Post by nkforster on Mar 26, 2017 17:20:06 GMT
Planning to go to Osaka, Japan in a couple of weeks. Hurrah! I never need much of a reason to go to Japan, but a guitar show is one of the best ones I can think of. Not done a guitar show for years. Ullapool, 2008 was the last one. I was just a young lad then of 38. I knew nowt.
It was the end of last year when I decided to go. Then I realised I had nothing to take, so I put this together - one of my Model D guitars. It was an excuse to try out a new way of laminating sides. The last few years I've been building very heavy bodies in order to make the soundboard work harder. But I wanted to see if I could make the top work just as hard without adding the mass. So I came up with a different way of laminating. And it works. Really well. It's a very different voice from my regular guitars. Big, warm and full yet still with clarity. The soundboard is my standard soundboard or SS design, based on the old Sobell design. So this is a Model D-SS.
It had been so long since I've made a Model D (why don't folk order them from me?) and I'd thrown away the mould in the move to Germany. So I came up with a novel way to get the shape I wanted based on my Model S. I covered the process on a blog I write from time to time for luthiers:
www.theluthierblog.com/articles/design-new-shape/
The rosette harks back to a design I used a lot about 8 years ago. Blue, black and white lines with "crowsfoot." The binding is a black engineered wood ebony substitute. The top is European spruce and the back and sides are laminated with bubinga on the outside, engineered ebony on the inside.
It's not just been ages since I've made a Model D, it's been a long time since I've sat on the sofa playing one of my guitars for so long. It's a lovely fingerstyle guitar. If the guitar and I make it back from Japan safe and sound I'll send it to Ian Stephenson and Tom Fletcher to make a video.
I plan to take some posh pictures this week, but for now, enjoy the iPod snaps. Here is a little blog post about the guitar from last year too:
www.nkforsterguitars.com/blog/forster-modified-d-guitar/
Nigel
www.nkforsterguitars.com
It was the end of last year when I decided to go. Then I realised I had nothing to take, so I put this together - one of my Model D guitars. It was an excuse to try out a new way of laminating sides. The last few years I've been building very heavy bodies in order to make the soundboard work harder. But I wanted to see if I could make the top work just as hard without adding the mass. So I came up with a different way of laminating. And it works. Really well. It's a very different voice from my regular guitars. Big, warm and full yet still with clarity. The soundboard is my standard soundboard or SS design, based on the old Sobell design. So this is a Model D-SS.
It had been so long since I've made a Model D (why don't folk order them from me?) and I'd thrown away the mould in the move to Germany. So I came up with a novel way to get the shape I wanted based on my Model S. I covered the process on a blog I write from time to time for luthiers:
www.theluthierblog.com/articles/design-new-shape/
The rosette harks back to a design I used a lot about 8 years ago. Blue, black and white lines with "crowsfoot." The binding is a black engineered wood ebony substitute. The top is European spruce and the back and sides are laminated with bubinga on the outside, engineered ebony on the inside.
It's not just been ages since I've made a Model D, it's been a long time since I've sat on the sofa playing one of my guitars for so long. It's a lovely fingerstyle guitar. If the guitar and I make it back from Japan safe and sound I'll send it to Ian Stephenson and Tom Fletcher to make a video.
I plan to take some posh pictures this week, but for now, enjoy the iPod snaps. Here is a little blog post about the guitar from last year too:
www.nkforsterguitars.com/blog/forster-modified-d-guitar/
Nigel
www.nkforsterguitars.com