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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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Making the Top:

Shooting the top with a hand plane to make a perfect center joint:

shooting top 1.jpg (48699 bytes)

Ready to glue:

top ready to join.jpg (39029 bytes)

Gluing the top:

top glueing.jpg (84244 bytes)

The top is then sanded to thickness and marked:

top marked.jpg (43672 bytes)

Then the rosette channels are cut:

rosette channel.jpg (26516 bytes)

Then the rosette is inlaid:

rosette part inlaid.jpg (41859 bytes)    shell inlaying.jpg (36679 bytes)    glue rose.jpg (49682 bytes)

... and then sanded out:

rosette in top.jpg (42731 bytes)   rosette det 1.JPG (51284 bytes)

Then the braces go on, finger braces first, which are then shaped:

shave fbrace 1.jpg (74411 bytes)

fully shaped on one side, the other side as glued:

fbraces shaped.jpg (46058 bytes)

Shaping the tone bars:

chisel brace 1.jpg (61209 bytes)   tbars shaped.jpg (72921 bytes)

X-braces being glued on in a "go-deck":

go xbraces.jpg (141148 bytes)  xbraces unshaped.jpg (53420 bytes)

Gluing on the upper braces:

top bar glue 1.JPG (67634 bytes)

 

And the top is complete:

top 1.JPG (56024 bytes)   top 3.JPG (49497 bytes)   top show.jpg (38982 bytes)

 

And then you make the back:  THE BACK

 

                   

 

 

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Last Modified:  Aug 21, 2004