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Tuesday, June 02, 2009

THE FINISHED GUITAR






















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1. PREPAREATION

  • Materials
  • Plans
  • Solera
  • Preparing Binding
  • Cutting It All Up

2. THE NECK

  • Starting the Neck
  • Gluing Head Veneer
  • The Heel Block
  • Cutting Slots For the Sides
  • The Spanish Heel
  • The Headstock
  • Drilling the Tuner Peg Holes
  • Head Slots
  • Cutting Head Slot Ramps
  • Carving the Heel - Part 1.
  • Carving the Heel - Part 2.
  • Carving the Heel - Part 3.

3. THE ROSETTE

  • The Rosette Design
  • Preparing Rosette Elements - Central Motif Elements, Part 1.
  • Preparing Rosette Elements - Central Motif Elements, Part 2.
  • Preparing Rosette Elements - Central Motif Elements, Part 3.
  • Preparing Rosette Elements - Border Elements

4. THE SOUNDBOARD

  • Preparing Soundboard Braces
  • Cooking the Soundboard
  • Jointing the Soundboard
  • Installing the Central Rosette Motif
  • Installing the Rosette Borders
  • Thicknessing the Soundboard
  • Deflection Testing
  • Soundboard Thicknessing and Deflection Testing, Part 2.
  • Preparing Soundboard Grafts and Reinforcements
  • Soundboard Bracing, the Flat Grafts
  • Soundboard Bracing, the Fan and Finger Braces
  • Soundboard Bracing, the Transverse Braces

5. THE SIDES

  • Preparing the Sides
  • Bending the Sides
  • Fitting the Sides
  • Trimming Sides for Back Doming
  • Making Kerfed Linings
  • Adding Linings

6. THE BACK

  • Preparing the Back, Part 1.
  • Preparing the Back, Part 2.
  • Making the Back Graft
  • Preparing Back Braces
  • Bracing the Back

7. ASSEMBLY

  • Preparing the End Block
  • Neck and Side Assembly
  • Bevelling the Side Edges and Making the Soundboard Rebate
  • Fitting the Soundboard
  • Fitting the Back

8. BINDING THE BODY

  • Making Purflings
  • Bending Binding, and Bonding With It
  • Binding the Body
  • The Heel Cap
  • Binding Gap Repair

9. THE FINGERBOARD

  • Adding the Fingerboard

10. FRET WORK

  • Adding Frets

11. FINAL CARVING OF THE NECK

  • Final Carving of the Neck

12. THE BRIDGE

  • The Bridge

13. FINISHING

  • French Polishing I - Preparation
  • French Polishing II - Seal Coating
  • French polishing III - Grain Filling
  • French Polishing IV - First Body Sessions
  • French Polishing V - Leveling
  • French Polishing VI - Second Body Sessions
  • French Polishing VII - Glazing and Polishing

14. SETUP

  • Nuts and Saddles, Degreasing Bone
  • Adding the Nut, Saddle and Tuners

15. THE FINISHED INSTRUMENT

  • The Finished Guitar

MISCELLANIOUS

  • My Shop
  • Humidity Control on a Shoe String

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