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Guitar Under Construction

 

                   

 

     

Here are some photos that show the construction of a recent steel

string guitar (slope-shouldered dreadnought shape).

Click on the thumbnails to see a full-sized photo.

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Finishing, Making and Mounting the Bridge:

Making the bridge:

Bridge slotted.jpg (81275 bytes)    Bridge drill 2.jpg (45652 bytes)    bridge 11.jpg (30412 bytes)    bridge 12.jpg (16871 bytes)

Rubbing out the finish (sorry, no shots of finishing):

rubbing finish 2.jpg (82173 bytes)

Then it's buffed:

guitar buffed out.jpg (154679 bytes)

Now, the really scary part:  locating the bridge (just right!), scraping the finish,

and then gluing on the bridge:

bridge glue 11.jpg (81223 bytes)    bridge glue 12.jpg (56021 bytes)

And the Guitar is complete:

ffront complete.jpg (78183 bytes)    done side.jpg (31409 bytes)    done back full.jpg (66488 bytes)

done back tight.jpg (97405 bytes)    done butt view.jpg (111369 bytes)    done neck joint.jpg (89331 bytes)

done headstock.jpg (67099 bytes)    done front tight.jpg (112399 bytes)

And .... It sounds and plays great!

 

                   

 

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Last Modified:  Aug 21, 2004