Nevertheless here we go. After some research I decided on a Benedetto Archtop for several reasons: 1) p...

My favourite song today is one I play with one of my bands, the John Spijker Trio.

This is My Favourite Song For This Moment....... 🎶🎸🙏🙂

My favourite song today:

We’re trying to design assembly techniques that emulate methods Gibson pioneered in the 40s, but without building a factory full of heavy engineering. Here’s the best tour video I’ve seen on the Memph...

@tyreman I start working again on the renaissance guitar in september. If I find the time, I will start sanding for finishing before that. I just have too many things on my plate at the moment.

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...

Some time ago I was asked to build a Tele style for a friend of a friend. He wanted specific natural wood body finish and C profile neck. It was all new to me so I asked him to buy all the hardware. T...

Wow this looks amazing, keep it up.

Nice! Looking forward to see the progress 🙂 Make sure to think about things thoroughly with a neck through, cause it aint easy to use a bandsaw , for instance, once the sides are glued in place.

Great start @tyreman. Keep those pictures coming. 🎶🙂🎸🙏

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...