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Post by davewhite on Apr 1, 2020 13:26:01 GMT
The European Spruce A frame braces are glued on using hot hide glue: The European Spruce upper transverse brace is profiled to a 13’ radius and glued on using hot hide glue after notching to span the A frame braces:
The European Spruce X braces are profiled to a 13’ radius, notched and then glued on one at a time using hot hide glue: 
Next the Rio Rosewood bridge-plate is glued on using hot hide glue and a caul in the go-bar deck:  |
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Post by davewhite on Apr 3, 2020 7:37:53 GMT
The spruce X brace cap is glued on: The tone bars are then glued on:
The tone bars are then glued on: 
Followed by the finger braces: 
The braces are carved and the top “voiced”. Then the top is signed and dated: Here’s the “voiced” top:
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Post by davewhite on Apr 4, 2020 9:59:49 GMT
The Cuban Mahogany back strips are glued on using hot hide glue:
The linings are notched to accept the brace ends and the top is glued to the rim-set using fish glue:
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Post by ocarolan on Apr 4, 2020 13:27:31 GMT
...and it's a box! Yay! Nice work as always Dave.  Keith |
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Post by davewhite on Apr 7, 2020 10:24:43 GMT
The Rio Rosewood bindings are taped together with the side and top/back purflings. and are then bent to shape in the Fox-style bender:
Then it’s out with “The Scutter” to cut the binding channels. The channels are first cut on the top the width of the linings and the depth of the linings plus side purflings. Some scrap pieces of the side purfling are stuck onto the top at the end graft with double-sided tape. The router rides on these to cut the rest of the binding channel. The channels are tidied up with a chisel and the side purflings can be mitred:
Then the back binding channels were cut using the same process:
Next the router is set to cut the top and back purfling channels and these are routed out:
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Post by davewhite on Apr 8, 2020 13:31:18 GMT
Then the long task of making sure that the bindings and purflings fit in the channels and the channels adjusted accordingly with test fit after test fit until they do. The back purflings are then glued in using fish glue: The top purflings were then glued in using fish glue:
The top bindings were then glued in using fish glue:
Followed by the back bindings:
Here’s the box after the bindings have been scraped and sanded flush and the hole for the neck extension cut:
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Post by davewhite on Apr 12, 2020 9:37:07 GMT
The Mahogany neck blank has been thicknessed and now the scarfe joint for the peghead is cut on the bandsaw. The headstock pieces are trued and then glued using hot hide glue and this clamping jig: The pieces of the Mahogany staked heel are then glued together using hot hide glue:
The next job is to route the truss rod slot . . . . . . and the slots for the carbon fibre bars: The two-way truss rod and carbon fibre bars are checked for fit and are then glued in together with a mahogany cap over the truss rod using fish glue:  |
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Post by davewhite on Apr 13, 2020 11:56:42 GMT
A piece of mahogany is glued onto the headstock to complete the surface for the angled nut and sanded flush with the headstock face. The Rio Rosewood headstock veneer has the nut edge sanded at an angle to match the headstock to neck-shaft angle and then it’s glued on using fish glue:
The Rio Rosewood back-strap for the headstock was bent on the hot-pipe and glued on using fish glue:
The tuner holes are then marked and drilled:
The headstock is then initially shaped:
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Post by davewhite on Apr 18, 2020 17:44:42 GMT
After cutting a rebate slot where the threaded inserts will go the stacked heel was glued on to the neck using hot hide glue:
The neck is cut to fit the top fingerboard extension slot and the heel sanded to fit the body with the neck in correct alignment and angle in relation to the top. Then the positions for the threaded inserts are marked, the holes drilled and the inserts fitted:
Here’s the neck bolted to the body for the first time.: |
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Post by davewhite on Apr 23, 2020 7:32:58 GMT
The fretboard is laminated - a Rio Rosewood surface glued onto a Mahogany backing piece. The two pieces are glued using fish glue and clamped together: Next the fretboard is thicknessed, the fret positions marked out and the fret slots cut in this jig:
Then the sound-hole end of the fretboard is cut to match the soundhole (after allowing for binding) using my circle cutter jig: 
The fretboard is then tapered. A piece of the Rio Rosewood binding with b/pear/b/ purfling is bent on the hot pipe to follow the soundhole curve and is then glued to the fretboard:
The Rio Rosewood bindings with b/pear/b purflings are then glued on using fish glue:
The positions of the inlaid side/front markers are marked on the fretboard and routed with a 1.6mm bit using this jig:
The Caucasian Spruce markers are then glued in and the fretboard levelled. Here’s the result:
The fingerboard is then glued to the neck using fish glue:  |
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Post by robmc on Apr 23, 2020 9:16:54 GMT
Looking good Dave, I've been wondering how the Caucasian Spruce will sound next to my Lutz Spruce Big Boy... I have to say in the time I have 'owned it', it has matured subtly but noticeably and across the spectrum has an enveloping thick and rounded tone with warmth, coupled with your signature sound it works very well indeed.  |
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Post by davewhite on Apr 25, 2020 10:49:34 GMT
Looking good Dave, I've been wondering how the Caucasian Spruce will sound next to my Lutz Spruce Big Boy... I have to say in the time I have 'owned it', it has matured subtly but noticeably and across the spectrum has an enveloping thick and rounded tone with warmth, coupled with your signature sound it works very well indeed. Rob - The Caucasian Spruce top will sound great. I'm glad your Big Boy is maturing nicely and I'm delighted that it has gone to such a good home. The Rio Rosewood heel cap together with b/pear/b veneers is then glued on using hot hide glue: The neck is then carved:
The fingerboard is radiused:
Then the Gold Evo frets are pressed in:  Here’s the fretted neck tested for fit on the body: 
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Post by ocarolan on Apr 26, 2020 13:54:17 GMT
... and it looks like a guitar! Yay!
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Post by colins on Apr 26, 2020 14:43:34 GMT
I do love that body shape Dave, great work as always.
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Post by Martin on May 13, 2020 18:49:52 GMT
Looks fan-bloody-tastic! I’ll get those pics sorted now.
All done. Pics now added to thread - I must say I've kind of lost track of a lot of stuff during this unending lockdown, but what a treat it is to come back and see the wonderful progress made on this outstanding looking instrument. I really can't wait to get a hold of this beautiful guitar - I hope we can come up with a way to make it happen soon!
Thanks so much for keeping things going Dave, and I'm sorry I failed miserably to come up with a neck profile. I got the plastic curve measurer thingmy and everything, but just couldn't figure out how to represent the profile. It won't matter, I'm positive the neck will be perfect, as everything else.
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